Church Quotes

• Resolved, That we especially protest against this present attempt to force all the people to follow the religious dictates of a part of the people, as establishing a precedent for the entrance of a most dangerous complicity between Church and State, thereby subtly undermining the foundation of liberty, so carefully laid by the wisdom of our fathers.

  

  Ellen Battelle Dietrick
  • People
  • Father
  • Religious

• Theology, not morality, is the first business on the church's agenda of reform, and the church, not society, is the first target of divine criticism.

  

  Michael Horton
  • Criticism
  • Morality
  • Divine

• The church is the gathering of God's children, where they can be helped and fed like babies and then guided by her motherly care, grow up to manhood in maturity of faith.

  

  John Calvin
  • Faith
  • Care
  • God's Children

• It is a promise which eminently deserves our observation that all who are united to Christ and acknowledge Him to be Christ and Mediator will remain to the end safe from all danger, for what is said of the body of the Church belongs to each of its members since they are one in Christ.

  

  John Calvin
  • Promise
  • Christ
  • Deserves

• Church planters need to be aware of their natural gifts as well as their spiritual ones.

  

  Aubrey Malphurs
  • Church
  • Gifts
  • Aware

• When the church really takes on the humble characteristics of Christ, that's going to lead to revival.

  

  Francis Chan
  • Christ
  • Humble
  • Characteristics

• So many today are worshiping in the mountains, big churches, stone and frame buildings. But Jesus teaches that salvation is not in these stone structures-not in the mountains-not in the hills, but in God.

  

  William J. Seymour
  • Jesus
  • Mountain
  • Teach

• My problem with the Emergent Church is not the questions they are bringing up, but the answers they are giving. They are making Christianity milky. They are making it so you can no longer define anything. There is no sound judgment allowed.

  

  Eric Ludy
  • Problem
  • Judgment
  • Christianity

• For over forty years, in a spirit of love, members of the Church have been counseled to be thrifty and self-reliant; to avoid debt; pay tithes and a generous fast offering; be industrious; and have sufficient food, clothing, and fuel on hand to last at least one year. Today there are compelling reasons to reemphasize this counsel.

  

  Ezra Taft Benson
  • Reasons
  • Counsel
  • Spirit Of Love

• I really learned to sing in church, I think, really with emotion.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Thinking
  • Church

• The church grew, and I gained a reputation for preaching, and people came, and it was a wonderful community. But we had a building that seated 82 people, and with a congregation then approaching 400 we were up to four services on Sunday, and everyone was tired.

  

  Barbara Brown Taylor
  • Community
  • Building
  • Preaching

• The most creative social strategy we have to offer is the church. Here we show the world a manner of life the world can never achieve through social coercion or governmental action. We serve the world by showing it something that it is not, namely, a place where God is forming a family out of strangers.

  

  Stanley Hauerwas
  • World
  • Action
  • Creative

• Church should be a place where love is evident, God delivers, lives are changed, hearts are healed, and families restored.

  

  David Walker
  • Heart
  • Changed
  • Restored

• I don't see any harm in brining an instrument into the church itself.

  

  Ralph Stanley
  • Church
  • Instrument
  • Harm

• Turn in your guns at your local church.

  

  Chuck Baldwin
  • Church
  • Turn
  • Guns

• Mysticism has been in the past and probably ever will be one of the great powers of the world, and it is bad scholarship to pretend the contrary. You may argue against it but you should no more treat it with disrespect than a perfectly cultivated writer would treat (say) the Catholic Church or the Church of Luther no matter how much he disliked them.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • World
  • Past
  • Catholic

• Helmut Walcha was a gifted organist, improviser, and composer! He would play Evensong every week at his church for free, the Dreikönigskirche in Frankfurt, where the audience would consist of only six or so of us students. When he would give a public recital that had a hefty ticket price, the church was packed.

  

  Barbara Harbach
  • Audience
  • Students
  • Composer

• Well, we find the Toronto blessing in every city we go to. I believe that it is a blessing indeed. ... the Toronto blessing has to be kicked out of the church - kicked out of the church into the world! If in each neighbourhood prayerhouse, there is a manifestation of Jesus, which I believe in its purest form that's what the Toronto blessing is, then the entire neighbourhood will flock to that house.

  

  Ed Silvoso
  • I Believe
  • Blessing
  • Neighborhood

• "Magna Carta is the Law: Let the King look out." So it has always been with tyrants among our own people: when the King was tyrant, let him look out. And it has always been the same, and will be the same, whether the tyrant be the Barons, whether the tyrant be the Church, whether he be demagogue or dictator - let them look out.

  

  Stanley Baldwin
  • Law
  • Looks
  • Kings

• Marriage is a living sign that truly communicates the love of Christ and the Church.

  

  Christopher West
  • Christ
  • Catholic
  • Communicate

• The temple is the house of the Lord. The basis for every temple ordinance and covenant…is the Atonement of Jesus Christ. Every activity, every lesson, all we do in the Church, point to the Lord and His holy house.

  

  Russell M. Nelson
  • Christ
  • Lord
  • Bases

• I have a friend who lives in the South Side of Chicago. I helped out at a church charity there where they try to give a bit of cohesion to a desperate area. Everyone was very welcoming

  

  Sara Paretsky
  • Trying
  • Giving
  • Charity

• A church without a missions or a mission without the church are both contradictions. Such things do exist, but only as pseudostructures

  

  Carl Braaten
  • Church
  • Contradiction
  • Missions

• Why cast yourself over a cliff, deciding in your writings about things of which you are ignorant? Why do you not keep to what you have received from the Fathers and Doctors of the Church? You introduce novelties!

  

  Elton Welsby
  • Writing
  • Father
  • Catholic

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