Quotes about Our Church

We follow the rules laid out in the Bible for running our church. Votes: 4

Mere heathen morality, and not Jesus Christ, is preached in most of our churches. Votes: 4

We always performed for our church, but we also just performed whenever the family got together. Votes: 4

My parents were terrific - mother was a church organist and my father was probably the most respected person in our church outside of the minister and sometimes maybe that much. The neighbors all called him - a gentleman. Votes: 4

Negroes' problem is that they do not have their egos. That's why our churches end up having a white service, because our preacher is not arrogant enough to take God's word, so he have to go and get some white fellow's agenda and put it in his church. Votes: 4

Maybe you are the key to revival in your church. Votes: 3

Don't let your church be a cul-de-sac on the Great Commission highway. Votes: 3

It's not our church; it's God's - it's not our responsibility to run it! Votes: 3

You are not indispensable to your church, but you are indispensable to your family. Votes: 3

The devil doesn't care how big your church is - he cares how influential it is. Votes: 3

Cheap grace is the deadly enemy of our church. We are fighting today for costly grace. Votes: 3

If Jesus Christ isn't the central figure in our lives and in our churches, we're only fooling ourselves. Votes: 3

If our church is not marked by caring for the poor, the oppressed, the hungry, we are guilty of heresy. Votes: 3

In the New Testament church it says they were all amazed - And now in our churches everybody wants to be amused. Votes: 3

God wants us to make Jesus Christ the central figure in our church--not just say that we do, but actually do it. Votes: 3

Our wives, our families, and our churches need godly men who have discernment--discernment to deal with life and life-issues on a spiritual level. Votes: 3

The church has no authority to preach of inclusivity if we fear altering the look of our church by bringing in the poor. Votes: 3

In the United States, if one family out of every four churches adopted a child, there would be no orphans in the country Votes: 3

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: 3

Your impact on the lives of others--your family, the people at your church, your workmates--is cultivated with each decision you make, no matter how small. Votes: 3

The greatest missionary tool we have is that of demonstrating friendliness, brotherly kindness, harmony, love and peace in our homes and in all our church meetings. Votes: 3

The most important criterion is this: hire someone whose character and humility and attitude you would like to have reproduced in your church and in yourself. Votes: 3

If you are too busy in your church activities to take care of your family, then perhaps we had better find something else for you to do. Votes: 3

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: 3

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: 3

We sometimes idealize the early church and want our churches to go back to the simple, old ways. We need to carefully read the history. Harmony takes work. Votes: 3

Start locally and build. Start small and grow. Start in your house, then move to your school, your book club, your gym, your church, your temple, your city. Votes: 3

We give 10 percent of our income to our church every year. Do you think that is the kind of person who is trying to hide things, or do things? Votes: 3

The required cheerfulness that characterizes many of our churches produces a suffocating environment of pat, religious answers to the painful, complex questions that riddle the lives of hurting people. Votes: 3

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: 3

I am convinced that the influence of an army of godly women will be incalculable--in our homes, our churches, and our culture. Will you be one of those women? Votes: 3

If we wait for the needy to walk through our church doors, we may wait a long time. God doesn't wait for people to come to Him. He goes to them. Votes: 3

Far more books get written about how to get more people in your church than how to get the people already in your church to have more humility and sincere love. Votes: 3

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit. Votes: 3

Soul winning is not a method; it is a command. We are supposed to go soul winning and do soul winning if our churches grow or if our churches decrease in attendance. Votes: 3

The kind of gospel that our churches are preaching sometimes are not powerful enough to change the very street where these churches are located talk less of the nation where they are Votes: 3

Some churches make intercessory prayer part of their weekly schedule. If that's not the case at your church, find another person in the faith to intercede with or go before God on your own. Votes: 3

How much would our churches be transformed if each of us made it a practice to thank God for others and then to tell those others what it is about them that we thank God for? Votes: 3

I beg you, look for the words 'social justice' or 'economic justice' on your church Web site. If you find it, run as fast as you can. Social justice and economic justice, they are code words. Votes: 3

We want a crowd to make us feel important and liked. But why is getting a crowd our focus? Jesus never suggested that crowds were the goal. He never addresses getting your church to grow. Never. Votes: 3

The gospel that has been preached in our churches has not been fair to the African continent. It has left us in a beggarly state, waiting on God for things we could produce by and for ourselves. Votes: 3

The gospel that has been preached in our churches has not been fair to the African continent. It has left us in a beggarly state, waiting on God for things we could produce by and for ourselves Votes: 3

I think whites are used to being in power, so when whites think we ought to have integrated churches they think, "People ought to come to our church. What can we do to get them to come?" Votes: 3

If you can't PRAY for the peace your church, PROMOTE the Christian doctrines, PREPARE for every good work and PROVIDE for the expansion of the Church, you are just like the PEWS (table and chairs) in the chapel. Votes: 3

We as preachers/teachers/pastors have to figure out things to do in order to garner the attention of individuals and also keep them at our churches by making sure that we reinvent ourselves on a consistent basis. Votes: 3

I really started to get into reading the Bible and I started to look for a church to go to. Every Sunday I was going to like three or four churches, I was just looking for the right church. Votes: 3

People are not on a truth quest; they are on a happiness quest. They will continue to attend your church - even if they don't share your beliefs - as long as they find the content engaging and helpful. Votes: 3

Out of the depths, O Lord, out of the depths,' begins the most beautiful of the services of our church, and it is out of the depths of my life that I must bring the incidents of this story. Votes: 3

The dismembering of a human being routinely in 30 minutes on an outpatient bases - or any other way - is barbaric. Four blocks from our church all year long - like churches within smelling distance of Auschwitz or Dachau or Buchenwald. Votes: 3

You are responsible for the world that you live in. It is not government's responsibility. It is not your school's or your social club's or your church's or your neighbor's or your fellow citizen's. It is yours, utterly and singularly yours. Votes: 3

Good and evil are not what our parents told us, not what our church tells us, or our country, not what anybody else tells us! All of us decide good and evil for ourselves, automatically, by choosing what we want to do! Votes: 3

I noticed people would read these short articles I was assigned to write for our church bulletin and they would say, Boy, thats good stuff. I got letters from people around the country saying, Thats really good. And I thought, Is it really? Votes: 3

I did grow up poor. My mom managed to get a job as a custodian at our church, and it was really just a favor for her, and my dad's an electrician - just a blue-collar family, and the house was usually falling apart. Votes: 3

Living is giving. We live life best as we give our strengths, gifts, and competencies in the service of God's mission. We are called to serve, not survive. Our giving makes a difference in our families, our work, our community, our world, and our church. Votes: 3

It is not your beauty, success or money that should define you; neither should your church calling, your charitable contributions or talents. Humility is the cornerstone of character, by which God judges our truth worth, and wisdom is the door he opens when we use it. Votes: 3

You could remove the powerful preaching from our church and it would still continue. You could remove the administration of pastoral care through the cell group system and the church would still continue. But if you remove the prayer life of our church it would collapse. Votes: 3

Your deepest, darkest sins and your shameful secrets are simply irrelevant when it comes to the counterintuitive, ecstatic announcement of the gospel. So are your goodness, your rightness, your church attendance, and all of the wise, moral, mature decisions you have made and actions you have taken." Votes: 3

Robertsons love Sundays! The most important thing we do is gather together with our church family for worship, teaching, and fellowship. After church, we like to have a nice lunch of roast, vegetables, and definitely rolls or biscuits. And I love catching a nap when I can. Votes: 3

Your deepest, darkest sins and your shameful secrets are simply irrelevant when it comes to the counterintuitive, ecstatic announcement of the gospel. So are your goodness, your rightness, your church attendance, and all of the wise, moral, mature decisions you have made and actions you have taken. Votes: 3

Why would God send people to our church if we don't have a great dream? Why would God give a multigifted, multitalented, and multifinancially wealthy person to a church if the biggest thing you are going to do is paint the restrooms next year? That's bad stewardship. Votes: 3

One more soldier of the Cross has taken up his crown; one more beloved member of our church has gone to the great assembly above; one more Christian has triumphed in the living Faith; one more flower is planted and harvested in the garden of God's Kingdom. Votes: 3

Incest, rape and abuse is rampant everywhere, even in our churches, but society is silent. It is a silent epidemic. One in three women will experience a sexual assault in her lifetime and one in six males, yet we don't speak of it, even in our churches! Votes: 3

When my dad founded our church, he used either a globe or a map of the world behind him. It was symbolic of what Christ said: to go forth and preach hope to the world. We believe in the cross, but we just continued with the globe. Votes: 3

I have long profited from Adele Ahlberg Calhoun's gifts in the field of spiritual development, and I am delighted that she has compiled her experience with spiritual disciplines into book form. I highly recommend it and I look forward to using it as a resource at our church. Votes: 3

Martha Stewart contributes more to our civility than the Baptist church. Votes: 2

Our church has been legal since late 1960s. I've been involved since 1972. I was ordained in 1975. Votes: 2

We must not reduce the bosom of the universal church to a nest protecting our mediocrity. Votes: 2

There was a lot of music in our home. Mom played piano in church and gave piano lessons. Votes: 2

Our public schools began as ministries of the church; now it is time to return them to the Lord. Votes: 2

Due to our consumer mindset, people are prone to jump from church to church, which weakens the church overall. Votes: 2

The family unit is fundamental not only to society and to the Church, but to our hope for eternal life. Votes: 2

We see government's mission as fostering and enabling the important realms - our businesses, service clubs, Little Leagues, churches - to flourish. Votes: 2

Not far from our house, and opposite the old church with the golden cross, stood a large building, even larger than the church, and having many towers. Votes: 2

Hallelujah' is going to be a standard that our grandkids, our great-great grandkids will learn to sing in church. It's one of those really, really special songs. Votes: 2

I think our failure in the production of good town churches of distinctive character must have struck you often, as it has me, when contrasted with our comparative success in country churches. Votes: 2

I believe in the separation of church and state, absolutely. But I don't believe in the separation of public life from our values, our basic values, and for many of us, our religious values. Votes: 2

My childhood was limited to mostly gospel music. We didn't have, like, a lot of records in our house, you know. It was like my grandparents who raised me. They were pretty old-fashioned in their religious ways, so it was like church, church, church, school, school, school. Votes: 2

I go to church too, y'all. And I've heard it, too. And I want to say to all of our faith leaders out there that I understand that probably in my Baptist church in Maryland, it is not likely that there will be performed - in my church - gay marriages. Votes: 2

I really enjoy when I'm asked questions that leap from the physical world and the material world into our hearts. Votes: 2

We just planted our 21st church. Votes: 0

The church is a place where we make our prejudice sacred. Votes: 0

We missed a lot of church, so the music is our confessional. Votes: 0

Our tendency is to be converted to church and not to Christ. Votes: 0

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

Worshipers never leave church...we carry our sanctuary with us wherever we go. Votes: 0

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

Why are we mute? Where are our leaders, our legislators? Where is the church? Votes: 0

The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time. Votes: 0

As a church we must love Jesus, or else we have lost our reason for existence. Votes: 0

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

We may go to church once a week, but our Christian life is daily - step-by-step. Votes: 0

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

I do not want church groups controlling the schools of our country. They must remain free. Votes: 0

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

As I say, it never ceases to amaze me how gullible some of our Church members are. Votes: 0

Why should we not enter into our inheritance in the church as well as the concert hall? Votes: 0

When you go to church you are really listening in to the secret wireless from our friends. Votes: 0

We cannot be tepid disciples. The Church needs our courage in order to give witness to truth. Votes: 0

Our Christian identity is belonging to a people: the Church. Without the Church we are not Christians. Votes: 0

Revival precedes evangelism. The church must first repent. This is the blind spot in our eye today. 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 National Catholic Register's coverage of the Church universal, and the Church in our own country, is splendid. Votes: 0

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

Our whole message is it's easy to just keep preaching to the church and people that already come. Votes: 0

It must not content us to take our bodies to church if we leave our hearts at home. Votes: 0

Our public schools began as ministries of the church; now it is time to return them to the Lord. Votes: 0

Our best efforts at changing society will fall short unless the church can teach the world how to love. Votes: 0

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

Without a vision our community will perish without Christ, but without a vision the church will perish as well. Votes: 0

We're not church planters. We are community planters and, as we work in our communities, we join local churches. Votes: 0

So our building of the visible Church becomes much like any natural business function, using natural means and natural motives. Votes: 0

If the church would only be the church- if Christians would only be Christians- nothing could halt our onward march. Votes: 0

The church is not here to meet our needs. We are the church here to meet the needs of the world. Votes: 0

Is this really the church of Christ, or are we just calling it the church because of our traditions and history? Votes: 0

Why do we go through all the nonsense with security at our airport? It's not because the Catholic Church is falling apart. Votes: 0

We attended stables, as we attended church, in our best clothes, thereby no doubt showing the degree of respect due to horses. Votes: 0

I don't know whether we Church members fully appreciate the Book of Mormon, one of our sacred scriptures, as we really should. 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

The Coptic Church respects the law but it does not accept rulings that go against the Bible and our freedom of religion. Votes: 0

Hold firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this, and you dissolve the unity of the Church. Votes: 0

Let us never forget that it is the Lord who guides the Church. He is the one who makes our apostolates fruitful. Votes: 0

That is the job of the Catholic Church, to be a balance to the materialistic drives of our culture and of economy. Votes: 0

Today five out of six non-Christians in our world have no hope unless missionaries come to them and plant the church among them. Votes: 0

My church has a health and fitness ministry to encourage our members to take care of spiritually and physically; how could I not? Votes: 0

My religion is my whole life. I love sharing it with people and clearing up any misunderstandings people might have about our Church. Votes: 0

Our government needs the church, because only those humble enough to admit they're sinners can bring democracy the tolerance it requires to survive Votes: 0

Easter celebrations are evidence of the increased benign influence of the Russian Orthodox Church and other traditional churches in our country on society. Votes: 0

Apologetics has an important place in the local church as we seek to influence our communities for Christ in an increasingly skeptical culture. Votes: 0

In our secular society, school has become the replacement for church, and like church it requires that its teachings must be taken on faith. Votes: 0

Our biggest problem is that we have an entire culture shaped by a misunderstanding of the gospel. That so-called gospel is deconstructing 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

Unfortunately the leading proponent of ignorance in our society has become the very same institution that was created to fight it - The Church. 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

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

The church is not an institution forcing us to follow rules but a community inviting us to still our hunger and thirst at its table. 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

We admit that we will never reach our ideal in this life, a distinctive the church claims that most other human institutions try to deny. Votes: 0

Let it be a settled principle in our minds that the first and chief business of the Church of Christ is to preach the Gospel. Votes: 0

I know that those of us who go into church work are to regard ourselves as servants, are to offer our lives as a gift. Votes: 0

We will become mightier and more powerful in our own right in direct proportion to the service and contribution we make to strengthen the Church. 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

Our Pastoral solicitude induces us to earnestly protect and preserve in everything and especially in the sacred rites of the Church the best and old norm. Votes: 0

The church has never been asked to explain anything, our speciality, along with ballistics, has always been the neutralisation of the overly curious mind through faith. Votes: 0

We believe that this time of transition will make for a more dynamic Revolution Church, and will help us focus and expand our scope and mission. 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

On quiet nights, when I'm alone, I like to run our wedding video backwards, just to watch myself walk out of the church a free man. Votes: 0

We would be 1,500 years ahead if it hadn't been for the church dragging science back by its coattails and burning our best minds at the stake. Votes: 0

When I was growing up in north-west London, our milkman's cart was pulled by a horse, and cattle still grazed on the meadows near Church Farm. 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

Depend upon it, as long as the church is living so much like the world, we cannot expect our children to be brought into the fold. 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

Holy Mother Church teaches us to end the year and also our days with an examination of conscience...to be grateful and to ask for forgiveness. Votes: 0

There's nothing more political than sex. The church has had its hand on our crotch for more than 2,000 years, and the government is moving in that direction. Votes: 0

Every Wednesday, my husband and I have a study group with our friends. I attend church. We try to devote time in the morning, say a prayer. Votes: 0

The church has no power over our lives any more, which is something of a blessing for those who do not enjoy red-hot pokers or iron thumb-screws... Votes: 0

And as we [ the Church] move towards setting new (United Nations') sustainable development goals, we also understand that one of our key priorities is improving social inclusion. Votes: 0

churches, like all the rest of our major institutions, are rooted in capitalism. For a church to attack capitalism is to 'bite the hand that feeds it. Votes: 0

If the Church were not true, our enemies would be bored rather than threatened, and acquiescent rather than anxious. Hell is moved only when things move heavenward. Votes: 0

My family and I would never receive royalties on the revenue that my materials brought into the church; materials that were created on our own personal time. Votes: 0

The Popish theory, which assumes that Christ, the Apostles and believers, constituted the Church while our Saviour was on earth, and this organization was designed to be perpetual. Votes: 0

The church-bells of innumerable sects are all chime-bells to-day, ringing in sweet accordance throughout many lands, and awaking a great joy in the heart of our common humanity. Votes: 0

Church can't be a place where we feel like a visitor, or somewhere we're afraid to allow others to see our messes. It's got to feel like home. Votes: 0

We are insisting and we will continue to insist that this faith of the church must continue to be upheld come rain, come fire. That is our position. 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

Alongside my own deep personal faith, I am a follower, as well, of our civic religion. I am a big believer in the separation of church and state. 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

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

... our reality teaches us that, as Christians, we must create a Church of the poor, that we don't need a Church imposed from outside which knows nothing of hunger. Votes: 0

The aim of the Church is to help the people to help themselves. Work is to be re-enthroned as the ruling principle of the lives of our Church membership Votes: 0

I am also actively involved in my church and its community activities. We have programs to improve the lives of our congregation and programs of outreach in the community. Votes: 0

Respect for the dignity of the human person is the foundational principle of any just society. From a Catholic perspective, it also forms the foundation of all of our Church's social teachings. Votes: 0