Best 3954 quotes in «church quotes» category

Dear Mother, dear Mother, the Church is cold, But the Ale-house is healthy and pleasant and warm.

Dear Sugar will save your soul. I belong to the Church of Sugar.

Dear young people, the Church expects great things of you and your generosity. Don’t be afraid to aim high.

Declare church and state forever separate and distinct; but each free within their proper spheres.

Defend the church. Defend the family. Defend the non-profit community. Defend them against a government that wants to weaken them.

Definitely I'm convinced that behind my case there is a trial of the church.

... demanding a separation between church and state isn't enough; the churches' basic doctrines must be changed, with homophobia written out forever.

Depend upon it, as long as the church is living so much like the world, we cannot expect our children to be brought into the fold.

Depend upon it, since Satan could not kill the church by roaring at her like a lion, he is now trying to crush her by hugging her like a bear.

Depressions may bring people closer to the church but so do funerals.

Destruction of the churches and the like is not the way to Swaraj as defined by the Congress.

Devotion to the family and devotion to the Church are not different and separate things.

Did something happen to the sanctity of your church again?" My eye twitched. "Newt broke it so she could look in my closet." Again.

Does the church have all kinds of problems? You bet, because it's made up of people like me, so I get that part too. But all I need to know about the church is that Jesus picked her.

Dogmatics is the testing of Church doctrine and proclamation.

Doing good doesn't always make you feel good. I don't care what they tell you in church.

Donald Trump in a church getting interrupted by the pastor because he started attacking Hillary Clinton.

Donald Trump has not held an event in the black community. He has not gone to a black church, as Hillary Clinton has done.

Do not allow the Church or State to govern your thought or dictate your judgment

Do not let your deeds belie your words, lest when you speak in church someone may say to himself, "Why do you not practice what you preach?

Don’t allow the Internet to become your congregation. YouTube is a horrible place to go to church.

Don't ever come to church without coming as though it were the first time, as though it could be the best time, and as though it could be the last time.

Don`t imitate: imitation creates falsity, pseudo-ness, inauthenticity. Just feel your own way and don`t bother about what others say. It is nobody else`s business. Don`t bother about what churches say, organizations say - listen to your own heart.

Don't ever forget where God found you.

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

Don't let your church be a cul-de-sac on the Great Commission highway.

Don't jump down - folks, contraception in the Catholic Church is a thing.

Don't let anyone tell you that you cannot know the truth for yourself or that you cannot achieve yourself spiritually without being tied to a temple or church. You were not born a spiritual slave. You are the authority who distinguishes what is true and untrue, spiritual and unspiritual.

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.

Do you recall the laughter of the Philistines at the helpless Sampson? You can hear the echo of that laughter to-day, as the church, shorn of her strength by her own sin, is an object of ridicule to the world, who cry in derision, "Where is your boasted triumph and your Millennial glory?

Do what your momma tells you to do, go to sunday school, go to church, and when you die, you'll go to Statesboro.

Do you realize the weight of the one who has invited us to follow him? He is worthy of more than church attendance and casual association; he is worthy of total abandonment and supreme adoration.

Do you remember the church across the sands? You stood outside and planned to travel the lands, where the pilgrims go. So you packed your world up inside a canvas sack, set off down the highway with your rings and Kerouac. Someone said they saw you in Nepal a long time back. Tell me why you look away, don't you have a word to say?

Doubts about the fundamentals of the gospel exist in certain churches, I am told, to a large extent. My dear friends, where there is a warm-hearted church, you do not hear of them. I never saw a fly light on a red-hot plate.

Do we claim to believe in God? He's a missionary God. You tell me you're committed to Christ. He's a missionary Christ. Are you filled with the Holy Spirit? He's a missionary Spirit. Do you belong to the church? It's a missionary society. And do you hope to go to heaven when you die? It's a heaven into which the fruits of world mission have been and will be gathered.

Do what Jesus says... what he commands through his ministers who are in the Church [see 1 Cor 6:4]. Be subject to his vicars, your leaders, not only those who are gentle and kind, but even those who are overbearing [see 1 Pt 2:18].

Do you look forward to going to church, or is it something you do out of obligation?

Do you see this egg? With this you can topple every theological theory, every church or temple in the world.

During a frustrating argument with a Roman Catholic cardinal, Napoleon Bonaparte supposedly burst out: “Your eminence, are you not aware that I have the power to destroy the Catholic Church?” The cardinal, the anecdote goes, responded ruefully: “Your majesty, we, the Catholic clergy, have done our best to destroy the church for the last 1,800 years. We have not succeeded, and neither will you.”

Due to our consumer mindset, people are prone to jump from church to church, which weakens the church overall.

Economics is like a church, and it fulfills the same function the church had fulfilled for centuries: the justification of the status quo.

Each generation of the church in each setting has the responsibility of communicating the gospel in understandable terms, considering the language and thought-forms of that setting.

Early man recognised these lines of force and marked them out on the landscape with, well, any old thing, really standing stones, ditches, mounds, tumps, sacred wells, and that sort of thing. And, later on, with churches, market crosses, crossroads, and whatnot.

Education belongs pre-eminently to the church ... neutral or lay schools from which religion is excluded are contrary to the fundamental principles of education.

Educational institutes can no longer be prizes in church politics or furnish berths for failure in other walks of life.

Each individual Christian and each new age of the Church has to make this rediscovery, this return to the source of Christian life.

Each of us has to face the matter — either the Church is true, or it is a fraud. There is no middle ground. It is the Church and kingdom of God, or it is nothing.

Easter celebrations are evidence of the increased benign influence of the Russian Orthodox Church and other traditional churches in our country on society.

Eastern churches simply often try to please Muslims. Why doesn't the New York Times report this?

Either I'm listening to rap music, getting hyped up to go out and do something, or I'm listening to church music.