Quotes About Church

You don't need to go to church to be a Christian. If you go to Taco Bell, that doesn't make you a taco.

As a mother in the 1950s, she did not impose the same strict religious routine on myself and my brother, Mark, though we were taken to church and Sunday school.

We have taken a giant step forward in correcting some of the misconceptions people have about the church. I think that we've made a lot of friends.

And whether you're drawn to gospel music or church music or honky-tonk music, it informs your character and it informs your talent.

The reason I still go play the organ at church every Sunday and dedicate my talents to God first is because I feel like that's the reason why I'm who I am today.

My father was full of tales. He said his family were ministers in the Church of Scotland, or they were lawyers.

I wanted to be successful enough that I'd have opportunities to talk about the church. I wanted people to listen whenever I talked about it.

I grew up in a little Methodist church that was very rural, very community support-oriented, made up of great people who talked about love and grace and the spiritual experience, but only in rhetorical terms.

Isn't this your life? That ancient kiss still burning out your eyes? Isn't this defeat so accurate, the church bell simply seems a pure announcement: ring and no one comes? Don't empty houses ring? Are magnesium and scorn sufficient to support a town, not just Philipsburg, but towns of towering blondes, good jazz and booze the world will never let you have until the town you came from dies inside?

PRAYER IS THE serious business of the Church, the first and best business it renders for the world.

Second Timothy is clear that we have a distinct, demanding body of doctrine that needs to be taught, a message that requires reiteration every Sunday if we, as the Church, are to be who we are called to be.

corporate "confession of guilt." "The church," he declared, "confesses that she has witnessed the lawless application of brutal force, the physical and spiritual suffering of countless innocent people, oppression, hatred and murder, and that she has not raised her voice on behalf of the

The recognition of a distinct 'national identity' among members of the Body of Christ can keep before us our ties with Christians who live under different secular governments, with whom we have bonds that transcend and override our commitments to governments and groups outside the church.

Yes. The ritual will take place in the crypt under the church." "When?" "Vespers." "Sunset.

Once you've caught a glimpse of the cosmos through the back doors of your church, it doesn't seem like such a big deal to suggest to a sweet young couple that they quit sleeping with other people.

Every Christian family ought to be a little church, consecrated to Christ and wholly influenced and governed by His rules," Jonathan taught. "And family education and order are some of the chief means of grace.

The time is well past for the church, particularly the Western church, to rethink and reimagine what it means to be the church in the twenty-first century.

You see, the point of the floodlights is not to draw attention to themselves but rather to illuminate the statue. So it is with all of the Church's symbolic expressions of God's revelation in general, and Church doctrine in particular. They do not exist to be the focus of our attention but rather to illuminate the beauty of God and God's saving action in our lives.

Where Christ's Spirit is, it will bring men from their altitudes and excellencies, and make them to stoop to serve the church, and account it an honour to be an instrument to do good.

That age of the church which was most fertile in subtle questions was most barren in religion; for it makes people think religion to be only a matter of cleverness, in tying and untying of knots.

The church of Christ is a common hospital, wherein all are in some measure sick of some spiritual disease or other, so all have occasion to exercise the spirit of wisdom and meekness.

If we have held back from being an intercessor then it is time that as individuals and as a church we repent and turn our hands, our will, and our hearts to interceding for the redemption and salvation of those who are broken and lost.

When the Nazis came to power it was estimated that ninety-four percent of the German population claimed that they were Christians and that over eighty percent attended church on a regular basis.  The appearance of being a Christian nation though was only superficial.

Abbot Miron had sat sewing a patch on his trousers as we talked. He raised his intense luminous eyes to Gaston and said, "Years ago I had a postcard from my brother in New York, who had been to the top of the Empire State Building. He didn't investigate the foundations first, Pastor Gaston. The fact that it had been there forty years is proof that the foundations are good. The same with the Church, which has rested two thousand years on the truth.