Quotes about church
church instruments harm
I don't see any harm in brining an instrument into the church itself. Ralph Stanley
church preacher heard
I once heard a preacher who sorely tempted me to go to church no more. Ralph Waldo Emerson
church true-religion multitudes
The multitude of false churches accredits the true religion.
church looks sanctuary
I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching. How far off, how cool, how chaste the persons look,begirt each one with a precinct or sanctuary!
church might sermons
Go into one of our cool churches, and begin to count the words that might be spared, and in most places the entire sermon will go.
church way life-is
I don't go to church so much, the way my life is, but it's in me every day. Lenny Kravitz
church authority jealously
The custom of the Church has very great authority and ought to be jealously observed in all things. Thomas Aquinas
church needs culture
I come from a culture that embodies the need to convert others to "the truth." The Mormon Church has one of the largest missionary programs in the world. That does not interest me. Terry Tempest Williams
church my-sister shows
Oh, there was a wedding all right. Did I mention that my sister didn't show up at the church either, Mr. Clayborne? Julie Garwood
church identity reason
I've left the Church - for many reasons that I've written about publicly - but it's still a large part of my identity, and I still have my faith, if not my Church. Julianna Baggott
church good-place
When I don't have to do out on tour I go to church. Church is a good place to be. Juicy J
church matter barbarians
Theology is not a private subject for theologians only. Nor is it a private subject for professors. Fortunately, there have always been pastors who have understood more about theology than most professors. Nor is theology a private subject of study for pastors. Fortunately, there have repeatedly been congregation members, and often whole congregations, who have pursued theology energetically while their pastors were theological infants or barbarians. Theology is a matter for the Church. Karl Barth
church
Where dogmatics exists at all, it exists only with the will to be a Church dogmatics, a dogmatics of the ecumenical Church.
church doctrine testing
Dogmatics is the testing of Church doctrine and proclamation,
church criticism repetitive
Scientific dogmatics must devote itself to the criticism and correction of Church proclamation and not just to a repetitive exposition of it.
church going-to-church looks
Do you look forward to going to church, or is it something you do out of obligation? Joyce Meyer
church world salt
Ask me, it's a sin to pervert faith with religion. Despite every church, mosque, & synagogue in it, this is not the world any God worth his salt would have created. Ellen Hopkins
church want found
When I found out the heads of the Church were up to things that were not good. I left. I say, you know I don't want to be a part of that at all. Elisabeth Hasselbeck
church pastor reverends
I'm a reverend and a pastor. A pastor of the church. I go by usually pastor. Joel Osteen
church messages want
I don't want to just preach to the church. I feel like I have a broader message.
church baptists chickens
The Westboro Baptist Church is no more a church than Church's Fried Chicken is a church. Jon Stewart
church exclusion serving-god
Church was never intended to be a place where we serve God to the exclusion of meeting with Him. James Macdonald
church liberty citizens
[The proposed establishment] will have a . . . tendency to banish our Citizens. . . . To superadd a fresh motive to emigration by revoking the liberty which they now enjoy, would be the same species of folly which has dishonoured and depopulated flourishing kingdoms. James Madison
church states
Power is of an encroaching nature.
church telescopes looks
I'll go to church with anyone who's willing to smoke pot and look through a telescope with me. Joe Rogan
church enthusiasm affection
The enthusiasm geologists show for adding new words to their conversation is, if anything, exceeded by their affection for the old. They are not about to drop 'granite.' They say 'granodiorite' when they are in church and 'granite' the rest of the week. John McPhee
church habit ministers
You don't have to be in the habit of going to church to listen to such a literary minister; you don't have to be a believer to be moved by Mr. Buechner's faith. John Irving
church may sin
Joylessness may be the sin most readily tolerated by the church. John Ortberg
church resistance pessimism
Churches can become places of cynicism, resistance, and pessimism.
church veins want
"Sometimes in churches somebody will discover a particular vein of spirituality and seek to recruit others into it, or assume a superior position because they have found certain techniques - but no one actually wants to become like them."
church
The church is in the hope business.
church world hindrance
The GREATEST HINDRANCES to the evangelization of the world are those within the Church. John Mott
church favors may
Scripture urges and warns us that whatever favors we may have obtained from the Lord, we have received them as a trust on condition that they should be applied to the common benefit of the church. John Calvin