Church Quotes - Page 34

• The Church, therefore, has two constant needs; instruction in the truths by which it must live, and correction of the shortcomings by which its life is marred.

  J. I. Packer

  Two, Needs, Life Is

  J. I. Packer (1958). “"Fundamentalism" and the Word of God”, p.69, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• The Psalms are the voices of the church.

  Ambrose

  Voice, Psalms

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• I think of the church often. Not because religion was closing in on me, but because for a long time my ass was sore from that hard, unupholstered pew.

  W. C. Fields

  Thinking, Long, Ass

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• One thing the Devil fears the most is the Church that obeys and goes not just sits and talks.

  Artur Pawlowski

  Devil, One Thing

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• We have this idea in our mind that there's a separation of church and state in America, which I think is a good thing. And we extend that to our politics. Like it's not just church and state, but it's also there's a separation of religion and politics. But of course, there - there isn't.

  Stephen Colbert

  Thinking, Ideas, America

  "Colbert: 'Re-Becoming' The Nation We Always Were". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. October 4, 2012.

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• All contemporary religions and churches, all and every kind of religious organization, Marxism has always viewed as organs of bourgeois reaction, serving as a defense of exploitation and the doping of the working-classes.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Religious, Class, Organization

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• God is dethroned; and although the incognizant masses are tardy in realizing the event, they feel the icy draught caused by that vacancy. Man enters upon a spiritual ice age; the established churches can no longer provide more than Eskimo huts where their shivering flock huddles together.

  Arthur Koestler

  Spiritual, Men, Ice

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• I'll go to church with anyone who's willing to smoke pot and look through a telescope with me.

  Joe Rogan

  Looks, Telescopes, Pot

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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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• It's all that pretending to be perfect that breeds inauthenticity in the church.

  Rich Mullins

  Perfect, Pretending

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• Singing is really where I got my start in church.

  Danny Gokey

  Singing

  Source: www.cbn.com

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• I feel like the Church should have the most amazing entertainment and the best music, because we know the author and the source of music and entertainment, which is our Father.

  Danny Gokey

  Father, Should Have, Entertainment

  Source: www.cbn.com

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• Discovery is adventure. There is an eagerness, touched at times with tenseness, as man moves ahead into the unknown. Walking the wilderness is indeed like living. The horizon drops away, bringing new sights, sounds, and smells from the earth. When one moves through the forests, his sense of discovery is quickened. Man is back in the environment from which he emerged to build factories, churches, and schools. He is primitive again, matching his wits against the earth and sky. He is free of the restraints of society and free of its safeguards too.

  William O. Douglas

  Moving, School, Adventure

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• People have really strong images of what church is, and it's almost certainly not the same as mine.

  Sally Phillips

  Strong, People, Mines

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• When you go to church you are really listening in to the secret wireless from our friends.

  C. S. Lewis

  Secret, Listening, Wireless

  C. S. Lewis (1984). “The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis”, p.259, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The church that is married to the spirit of this age, becomes a widow in the next.

  William Ralph Inge

  Age, Widows, Next

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• At age 11, I went to a Jewish school. I speak Yiddish. I'm Church of England Protestant. My father was Catholic, and my mother was Protestant. My wife is a Muslim.

  Michael Caine

  Mother, Father, School

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• The Catholic Church is still very angry about The Da Vinci Code - they don't like anything that makes more money in a weekend than they do.

  Jay Leno

  Weekend, Catholic, More Money

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• Spiritual worldliness kills! It kills the soul! It kills the Church!

  Pope Francis

  Spiritual, Soul, Worldliness

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• God has lots of children in the church today; I'm honestly not sure He has many friends.

  Mike Pilavachi

  Children, Church Today, Not Sure

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• The Church is not a fast food outlet. We can't always have it our way. Some day every knee shall bow and every tongue confess that Jesus is the Christ, and that salvation can only come His way.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Jesus, Knees, Way

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• I'd argue that people today aren't rejecting Christ so much as they're rejecting the church.

  Craig Groeschel

  People, Today, Arguing

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• I've always been funny. I look back in the day, when I would take the mic from my dad in church and just start goin', at age six, the first time I did it. I think 14 was when I knew I wanted to do it and promote my own comedy shows at the church. Then, everyone would come.

  Brandon T. Jackson

  Dad, Thinking, Age

  "Brandon T. Jackson Interview BIG MOMMA'S: LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON". Interview, collider.com. February 17, 2011.

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• Everything Hitler did to the Jews, all the horribly unspeakable misdeeds, had already been done to the smitten people before by the Christian churches. . . . The isolation of Jews into ghetto camps, the wearing of the yellow spot, the burning of Jewish books, and finally the burning of the people - Hitler learned it all from the church. However, the church burned Jewish women and children alive, while Hitler granted them a quicker death, choking them first with gas.

  Dagobert D. Runes

  Christian, Children, Book

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• If you want to get rid of counterfeit money, put it in the collection plate at church.

  George Carlin

  Money, Want, Plates

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