Quotes About Church

If you want to put on a suit and come to church, fine. But it's a problem when you make people feel like, if you don't do this, you're not going to be accepted and God doesn't look at that.

I grew up in church. My mom's a minister, and my grandmother was an ordained minister. I was always very mindful of the presence of a greater being I call God.

[Our] plan is to follow the example of the prophets and the ancient fathers of the church, and to compose psalms...so that the Word of God may be among the people also in the form of music.

Isaiah calls the Church barren because her children are born without effort by the Word of faith through the Spirit of God. It is a matter of birth, not of exertion.

I'm grateful to God that, through the Negro church, the dimension of nonviolence entered our struggle.

I think the Church is a conduit to God. The Church is not God. And I think that from the very beginning Jesus taught us that.

I've always figured that if God wanted us to go to church a lot He'd have given us bigger behinds to sit on and smaller heads to think with.

If they won't come to worship God in a church, something must be done. We have to instigate a nationwide search for a way to make it fun.

Satan's smoke has made its way into the Temple of God through some crack

What makes a church great in the eyes of God? Participation, proclamation, preservation, and propagation. Every church ought to exhibit all four.

An action of God may be the only thing that can save the Church today.

Clergymen who publish pious frauds in the interest of the church are the orthodox liars of God.

Over to my left is the big grey wall in front of the church. Are we the Thoughts of God? a poster asks. No, I realise. It's the reverse.

With the early Christians you couldn't have God as your father unless you have the church as your mother. This isn't accepting the church as a perfect thing.

It is a dangerous day when we can take the cross out of the church more easily than the flag. No wonder it is hard for seekers to find God nowadays.

You can't have a church run by people who don't believe in God.

God has clearly called and gifted some people in the church to teach his Word formally.

The Church knows nothing of a sacredness of war. The Church which prays'Our Father'asks God only for peace.

And let me tell you 'Kingdom of God' language is really big in the emerging church.

I have a vision of the whole Church getting nearer to God by abiding by the precepts of the Book of Mormon.

It's easy to write for God and about God, because what a thrill to remind the church that the Holy Spirit of God is in you. What a rush! What an amazing blessing!

Your problems are not just your problems. Ultimately, they belong to the church body that God has placed you in.

When once thy foot enters the church, be bare. God is more there than thou: for thou art there Only by his permission. Then beware, That leads from earth to heaven.

The danger comes in, in my opinion, when you believe someone because they're the leader of your church and supposedly they have an ear to God without examining what they're doing.