Church Quotes
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The Church, therefore, has two constant needs; instruction in the truths by which it must live, and correction of the shortcomings by which its life is marred.
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When I say my name I hear a burned-down church.
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Isaiah calls the Church barren because her children are born without effort by the Word of faith through the Spirit of God. It is a matter of birth, not of exertion.
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Satan has certainly been the best friend the church has ever had, as he has kept it in business all these years.
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If you're not remarkable, you're invisible.
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Since politics fundamentally should be a moral enterprise, the church in this sense has something to say about politics.
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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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Supreme authority in both church and home has been divinely vested in the male as the representative of Christ, who is Head of the church. It is in willing submission rather than grudging capitulation that the woman in the church (whether married or single) and the wife in the home find their fulfillment.
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Love is the essence of the holiness of the Church.
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In the end, the church will either declare the truth of God's Word, or it will find a way to run away from it.
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Everywhere in the world there are ignorance and prejudice, but the greatest complex of these, with the most extensive prestige and the most intimate entanglement with traditional institutions, is the Roman Catholic Church.
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The church meets to imagine what our lives can be like if the gospel were true.
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Oh the Christian church has encouraged enormous immaturity among the peoples who are its primary adherence.
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This is the most ancient of doctrines and is believed in now by more human minds than the number of those who do not hold it. The millions in the East almost all accept it; it was taught by the Greeks; a large number of the Chinese now believe it as their forefathers did before them; the Jews thought it was true, and it has not disappeared from their religion; and Jesus, who is called the founder of Christianity, also believed and taught it. In the early Christian church it was known and taught, and the very best of the fathers of the church believed and promulgated it.
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Let it be a settled principle in our minds that the first and chief business of the Church of Christ is to preach the Gospel.
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We have not been men of prayer. The spirit of prayer has slumbered among us. The closet has been too little frequented and delighted in. We have allowed business, study or active labor to interfere with our closet-hours. And the feverish atmosphere in which both the church and the nation are enveloped has found its way into our prayer closets.
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It appears likely that there was no normative pattern of church government in the apostolic age, and that the organizational structure of the church is no essential element in the theology of the church.
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During the centuries-long process of Reformation and Enlightenment, Christian churches had to accept some things they didn't like. Islam will have to do the same; otherwise it isn't part of Europe.
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Don't give your money to the church. They should be giving their money to you.
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Wherever Koreans are, they set up a church.
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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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To be in the mainline is to have a history and not simply to be an amalgam, a community church of who knows what that came from who knows where.
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Far more books get written about how to get more people in your church than how to get the people already in your church to have more humility and sincere love.
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The ordinary ministry is that which receives all of its direction from the will of God revealed in the Scriptures and from those means which God has appointed in the church for its continual edification.
