Quotes about what is Church

What the church is really concerned about is what endures. Votes: 2

People have really strong images of what church is, and it's almost certainly not the same as mine. Votes: 2

Quite often you hear people say, 'What about separation of church and state?' There is no such thing. Votes: 2

At the risk of sounding too cliche, I found a really fantastic church. That is what keeps me grounded. Votes: 2

The Catholic Church has never really come to terms with women. What I object to is being treated either as Madonnas or Mary Magdalenes. Votes: 2

I still call myself a communist, because communism is no more what Russia made of it than Christianity is what the churches make of it. Votes: 2

It is labor that keeps the strong man strong. And spiritual labor, toil and burden-bearing, is what will give strength to the church of Christ. Votes: 2

We must never forget what government is not. Government is not a philanthropic organization. Government is not the family. And government certainly is not the church. Votes: 2

What is a literary festival? Imagine a sort of cross between school and church. There are no actual festivities; what there are is a lot of public readings. Votes: 2

Inconsistency on the part of pastors and the faithful between what they say and what they do, between word and manner of life, is undermining the Church's credibility. Votes: 2

There is a continuum of values between the churches and the general community. What distinguishes the handling of these values in the churches is mainly the heavier dosage of religious vocabulary involved. Votes: 2

The Church knew what the psalmist knew: Music praises God. Music is well or better able to praise him than the building of the church and all its decoration; it is the Church's greatest ornament. Votes: 2

I am what is known as a benched Catholic and disillusioned by the church doctrine. I believe in things the Catholic Church does not believe in: divorce being one, and a women's right to choose being another. Votes: 2

What I thought as a young adult is you act like you have it together whether or not you do because that is what church people do. That is not what God has called us to do. Votes: 2

Nightclubs are the equivalent of a Catholic Church in a poor country. You hear a lot of stuff about churches filled with gold while the people are starving. But what elitists don't get is that for poor people, the church is their own mansion. Nightclubs fill the same function. Votes: 2

Many churches of all persuasions are hiring research agencies to poll neighborhoods, asking what kind of church they prefer. Then the local churches design themselves to fit the desires of the people. True faith in God that demands selflessness is being replaced by trendy religion that serves the selfish. Votes: 2

Once your career becomes about something other than the music, then that's what it is. I'll never make that mistake. Votes: 2

Everybody always tells you what an awesome and unique experience being a parent is. Words can never do the feeling justice. Votes: 2

I love singing - singing is what I'm famous for doing. Now it's turned into things I am famous for doing - like having rows with my mum or about my boyfriend, so it does get irritating. Votes: 2

I don't use the big video screens that a lot of other artists use because personally, I think it's kind of a crutch. I think sometimes it's like watching television as opposed to really getting involved with what is happening onstage and the people in your section. Votes: 2

Take what the old-church Votes: 0

I thought lacrosse was what you find in la church. Votes: 0

What church could compete with the fireworks of the pure soul? Votes: 0

What unites the church is infinitely more important than what divides us. Votes: 0

Go among the people. Don't assume you know what church looks like. Votes: 0

Jesus proclaimed the Kingdom of God and what came was the Church. Votes: 0

What if every church in America had a ministry to stand against modern slavery? Votes: 0

Our culture doesn't like being told what to do; that's happening in the Church. Votes: 0

Church is a place where you get to practice what it means to be human. Votes: 0

The world looks at preachers out of church to know what they mean in it. Votes: 0

The church is called to be now what the world is called to be ultimately Votes: 0

She thoroughly understands what no other Church has ever understood, how to deal with enthusiasts. Votes: 0

She thoroughly understands what no other Church has ever understood, how to deal with enthusiasts. Votes: 0

What seems to me white, I will believe black if the hierarchical Church so defines. Votes: 0

What the church most needs is not heroes of faith, but faithful followers of Jesus. Votes: 0

If you're a Catholic you believe what the Church teaches and the climate makes no difference. Votes: 0

The Church does not pretend to be scientists. It teaches based upon what science tells it. Votes: 0

But I'll tell you what, there was a lot of farmland between Falls Church and Washington. Votes: 0

The church meets to imagine what our lives can be like if the gospel were true. Votes: 0

Clearly there are individuals who don't understand what the church teaches, or they think it's so limiting. Votes: 0

Doing good doesn't always make you feel good. I don't care what they tell you in church. Votes: 0

If God gave Dad Alzheimer's, He's got to understand when Dad forgets what church he belongs to. Votes: 0

What is a church?—Our honest sexton tells, 'Tis a tall building, with a tower and bells. Votes: 0

This is what heaven's gonna be like. Not just a white church or a black church, but people. Votes: 0

Religion should be about your relationship with God, not what the church says you can and can't do. Votes: 0

What millennials really want from the church is not a change in style but a change in substance. Votes: 0

What has the church gained if it is popular but there is no conviction, no repentance, no power? Votes: 0

Everybody takes what they life from the teachings of the church, and ignores the parts that don't suit them. Votes: 0

Plenty of church members are shaky about what they believe, while not many are shaken by what they believe. Votes: 0

According to the New Testament, God wills that the church be a people who show what God is like. Votes: 0

What would it matter if, for the sake of the Christian Church, one were to tell a big lie? Votes: 0

But it's a poor church that cares only for what happens to a soul after it leaves this life." -Damien Votes: 0

So we went on what we now call "The Beck Family Church Tour" and man did we see some churches. Votes: 0

Don't try so hard to be hip. When the Church finds out what is cool, it is not cool anymore. Votes: 0

I think if the church did what they were supposed to do we wouldn't have anyone sleeping on the streets. Votes: 0

What I miss [about church] is being forced to be in community with people that aren't the same as me. Votes: 0

A man is accepted into a church for what he believes and he is turned out for what he knows. Votes: 0

It wasn't in books. It wasn't in a church. What I needed to know was out there in the world. Votes: 0

Until the church is holy there'll be no rapture - I don't care what theory of the rapture you have. Votes: 0

The church didn't know what to do with Ray Charles or Al Green. And so they were kind of ostracized. Votes: 0

Tell me what the world is saying today, and I'll tell you what the church will be saying in seven years. Votes: 0

If you can explain what is happening in a church, apart from the sovereign act of God, it is not revival. Votes: 0

That's why I believe in a Constitution which separates church from state. I've seen what happens when they get in cahoots. Votes: 0

A lot of kids, when they go to church, they don't really pay much attention to what they're saying or whatever. Votes: 0

I think people often come to the synagogue, mosque, the church looking for God, and what we give them is religion. Votes: 0

I'm very soulful. I grew up singing in church. When I sing a song, I like to feel what I'm singing. Votes: 0

Expand within your church. Expand within the people you have contact. Bring them up to speed in knowledge on what's going on. Votes: 0

Try to do for the next generation of church leaders what the previous generation of church leaders has not done for you. Votes: 0

It's not how high we jump off our feet in church, it's what we do with them when we hit the ground! Votes: 0

It is often said that the Church is a crutch. Of course it's a crutch. What makes you think you don't limp? Votes: 0

What makes a church great in the eyes of God? Participation, proclamation, preservation, and propagation. Every church ought to exhibit all four. Votes: 0

I think what we're really bad at doing is recognising that it is possible to have lost of different views within the church. Votes: 0

What breaks my heart is in the United States hundreds of thousands wake up on a Sunday and church never crosses their mind. Votes: 0

What people pray for will tell you more than anything else whether they are locked into the vision and priorities of the church. Votes: 0

Take what the old-church found in Mithra's tomb, candle and script and bell, take what the new-church spat upon and broke and shattered. Votes: 0

Through the ages, God has used the church to keep alive and pass down the story of what Christ has done for us. Votes: 0

I went to Catholic school in and out. I'm what you call a recovering Catholic. I have many major issues with the church. Votes: 0

Most people already know what they're doing wrong. When I get them to church I want to tell them that you can change. Votes: 0

Do what your momma tells you to do, go to sunday school, go to church, and when you die, you'll go to Statesboro. Votes: 0

I have a great staff at the church; they protect me and allow me to focus on more of what I do best. Votes: 0

It bums me out tremendously what the church has become, and if it's got me bummed, imagine what Jesus Christ must be feeling. Votes: 0

What does it say about our churches today that God birthed the church in a prayer meeting, and prayer meetings today are almost extinct? Votes: 0

Alas the Church of England! What with Popery on one hand, and schismatics on the other, how has she been crucified between two thieves! Votes: 0

Every church needs to be able to answer two questions. First, what is our plan for making disciples? And second, does our plan work? Votes: 0

I'm a member and preacher to that church where the blind don't see and the lame don't walk and what's dead stays that way. Votes: 0

I love what the church offers to us as a culture - black people in particular. We would be nowhere without the black church. Votes: 0

Anytime a church squabbles over minor things you can be certain they do not have a clear picture of what they need to be. Votes: 0

We are far too good at analyzing what is wrong with the culture and far too myopic at analyzing what is wrong in the church. Votes: 0

Being around a church culture, even leading a gathering of believers, I've gotten pretty good at predicting what's going to happen in a church service. Votes: 0

What if the Church and the State Are the mob that howls at the door! Wine shall run thick to the end, Bread taste sour. Votes: 0

You cannot train yourself. I feel the same way about Christianity and about what the church is: The church is the gym of the soul. Votes: 0

What makes books - and with them writers - so dangerous that church and state, politburos and the mass media feel the need to oppose them? Votes: 0

Sportsmanship...what a load of crap, don't preach your morality to me. Steve Austin doesn't have any mercy... you want mercy? Take your *ss to church! Votes: 0

You have no idea, right now, what some young person in your church will mean for the cause of Christ. Lean in, encourage, mentor, think big. Votes: 0

Growing up, in church we had the homily; at home it's what I call the 'momily' - the inspirational and instructive mom-isms that every family has. Votes: 0

Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition. Votes: 0

It is my province to teach to the church what the doctrine is. It is your province to echo what I say or to remain silent. Votes: 0

Hate is a grand, a strong quality! It makes nations, it builds up creeds! If men loved one another what should they need of a Church? Votes: 0

I think for far too long the Church has concluded that Christians don't need the gospel, it's simple what non-Christian people need in order to be saved. Votes: 0

Regardless of what we say, it's what we do that reveals what we as a church or individual actually believe about God and His will for us. Votes: 0

What can the Church do? If she stands by her moral teaching, then she will be seen as standing in judgement over a vast percentage of Europeans. Votes: 0

Nowhere nor in anything, except in the assertion of the Church, can we find that God or Christ founded anything like what churchmen understand by the Church. Votes: 0

The early church didn’t say, ‘Look what the world is coming to!’ They said, ‘Look what has come into the world’! Votes: 0

What we have seen in recent years in the United States is the church's rights to express itself, and to conduct its own affairs, being insidiously eroded. Votes: 0

Everyone is busy, but I believe it depends on what you prioritize. My husband and I teach Sunday School together at our church and are very involved. Votes: 0

So if we approach church membership from the perspective of entitlement, we have it upside down. You always ask first what you can do for your church. Votes: 0

Do not let your deeds belie your words, lest when you speak in church someone may say to himself, "Why do you not practice what you preach? Votes: 0

All Catholics must ask themselves what they personally have done lately to build up the holiness of the church and ensure people feel welcomed and loved in it. Votes: 0

When you come to church, when you worship Him, you're not doing it for God really. You're doing it for yourself, because that's what makes God happy. Amen? Votes: 0

I left because I decided it just really wasn't for me, and I got a better understanding of what the Catholic Church needed from its priests and ministers. Votes: 0

The Christians were the first to make the existence of Satan a dogma of the church. What is the use in a Pope if there is no Devil ? Votes: 0

Study with purpose, both in church and in school. Write down your goals and what you plan to do to achieve them. Aim high, for you are capable... Votes: 0

I'm still Christian. I was not raised in a Christian church to hate people. I was taught to love people and accept people. I know what I believe. Votes: 0

What church I go to on Sunday, what dogma of the Catholic Church I believe in, is my business; and whatever faith any other American has is his business. Votes: 0

I'm not a practicing Catholic now. I didn't like what the church was doing with what Jesus had said, in a way. But I wouldn't say I'm not religious. Votes: 0

We use a lot of creativity and new technology, cutting edge things to use in our church, but really what it comes down to is God changing a life. Votes: 0

What the Church should be telling him [the carpenter] is this: that the very first demand that his religion makes upon him is that he should make good tables. Votes: 0

The Church of Christ is an anvil which has worn out many hammers. Our opponents may boast of their strength, but they do not realize what they have challenged. Votes: 0

I don't think we should focus on what church that person walks into .. I think we need to focus on what they do when they walk out of church. Votes: 0

Conversion is a very, very important part of what you are doing. We will have a responsibility to report to Heavenly Father regarding those we bring into the Church. Votes: 0

I actually think one of most profoundly and deep pastoral moments between a pastor and his church is what happens between them before God in the context of preaching. Votes: 0

Answering a letter from a church asking what else they should try after having failed to raise enough money on bake sales, bazaars, suppers, etc. Why not try religion? Votes: 0

Religion! Is what you hear at church religion? Is that which can bend and turn, and descend and ascend, to fit every crooked phase of selfish, worldly society, religion? Votes: 0

I am spiritual but not massively religious, and I don't go to church. If someone said 'What religion are you?' I would say 'Christian.' But I don't practice. Votes: 0