Quotes about church
church heirlooms persecution
Charles Spurgeon Persecution is the heirloom of the church, and the ensign of the elect.
church doctrine traps
Charles Spurgeon The doctrines some now preach could not build a mouse-trap.
church would-be doing-good
Charles Spurgeon The most useful members of a church are usually those who would be doing harm if they were not doing good.
church conviction repentance
Aiden Wilson Tozer What has the church gained if it is popular but there is no conviction, no repentance, no power?
church attention pay
Aiden Wilson Tozer Go to church once a week and nobody pays attention. Worship God seven days a week and you become strange!
church done today
Aiden Wilson Tozer In the conduct of our public worship where is the authority of Christ to be found? The truth is that today the Lord rarely controls a service, and the influence He exerts is very small. We sing of Him and preach about Him, but He must not interfere; we worship our way, and it must be right because we have always done it that way, as have the other churches in our group.
church watches praying
Aiden Wilson Tozer The creeping wilderness will soon take over that church that trusts in its own strength and forgets to watch and pray.
church-today meetings attraction
Aiden Wilson Tozer The meetings least attended in our churches today are the ones whose only attraction is God.
church stronger gains
Aiden Wilson Tozer The body becomes stronger as its members become healthier. The whole church of God gains when the members that compose it begin to seek a better and a higher life.
church sanctuary
Aiden Wilson Tozer Worshipers never leave church...we carry our sanctuary with us wherever we go.
church our-relationship should
Eddie Guerrero Religion should be about your relationship with God, not what the church says you can and can't do.
church causes christianity
It is just as proper, maybe even more so, to say Christ's global cause has a Church as to say Christ's Church has a global cause.
church slavery vigor
August Bebel When socialism comes into power, the Roman Church will advocate socialism with the same vigor [with which] it is now favoring feudalism and slavery.
churchill confronted connection diplomatic emotional incredibly leaders lessons powerful roosevelt terror today tyranny yields
Jon Meacham The powerful emotional connection between Roosevelt and Churchill and how they confronted tyranny and terror is an incredibly contemporary story that yields important lessons for leaders today on a personal, political, and diplomatic level.
church spirit
Where the Church is, there is the Spirit of God. And there the Spirit is, there is the Church and all grace.
church peter
Where Peter is, there must be the Church
church lines institutions
Billy Sunday The church is not a dormitory for sleepers, it is an institution for workers; it is not a rest camp, it is a front line trench.
church half needs
Billy Sunday Churches don't need new members half so much as they need the old bunch made over.
church want crooks
Bernard Ebbers I just want you to know you aren't going to church with a crook
church clean environment reinforce sites
We want to reinforce the church sites and let them know the environment is going to be clean and safe.
church demand sides
Agnes Repplier If we go to church we are confronted with a system of begging so complicated and so resolute that all other demands sink into insignificance by its side.
church wanted
Charles Baudelaire Unable to suppress love, the Church wanted at least to disinfect it, and it created marriage.
church analogies individual
Charles Hodge 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.
church spirit arise
Charles Hodge All Church power arises from the indwelling of the Spirit; therefore those in whom the Spirit dwells are the seat of Church power. But the Spirit dwells in the whole Church, and therefore the whole Church is the seat of Church power.
church body kingdoms
Charles Hodge The Church is everywhere represented as one. It is one body, one family, one fold, one kingdom. It is one because pervaded by one Spirit. We are all baptized into one Spirit so as to become, says the apostle, on body.
church sound doctrine
Charles Hodge True zeal is connected with a holy life. It is remarkable how often the greatest zealots for God, the Church, and sound doctrine (as they regard it), have been unholy and even immoral in their lives.
church lord reason
Charles Hodge All the reasons which require the subjection of a believer to the brethren of a particular church require his subjection to all his brethren in the Lord.
church mosques world
Bill Maher There's more than one mosque in the world that used to be a church and before that was a temple. Because it's a lot easier to just change the sign on the top and say under new management than it is to change the whole building.
church needs lap
Bill Maher Nowas you all know, this week, Pope Benedict told Vatican Radio—you know, Vatican Radio, playing the hits from the 8th century, 9th century and today—Benedict told them he was going to resign because the Church needs a fresh, young face, somewhere other than a priest's lap.
church want rich
Bill Maher If you want to get rich with a tax free enterprise that sells nothing, start a church.
church wheelchairs gym
Bill Walton My bike is my gym, my wheelchair, and my church all in one.
church planting word
There is no more important word in church planting than relationships.