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If you can explain what is happening in a church, apart from the sovereign act of God, it is not revival.

If you cannot find Christ in the beggar at the church door, you will not find Him in the chalice.

If you choose to be obedient to God, God meets you with divine enablement.

If you claim to be a follower of Christ, I encourage you to consider your present commitment to a local church.

If you don't want to have gay weddings in Mormon churches, that's fine. That's absolutely up to the members of the faith or the leadership of the faith. I would never suggest that the Mormon Church has to consecrate gay unions. But homosexuality runs at a fairly constant rate through all populations. There are many gay Mormons.

If you find a perfect church don't join it: You'd spoil it.

If you have an offense against me, do you know you can't repent of my sin? You can only plead your own personal pardon at the throne of God.

If you have to give a carnival to get people to come to church, then you will have to keep giving carnivals to keep them coming back.

If you limit worship to where you are, the minute you leave that place of worship you will leave your attitude of worship behind like a crumpled-up church bulletin.

If you look around, you can find a face of God in each thing, because He is not hidden in a church, in a mosque, or a synagogue, but everywhere. As there is no one who lives after seeing him, there is also no one dying after seeing him. Who finds Him, stays forever with him.

If you love god, burn a church.

If you miss someone too much you turn into them... though it doesn't seem to work for the Christian Church.

If your church isn't winning souls, I hope you go out of business

If your church conveys that spirit of condescension or judgment, it's likely not a place where grace is on tap.

If your church loves the way you do church more than your children, it loves the wrong thing.

If you really look at the numbers at the entertainment industry, in comparison to the small number of Scientologists that are celebrities, the number wouldn't even register. I think Scientology has done an amazing job convincing people that there is a great number of celebrities in the "Church.

If you're a preacher's kid, you see the church differently.

If you're consumed with God's life, if you share his love with others, if you practice it each day, you too can start a revolution of love in your own home, in your own church, in your own neighborhood.

If you're going to say you're Catholic, you inform your conscience so that you're activities will conform to what God is telling us through the Church. If God is telling you something outside of that, well, the Church will look at that and say: we think it is true or we don't think it is true. The Church might say: that might be true for you but it has no public normative value.

If you're not remarkable, you're invisible.

If your songs connect with the fans and they pump their fists in the air and go "Yeah!!" that's when a song really works. That's the electric church of it. The glory hallelujah of it.

If you say that the history of the Church is a long succession of scandals, you are telling the truth, though if that is all you say, you are distorting the truth.

If you simply take the name of Christ upon you and call yourself His servant, yet do not obey Him, but follow your own whim, or your own hereditary prejudice, or the custom of some erroneous church-you are no servant of Christ. If you really are a servant of Christ, your first duty is to obey Him.

If you want to get healthy, you just might not want to go to a doctor. You might instead, go to church.

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

If you want to put on a suit and come to church, fine. But it's a problem when you make people feel like, if you don't do this, you're not going to be accepted and God doesn't look at that.

If you want to get rich with a tax free enterprise that sells nothing, start a church.

If you would rather pick a fight than solve a problem, do not consider leading the church

If you will accept every call that comes to you within the Church, you will grow in a remarkable and marvelous and wonderful way. With responsibility comes growth, and the Lord will magnify you and make you equal to every responsibility which is given you.

If you want to warm a church, put a stove in the pulpit.

I got kicked out of my church and lost all of my friends, but I realized that I had to obey God and not man.

I go farther, and say, that it is plainly our duty to desire pastors and teachers to take the care of such congregations, and that God did raise up such in the church as we see it in the word.

I go to church as an expression of my need for God and for God's family.

I go to church every Sunday. I've always been a believer. I love singing. I don't have the best voice - I just love getting my emotions out.

I go to church because I am a skeptic in regard to my own skepticism.

I go to St. Matthews in Pacific Palisades, an Episcopal Church.

I get asked a lot why Apple's customers are so loyal. It's not because they belong to the Church of Mac! That's ridiculous.

I got divorced, which was not a good thing for a revivalist minister. It did not go down well. I'd already been banned from a couple churches for my jokes. So one day I woke up and decided it was time to start living for myself.

I gotta say, the Catholic Church has churned out a lot of great artists and directors and actors, so if that's all they do, that's fine by me. If they're good at churning out tortured artists, that's great!

I go to church every Sunday, which is like going to the gas station once a week and really, really filling up.

I grew up going to a real small missionary baptist church. We would sing a lot of the old standards... the hymns and everything. Those songs are still my favorite and are pretty timeless.

I grew up a Catholic and I dont want to talk badly about the Catholic Church but theres a lot of routine stuff going on. You say the same prayers, you sit, you kneel, whatever.

I grew up going to church three times a week in my family. It's been a center of my life.

I grew up in a church-going family, a very sort of ordinary, middle-of-the-road Anglican family where nobody really talked about personal Christian experience. It was just sort of assumed like an awful lot of things in the 1950's were just sort of taken for granted.

I grew up in San Francisco in the 1970s. We were part of a church that belonged to the California Jesus movement.

I grew up in newsrooms. I've been in newsrooms since I was 17 years old. Journalism has been like my church; it's been like my identity.

I grew up in a suburb of Baltimore with an extremely high concentration of Jewish families - where the Levys and Cohens in the high school yearbook went on for pages, where I could count far more temples than I ever could churches. Anti-Semitism, in our cultural biodome, was mostly an abstract concept.

I grew up in church and it's always been important to me. I've always had a sense of calling to do life and faith-affirming media.

I grew up in the church, and I feel very strongly about it.

I grew up in the Methodist church and taught Sunday school, and one of my favorite passages of scripture is, 'in as much as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.'' Matthew 25:40.