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

Education is not a function of any church or even of a city or a state; it is a function of all mankind.

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

Empires and churches are born under the sun of death.

Enforced religion breeds precisely what it most fears: rebellion against religion, cynicism about religion, skepticism about its claims, and, as a consequence, indifference at best or outright antipathy at worst.

Enthusiasm is as good a thing in the Church as fire is in a cook stove.

Episcopalians have always preferred the flying buttress to the pillar of the church.

Ephesians 3:20 says that God is able to do "exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think." And I'm praying that Ephesians 3:20 will be fulfilled-in my life personally, and also in the church.

Evangelism and the local church are inseparable. It's like the Good Samaritan seeking an inn for the one he rescued.

Evangelization is a process of bringing the gospel to people where they are, not where you would like them to be. When the gospel reaches a people where they are, their response to the gospel is the church in a new place.

European Christianity has allowed itself to be intimately united with the powers of this world. Now that these powers are falling, it is as if it were buried under their ruins.

Evangelization does not consist in proselytizing, for proselytizing is a caricature of evangelization, but rather evangelizing entails attracting by our witness those who are far off, it means humbly drawing near to those who feel distant from God in the Church, drawing near to those who feel judged and condemned outright by those who consider themselves to be perfect and pure.

Evangelical churches are weaker than we realize because we dont teach the confessions and doctrine.

Evangelism was not a program in the Jerusalem church; it was a way of life. The believers' lives and behaviors created such favor with the population of Jerusalem that people we drawn to the Lord.

Even from when I was in grade school or church or wherever, I was always like: we're one, and we should respect each other and grow as one. And respect each other's diversity, of course.

Even if all we have is a little, the Lord desires us to be joyfully generous, so that He will have for His church an abundance for every good work. Let us not be selfish or deceived by money. In a real sense, money is not a blessing; it's a test.

Even if I know I'm going to go to a church, I don't know what the minister's going to say.

Even in earliest youth my fondest desire was to understand Nature, and thus to come closer to the truth; a truth that I was unable to discover either at school or in church.

Even in my own church I heard the words, 'Francis Chan' more than I heard the words, 'Holy Spirit.'

Even Martin Luther and John Calvin believed that the Roman Catholic church, up to the Council of Trent, was basically orthodox - a true church with sound fundamental doctrines as well as significant error.

Even more than in the concert hall, in church there are things you can and cannot do, just out of respect. You would never have the sound of someone being nailed to a cross, or the sound of a child being born, because everybody knows the story. We know that we're meant to feel a complicated raft of things.

Even when we were standing in church and I was getting ready to take my vow I can remember wishing that you were standing there instead of him.

Every act of reverence, every genuflection that you make before the Blessed Sacrament is important because it is an act of faith in Christ, and act of love for Christ. And every sign of the cross and gesture of respect made each time you pass a church is also an act of faith.

Every American has the right to feel safe in their schools, in their churches, in their movie theaters, and in their nightclubs.

Every art is a church without communicants, presided over by a parish of the respectable. An artist is born kneeling; he fights to stand. A critic, by nature of the judgment seat, is born sitting.

Every anti-gay remark from the Church gives the thug a license to be cruel.

Every believer is commanded to be plugged in to a local church.

Everybody takes what they life from the teachings of the church, and ignores the parts that don't suit them.

Every day Catholics prove that you can be a good Catholic and a good Democrat and have a different position from the Church on abortion.

Everybody is called to become a saint. Not everybody's gonna be canonized by the Church...The only thing about being canonized is you're already dead so you don't even get to go to the party.

Every Christian church has tried to impose a code of morals of some kind for which it has claimed divine sanction. As these codes have always been opposed to those of the gospels a loophole has been left for moral progress such as hardly exists in other religions.

Every church needs to be able to answer two questions. First, what is our plan for making disciples? And second, does our plan work?

Every church is a stone on the grave of a god-man: it does not want him to rise up again under any circumstances.

Every church needs to grow warmer through fellowship, deeper through discipleship, stronger through through worship, and larger through evangelism.

Every church that has a standard higher than human welfare is dangerous.

Every Christian family ought to be as it were a little church.

Every church is flawed. Still, you'd better learn to love it since it's the only group Jesus said he's taking to Heaven.

Every European goes on the streets and sees medieval churches. Not if you live in Indianapolis. The most exciting letters I received were from people in places like that.

Every once in a while I check and I say, do I still believe in God? And the answer is absolutely yes. And then I think, I suppose I should go to church now. But after going to so many churches in my life and trying to go with the flow with so many denominations, Eastern and Western, I don't really feel I need to go to church at all.

Every local church has a leader but it seems so few local churches are being led.

Every member of our Church is a missionary. Without the formality of a setting-apart we should be so set-apart from the ways of the world that we can teach the gospel, which is our Father's way of life, by the very lives we live.

Every time I'm in the woods, i feel like I'm in church.

Everyone in the United States is so intense about maintaining a separation between Church and State when the real concern should be about keeping a separation between Corporations and State--because in America (and most of the rest of the Western World, for that matter) economics is the real religion.

Every one who has a heart, however ignorant of architecture he may be, feels the transcendent beauty and poetry of the mediaeval churches.

Everything we see in a Catholic church is there for a single purpose: to tell a love story.

Every time you walk a mile to church and carry a Bible with you, you preach a sermon a mile long.

Exporting Church employees to Latin America masks a universal and unconscious fear of a new Church. North and South American authorities, differently motivated but equally fearful, become accomplices in maintaining a clerical and irrelevant Church. Sacralizing employees and property, this Church becomes progressively more blind to the possibilities of Sacralizing person and community.

Expand within your church. Expand within the people you have contact. Bring them up to speed in knowledge on what’s going on.

Exsanguinated," said Jace, impressed. "That's a big word." "And you're a big-" "Tsk tsk," he interrupted. "No swearing in church.

Faith cannot be inherited or gained by being baptized into a Church. Faith is a matter between the individual and God.