Top 1200 Old Churches Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

How little chance the Holy Ghost has nowadays. The churches and missionary societies have so bound Him in red tape that they practically ask Him to sit in a corner while they do the work themselves.

In Rome, I loved seeing the Caravaggios. There are churches in Rome that have Caravaggios, and there's one, not far from Piazza Navona, that has the best, I think: St. Matthew with the money.

The GOP of old has grown old and moss covered.

Time is important to me because I want to sing long enough to leave a message. I'm used to singing in churches where nobody would dare stop me until the Lord arrives!

We need to stop building our churches around categories and start building them around people.

Old secrets are like old wounds; they fester.

So it may be a language that separates you - again, social networks. But second-generation Asian and Hispanics, second, and third and fourth and so on, they are much more likely to be in integrated churches than are blacks or whites.

We grow too old to lose old friends.

I enjoy the old-fashioned idea of, like, 'His Girl Friday' and 'Bringing Up Baby', those old movies.

Cato requested old men not to add the disgrace of wickedness to old age, which was accompanied with many other evils.

Our churches should attract the people Jesus attracted and frustrate the people Jesus frustrated.

The old men know when an old man dies.

My son now is 22 months old, he's been playing since he was 12 months old and he gets standing ovations on the drums. He's been with us since he was 10 weeks old, he's been on the drums. He's got blisters on his fingers before he can even talk.

I try to squeeze in a workout whenever I can, even if it's doing squats with my 7-month-old in the kitchen or jumping on the trampoline with my 5-year-old.

There's an old Southern saying that if you're worried about your weight, clothes, or getting old, then you don't have any real problems.

All the bayonets of the Army cannot force the Negro into our homes, into our schools, our churches and our places of recreation and amusement.

I'm a 48-year-old writer who can remember being a 10-year-old writer and who expects someday to be an 80-year-old writer. I'm also comfortably asocial -- a hermit in the middle of Los Angeles -- a pessimist if I'm not careful, a feminist, a Black, a former Baptist, an oil-and-water combination of ambition, laziness, insecurity, certainty, and drive.

When I lie down to love, old dwarf heart shakes her head. Like an imbecile she was born old.

It was while I was pastoring that I began to realize that pastors were not growing churches because they didn't understand leadership because they were not trained, adequate leaders.

Every old sock meets an old shoe

After playing so many songs in churches for eight or nine years, I've learned what songs people react to. Then I just had fun with the arrangements. That's how this album came together.

On Church: Church wasn't designed by an architect (Technically, Jesus was a carpenter.). So why do we think of churches as buildings instead of groups of people who love Jesus?

Old ugly is better than old nothin'

When one begins to think of oneself as growing old, one is already old.

There are more old drunkards than old doctors.

What’s old doesn’t need to be old-fashioned. It gets reborn.

Some churches make intercessory prayer part of their weekly schedule. If that's not the case at your church, find another person in the faith to intercede with or go before God on your own.

There are more old drunkards than old physicians.

I may not be old but I’m too old to have this much nothing

What does it say about our churches today that God birthed the church in a prayer meeting, and prayer meetings today are almost extinct?

The secret of every discord in Christian homes and communities and churches is that we seek our own way and our own glory.

Unless we learn how to humbly tell each other our giving stories, our churches will not learn to give.

Vintage books, old china, antiques; maybe I love old things so much because I feel impermanent myself.

Surely you know that if a man can't be cured of churchgoing, the next best thing is to send him all over the neighbourhood looking for the church that "suits" him until he becomes a taster or connoisseur of churches.

There are old people in San Francisco because my parents still live there. The young tech bros don't see old people or children. The Mission district, where they live and work, they don't see children or old people. That statement revealed, to me, the blinders that the techies are wearing.

The problem is, many of the people in need of saving are in churches, and at least part of what they need saving from is the idea that God sees the world the same way they do.

It takes more than a great church to reach a city, it takes a great movement of churches.

Flesh sells. People don't want to see pictures of churches. They want to see naked bodies.

Ours is the old, old story of every uprising race or class or order. The work of elevation must be wrought by ourselves or not at all.

You plant the gospel. You don't plant churches.

I was always Armie. There couldn't be a 90-year-old Armand and a 9-day-old one. And I heard enough jokes about baking soda.

It was like a complicit - there was complicity between the churches and the state in taking care of the 'Indian problem,' solving the 'Indian problem,' and trying to change who we were.

The fear of old age is something that one feels when they're younger. Once you get to being old, you're already there, so you don't even think about it anymore.

There are more old drunks than there are old doctors.

The old rules and the old methods of winning are gone.

When I was a kid, I loved Popeye, but the old ones, the real old ones.

There were no politics to polarize us then, to magnify every slight. The "negroes" of Washington had their public schools, restaurants, bars, movie houses, playgrounds and churches; and we had ours.

While on that old grey stone I sat Under the old wind-broken tree, I knew that One is animate, Mankind inanimate phantasy.

In fact, I was too dumb to save any of the old comic books or the old artwork. I used to give them away.

Old wine, and an old friend, are good provisions.

I enjoy the old-fashioned idea of, like, His Girl Friday and Bringing Up Baby, those old movies.

There's still this idea that women are over by the time they are 40, so that they can't play the love interest opposite a 50-year-old man. George Clooney is 52, but he's always on the arm of a thirt-something actress. He gets Vera Farmiga. You don't get a 50-year-old woman on the arm of a 30-year-old guy.

The Americans make associations to give entertainment, to found seminaries, to build inns, to construct churches, to diffuse books, to send missionaries to the antipodes; in this manner, they found hospitals, prisons and schools.

The churches weren't going to accept me looking like a street person with long hair and faded jeans. They did not like the music I was recording. And I had no desire to preach the gospel to the converted.

I am getting old and the sign of old age is that I begin to philosophize and ponder over problems which should not be my concern at all.

Old man with an old phone. That's never not funny.

Getting old we can deal with. Being old is the problem

I am an old-fashioned preacher of the old-time religion, that has warmed this cold world's heart for two thousand years.

I was way behind in my maturity. I was a 30-year-old acting like a 23-year-old. So when I was 21, I was probably acting like a 15-year-old.

I was 28 years old playing a 16-year-old. I just kept my mouth shut. I never talked about it.