Church Quotes - Page 25

• The organized churches must become schools of spiritual discipline where Christians are taught how to own without treasuring (Matt. 6:21); how to possess without, like the "rich young ruler," being possessed (Mark 10:22); how to live simply, even frugally, though controlling great wealth and power.

  Dallas Willard

  Christian, Spiritual, School

  42 Copy quote

• The church is, above all, a place to receive grace: it brings forgiven people together with the aim of equipping us to dispense grace to others.

  Philip Yancey

  People, Grace, Together

  7 Copy quote

• If women can organize missionary societies, temperance societies, and every kind of charitable organization... why not permit them to be ordained to preach the Gospel and administer the sacraments of the Church?

  Frances E. Willard

  Organization, Missionary, Why Not

  45 Copy quote

• Faith is not simply a private matter, or something we practice once a week at church. Rather, it should have a contagious effect on the broader world. Jesus used these images to illustrate His kingdom.: a sprinkle of yeast causing the whole loaf to rise, a pinch of salt preserving a slab of meat, the smallest seed in the garden growing into a great tree in which birds of the air come to nest.

  Philip Yancey

  Jesus, Garden, Air

  FaceBook post by Philip Yancey from Jun 23, 2016

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• The prime duty of help to the poor by the Church is not to bring temporal relief to their needs, but salvation to their souls.

  Marion G. Romney

  Soul, Relief, Needs

  6 Copy quote

• This Christianity is not a cultural thing. It is not something that should be just a small part of your life; it is not something that you do on Sunday... Christianity is not about you being just like the world all the time and then coming to church on Sunday. If that is your Christianity... you are not Christian.

  Paul Washer

  Christian, Sunday, World

  51 Copy quote

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

  Robert Godfrey

  Luther, Word Of God

  21 Copy quote

• Don't tell me that you have a Reformed Church in the tradition of Calvin until you have the preaching of the Word every day of the week, devote Wednesday's to prayer and have the church gather together for prayer.

  Sinclair B. Ferguson

  Prayer, Together, Tradition

  10 Copy quote

• 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.

  Francis Chan

  Home, Needs, Sitting

  10 Copy quote

• The next time someone tells you, "The Church is full of a bunch of hypocrites." You can respond, "You don't even know the half of it."

  Kevin DeYoung

  Hypocrite, Half, Next

  Twitter post from Jan 22, 2015

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Thinking, People, Want

  FaceBook post by Tullian Tchividjian from Jan 11, 2015

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• It's because Jesus spoke so frequently about hell that the church should take the concept seriously.

  R. C. Sproul

  Jesus, Hell, Should

  4 Copy quote

• I wanna tell you, ladies and gentlemen, that there's not enough troops in the army to force the Southern people to break down segregation and admit the nigra race into our theaters, into our swimming pools, into our homes, and into our churches.

  Strom Thurmond

  Home, Army, Swimming

  97 Copy quote

• Primary (the LDS Church's Sunday school for children) is where you go to do with somebody else's mother the things you would do with your own mother if she weren't so busy teaching Primary.

  George Eliot

  Mother, Children, Teaching

  6 Copy quote

• It is the deepest desire of my heart to have every member of the Church worthy to enter the temple.

  Howard W. Hunter

  Heart, Desire, Temples

  7 Copy quote

• We cannot survive spiritually with one foot in the Church and the other in the world.

  Bruce R. McConkie

  Feet, World

  26 Copy quote

• We need to stop building our churches around categories and start building them around people.

  Rachel Held Evans

  People, Needs, Building

  Rachel Held Evans (2015). “Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church”, p.14, Thomas Nelson Inc

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• The church is the last place we want to be sold another product, the last place we want to be entertained.

  Rachel Held Evans

  Want, Lasts, Last Place

  Rachel Held Evans (2015). “Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church”, p.14, Thomas Nelson Inc

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Though I was a Catholic, I recognized that Protestant churches had something.

  Ethel Waters

  Catholic, Protestants

  4 Copy quote

• When I did the Abyssinian mass, I went through the whole history of the church music and the gospel music, even with the Anglo American hymns, the Afro American hymns, the spirituals and how it developed, up to Thomas Dorsey and the Dixie Hummingbirds, going through the history of the music, jazz musicians.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Church Music, Hymns, Musician

  Source: www.pbs.org

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The sex abuse crisis in the Catholic Church is the result of what police call "noble cause corruption," the belief that because you are dedicated to doing good, you can do no wrong.

  Alex Gibney

  Sex, Police, Catholic

  Source: deadline.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• That was an interesting aspect: to go to war with the Church to fight for the very thing that the Church was meant to give to people.

  Mark Ruffalo

  War, Fighting, People

  Source: www.gq.com

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Acting is broad enough a church that you can pick your races, decide which way you want to go at different times.I think that the story and circumstance tends to dictate the most and then what you do with your own approach after that.

  Ben Mendelsohn

  Thinking, Race, Acting

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm the only person in my family who can't sing. My grandmother was an opera singer and all of her kids were in church five days a week - or between church and vocal lessons at Carnegie Hall. But my mom had her first studio experience recording on my album. She's used to having to fill the room, so she had to adjust to the microphone and not sing opera.

  Le1f

  Mom, Kids, Grandmother

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I’m frankly sick of all the books and movies trying to predict when Jesus will return and we’ll get to start our eternal vacation at his all-inclusive resort called heaven. I’m also sick of the nerd parade of books and conferences that approach the Bible like scholars whose mission is to get their Masters rather than soldiers who are on mission with their Master. We've got work to do. There are lost people to reach, churches to plant, and nations to evangelize. Hell is hot, forever is a long time, and it’s our turn to stop making a dent and start making a difference.

  Mark Driscoll

  Jesus, Book, Vacation

  9 Copy quote