Quotes About Churches

I don't think I've been to any country where everybody was supportive - there's always churches or groups who don't like my theology or that we associate with this group or that group.

And as Donald Capps so aptly points out, "Since our churches have taken on many of the characteristics of bureaucracies, it is not surprising that clergy are sometimes rewarded, not punished for their narcissistic behaviors.

Nature is to zoos as God is to churches.

I was attracted by the curve — the liberated, sensual curve suggested by the possibilities of new technology yet so often recalled in venerable old baroque churches.

It's not going to happen through technology or our intellectual abilities but only through prayer. When we pray, God works. We believe God blesses churches that bless missions.

And yet, rather than this I know that my Lord is different from the God that is preached in the churches.

Established churches not infrequently formed an alliance with the aristocracy , joining arm in arm against change.

A Ricky, que había adquirido una saludable falta de respeto por la religión en su ejercicio profesional, le gustó bastante la yuxtaposición del hospital para veteranos del ejército y las por lo menos seis iglesias distintas: era como si la dura realidad de los abandonados, representada por el hospital, sirviera para equilibrar en cierta medida el optimismo que circulaba sin control en las iglesias.

The basements of the churches I've loved reveal the foundation of the spiritual life to be not belief so much as engagement with the mystery lurking at the base of all things. We build a framework on top of mystery because we need someplace to live, some manner of surviving nature's fury and our mundane daily needs.

At dawn on May 25, 1453, the bells of Constantinople's churches rang out an urgent appeal.

Functions are the timeless, unchanging, and nonnegotiable precepts that are based on Scripture and are mandates for all churches to pursue to accomplish their purpose.

Today's churches must realize that Jesus, his disciples, and the early church didn't have any problem attracting men. They developed a culture that included such characteristics as challenge (Matt. 4:18–19), commitment (v. 20), conviction (Acts 20:22–24), and risk (Acts 4:29), as well as a number of other qualities that likely attracted men.

Where Churches Are at Fault • Churches are too slow to change their methods. • Churches have failed to take advantage of their opportunities. • Churches don't value evangelism. • Churches aren't recruiting gifted leaders.

But in reality, according to an article in Christianity Today, 80 percent of the churches in America that are growing are experiencing transfer growth, not conversion growth.1 They're merely "reshuffling the Christian deck.

I'm interested in planting church-planting churches.

Why didn't we build more hospitals and fewer churches, you could pray to God everywhere but you could not operate in a gutter!

Churches are just clubs for people who like to join things.

The Pardoner's Prologue Here follows the Prologue of the Pardoner's Tale. "The love of money is the root of all evil." 1 Timothy 6:10 "My Lords," said the Pardoner, "in Churches, when I preach, I take pains to speak with a resounding voice and have my words ring out as loud as a bell, for I know by rote all that I expound. My text is always the same, and ever was—the love of money is the root of all evil.

One my favorite things is to go to the provinces of Russia and see the 18th century wood churches with the onion dome architecture. These humble wonders of incredible imagination of architects that were obviously not living in places like Paris or London, but they've created these amazing churches.

The human person, whose definition serves as the touchstone according to which good must be distinguished from evil, is considered as sacred, in what one might call the ritual sense of the word. It has something of that transcendental majesty which the churches of all times have given to their Gods.

Much of the impotence of American churches is tied to a profound ignorance and apathy about justification. Our people live in a fog of guilt. Or just as bad, they think being a better person is all God requires.

The British Isles are awash with the choice of beautiful historic churches, abbeys, and cathedrals where one king or another has tied the knot and bestowed a royal precedent.

In places where marriage's core meaning has been altered through legal action, officials are beginning to target for punishment those believers and churches that refuse to adapt.

Time is important to me because I want to sing long enough to leave a message. I'm used to singing in churches where nobody would dare stop me until the Lord arrives!