Church Quotes - Page 20

• Have you ever wondered what a church full of Pharisees would be like? 1. They would all attend every service 2. They would all tithe 3. They would all work in the church 4. They would all go to hell

  Adrian Rogers

  Would Be, Pharisees, Hell

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• Service is an imperative for those who worship Jesus Christ and a covenant obligation of those who belong to his Church.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Jesus, Covenant, Worship

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• I grew up in the church, Resurrection Baptist Church in Philadelphia, and my grandmother was that grandmother at the church, the one always at the church, always putting on the events. It was deeply instilled in me that every action, everything I create, everything I say and do in the world is inexorably bound to the lives of everybody I come in contact with - and it's my responsibility to put things into the world that have a positive influence on humanity.

  Will Smith

  Responsibility, Grandmother, Philadelphia

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• For me, the Church is the enemy.

  Al Goldstein

  Enemy

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• The Bible gives no hint that a Christian "belief system" might be isolated from the life of the Church, subjected to scientific analysis, and have its truth compared with competing "belief systems".

  Peter Leithart

  Christian, Giving, Analysis

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• A dictatorship of relativism is being built that recognizes nothing as definite, and which leaves as the ultimate measure only one's ego and desires ... Having a clear faith, according to the credo of the church, is often labeled as fundamentalism. Yet relativism, that is, letting oneself being carried 'here and there by any wind of doctrine,' appears as the sole attitude good enough for modern times.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Attitude, Wind, Ego

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• The devil is perfectly willing that the Church should multiply its organization and its deftly contrived machinery for the conquest of the world for Christ, if it will only give up praying... Satan laughs softly, as he looks at the Church today, and says under his breath: "You can have your Sunday schools, your YMCAs...your grand choirs, and your fine organs, and your brilliant preachers...as long as you do not bring into them the power of Almighty God, sought and obtained by earnest, persistent, believing, mighty prayers."

  R. A. Torrey

  Prayer, Giving Up, Believe

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• There is nothing the Church of today needs so much as Spiritual Power; and there is nothing which we can have so easily, if only we are prepared to pay the price.

  F.B. Meyer

  Spiritual, Pay The Price, Needs

  F.B. Meyer (2002). “Elijah: The Secret of his Power”, p.2, CLC Publications

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• Our error today is that we do not expect a converted man to be a transformed man, and as a result of this error our churches are full of substandard Christians. A revival is among other things a return to the belief that real faith invariably produces holiness of heart and righteousness of life.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Real, Heart

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• After a few days in hospital, I was thinking, Oh, gee - I raised in a church, Protestant upbringing which I'd rejected as an adult - I'm lying in bed thinking, Hmmm, maybe I ought to pray. They always say there are no atheists in a foxhole... and I thought, Here I am in a pretty good-sized foxhole... and I thought Naahhh. I wouldn't respect any God who would listen to me after I'd rejected him so vociferously.

  Chuck Close

  Atheist, Lying, Thinking

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• Church - Come here to learn, go forth to serve.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

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• Anybody who cannot learn to hear by feeling will not go very far in church.

  S. Dilworth Young

  Feelings

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• So I had to figure out for myself what was right and true. It was a search. It was a process. It drew on the moral sense that I'd learned from my parents, and in church, and in my own heart, and led me on my own journey of discovery.

  Tim Cook

  Heart, Journey, Discovery

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• In the middle of this despair [of postwar Germany], my family learned about The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and the healing message of the restored gospel of Jesus Christ. This message made all the difference; it lifted us above our daily misery. Life was still thorny and the circumstances still horrible, but the gospel brought light, hope, and joy into our lives. The plain and simple truths of the gospel warmed our hearts and enlightened our minds. They helped us look at ourselves and the world around us with different eyes and from an elevated viewpoint.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Jesus, Eye, Healing

  "Have We Not Reason to Rejoice?". Dieter F. Uchtdorf's priesthood session address at the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Salt Lake City, Utah, www.lds.org. November 2007.

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• In all that we do in the Church, we need to provide the way, as leaders, for parents and children to have time together as families.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Children, Leader, Parent

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• We declare our belief in Jesus Christ and accept Him as our Savior. He will bless us and guide us in all of our efforts. As we labor here in mortality, He will strengthen us and bring us peace in time of trials. Members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints walk by faith in Him whose Church it is.

  L. Tom Perry

  Jesus, Effort, Saint

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• We should be patient in developing and strengthening our testimonies. Rather than expecting immediate or spectacular manifestations, though they will come when needed, we should pray for a testimony, study the scriptures, follow the counsel of our prophet and other Church leaders, and live the principles of the gospel. Our testimonies then will grow and mature naturally, perhaps imperceptibly at times, until they become driving forces in our lives.

  Joseph B. Wirthlin

  Leader, Scripture, Principles

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• How grateful we are that the heavens are indeed open, that the gospel of Jesus Christ has been restored, and that the Church is founded on the rock of revelation. We are a blessed people, with apostles and prophets upon the earth today.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Jesus, Blessed, Grateful

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• Humility is the great preserver of peace and order in all Christian churches and societies, consequently pride is the great disturber of them, and the cause of most dissensions and breaches in the church.

  Matthew Henry

  Christian, Humility, Pride

  Matthew Henry, Thomas Scott (1839). “The Comprehensive Commentary on the Holy Bible: Acts-Revelation”, p.610

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• The church's or Christian group's methods are as important as its message.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Christian, Important, Groups

  Francis Schaeffer (2016). “The Francis Schaeffer Collection: True Spirituality / He Is There and He Is Not Silent”, p.224, NavPress

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• The church ... is not just to bandage the victims under the wheel, but to put a spoke in the wheel itself.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Wheels, Victim, Spokes

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1995). “Selected Writings”, HarperCollins

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• Many council leaders and members will be surprised to discover how much more focused their work will become when they examine it through the lens of saving souls through the mission of the Church.

  M. Russell Ballard

  Leader, Soul, Lenses

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• Why is it that some young folks are almost overly conscientious in their school work, even to neglecting their Church responsibilities, when the spiritual should have priority in the study time of every person if preference must be given? However, there is time for fulfilling every need.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Spiritual, School, Responsibility

  Spencer W. Kimball (1982). “The Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, Twelfth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints”

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• We need revelation for the calling of officers in the Church. Men should not be called merely through impression.

  J. Golden Kimball

  Men, Needs, Calling

  J. Golden Kimball (2008). “J. Golden Kimball: His Sermons”, p.116, Latter-day Publishing

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• In all we do we must cultivate faith. Increased faith is the touchstone to improved church performance.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Performances, Touchstones

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