Top 1200 Church Today Quotes & Sayings - Page 6

How can we call ourselves a church and not believe in healing and in miracles? I cannot read four pages anywhere in the Bible without encountering miracles! And the God of the bible is the same today!

The best music of my life I heard at my grandmother's church, this little wooden church up on a hill.

I think we are all trying to figure out what it means to be the Church as opposed to just doing church.

It is better to have a Church that is wounded but out in the streets than a Church that is sick because it is closed in on itself.

if the devil can get the church to withdraw from prayer by believing reasonable excuses, the church is under his dominion.

If you're not looking forward to church this morning perhaps it's time to look for a church.

Does any sane man imagine that the church could cease to be missionary and remain the church?

My church is in the detention facilities where I preside and celebrate the Eucharist. To me that's the church. That's the people of God.

The Church and only the Church has been given the keys to the kingdom, so we have unique access to God that nobody else has.

There's always the tendency to transform the Church into an ethical agency, and of measuring the Church by the yardstick of social and cultural utility.

But look what the Church has done to Jesus during the last two thousand years. What they have made of Him. How they have turned every word He spoke for their own vile ends. Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today.

I did not grow up in the church. I'm not a church-goer now. I'm a very spiritual person.

The church is the only mechanism for mass mobilization. That's why the civil rights movement came out of the church.

It is true that going out on to the street implies the risk of accidents happening, as they would to any ordinary man or woman. But if the church stays wrapped up in itself, it will age. And if I had to choose between a wounded church that goes out on to the streets and a sick, withdrawn church, I would definitely choose the first one.

There are financial bankruptcies in many parts of the church. No question about that. But we see the possibility of reimagining and revitalizing the church.

But the appeal to antiquity is both a treason and a heresy. It is a treason because it rejects the Divine voice of the Church at this hour, and a heresy because it denies that voice to be Divine. How can we know what antiquity was except through the Church? ... I may say in strict truth that the Church has no antiquity. It rests upon its own supernatural and perpetual consciousness. ... The only Divine evidence to us of what was primitive is the witness and voice of the Church at this hour.

I have two nexuses of sadness about the Mormon Church. The first is the effect the Church's position on homosexuality has on Mormons.

Yes, I'm a Pastor of a church called Understand Principles for Better Living Church, in Los Angeles, CA.

I got baptized in June of 2001, I think. But I always went to church camp, went to church every Sunday, went to Bible class.

By the time we get to church, I need church cuz I've been yelled at by everyone in the family.

When I don't have to do out on tour I go to church. Church is a good place to be.

Knowing that there is one Baptism, we who hold the head and root of the One Church know for certain that to him who is outside the Church nothing is lawful.

When we say Church of All Nations, it's a vision given to me, that the church will touch all the world.

Personally, I am a church-going Christian. I love my church, my congregation; it's my favorite place to be.

Is this really the church of Christ, or are we just calling it the church because of our traditions and history?

Though you see a Church-man ill, yet continue in the Church still.

The Church did the most when the Church was the least like the world.

If we all gave all our goods to the poor, the church would fall apart. If we all hated our father and mother, as Jesus told us to, there'd be an end of the church's emphasis on the family as being the one important thing holding the whole society together. There are all sorts of ways in which the church's teachings contradict directly what Jesus says in the Gospel.

For years, my mom dated a man who was really active in the Baptist church in the town next to the town I grew up in, and so he used to drag me to these Baptist church services that lasted forever. I remember that I didn't like the church services, but I really liked the music.

Christianity in the suburb is cheerful. The church is a centre of social activity and those who go to church need never be lonely.

The church has no authority to preach of inclusivity if we fear altering the look of our church by bringing in the poor.

I'm afraid the SS's relationship with the Catholic Church is something the Church still has to deal with and does not deny.

That was an interesting aspect: to go to war with the Church to fight for the very thing that the Church was meant to give to people.

The Roman Catholic Church is for saints and sinners alone - for respectable people, the Anglican Church will do.

The National Catholic Register's coverage of the Church universal, and the Church in our own country, is splendid.

Always moved by religious motives, the Church has condemned the various forms of Marxist Socialism; and she condemns them today, because it is her permanent right and duty to safeguard men from currents of thought and influence that jeopardize their eternal salvation.

Let's just be fabulously where we are and who we are. You be you and I'll be me, today and today and today, and let's trust the future to tomorrow.

I think Jeremiah is for our times. But whether the church in the west will listen to the Word of God today any more than in the chaos of 7th century BC middle east... Only God knows.

So if we approach church membership from the perspective of entitlement, we have it upside down. You always ask first what you can do for your church.

Among the immediate obligations and duties resting upon members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints today, and one of the most urgent and pressing for attention and action of all liberty loving people, is the preservation of individual liberty.

It's not necessarily a church theme and it's not really about church. I like my album themes to be metaphors because it gives me the freedom to speak about something else that's going on in my life, so the Born Sinner thing is not about church, it's not even about religion. It's using that as canvas to get other messages across and that's what the album will be.

We are not the Westboro Baptist Church. We are a church that embraces the tenants of historic Christianity - there's nothing hateful about our members at all.

I love the church. And the church is flawed. I think it's important that the issues of justice become important to the church. A lot of these churches don't necessarily take on justice because it affects dollars that come in. We need to start and assess the areas that we're in and not be so obsessed with becoming this big, huge church where everybody's pointing at one leader! We all should be pointing at Jesus, and if that's true we got to get to a place where the people become important to us. It kills me! It hurts me! Jesus has set the example. It's very clear!

I was raised in a little church, the Grundy Methodist Church, that was very straight-laced, but I had a friend whose mother spoke in tongues. I was just wild for this family. My own parents were older, and they were so over-protective. I just loved the 'letting go' that would happen when I went to church with my friend.

I walked away from going to church when I was 8. I didn't set foot in another church until I was 28.

If the Church is not now as bad as the Soviet Government, that is due to the influence of those who attacked the Church

I think there is tribalism is a big deal inside of the church, that the church thinks of themselves as a tribe and not a mission.

I had actually gone to a church-related college, but I went on a football scholarship, not because of any interest in the church.

I played at my church every once in a while, but that's not a good gauge, because everybody loves you at your church.

I went to St. James Methodist Church in Clinton, a segregated church on the other side of the tracks.

My father is maestro at the Metropolitan church, which gives me an opportunity to write for the church as much as I please.

Germany is different from France. You are more Protestant, which results in a significant difference. Through the church, through Catholicism, French society was structured vertically, from top to bottom. I am convinced that it has remained so until today.

As the Church is the aggregate of believers, there is an intimate analogy between the experience of the individual believer, and of the Church as a whole.

I grew up in the Southern Baptist Church, where my father was a minister at music, so I sang in the church all the time.

The clerical system of church management is exceedingly popular, but the whole thought is foreign to Scripture. In a church all the members are active. He [God] appointed some to take oversight of the work so that it might be carried on efficiently. It was never His thought that the majority of the believers should devote themselves exclusively to secular affairs and leave church matters to a group of spiritual specialists.

When a church is faithless to its duties, the real church is outside its walls, in the community.

I grew up in the Episcopal Church, went to private school in that church, went to chapel every day.

Church membership was so important that Paul and Silas baptized the Philippian jailer into the membership of Christ's church at midnight with Paul's back still bloody from a beating! He did not even wait till morning! Identification with Christ's church is important; without it, one must be treated 'as a heathen and publican.'

Clearly the person who accepts the Church as an infallible guide will believe whatever the Church teaches.

It's time for a new Reformation in the Church--to call the Church back to the authority of the Word of God, beginning in Genesis.