Quotes About Church

My grandmother went to church, but my mother had been inundated with church and decided that when she had children, she would not push church or God on her children.

The mark of the true church is an expanding witness to the presence of God.

When we sincerely turn to God, we will find that His church always moves forward, not backward

No God and no religion can survive ridicule. No political church, no nobility, no royalty or other fraud, can face ridicule in a fair field, and live.

Faith cannot be inherited or gained by being baptized into a Church. Faith is a matter between the individual and God.

It is common for those that are farthest from God, to boast themselves most of their being near to the Church.

I think the church needs to be much more countercultural than that and invite people into slowing down, into a "Be-still-and-know-that-I-am-God" mindset.

You do not have to be in a church to be saved, but to continue in the things of God, you must be in some type of fellowship with other Christian people.

I do feel that federation, loose parallel processes, are less than we've got, less than we could have and, in the very long run, less than what God wants in the Church.

When the church takes affairs of the state more seriously than they do Jesus, Pax Romana becomes its gospel and the president becomes the Son of God.

We live in a church culture that has a dangerous tendency to disconnect the grace of God from the glory of God.

To regain her lost power the Church must see heaven opened and have a transforming vision of God.

Always the most revealing thing about the church is her idea of God.

Christian music has taken a turn towards worship music, which has turned into a lot of bands and those types of sounds. That's great. God is using that stuff and it's great.

Praying for revival equates to blaming God for the condition of your local church.

There are many who stay away from church these days because you hardly ever mention God any more.

It's not our church; it's God's - it's not our responsibility to run it!

The moment the church of God shall despise the pulpit, God will despise her.

The church was made for mission-God's mission

We should think of the church as an orchestra in which the different churches play on different instruments while a Divine Conductor calls the tune.

Well, I think that Catholicism's basic foundation of faith is personal conscience. I think it's between you and God, not you and the Church.

These principles have been proclaimed by God, by the Church, by the Saints, by Christian reason and morals.

Holy church-that mother who is also a queen because she is a king's bride.

Catholic Church reasserts its moral authority on contraception: If God believed in birth control, altar boys would have a uterus.