Quotes about Church and God

I ground my faith upon God's word, and not upon the church. Votes: 2

I think in church you're raised like God is God and you are here. Votes: 2

Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God. Votes: 2

But separation of church and state was never meant to separate God and government. Votes: 2

All churches and all religions contain aspects of the truth, but only God is truth. Votes: 2

Only God is the same yesterday, today and tomorrow. The Church has always been changing. Votes: 2

It is better to go skiing and think of God, than go to church and think of sport. Votes: 2

Some movie stars wear their sunglasses even in church. They're afraid God might recognize them and ask for autographs. Votes: 2

An angel is a spiritual creature created by God without a body for the service of Christendom and the church. Votes: 2

The faith of the church must be tried by God's word, and not God's word by the church; neither yet my faith. Votes: 2

My church is in the detention facilities where I preside and celebrate the Eucharist. To me that's the church. That's the people of God. Votes: 2

I think the Church is a conduit to God. The Church is not God. And I think that from the very beginning Jesus taught us that. Votes: 2

People are so shocked when they find... out I am Protestant. I am Presbyterian. And I go to church, and I love God, and I love my church. Votes: 2

It's easy to write for God and about God, because what a thrill to remind the church that the Holy Spirit of God is in you. What a rush! What an amazing blessing! Votes: 2

Over the years, I have studied church history as well as the contemporary church, and I noticed how rare it is for a God-glorifying transition of leadership to take place in a local church. 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

God tries you in certain, certain ways. Some people are rich, and they believe in God. They lose the money, things get hard, they get weak and quit going to church. Quit serving God like they did. Votes: 2

It can have a secular purpose and have a relationship to God because God was presumed to be both over the state and the church, and separation of church and state was never meant to separate God from government. Votes: 2

And they turned around and leased it to The Assembly Of God Churches - their headquarters are in Springfield, Missouri. They leased it to them for the first year. Then, after the first year, they will donate it to the church. Votes: 2

At the parish level, where the church lives and moves and breathes, that's where we need to be engaging our people much more in understanding the Word of God... the Word of God reflected in the traditional teaching of the church, the Word of God reflected in the scriptures, is as much a part of their lives as anything else. Votes: 2

The church is God's vineyard. Votes: 0

If you love god, burn a church. Votes: 0

The church was made for mission-God's mission Votes: 0

God's covenant with the church and Israel is unbreakable. Votes: 0

The nearer to the church, the further from God. Votes: 0

God is sufficient in all ages for His church. Votes: 0

You will find God in the church of your choice. Votes: 0

You ain't gotta go to church to find your God. Votes: 0

Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn. Votes: 0

Let God Himself be the main attraction at church again... Votes: 0

Any God I ever found in church, I brought in myself. Votes: 0

Where God has his church the Devil will have his chapel Votes: 0

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

Church only benefits you when you participate in the presence of God. Votes: 0

Brethren, the crying sin of the church is her laziness after God. Votes: 0

For years, I just did not like this idea of God, church. Votes: 0

Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me. Votes: 0

I ground my faith upon God's word, and not upon the church. Votes: 0

The only thing God is building in this world is his church. Votes: 0

A local church will only be as great as its conception of God. Votes: 0

When one loves God better than the Church is one called a heretic? Votes: 0

Always the most revealing thing about the church is her idea of God. Votes: 0

Separation of church and state was never meant to separate God and government. Votes: 0

Thank God, under our Constitution there was no connection between church and state. Votes: 0

The Church is looking for better methods; God is looking for better men. Votes: 0

You can't have a church run by people who don't believe in God. Votes: 0

People don't come to church for preachments, of course, but to daydream about God. Votes: 0

Praying for revival equates to blaming God for the condition of your local church. Votes: 0

The moment the church of God shall despise the pulpit, God will despise her. Votes: 0

Human life is God's outer church. Its needs and urgencies are priests and pastors. Votes: 0

Mission is not primarily an activity of the church, but an attribute of God. Votes: 0

The church teaches us that we can make God happy by being miserable ourselves. Votes: 0

God doesn't act like the Church. No, instead, the Church must act like God. Votes: 0

Through some crack the smoke of satan has entered into the Church of God. Votes: 0

It's not our church; it's God's - it's not our responsibility to run it! Votes: 0

For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel. Votes: 0

Oh, honey, God don't care which church you go, long as you show up! Votes: 0

In every growing church you will find leadership that is not afraid to believe God. Votes: 0

I'd rather have ten people that want God than 10,000 people who want to play church. Votes: 0

The Reformation did not directly touch the question of the true character of God's church. Votes: 0

God's people should be baptized because God commanded it, not because some church requires it. Votes: 0

The Church of God could not live twenty four hours without Rhodes rolls at Thanksgiving. Votes: 0

An action of God may be the only thing that can save the Church today. Votes: 0

The mark of the true church is an expanding witness to the presence of God. Votes: 0

A church that won't listen to the Word of God is a church already lost. Votes: 0

The cry of a baby is God's voice: never drive them away from the church! Votes: 0

The Church is simply the path of history, and not the actual kingdom of God. Votes: 0

The Church will pray to God for the dead. The survivor has honour and glory. Votes: 0

And let me tell you 'Kingdom of God' language is really big in the emerging church. Votes: 0

The name of the new religion," said Rumfoord, "is The Church of God the Utterly Indifferent. Votes: 0

I go to church as an expression of my need for God and for God's family. Votes: 0

Grace is God himself, his loving energy at work within his church and within our souls. Votes: 0

God has clearly called and gifted some people in the church to teach his Word formally. Votes: 0

The church is God's remnant in a country, able to change the life of the nation Votes: 0

He cannot have God for his Father who will not have the Church for his mother. Votes: 0

The Pantheon was the first church I'd ever seen that had an open view to God Votes: 0

I'm grateful to God that, through the Negro church, the dimension of nonviolence entered our struggle. Votes: 0

The church is a place where broken people can fall in love with a beautiful God. Votes: 0

Worship is not about personality, temperament, personal limitations, church background, or comfort. It is about God. Votes: 0

That very church which the world likes best is sure to be that which God abhors. Votes: 0

I'd rather be in the mountains thinking of God, than in church thinking about the mountains. Votes: 0

Clergymen who publish pious frauds in the interest of the church are the orthodox liars of God. Votes: 0

The holy universal Church teaches that it is not possible to worship God truly except in Her... Votes: 0

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

God promised by the mouth of Isaiah that queens should be the nursing mothers of the church... Votes: 0

When we sincerely turn to God, we will find that His church always moves forward, not backward Votes: 0

God requires to be represented by a fiery Church... two things are intolerable to Him-insincerity and lukewarmness. Votes: 0

After my study of today's church, my conclusion is that the church is politely bored with God. Votes: 0

The best title of the [professing] church of God today, in my judgment, is 'Unbelieving Believers.' Votes: 0

He who does not have the church as his mother, does not have God as his father. Votes: 0

The epicenter of creativity and imagination should be the Church, reflecting the character and glory of God. Votes: 0

God doesn't want you to go to church. He wants you to want to go to church. Votes: 0

God has lots of children in the church today; I'm honestly not sure He has many friends. Votes: 0

In many ways, the church seems to hate evil more than it loves good or even God. Votes: 0

Beware when you take on the Church of God. Others have tried and have bitten the dust. Votes: 0

Church work ought to be at its core the work of loving people like God loves them Votes: 0

Went to church but don't understand it, they underhanded. God gave me these commandments, the world is scandalous. Votes: 0

To regain her lost power the Church must see heaven opened and have a transforming vision of God. Votes: 0

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

As like a church and an ale-house, God and the devell, they manie times dwell neere to ether. Votes: 0

You'll find God in the church of your choice, you'll find Woody Guthrie in the Brooklyn State Hospital. Votes: 0

There are many who stay away from church these days because you hardly ever mention God any more. Votes: 0

I believe a very large majority of church goers are merely unthinking, slumbering worshipers of an unknown God. Votes: 0

I'm sick and tired of (only) reading about church history; let's make (some) by the grace of God Votes: 0

The only place I've found peace in my life is in church. I owe my life to God. Votes: 0

To just read the Bible, attend church, and avoid "big” sins-is this passionate, wholehearted love for God? Votes: 0

Who builds a church to God and not to fame, Will never mark the marble with his name. Votes: 0

The great guardian principle of all conduct in the church of God is personal responsibility to the Lord. Votes: 0

These principles have been proclaimed by God, by the Church, by the Saints, by reason, by Christian morality. Votes: 0

God expects us to measure the church not against tradition but against the standards & promises of His Word. Votes: 0

The Church knows nothing of a sacredness of war. The Church which prays'Our Father'asks God only for peace. Votes: 0

The perfect church service would be one we were almost unaware of. Our attention would have been on God. Votes: 0

When God measures a church, He begins with its depth not its breadth, with its substance not its style. Votes: 0

Take heed of thinking. The farther you go from the church of Rome, the nearer you are to God. Votes: 0

The church lies at the very center of the eternal purpose of God. It is not a divine afterthought. Votes: 0

I don't really believe in anything special, but I respect God. I go to church sometimes, but not often. Votes: 0

It wasn't Luther or Calvin that reformed the church. It was the Word of God that reformed the church. Votes: 0

God's church is not a stage for us to perform on but a garden for us to grow in. Votes: 0

If the church does not identify with the marginalized, it will itself be marginalized. This is God's poetic justice. Votes: 0

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

Church was never intended to be a place where we serve God to the exclusion of meeting with Him. Votes: 0

Ambition that centers on the glory of God and welfare of the church is a mighty force for good. Votes: 0

The life and fellowship of the church is to be a foretaste of life in the Kingdom of God. Votes: 0

It's not so much that the church has a mission, it's that the mission of God has a church. Votes: 0

The state authorities have no place in the church of God, no right to control and persecute the conscience. Votes: 0

Your problems are not just your problems. Ultimately, they belong to the church body that God has placed you in. Votes: 0

Anyone who attempts to construe a personal view of God which conflicts with church dogma must be burned without pity. Votes: 0

He'd gone to church for forty years and was only getting worse. It seemed like this should tell God something. Votes: 0

Church should be a place where love is evident, God delivers, lives are changed, hearts are healed, and families restored. Votes: 0

Catholic Church reasserts its moral authority on contraception: If God believed in birth control, altar boys would have a uterus. Votes: 0

An angel is a spiritual creature created by God without a body for the service of Christendom and the church Votes: 0

I have always kept one end in view, namely ... to conduct a well-regulated church music to the honour of God. Votes: 0

If God can't get the attention of the church house, He's certainly not going to stop by the White House. Votes: 0

I don't go to church so much, but I do believe in God and I understand the consequences of faith. Votes: 0

We as a church need to decide whether we'll seek the Anointing of God or the God of the Anointing Votes: 0

I am a God-fearing man. In fact, I don't go to church because I'm afraid I'll run into him there. Votes: 0

It is the task of youth not to reshape the church, but rather to listen to the word of God. Votes: 0

Go to church once a week and nobody pays attention. Worship God seven days a week and you become strange! 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 contend that whatever does not raise the moral standard of the church or community has been a revival from God. Votes: 0

My attraction to heavy church-goers has more to do with me wanting to see who'd win the fight; me or god Votes: 0

The style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe. Votes: 0

Faith cannot be inherited or gained by being baptized into a Church. Faith is a matter between the individual and God. Votes: 0

I dont necessarily go to church every week, but I am a Christian, and I believe in God and Jesus Christ. Votes: 0

We're a part of the insurrection, trying to turn Christianity upside down. We're an experimental church: God's research and development arm. Votes: 0

My friends, it is one thing to go to church or chapel; it is quite another thing to go to God. Votes: 0

The all-important and crowning blessings of membership in the Church are those blessings which we receive in the temples of God Votes: 0

It's not about the church meeting your needs; it's about joining the mission of God's people to meet the world's needs. Votes: 0

It is common for those that are farthest from God, to boast themselves most of their being near to the Church. Votes: 0

I don't necessarily go to church every week, but I am a Christian, and I believe in God and Jesus Christ. Votes: 0

The call of the gospel is for the church to implement the victory of God in the world through suffering love. Votes: 0

If the Church is in Christ, its initial act is always the act of thanksgiving, of returning the world to God. Votes: 0

The world is perishing for lack of the knowledge of God and the Church is famishing for want of His Presence. Votes: 0

The world is perishing for lack of the knowledge of God and the Church is famishing for want of His Presence. Votes: 0

Joy and thanksgiving expressed in prayer and praise according to the Word of God are the heart of the Church's worship. 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

Weak leaders of churches blame people and circumstances. Breakout church leaders accept responsibility and see God's possibilities in even difficult situations. Votes: 0

Worship is not a twenty minute period during a church service, but a lifestyle of relating to God in a particular way. Votes: 0

God is not calling us to go to church; he is calling us to be his church, the hope of the world. Votes: 0

Church attendance may be dipping, but God can survive the Internet age. After all, He knows a thing or two about resurrection. Votes: 0

I have a vision of the whole Church getting nearer to God by abiding by the precepts of the Book of Mormon. Votes: 0

I've always said the theatre is my church. It's where I feel God the most. It's where I know there's a God. Votes: 0

God wants every local church to be the first place people think to go when they've really messed up...not the last. Votes: 0

The faith of the church must be tried by God's word, and not God's word by the church; neither yet my faith. Votes: 0

I am a Catholic, not so committed to the church, but to the idea of the Virgin, the female face of God. Votes: 0

Wherever we turn in the church of God, there is Jesus. He is the beginning, middle and end of everything to us.... Votes: 0

God wants us to make Jesus Christ the central figure in our church--not just say that we do, but actually do it. Votes: 0

Let us pray that the Church be holier and more humble, loving God by serving the poor, the lonely and the sick. Votes: 0

We live in a church culture that has a dangerous tendency to disconnect the grace of God from the glory of God. Votes: 0

There once was a time when all people believed in God and the church ruled. This time was called the Dark Ages. 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 the church needs to be much more countercultural than that and invite people into slowing down, into a "Be-still-and-know-that-I-am-God" mindset. Votes: 0

God Almighty never intended that the devil should triumph over the Church. He never intended that the saloons should walk rough-shod over Christianity. Votes: 0

The church that is man-managed instead of God-governed is doomed to failure. A ministry that is college-trained but not Spirit-filled works no miracles. Votes: 0

Fighting the Traditional Marriage is provoking God;Beheading Jesus is to lead the church without His rulership or Counsel.Woe to theme who Votes: 0

My experience is that lots of people go to church, sing the songs, tell the story, etc but have profound ambivalence about God. Votes: 0

Prelate, n. A church officer having a superior degree of holiness and a fat preferment. One of Heaven's aristocracy. A gentleman of God. Votes: 0

The Church is where it is today because it has decided that the advertising agents know better than the Holy Spirit of God. Votes: 0

Many believe it is possible to be a "good Christian" without joining (or even attending) a local church, but God would strongly disagree. Votes: 0

The greatest weakness in the church today is that the servants of God keep looking over their shoulder for the approval of men. Votes: 0

All you have to do is get in a closer walk with God and you'll find your enemies are in your own church. Votes: 0

All of us have weaknesses, but we also have strengths. God's Spirit has gifted each of us for the good of the church. Votes: 0

Every church is a stone on the grave of a god-man: it does not want him to rise up again under any circumstances. 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

As God as my witness, they said, We're above the law. There's nothing you can do to us. You're just a church secretary. Votes: 0

My ordination in the Church of God in Christ was at age 9, and I later became a Baptist minister, which I am today. 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

In the end, the church will either declare the truth of God's Word, or it will find a way to run away from it. Votes: 0

Wherever we see the Word of God purely preached and heard, there a church of God exists, even if it swarms with many faults. Votes: 0

It's time for a new Reformation in the Church--to call the Church back to the authority of the Word of God, beginning in Genesis. Votes: 0

Well, I think that Catholicism's basic foundation of faith is personal conscience. I think it's between you and God, not you and the Church. Votes: 0

God did not become flesh and suffer an ignominious death at our hands so that we could have sprawling church campuses, programs, and budgets. Votes: 0

It's not the job of government to help the poor. The church is the mechanism that God put on earth to help the poor. Votes: 0

Church: if the world could see a snapshot of our worship today, would they perceive that we believe our God is worthy of praise? Votes: 0

Nobody can do as much damage to the church of God as the man who is within its walls, but not within its life. Votes: 0

The Church's note must be a supernatural note which distinguishes incarnation from immanence, redemption from evolution, the Kingdom of God from mere spiritual process. Votes: 0

For where the church is, there is the Spirit of God, and where the Spirit of God, there is the church and all grace. Votes: 0

You go to church to respect God, not the priest. By not going to church, you disrespect God, not the priest. - Don Camillo Votes: 0

No church or synagogue pew can produce a higher awareness of God than sitting at the base of a tree and observing His creation. Votes: 0

God literally moves his throne from heaven. When this happens the church is building a chair, a seat, a place for God to come. Votes: 0

The Church does not dictate the policies of the nation. The Church proclaims the truth of God to which all these policies must conform. Votes: 0

The goal of a church is not to have a bigger building or budget but to see the word of God increase and disciples multiply Votes: 0

In this Year of Faith, we pray to the Lord that the Church may always be a true family that brings God's love to everyone. Votes: 0

The Seventh Day Adventist Church believes that it was specially chosen by God to prepare the world for the Second Coming of His Son Jesus. Votes: 0

Whenever an important event, a revolution, or a calamity turns to the profit of the church, such is always signalised as the Finger of God. Votes: 0

Without God's Spirit, there is nothing we can do that will count for God's kingdom. Without God's Spirit, the church simply can't be the church. Votes: 0

It has been religious people, often within the organized church, who have been the most critical of and even hostile to my relationship with God. Votes: 0

I take square aim at an unbiblical churchianity that has resulted in a church-centric religion that fails to reflect the heart of God for people. Votes: 0

I got kicked out of my church and lost all of my friends, but I realized that I had to obey God and not man. Votes: 0

I'm actually the fourth generation in my family to have no practical use for the church, or God, or religion. My children continue this trend. Votes: 0

God speaks through a variety of means. In the present God primarily speaks by the Holy Spirit, through the Bible, prayer, circumstances, and the church. Votes: 0

Teenagers who do not go to church are adored by God, but they don't get to meet some of the people who love God back. Votes: 0

It's like church over here. It's like church in here. First of all, give an honor to God and our Lord and Savior Barack Obama, Votes: 0

God's everywhere, but I gotta go down (to church) to see him? Really? And he's mad at me down there, and I owe you money? Votes: 0

God bless the Methodist Church - bless all the churches - and blessed be God, Who, in this our great trial, giveth us the churches. Votes: 0

The hippopotamus's day Is passed in sleep; at night he hunts; God works in a mysterious way- The Church can sleep and feed at once. Votes: 0

When Queer Eye hit, the church told my mom they were praying for me. She said, God loves him too. And I support him 100 percent. Votes: 0

My mother started taking us to church when I was in seventh or eight grade. That was always a question, Do you believe in God? Votes: 0

Today, on our own turf, we face pagan ignorance about God every bit as deep as that which the early church faced in the Roman Empire. Votes: 0

The question of souls is old—we demand our bodies, now. We are tired of promises, god is deaf, and his church is our worst enemy. Votes: 0

Just as God's will is creation and is called 'the world' so His intention is the salvation of men, and it is called 'the Church.' Votes: 0

I love the church, the church that God is establishing, that Jesus died for, so I'll never have any negative things to say about His church. Votes: 0

Going to church is not a sign of going to God, if you think he is omnipresent, he is right there in your soul and bedroom. Votes: 0

Satan is willing to have us worship anything, however sacred - the Bible, the crucifix, the church - if only we do not worship God Himself. Votes: 0

No God and no religion can survive ridicule. No political church, no nobility, no royalty or other fraud, can face ridicule in a fair field, and live. Votes: 0

We would also like you to know that the Church recognizes the riches of the Islamic faith - a faith that binds us to the one God. Votes: 0

When the church takes affairs of the state more seriously than they do Jesus, Pax Romana becomes its gospel and the president becomes the Son of God. Votes: 0

The American people need no course in philosophy or political science of church history to know that God should not be made into a celestial party chairman. 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

Today, as it was 2,000 years ago, the Kingdom of God is within each of us. It is not within a church, a temple, a mosque or synagogue. Votes: 0

When any sector of the Church stops learning, God simply overflows the structures that are in the way and works outside them with those willing to learn. Votes: 0

The American people need no course in philosophy or political science or church history to know that God should not be made into a celestial party chairman. Votes: 0

Clearly a big challenge for Christianity is how to remain in contact with the millions of people who look for God but do not come to Church. Votes: 0

I didn't grow up in church. I had no concept of God - existence, I - the name Jesus was synonymous with tooth fairy and Santa Claus. Votes: 0

The biggest cause of society's change today is that people no longer believe in orthodox religion. They go to church, but they no longer believe in God. 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

The Lord has placed next to me many people, who, with generosity and love for God and the church, have helped me and been close to me. Votes: 0

Church History is the record of God's gracious, wonderful and mighty deeds, showing how by his Spirit and Word he rules his Church and conquers the world. Votes: 0

With the Synod Assembly, therefore, I heartily recommend to the Church's pastors and to the People of God the practice of Eucharistic Adoration, both individually and in community Votes: 0

One day of good preaching is no match for six days of inconsistent practice. God will never honor His church with complete success until it completely honors Him. Votes: 0

The position that God promised the church is to influence the society. We are to govern the attitude and the conduct and the motivation of the human race. 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

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: 0

Men after the heart of God become the moral conscience, the guidance and custodians of justice, not simply in the security of the four walls of their church Votes: 0

With the early Christians you couldn't have God as your father unless you have the church as your mother. This isn't accepting the church as a perfect thing. Votes: 0

Democracy, I do not conceive that ever God did ordain as a fit government either for church or commonwealth. If the people be governors, who shall be governed? Votes: 0

It would be as easy for the United States to build a tower to remove the sun, as to remove polygamy, or the Church and Kingdom of God. Votes: 0

The utter folly of our time is lamentable, that men should think to assist God with human help and to protect the Church of Christ by worldly ambition. Votes: 0

The history of the Church is the rise and progress of the kingdom of heaven upon earth, for the glory of God and the salvation of the world. Votes: 0

It is a remarkable fact that all the heresies which have arisen in the Christian Church have had a decided tendency to dishonor God and to flatter man. Votes: 0

If they won't come to worship God in a church, something must be done. We have to instigate a nationwide search for a way to make it fun. Votes: 0

Some of you are sitting at home saying, 'I don't need a church to love God,' and I am here telling you that you are so wrong. Votes: 0

God is present in everything. In the universe in creation, in me and all that happens to me, in my brothers and sisters, in the church - everywhere. Votes: 0

People are so shocked when they find ... out I am Protestant. I am Presbyterian. And I go to church and I love God and I love my church. Votes: 0

I don't think God cares if you are rich or poor. God loves you anyway. But if you want to be rich, then choose your church & preacher carefully. Votes: 0

She say, Celie, tell the truth, have you ever found God in church? I never did. I just found a bunch of folks hoping for him to show. Votes: 0

If God be near a church, it must pray. And if he be not there, one of the first tokens of his absence will be a slothfulness in prayer. 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

The church is the only institution supernaturally endowed by God. It is the one institution of which Jesus promised that the gates of hell will not prevail against it. Votes: 0

When you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the church, which belongs to God, and the public library, which belongs to you. Votes: 0

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! Votes: 0

The further one separates himself from the precepts of the Christian Church, the further one distances himself from the truth. Only God can create. I make music from music. Votes: 0

The 'means of grace' are such as Bible reading, private prayer, and regularly worshiping God in Church, wherein one hears the Word taught and participates in the Lord's Supper. Votes: 0

We all claim to worship the same God, so why don't we fellowship together? ... The only thing that keeps us from fellowshiping together are the church buildings, the organizations. Votes: 0

I began to expand my personal service in the church, and to search more diligently for a closer relationship with God among my different business, professional and political interests. Votes: 0

God is punishing America for the way they have persecuted us at Westboro Baptist Church, and worse and more of is coming and this evil sodomite nation is doomed. Votes: 0

The Old Testament God is a person with body parts and passions. The Church of England God has neither body, parts nor passions, and is therefore not a person. Votes: 0

Over to my left is the big grey wall in front of the church. Are we the Thoughts of God? a poster asks. No, I realise. It's the reverse. Votes: 0

The family was ordained of God that children might be trained up for himself; it was before the church, or rather the first form of the church on earth. Votes: 0

I've always figured that if God wanted us to go to church a lot He'd have given us bigger behinds to sit on and smaller heads to think with. Votes: 0

According to Christian belief, man exists for the sake of God; according to the liberal church, in practice if not in theory, God exists for the sake of man. Votes: 0

The Lord's Prayer reminds us that God longs for His people to communicate with Him, not just in church on Sunday, but wherever we are and whatever our need. Votes: 0

I'm a pastor. I say, 'Let the church say amen,' and that settles it. Everything has been said, you know; it's like we have to agree with God. Votes: 0

Unless we members of the Church do all we can to preserve the freedoms we have within the bounds of the laws of God, we will be held accountable. 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

I seemed so different from other kids; I grew up in church and felt a connection with God, and a lot of kids my age really didn't understand that. Votes: 0

The laws of God given to mankind are embodied in the gospel plan, and the Church of Jesus Christ is made responsible for teaching these laws to the world. Votes: 0

It is the obligation of Westboro Baptist Church to put the cup of God's fury to America's lips, and cause America to drink it. And you will drink it! Votes: 0

Just like I believe God is everywhere, I believe that whether it's nature, whether it's sitting on a bike in spin class, that can be church, too, for me. Votes: 0

I don't know why Christians keep fighting over which is better-singleness or marriage-when it seems rather obvious, both from Scripture and from Church history, that both can glorify God. Votes: 0

The Bible does not say we should aim at numbers but rather urges us faithfully to proclaim God's message in the boldness of the Holy Spirit. This will build God's church God's way. Votes: 0