Church Quotes - Page 16

The church has to show the way of freedom to the nation
Sunday Adelaja
In big ways and small, I knew exactly how selfish a war could make me, and I saw all around me how fear and need drove other people to terrible betrayals. Yet over and over, I also saw how war created a community, a people, and how that community was nourished by gestures of sharing. It was sharing that didn't depend on personal intimacy, and a community that didn't depend on everyone's being friends; it foreshadowed what I would come to understand as church, at its best.
Sara Miles
As for the general view that the Church was discredited by the War—they might as well say that the Ark was discredited by the Flood. When the world goes wrong, it proves rather that the Church is right. The Church is justified, not because her children do not sin, but because they do.
G.K. Chesterton
The church represents the people of God who are the real power of any nation
Sunday Adelaja
Only the church can show people how to restore their lives according to the word of God
Sunday Adelaja
The Responsibility Of The Local Church Is To Help People Discover What They Are Created For
Sunday Adelaja
The day we find the perfect church, it becomes imperfect the moment we join it.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Strengthen yourself in the word of God.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Your message is only as loud as the actions that accompany it. Live your message and it will be heard loud and clear.
Rev. Kellen Roggenbuck
Don't ask God to show you the way if you're not willing to get moving.
Kellen Roggenbuck
The IMPOSSIBLE is ONLY relevant to those who NEVER attempt it…otherwise it is ABSTACT and MEANINGLESS
John Paul Warren
Cream always rises to the top...so do good leaders".
John Paul Warren
Time is on our side to fulfill the will of God in our church and nation
Sunday Adelaja
Even if you are completely busy at work, you should still have a constant ministry in the church
Sunday Adelaja
The purpose of the church is outreach
Sunday Adelaja
The main purpose of a church is to bring relevance to people and make sure everyone discovers their calling
Sunday Adelaja
The goal of the church is to bring the kingdom answers to the people
Sunday Adelaja
Don’t just be a church goer, find God
Sunday Adelaja
The church is not a theological classroom. It is a conversion, confession, repentance, reconciliation, forgiveness and sanctification center, where flawed people place their faith in Christ, gather to know and love him better, and learn to love others as he designed.
Paul David Tripp
Even those who want to go to heaven would rather kill than be killed.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
No churchmen, I notice. Of course not. What use have they for a world without irrational fear?
Jonathan L. Howard
Yes an atheist priest can perfectly minister to a believing congregation and miracles can happen in that congregation. Miracles depend on the faith of the believer, not that of the officiant. A bartender who never takes alcohol can serve alcohol to his clients. What is necessary is that the priest believes he is doing the good work. The congregation needs faith and it helps them. It would be evil to deny them such a service in the name of his lack of faith. - Bangambiki Habyarimana
Bangambiki Habyarimana
The only power God recognizes in His church is the power of His Spirit whereas the only power actually recognized today by the majority of evangelicals is the power of man.
A.W. Tozer
...churches would aim to take people at every age and ability level and help them become the most loving version of themselves possible. They would help people face the challenges of life--challenges that could make them bitter, self-absorbed, callous, or hateful--with openness, courage, and generosity. (p. 54)
Brian D. McLaren
The Gospel is the good news, not the grouse news. Preaching is not beating, it´s informing in a christlike way.
Alin Sav
Preaching the Gospel in a brutal way is like telling your wife that you love her while she gets a punch right in her face.
Alin Sav
Spirituality has a language of it's own and some people haven't learned to speak it.
Shannon L. Alder
Liturgy gathers the holy community as it reads the Holy Scriptures into the sweeping tidal rhythms of the church year in which the story of Jesus and the Christian makes its rounds century after century, the large and easy interior rhythms of a year that moves from birth, life, death, resurrection, on to spirit, obedience, faith, and blessing. Without liturgy we lose the rhythms and end up tangled in the jerky, ill-timed, and insensitive interruptions of public-relations campaigns, school openings and closings, sales days, tax deadlines, inventory and elections. Advent is buried under 'shopping days before Christmas.' The joyful disciplines of Lent are exchanged for the anxious penitentials of filling out income tax forms. Liturgy keeps us in touch with the story as it defines and shapes our beginnings and ends our living and dying, our rebirths and blessing in this Holy Spirit, text-formed community visible and invisible.When Holy Scripture is embraced liturgically, we become aware that a lot is going on all at once, a lot of different people are doing a lot of different things. The community is on its feet, at work for God, listening and responding to the Holy Scriptures. The holy community, in the process of being formed by the Holy Scriptures, is watching, listening to God's revelation taking shape before an din them as they follow Jesus, each person playing his or her part in the Spirit.
Eugene H. Peterson
Time and again I hear how important the darker environment is to those at our vintage-faith worship gathering. Attenders feel they can freely pray in a corner by themselves without feeling that everyone is staring at them.
Dan Kimball
The verbal tool of exploring mystery together is not confrontation or preaching but dialogue. We subject ourselves to the same questions we pose to others, and as we traverse them together, we may arrive at surprising conclusions we could never have reached when simply trying to defeat one another's logic. Our questions are open ended, granting the other person the freedom to respond or not to respond. The questions stick with us, even haunt us, long after we ask them, and we await insight together. The process is more important than an immediate decision.
Adam S. McHugh
Our lack of community is intensely painful. A TV talk show is not community. A couple of hours in a church pew each Sabbath is not community. A multinational corporation is neither a human nor a community, and in the sweatshops, defiled agribusiness fields, genetic mutation labs, ecological dead zones, the inhumanity is showing. Without genuine spiritual community, life becomes a struggle so lonely and grim that even Hillary Clinton has admitted "it takes a village".
David James Duncan
Each of those churches shows certain books, which they call revelation, or the Word of God. The Jews say that their Word of God was given by God to Moses face to face; the Christians say, that their Word of God came by divine inspiration; and the Turks say, that their Word of God (the Koran) was brought by an angel from heaven. Each of those churches accuses the other of unbelief; and, for my own part, I disbelieve them all.
Thomas Paine
But we have no [Marian] apparitions cautioning the Church against, say, accepting the delusion of an Earth-centered Universe, or warning it of complicity with Nazi Germany — two matters of considerable moral as well as historical import....Not a single saint criticized the practice of torturing and burning “witches” and heretics. Why not? Were they unaware of what was going on? Could they not grasp its evil? And why is [the Virgin] Mary always admonishing the poor peasant to inform the authorities? Why doesn’t she admonish the authorities herself? Or the King? Or the Pope?
Carl Sagan
I want to do it too!” said Gazzy, sitting very, very quietly, completely motionless.“Nope,” said Nudge, shaking her head. “You stand out like a fart in church.
James Patterson
Where did you meet?” he pressed on.I shrugged and considered a little rephrasing. “I was out for a run.”“From who?”I leaned back to take a long, very long, slow sip of that beer.Knox leaned forward. “I think we’re both bullsh*tting here, you ever play that card game?”“With my grandma, every Sunday after church.
Dannika Dark
Over the road there was a church: a modern gray building, which constantly played a recording of church bells. Strange it was. Why no proper bells? I never went in but I bet it was a robot church for androids, where the Bible was in binary and their Jesus had laser eyes and metal claws.
Russell Brand
Did those nice church ladies come by again?" He nodded. "I asked them if a man died and then the woman remarried, and then the three of them met in heaven, would it be a sin for them to have a threesome, since they were all married in God's eye. And they decided they were late to be somewhere else.
Ilona Andrews
The worship of God shouldn’t be done in church alone, but in all our actions and our attitude towards His creation
Sunday Adelaja
But we have no [Marian] apparitions cautioning the Church against, say, accepting the delusion of an Earth-centered Universe, or warning it of complicity with Nazi Germany — two matters of considerable moral as well as historical import....Not a single saint criticized the practice of torturing and burning “witches” and heretics. Why not? Were they unaware of what was going on? Could they not grasp its evil? And why is [the Virgin] Mary always admonishing the poor peasant to inform the authorities? Why doesn’t she admonish the authorities herself? Or the King? Or the Pope?
Carl Sagan
I want to do it too!” said Gazzy, sitting very, very quietly, completely motionless.“Nope,” said Nudge, shaking her head. “You stand out like a fart in church.
James Patterson
Where did you meet?” he pressed on.I shrugged and considered a little rephrasing. “I was out for a run.”“From who?”I leaned back to take a long, very long, slow sip of that beer.Knox leaned forward. “I think we’re both bullsh*tting here, you ever play that card game?”“With my grandma, every Sunday after church.
Dannika Dark
Over the road there was a church: a modern gray building, which constantly played a recording of church bells. Strange it was. Why no proper bells? I never went in but I bet it was a robot church for androids, where the Bible was in binary and their Jesus had laser eyes and metal claws.
Russell Brand
Did those nice church ladies come by again?" He nodded. "I asked them if a man died and then the woman remarried, and then the three of them met in heaven, would it be a sin for them to have a threesome, since they were all married in God's eye. And they decided they were late to be somewhere else.
Ilona Andrews
The worship of God shouldn’t be done in church alone, but in all our actions and our attitude towards His creation
Sunday Adelaja
Most people on earth are just spending time at work, in school or in church without having anything of value to show for it.
Sunday Adelaja
You are killing your life if you are just going through the traditions and routine of church services with no product to show for it.
Sunday Adelaja
If there is any church service that you attend and it quickens your purpose and adds value to your life, if that church gives you some insight and understanding and a picture of how to do things better and become a solution provider to the problems of humanity in your country, then you can keep attending such a church.
Sunday Adelaja
The tradition of going to church every day of the week is not an indicator of greatness.
Sunday Adelaja
If that church is not adding value to your life, you may want to reconsider how often you go to church.
Sunday Adelaja
The world does not give money to those who spend 24hrs church everyday praying for financial miracles.
Sunday Adelaja
Your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit.
Lailah Gifty Akita
All of Christ’s philosophical ideas can be compressed into one simple phrase – Love thy neighbor.
Abhijit Naskar
Knowledge without Truth is information without illumination and its all like icing without cake, can be sweet, but it ends up making you sick.
Kingsley Opuwari Manuel
Know God and let Him be known. You were saved by grace for greater works apportioned for you even before you were born. Share the good news.
Israelmore Ayivor
The end product of the successful preacher's input is transformation.
Christian Michael
The Word that will change a man must first show the man who he really is.
Christian Michael
Living life ONCE is enough...if you live life RIGHT.
John Paul Warren
Life of any real value or substance is not formed during good times merely enjoyed.
John Paul Warren
True leaders bring out your personal best. They ignite your human potential”.
John Paul Warren
The secret to strong leaders is that strong leaders are strong because they have been tempered by the negative. They have discovered the secret of combining the negative and the positive to PRODUCED their very own POWER plant!
John Paul Warren

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