Ed Stetzer Quotes

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

Ed Stetzer

• Church
• Loves
• Wrong Things

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• 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

• When I write, I talk about stories and things that are happening in my life. I come from the church. There was a time in my life when I actually had that transformation and relationship with God.

  

  Leon Bridges
  • Life
  • Time
  • God

• We believe the use of force against Iraq, especially with reference to previous resolutions of the UN Security Council, has no grounds, including legal grounds.

  

  Igor Ivanov
  • Believe
  • Security
  • Legal

• No matter how vital experience might be while you lived it, no sooner was it ended and dead than it became as lifeless as the piles of dry dust in a school history book.

  

  Ellen Glasgow
  • School
  • Experience
  • Book

• The science can tell you that the thousands of pseudo-scientific parenting books out there - not to mention the 'Baby Einstein' DVDs and the flash cards and the brain-boosting toys - won't do a thing to make your baby smarter. That's largely because babies are already as smart as they can be; smarter than we are in some ways.

  

  Alison Gopnik
  • Science
  • Brain
  • Baby

• When on life's journey it becomes our lot to travel with criticism of skeptics, the hate of some, the rejection of others, the impatience of many, or a friend's betrayal, we must be able to pray in such a manner that an abiding faith and a strong testimony that the Lord will be with us to the end, will compel us to say, "Nevertheless, Father, Thy will be done, and with Thy help, in patience I will follow firmly on the path that takes me back to Thee."

  

  Angel Abrea
  • Faith
  • Pray
  • Skeptics

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

  

  Ed Stetzer
  • Church
  • Loves
  • Wrong Things