Church Quotes

• Church is not an organization you join; it is a family where you belong, a home where you are loved and a hospital where you find healing.

  Nicky Gumbel

  Family, Christian, Religious

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• Church is what you do. Church is who you are. Church is the human outworking of the person of Jesus Christ. Let's not go to Church, let's be the Church.

  Bill Hybels

  Jesus, Christ, Humans

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• The True Church can never fail. For it is based upon a rock.

  T. S. Eliot

  Rocks, Failing, Christian Church

  T.S. Eliot (2015). “The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems”, p.524, Faber & Faber

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

  C. S. Lewis

  Church Service, Perfect, Would Be

  C. S. Lewis (2002). “Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer”, p.8, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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.

  N. T. Wright

  Kingdoms, Spirit, Without God

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• The Church is the Church only when it exists for others...not dominating, but helping and serving. It must tell men of every calling what it means to live for Christ, to exist for others.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Mean, Men, Calling

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• The Church right now has more fashion than passion, is more pathetic than prophetic, is more superficial than supernatural.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Fashion, Passion, Superficial

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• The Church exists for nothing else but to draw men into Christ.

  C. S. Lewis

  Men, Christ, Evangelism

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• The difference between listening to a radio sermon and going to church...is almost like the difference between calling your girl on the phone and spending an evening with her.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Girl, Phones, Differences

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• He created the church to meet your five deepest needs: a purpose to live for, people to live with, principles to live by, a profession to live out, and power to live on. There is no other place on earth where you can find all five of these benefits in one place.

  Rick Warren

  Christian, People, Religion

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• I think the greatest weakness in the church today is that almost no one believes that God invests His power in the Bible. Everyone is looking for power in a program, in a methodology, in a technique, in anything and everything but that in which God has placed it—His Word. He alone has the power to change lives for eternity, and that power is focused on the Scriptures.

  R. C. Sproul

  Life Changing, Believe, Thinking

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  A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.

  Abigail Van Buren

  Museums, Religion, Saint

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• 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.

  Beth Moore

  Doors, Long, People

  Beth Moore (2014). “Portraits of Devotion”, p.374, B&H Publishing Group

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• The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Funny, Christian, Education

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.140

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• Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile.

  Billy Sunday

  Funny, Hilarious, Christian

  Billy Sunday, William Thomas Ellis (1917). “Billy Sunday, the Man and His Message: With His Own Words which Have Won Thousands for Christ”

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• The church is the gathering of God's children, where they can be helped and fed like babies and then guided by her motherly care, grow up to manhood in maturity of faith.

  John Calvin

  Christian, Baby, Children

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• You can be committed to Church but not committed to Christ, but you cannot be committed to Christ and not committed to church.

  Joel Osteen

  Commitment, Christ, Committed

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• Christianity means a lot more than church membership.

  Billy Sunday

  Mean, Membership, Christianity

  Billy Sunday, William Thomas Ellis (1917). “Billy Sunday, the Man and His Message: With His Own Words which Have Won Thousands for Christ”

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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, Want

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

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

  Michael W. Smith

  Sleep, Thinking, Streets

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• Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God.

  Lenny Bruce

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  The Essential Lenny Bruce, ed. John Cohen (1967)

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• The Church must be forever building, for it is forever decaying within and attacked from without.

  T. S. Eliot

  Forever, Building

  T.S. Eliot (2011). “The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot”, p.134, Faber & Faber

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• 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.

  Alice Walker

  Funny, Humorous, Telling The Truth

  The Color Purple (1982)

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• The church must be reminded that it is not the master, or the servant of the state, but rather the conscience of the state.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Christian, States, Masters

  1963 Strength to Love.

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• Many come to bring their clothes to church rather than themselves.

  Thomas Fuller

  Funny, Fashion, Humor

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