Church Quotes
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It's not the job of government to help the poor. The church is the mechanism that God put on earth to help the poor.
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In the Church, great wonders daily occur, such as the forgiveness of sins, triumph over death . . . the gift of righteousness and eternal life.
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After Hiram Bingham built the first church on Oahu the student recalls, "When it was completed some of the natives said among themselves, 'That house of worship built by the haoles is a place in which they will pray us all to death. It is meant to kill us."
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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.
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It is a tragedy when the church saves money instead of saving souls. We MUST spend to save.
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The free exchange of consent properly witnessed by the Church establishes the marriage bond. Sexual union consummates it - seals it, completes it, perfects it. Sexual union, then, is where the words of the wedding vows become flesh.
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I loved my mission in Switzerland and Germany. As I left on the train from Basel, Switzerland, tears flowed down my cheeks because I knew then that my full-time service in the Church had ended.
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I love the spiritual side of religion, but the church, for me, is a place where I feel very repressed.
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No man should be alone when he opposes Satan. The Church and the ministry of the Word were instituted for this purpose, that hands may be joined together and one may help another.
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It's not so much that the church has a mission, it's that the mission of God has a church.
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Would your city weep if your church did not exist?
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In bringing the subject of religious oppression to a wider audience, I didn't just want to kick the Catholic Church but to poke a finger in the throat of theocracy and to let it be known that people shouldn't tolerate this anymore.
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The public school has become the established church of secular society.
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The church is in the hope business.
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I have said to people I have six children, one son, four daughters, and a church.
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You can be committed to Church but not committed to Christ, but you cannot be committed to Christ and not committed to church.
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My mother was a regular church-goer and was very tolerant.
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Church planters need to be aware of their natural gifts as well as their spiritual ones.
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Why is the church always a taillight rather than a headlight?
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Another hallmark of Christianity is that salvation is not individualistic-it's not something one person receives for himself or herself. Salvation is the reign of God. It is a political alternative to the way the world is constituted. That's a very important part of the story that has been lost to accounts of salvation that are centered in the individual. But without an understanding that salvation is the reign of God, the need for the church to mediate salvation makes no sense at all.
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Turn in your guns at your local church.
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The Church is larger than any one nation or any one political scene.
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Jesus was born again in the pit of hell. .. The church started when Jesus was born again in the gates of hell.
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The organization of the Church should free us to express ourselves in infinite variations within the eternal guidelines that will keep us safe from self-destruction.
