Best Church Quotes

Further strengthenings of the self-centered instinct for survival recruit even greater numbers of people into some sort of ring of fellowship (church or gender, red state or blue) by populating the terra incognita outside the ring with enough barbarians to verify the existence of a civilization within–to define the preferred stock by what, as all good people agree, it decidedly is not.

Churches are tax exempt because they are supposed to provide a public good. To prove that good to the IRS, churches arent supposed to hoard their money. They are supposed to spend it on goods and services for the faithful. Under this pretense, the church has made massive investments in tax free real estate all over the world. And when it comes to labor costs, they are almost free.

This much is sure in all churches, forgetting party labels; the smallest meeting numerically is the prayer-meeting. If weak in prayer we are weak everywhere.

The best title of the [professing] church of God today, in my judgment, is ‘Unbelieving Believers.’

The church must provide postmoderns with an alternity of rituals by which they can turn and tune to one another and feel connected to the cosmos.

I don’t go to church regular. But I pray for answers to my problems.

Stop going to church everywhere and start belonging to church somewhere.

The less power a church has, the more entertainment it has.

I’d rather have ten people that want God than 10,000 people who want to play church.

I just pray. And I’m not very religious at all – I was raised Catholic, but probably haven’t gone to church since my Holy Communion, when I was about 6 or 7.

My grandparents knew it was important that I understood Christianity and the Bible. But they never took me to church; they sent me to church.

The church’s final word is not ‘church’ but the glory of the Father and the Son in the Spirit of liberty

When I was 5 years old I started singing in church and I hated my voice because I sounded like a grown woman, not a child. I was ashamed of it.

The world has lost the power to blush over its vice; the Church has lost her power to weep over it.

The Church, wherever it is, is not only Christ’s witness to its own people and nation, but also the home-base for a mission to the ends of the earth.

The true Church is born from above. In it there are no sinners, and outside of it no saints. No man can put another’s name on its member’s roll; and no man can cross another’s name off that roll.

I did make several trips to the very wonderful [Georgia] O’Keeffe museum. Besides the art (my favorite paintings are from her Pelvis series) my favorite thing about the museum is the architecture. I love how enormously tall the doors are – it is like going into a church. There is also something home-like about the layout of the museum. I wish I could live there!

Baseball is like church. Many attend few understand.

Protestantism includes every type of religious thought and organization from ‘high church’ Anglicanism to high-principled Quakerism, from ecstatic Methodism to relentlessly intellectual Unitarism. Only slowly, and with many pangs is even Protestantism shaking off the religion about Christ.

I attended Sunday School and then church with my father and mother throughout my childhood.

The reconciling gospel is always at the forefront of the church’s social action, because a full belly is not better than a reconciled soul.

Church is missing transcendence. My generation was raised on a religion of moral control. Do this. Don’t do that. And a lot of self-help religion. Feel better. Get out of debt. Six ways to overcome your fears. Seven ways not to lust. Ultimately that message didn’t work. It was empty. There was no transcendence. The omniscient, omnipresent, all-powerful God of the universe wasn’t the focus.

The witness of the Holy Ghost is even more compelling than the witness of sight. As members of the Church, we become witnesses of the Savior and the truthfulness of this work not only in word but also in keeping our covenants and in how we treat others and in how we live our everyday lives.

Can any deny that in the modern church setup the main cause of anxiety is money? Yet that which tries the modern churches the most, troubled the New Testament Church the least. Our emphasis is on paying; theirs was on praying. When we have paid, the place is taken; when they had prayed, the place was shaken!

While the secular world pushes woman to find her identity in herself as a sex object, the popular teachings in the Church, equally mistaken, encourage woman to find her identity in her roles as wife and mother rather than in her status as a person in Christ, a daughter complete in Him.

If you want to put on a suit and come to church, fine. But it’s a problem when you make people feel like, if you don’t do this, you’re not going to be accepted and God doesn’t look at that.

The church in the book (and movie) plays a pivotal scene. We looked everywhere .. I mean everywhere! We had to have enough of a front yard area to house a Nativity scenes. And we finally found it .. two miles from our office. And we had been all over Tulsa looking. We were looking in places in Texas, everywhere! And I was in the car with the director and we drove by the church.

Praying privately in churches, I began to discover that heaven was my true home and also that it was here and now, woven into this life.

The true church lives and moves and has its being in prayer.

The Sunday morning service shows how popular your church is. The evening services show how popular your pastor is. Your private prayer time shows you how popular God is!

Mission begins with a kind of explosion of joy. The news that the
rejected and crucified Jesus is alive is something that cannot possibly
be suppressed. It must be told. Who could be silent about such a fact?
The mission of the Church in the pages of the New Testament is like the
fallout from a vast explosion, a radioactive fallout which is not lethal
but life-giving.

In a church, I am a saint. In a public place, I am a lady. In my own home, I am a devil….My house is where I can do as I please, scream and yell and dance and fall on the floor if I like. I am myself when I am in my home.

There would be no need for the women’s movement if the church and Bible hadn’t abused them

I used to go to church. I even went through a rather intense religious period when I was sixteen. But the idea of an everlasting life — a never-ending banquet, as a stupid visiting minister to our church once appallingly described it — filled me with a greater terror than the concept of extinction.

If the whole church goes off into deception, that will in no way excuse us for not following Christ.