Quotes about church
church body kingdoms
The Church is everywhere represented as one. It is one body, one family, one fold, one kingdom. It is one because pervaded by one Spirit. We are all baptized into one Spirit so as to become, says the apostle, on body. Charles Hodge
church sound doctrine
True zeal is connected with a holy life. It is remarkable how often the greatest zealots for God, the Church, and sound doctrine (as they regard it), have been unholy and even immoral in their lives.
church lord reason
All the reasons which require the subjection of a believer to the brethren of a particular church require his subjection to all his brethren in the Lord.
church mosques world
There's more than one mosque in the world that used to be a church and before that was a temple. Because it's a lot easier to just change the sign on the top and say under new management than it is to change the whole building. Bill Maher
church needs lap
Nowas you all know, this week, Pope Benedict told Vatican Radio—you know, Vatican Radio, playing the hits from the 8th century, 9th century and today—Benedict told them he was going to resign because the Church needs a fresh, young face, somewhere other than a priest's lap.
church want rich
If you want to get rich with a tax free enterprise that sells nothing, start a church.
church wheelchairs gym
My bike is my gym, my wheelchair, and my church all in one. Bill Walton
church created found god good heard listen music remember secular supposed tape zeppelin
When I was a kid, we weren't really supposed to listen to secular music. But one day, I found a 'Led Zeppelin IV' cassette tape in the garage, and it was just amazing-sounding music, not like anything I'd heard before. I remember thinking: 'Well, if God created music, why is his music in church not as good as this?'
church good marriages simplistic whether
Whether or not these marriages are good is an issue. It is too simplistic to take something this church has wrestled with for 30 years and say it doesn't matter.
churches form gives guidance helped insurance money nowhere pastors rural similar talk whose
When we went through it, we had nowhere to turn, no one to talk to who had a similar experience. Small, rural churches usually have no money and little or no insurance to rebuild. So we helped form an organization that gives guidance to pastors whose churches have burned.
church heading providing several ship support
We're going to ship them to a Nazarene church in Mobile, Alabama. There are several evacuees heading to Mobile, and we're providing some support when they get there.
church civil conduct freedom marriage minister move religious time
Religious institutions should have religious freedom on this issue. No church or minister should ever have to conduct a marriage that is inconsistent with their religious beliefs. But I think as a civil institution, this issue's time has come and we need to move forward. Kay Hagan
church despise drink eat houses praise shall shame
What? have ye not houses to eat and to drink in? or despise ye the church of God, and shame them that have not? What shall I say to you? shall I praise you in this? I praise you not.
church unity
Unity is the only way a church can ever thrive.
church hats robbing
Some make Conscience of wearing a Hat in the Church, who make none of robbing the Altar. Benjamin Franklin
church lighthouse
A lighthouse is more useful than a church.
church superstitions praying
Although I myself don't go to church or synagogue, I do, whether it's superstition or whatever, pray every time I get on a plane. I just automatically do it. I say the same thing every time. Barbara Walters
church belief century
That the Jews were unholy was a belief so ingrained by the Church [by the 14th century] that the most devout persons were the harshest in their antipathy, none more so than St. Louis. Barbara Tuchman
church england world
The Church of England is the only church in the world that interferes neither with your politics nor your religion Anthony Trollope
church
The Church is the Church only when it exists for others. Dietrich Bonhoeffer
church tasks youth
It is the task of youth not to reshape the church, but rather to listen to the word of God.
church-music modern music-is
Modern church music is so constructed that the congregation cannot hear one distinct word. Desiderius Erasmus
church one-day
I put up with this church, in the hope that one day it will become better, just as it is constrained to put up with me in the hope that I will become better.
church-service interesting challenges
Abraham Lincoln was asked by an aide about the church service he had attended. Lincoln responded that the minister was inspired, interesting, well-prepared, eloquent and the topic relevant. The aide said, “Then it was a good service?” Lincoln responded, “No.” The aide protested, “But, Mr. President, you said that the minister was inspired, interesting, well-prepared, eloquent, and that the topic was relevant.” “Yes,” replied Lincoln, “but he didn’t challenge us to do any great thing. Abraham Lincoln
church share states
[R]eligion cannot share the material strength of the rulers without being burdened with some of the animosity roused against them. Alexis de Tocqueville
church-service play honor
If you are called upon to play a church service, it is a greater honor than if you were to play a concert on the finest organ in the world... Thank God each time when you are privileged to sit before the organ console and assist in the worship of the Almighty. Albert Schweitzer
church coming complicity faith holocaust horror jewish lead lost occasion pope promised questioned sins terms
The pope has long promised to lead the church in coming to terms with some of its sins on the occasion of the Jubilee. For him, it's the culmination of many years of work, as a pontiff who lost a lot of his Jewish friends during the horror of the Holocaust and questioned the complicity of his own faith as a result.
church stories woe
The story goes that a public sinner was excommunicated and forbidden entry to the church. He took his woes to God. 'They won't let me in, Lord, because I am a sinner.' 'What are you complaining about?' said God. 'They won't let Me in either. Brennan Manning
church declare drawn faith forward hand kingdom left move nor prevent seductive stay voices
I solemnly declare that this spiritual kingdom of faith will move forward with or without each of us individually. No unhallowed hand can stay the growth of the Church nor prevent fulfillment of its mission. Any of us can be left behind, drawn away by the seductive voices of secularism and materialism. James E. Faust
church local-church locals
There is nothing like the local church when the local church is working right. Bill Hybels
church world local-church
The local church is the hope of the world.
church christ
Not for yourself, O church, do you exist, any more than Christ existed for himself. Charles Spurgeon
church chapel one-thing
My friends, it is one thing to go to church or chapel; it is quite another thing to go to God.