Church Quotes
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We have many responsibilities, and one cannot expect the full blessings of a kind Providence if he neglects any major duty. A man has duties to his church, his home, his country, and his profession or job.
Ezra Taft Benson
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Those who fit in neatly at church, those who are hyper-focused on the “law” are told to repent, but the sinners, tax collectors, and prostitutes are invited to sit down for dinner, to share a glass of wine, and to build a friendship.
Benjamin L. Corey
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The church does not exist for us. We are the church, and we exist for the world.
Erwin McManus
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I think records and music are more appropriate and more respectful of the human soul than the churches are. And more respectful of the needs of humans to communicate with the aspects of themselves that are neglected by language.
Will Oldham
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All instruments sound fantastic in a church.
Colin Meloy
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For years we have been counseled to have on hand a year's supply of food. Yet there are some today who will not start storing until the Church comes out with a detailed monthly home storage program. Now suppose that never happens. We still cannot say we have not been told. Should the Lord decide at this time to cleanse the Church- and the need for that cleansing seems to be increasing- a famine in this land of one year's duration could wipe out a large percentage of slothful members, including some ward and stake officers. Yet we cannot say we have not been warned.
Ezra Taft Benson
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All Church activities, advancements, quorums, and classes are means to the end of an exalted family.
Russell M. Nelson
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The truth is that most mission work is carried out where the church already exists Only small percentages are working where the church is non-existent.
George Verwer
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The First Amendment has erected a wall between church and state. That wall must be kept high and impregnable. We could not approve the slightest breach.
Hugo Black
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I think that the church in America today is so obsessed with being practical, relevant, helpful, successful, and perhaps well-liked that it nearly mirrors the world itself. Aside from the packaging, there is nothing that cannot be found in most churches today that could not be satisfied by any number of secular programs and self-help groups.
Michael Horton
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One of my realizations in such an earthy atmosphere was that many of the burning theological issues in the church were neither burning nor theological.
Brennan Manning
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Prohibiting use of state tax dollars “directly or indirectly in aid of any church, sect, or religious denomination or in aid of any sectarian institution.
Barry W. Lynn
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The epicenter of creativity and imagination should be the Church, reflecting the character and glory of God.
Erwin McManus
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Church leaders—including pastoral staff, elders, deacons, and leadership teams—must see community as a biblical nonnegotiable, an essential for transformation, a necessity for building lives that stand the test of time.
Ed Stetzer
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Marriage is a civic matter. It is really not, together with all its circumstances, the business of the church.
Martin Luther
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The excellence of the Church does not consist in multitude but in purity.
John Calvin
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Soon she’ll start yelling, I thought, soon she’ll hit her, trying to break that bond. Instead, the bond will become more twisted, will strengthen in remorse, in the humiliation of having shown herself in public to be an unaffectionate mother, not the mother of church or the Sunday supplements.
Elena Ferrante
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If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval.
Ezra Pound
