Ed Stetzer Quotes

If your church loves the way you do church more than your children, it loves the wrong thing.

Ed Stetzer

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• But when one identifies the Church with a cultural and political bloc, there is the danger of making difficult the Church's contact with all those outside the bloc.

  

  Karl Lehmann
  • Political
  • Church
  • Outside

• I do think Jesus would skip church on Sunday morning and instead visit the nursing homes and retirement homes where so many have abandoned their loved ones.

  

  Taylor Negron
  • Church
  • Morning
  • Jesus

• This also is a part of the teaching of the Church, that there are certain angels of God, and certain good influences, which are His servants in accomplishing the salvation of men.

  

  Origen
  • Good
  • God
  • Men

• I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Church
  • Service
  • Better

• The roads of life are strewn with the wreckage of run-down and half-finished loves.

  

  Ralph W. Sockman
  • Life
  • Loves
  • Roads

• I went to church as a kid, but it was as much a social thing as anything going to the youth group with the other kids and whatnot. It wasn't until I got out of college that I got on my own religious trip and started finding other things out there as well as philosophies. I've kinda been on my own spiritual path since then.

  

  Bailey Chase
  • Kids
  • College
  • Church

• The laws of God given to mankind are embodied in the gospel plan, and the Church of Jesus Christ is made responsible for teaching these laws to the world.

  

  Harold B. Lee
  • World
  • God
  • Church

• Go, Soul, the body’s guest,Upon a thankless arrant:Fear not to touch the best;The truth shall be thy warrant:Go, since I needs must die,And give the world the lie.Say to the court, it glows.And shines like rotten wood;Say to the church, it showsWhat’s good, and doth no good:If church and court reply,Then give them both the lie.

  

  Walter Raleigh
  • World
  • Good
  • Truth

• I think I speak not too strongly when I say that a church in the land without the Spirit of God is rather a curse than a blessing. If you have not the Spirit of God, Christian worker, remember you stand in somebody else's way; you are a tree bearing no fruit, standing where another fruitful tree might grow.

  

  Charles Spurgeon
  • God
  • Remember
  • Church

• The tyranny alike of church and state has been curbed, and true power is now known to reside where forever it must remain - in the people.

  

  Louis Sullivan
  • People
  • Power
  • True

• The history of the Church of Rome is a constant leakage of members into such breakaway cults, which go on splitting.

  

  Mary Douglas
  • History
  • Church

• People are so shocked when they find... out I am Protestant. I am Presbyterian. And I go to church, and I love God, and I love my church.

  

  Donald Trump
  • People
  • God
  • Church

• I think I was about seven years old, and I remember I was at Moffat Road Baptist Church, where I grew up with all my friends and family and probably didn't understand nearly enough, but I knew enough to understand I wanted to be saved and wanted Jesus to be Lord of my life. What an awesome experience.

  

  Jake Peavy
  • Life
  • Up
  • Family

• It sounds like I'm joking when I say it, but when I wrote 'Take Me To Church' and a lot of these things, I didn't think they would be hits. I thought I was writing for a potentially smaller audience.

  

  Andrew Hozier-Byrne
  • Writing
  • Church

• I was raised to volunteer: nursing homes, clinics, church nurseries, school, everywhere that could use help. It's such an intrinsic part of me, to use my life to help improve the quality of others.

  

  Debby Ryan
  • Life
  • School
  • Help

• 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
  • Time
  • Freedom
  • Church

• I like the aesthetics of the Church.

  

  Andres Serrano
  • Church

• When I look back at the church I grew up in, I realise that nothing about its behaviour was very Christian. It was just a social club on Sundays where people would meet up with their mates.

  

  James Corden
  • People
  • Up
  • Church

• Not a word was spoken. The church bells all were broken.

  

  Don McLean
  • Reality
  • Church
  • Broken

• Lilith: Oh, but your heart grows cold. A north wind blows and carries down the distant... Rose? The Doctor: Oooh, big mistake! Because that name keeps me fighting!

  

  Gareth Roberts
  • Heart
  • Fighting
  • Mistake

• If you persuade yourself that you can do a certain thing, provided this thing be possible, you will do it, however difficult it may be. If, on the contrary, you imagine that you cannot do the simplest thing in the world, it is impossible for you to do it, and molehills become for you unscalable mountains.

  

  Emile Coue
  • World
  • May
  • Attitude

• When I talk about music in Memphis, it's a place you can go if you are a beginning artist or anywhere in your career, and you can incubate.

  

  Valerie June
  • Music
  • Career
  • Beginning

• Requirements in mathematical language are no use unless they are easier to read than the code.

  

  David Parnas
  • Easier
  • Code
  • Mathematical

• If your church loves the way you do church more than your children, it loves the wrong thing.

  

  Ed Stetzer
  • Church
  • Loves
  • Wrong Things