Church Quotes - Page 33

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

  R. C. Sproul

  Jesus, Hell, Should

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• Don't try so hard to be hip. When the Church finds out what is cool, it is not cool anymore.

  Kevin DeYoung

  Trying, Hips, Hard

  Twitter post from Nov 19, 2014

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• 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

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• 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

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• The Lord never had - and never will have to the end of time - a church on the earth without prophets, apostles, and inspired men. Whenever the Lord had a people on the earth that he acknowledged as such, that people were led by revelation.

  Wilford Woodruff

  Men, People, Earth

  Wilford Woodruff (1946). “The Discourses of Wilford Woodruff”

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• 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

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

  Bruce R. McConkie

  Feet, World

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• The ordinary ministry is that which receives all of its direction from the will of God revealed in the Scriptures and from those means which God has appointed in the church for its continual edification.

  William Ames

  Mean, Ordinary, Ministry

  William Ames (1968). “The marrow of theology”

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• Imagine if every church became a place where everyone is safe, but no one is comfortable. Image if every church became a place where we told one another the truth. We might just create sanctuary.

  Rachel Held Evans

  Sanctuary, Safe, Might

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• Church is a moment in time when the kingdom of God draws near, when a meal, a story, a song, an apology, and even a failure id made holy by the presence of Jesus among us and within us.

  Rachel Held Evans

  Song, Jesus, Apology

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• But if the world is watching, we might as well tell the truth. And the truth is, the church doesn't offer a cure. It doesn't offer a quick fix. The church offers death and resurrection. The church offers the messy, inconvenient, gut-wrenching, never-ending work of healing and reconciliation.

  Rachel Held Evans

  Healing, Might, World

  Rachel Held Evans (2015). “Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church”, p.209, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• As is well know, I, ah..regard myself as a religious man, yet I belong to no church. I'm an able soldier yet I abhor armies. I can even add that I've been introduced to hundreds of women but never married. in other words no one's ever talked me into anything.

  Charlton Heston

  Religious, Army, Men

  "Fictional character: Gen. Charles 'Chinese' Gordon". "Khartoum", www.imdb.com. 1966.

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• The cash register did more for human morality than the Congregational Church. It was a really powerful phenomenon to make an economic system work better, just as, in reverse, a system that can be easily defrauded ruins a civilization. A system that's very hard to defraud, like a cash register, helped the economic performance of a civilization by reducing vice, but very few people within economics talk about it in those terms.

  Charlie Munger

  Powerful, Civilization, People

  "Academic Economics: Strengths and Faults After Considering Interdisciplinary Needs". Charlie Munger's Herb Kay Undergraduate Lecture at the Economics Department of University of California in Santa Barbara, October 3, 2003.

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• Satan dreads nothing but prayer. . . . The Church that lost its Christ was full of good works. Activities are multiplied that meditation may be ousted, and organizations are increased that prayer may have no chance. Souls may be lost in good works, as surely as in evil ways. The one concern of the devil is to keep the saints from praying. He fears nothing from prayerless studies, prayerless work, and prayerless religion. He laughs at our toil, mocks at our wisdom, but trembles when we pray.

  Samuel Chadwick

  Prayer, Organization, Evil

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• We must put aside all judgment of our own, and keep the mind ever ready and prompt to obey in all things the true Spouse of Christ our Lord, our holy Mother, the hierarchical Church.

  Ignatius of Loyola

  Mother, Mind, Judgment

  Saint Ignatius (of Loyola) (1951). “The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius: A New Translation Based on Studies in the Language of the Autograph”

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• There is absolutely nothing in the Mormon's religion inconsistent with the most patriotic devotion to the government of the United States. Revelation and the commandments of the church require that the Constitution and the laws of the land be upheld. It is also part of our belief that the time will come when the country will be distracted and general lawlessness prevail. Then the Mormon people will step forward and take an active part in rescuing the nation from ruin.

  Wilford Woodruff

  Country, Patriotic, Law

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• 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

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• Some go to church to take a walk; some go there to laugh and talk. Some go there to meet a friend; some go there their time to spend. Some go there to meet a lover; some go there a fault to cover. Some go there for speculation; some go there for observation. Some go there to doze and nod; the wise go there to worship God.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Wise, Laughing, Faults

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• Be an example in your Church activity-honor the Sabbath day, attend your meetings, observe the Word of Wisdom, pay your tithes and offerings, support your leaders, and otherwise keep the commandments. Serve cheerfully and gratefully in every calling you receive. Live worthy of a temple recommend and enjoy the sweet, sacred spirit that comes from frequent temple attendance.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Sweet, Offering, Leader

  Ezra Taft Benson (1990). “Come, Listen to a Prophet's Voice”, Shadow Mountain

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• Richard Hadlee has the appearance of a rickety church steeple and a severe manner which suggests that women are not likely to be ordained yet.

  Peter Roebuck

  Appearance, Steeples, Severe

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• We all claim to worship the same God, so why don't we fellowship together? ... The only thing that keeps us from fellowshiping together are the church buildings, the organizations.

  Donnie McClurkin

  Organization, Together, Fellowship

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• I hate this world, this dream, this horrible nightmare, with its churches and chicaneries, its books and blackguardisms, its fair faces and false hearts, its howling righteousness on the surface and utter hollowness beneath and, above all, its sanctified shopkeeping!

  Swami Vivekananda

  Dream, Hate, Book

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2027, Manonmani Publishers

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• The funny thing about being Catholic, and I was raised Catholic, is that you identify with the Church, just as part of your character. Nevermind what you believe, it's just who you are.

  Alex Gibney

  Believe, Character, Funny Things

  Source: collider.com

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• This church was open and seemingly unattended, and it was a throwback in another way as well. The candles in the little side altars were real ones, actual wax candles that burned with an open flame. Lots of churches have switched over to electrified altars. You drop your quarter in the slot and a flame-shaped bulb goes on and stays on for your quarter's worth of time. It's like a parking meter, and if you stay too long they tow away your soul.

  Lawrence Block

  Real, Flames, Parking Meters

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• I once dieted so religiously I quit eating in church.

  Zig Ziglar

  Quitting, Eating, I Quit

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