Christian Church Quotes - Page 2

• It is our boast, that a man's religious tenets will not forfeit the protection of the Laws.

  George Washington

  Religious, Men, Law

  George Washington (1855). “Maxims of Washington: Political, Social, Moral, and Religious”, p.372

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• . . . Thirteen governments [of the original states] thus founded on the natural authority of the people alone, without a pretence of miracle or mystery, and which are destined to spread over the northern part of that whole quarter of the globe, are a great point gained in favor of the rights of mankind.

  John Adams

  Religious, Father, Rights

  John Adams (1851). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.293

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• The United States of America have exhibited, perhaps, the first example of governments erected on the simple principles of nature. . . . [In] the formation of the American governments . . . it will never be pretended that any persons employed in that service had interviews with the gods, or were in any degree under the influence of heaven. . . . These governments were contrived merely by the use of reason and the senses.

  John Adams

  Simple, Government, America

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• Nearly 60% of Americans who regularly attend Christian church say there is no such thing as the Holy Spirit—they say the Holy Spirit is just a symbol of God’s power or presence or purity.

  George Barna

  Christian, Church, Spirit

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• The Christian Church should not be a secret society of specialists, but a public manifestation of believers in Jesus.

  Oswald Chambers

  Christian, Religious, Jesus

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.54, Discovery House

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• The seven deadly sins of the Christian Church are: greed, pride, envy, anger, gluttony, lust, and sloth. Satanism advocates indulging in each of these "sins" as they all lead to physical, mental, or emotional gratification.

  Anton Szandor LaVey

  Christian, Pride, Emotional

  "The Satanic Bible". Book by Anton Szandor LaVey, 1969.

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• The Christian church was designed to make sinners sweat. I have always believed that, and I still believe it. The messages preached in our churches should make backslidden Christians sweat. And if I achieve that objective when I preach, I thank God with all of my heart, no matter what people think of me.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Believe, Heart

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• May a merciful God preserve me from a Christian Church in which everyone is a saint! I want to be and remain in the church and little flock of the fainthearted, the feeble and the ailing, who feel and recognize the wretchedness of their sins, who sigh and cry to God incessantly for comfort and help, who believe in the forgiveness of sins.

  Martin Luther

  Christian, Believe, Church

  Martin Luther “Day by Day We Magnify You: Daily Readings for the Entire Year”, Augsburg Books

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• 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.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Men, Church

  Spurgeon, Charles H. (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 6: Sermons 286-347”, p.847, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• The root of almost every schism and heresy from which the Christian Church has suffered, has been because of the effort of men to earn, rather than receive their salvation; and the reason preaching is so commonly ineffective is, that it often calls on people to work for God rather than letting God work through them.

  John Ruskin

  Christian, Letting Go, Men

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• If there be any one point in which the Christian church ought to keep its fervor at a white heat, it is concerning missions. If there be anything about which we cannot tolerate lukewarmness,it is the matter of sending the gospel to a dying world.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, White, Religion

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• Before the Christian Church goes into eclipse anywhere there must first be a corrupting of her simple basic theology. She simply gets a wrong answer to the question, ‘What is God like?’ and goes on from there. Though she may continue to cling to a sound nominal creed, her practical working creed has become false. The masses of her adherents come to believe that God is different from what He actually is; and that is heresy of the most insidious and deadly kind

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Believe, Simple

  Aiden Wilson Tozer (1965). “The Knowledge of the Holy”, p.7, Fig

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• The white Christian church never raised to the heights of Christ. It stayed within the limit of culture.

  Jesse Jackson

  Christian, White, Racism

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• For the judgment was accomplished not only upon all the men of the Christian church, but also upon all who are called Mohammedans, and, moreover, upon all the Gentiles in the whole world.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Christian, Men, Church

  Emanuel Swedenborg (2012). “Last Judgment: Are We Living in the End of Days?”, p.36, Simon and Schuster

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• The right to freedom is the gift of God Almighty....The rights of the Colonists as Christians may be best understood by reading, and carefully studying the institutes of the great Lawgiver and head of the Christian Church: which are to be found clearly written and promuligated in the New Testament.

  Samuel Adams

  Bible, God, Christian

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• Barna is correct when he writes, "After fifteen years of diligent digging into the world around me, I have reached several conclusions about the future of the Christian church in America. The central conclusion is that the American church is dying due to lack of strong spiritual leadership. In this time of unprecedented opportunity and plentiful resources, the church is actually losing influence. The primary reason is the lack of leadership. Nothing is more important than leadership."7

  Ed Stetzer

  Christian, Spiritual, Strong

  Ed Stetzer, Mike Dodson (2007). “Comeback Churches: How 300 Churches Turned Around and Yours Can Too”, p.14, B&H Publishing Group

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• In the early days of the December that my father was to die, my younger brother brought me the news that I was a Jew. I was then a transplanted Englishman in America, married, with one son and, though unconsoled by any religion, a nonbelieving member of two Christian churches. On hearing the tidings, I was pleased to find that I was pleased.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Christian, Brother, Atheist

  Christopher Hitchens (2010). “Hitch 22: A Memoir”, p.317, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• It has come to be a dreadfully common belief in the Christian Church that the only man who has a “call” is the man who devotes all his time to what is called “the ministry,” whereas all Christian service is ministry, and every Christian has a call to some kind of ministry or another.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Men, Church

  Spurgeon, Charles H. “The Complete Works of Charles Spurgeon, Volume 55: Sermons 3125-3177”, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• The greatest danger to the Christian church today is that of pitching its message too low.

  Dallas Willard

  Christian, Church Today, Pitching

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• 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.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Christian, Distance, Church

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• PALACE, n. A fine and costly residence, particularly that of a great official. The residence of a high dignitary of the Christian Church is called a palace; that of the Founder of his religion was known as a field, or wayside. There is progress.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Christian, Religion, Progress

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2476, Delphi Classics

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• All the modern christian churches, who deny new revelation, have no more authority to preach, baptize, or administer any other ordinance of the gospel than the idolatrous Hindoos have; indeed all their administrations are worse than in vain — they are a solemn mockery in the sight of God.

  Orson Pratt

  Christian, Church, Modern

  "Divine Authority, or, the Question, Was Joseph Smith sent of God?".

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• You may speak but a word to a child, and in that child there may be slumbering a noble heart which shall stir the Christian Church in years to come.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Children, Heart

  Charles Spurgeon (2016). “Morning and Evening”, p.205, Discovery House

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• The Christian Church does not exist in Heaven, but on earth and in time.

  Karl Barth

  Christian, Heaven, Church

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• The fourth rule is: "Make the enemy live up to their own book of rules." You can kill them with this, for they can no more obey their own rules than the Christian church can live up to Christianity.

  Saul Alinsky

  Christian, Book, Enemy

  Saul Alinsky (2016). “Thirteen Tactics for Realistic Radicals: from Rules for Radicals”, p.6, Vintage

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