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The Christian church does not ask the U. S. Supreme Court, or any other human court, what marriage is. Marriage is a pre-political institution defined by our Creator - for His glory and for human flourishing.

The Christian church is an encyclopedia of prehistoric cults.

The Christian church was born in song.

The Christian Church does not exist in Heaven, but on earth and in time.

The Christian marginality of women has its roots in the patriarchal beginnings of the church and in the androcentrism of Christian revelation.

The church always arrives on the scene a little breathless and a little late.

The church as a whole has strayed quite far from biblical evangelism; that is, sharing the Gospel in the way that Jesus did, the way the Apostle Paul did, and the rest of the disciples and prophets in Scripture.

The Church at its best is about empowering the disempowered and giving voice to the dispossessed and not putting a price on everything and not being about the bottom line and not worshipping the market or everything that is material.

The Church became both more accessible and less imposing. It threw itself open to risk.

The Church does not pretend to be scientists. It teaches based upon what science tells it.

The churches have no confidence in each other. Why? Because they are acquainted with each other.

The churches must realize that when they take a position on a political event that they must accept the rules of the game.

The churches that are most obviously democratic are most obviously given to race prejudice. I mean the churches that have absolute congregational control.

The Church exists by mission, just as a fire exists by burning. Where there is no mission there is no Church; and where there is neither Church nor mission, there is no faith.

The Church had the words reason and liberty on her lips when the inalienable rights of the human race were threatened with shipwreck.

The church has been planted as a paradise in this world.

The Church in England is the Church of England.

The Church is always in trouble because the Church walks into the trouble in which mankind is trying to resolve itself. There are a lot of areas that need to be addressed. If we were perfect we wouldn't be the Church. I think it's the imperfections that allow people to trust that you're working (toward) something.

The church is a sort of hospital for men's souls and as full of quackery as the hospital for their bodies.

The Church is built on the rock of Peter, and he who eats the Lamb outside this holy dwelling is reprobate .. .He who eats the Lamb outside this Apostolic See has no part with God!

The church is challenging such negative cultural elements as superstition, rugged individualism, materialism, hedonism, permissiveness and utilitarianism.

The church is never a place to show off. Do your good deeds quietly. Serve; don't seek to be seen

The Christian church has left nothing untouched by its depravity; it has turned every value into worthlessness, and every truth into a lie

The Christian church is a society of sinners. It is the only society in the world membership in which is based upon the single qualification that the candidate shall be unworthy of membership.

The church alone beyond all question Has for ill-gotten goods the right digestion.

The church arises only from the gospel. And a distorted church usually coincides with a distorted gospel.

The church becomes irrelevant when it becomes purely a human creation. We are not all we were made to be when everything in our lives and churches can be explained apart from the work and presence of the Spirit of God.

The Church cannot be content to live in its stained-glass house and throw stones through the picture window of modern culture.

The church converteth the whole world by blood and prayer.

The church didn't know what to do with Ray Charles or Al Green. And so they were kind of ostracized.

The church does not simply have a missions department; it should wholly exist to be a mission.

The church doesn’t have a social strategy, the church is a social strategy.

The Church, during the apostolic age, did not consist of isolated, independent congregations, but was one body, of which the separate churches were constituent members, each subject to all the rest, or to an authority which extended over all.

The Church exists to connect people at the level of their hunger for a new world.

The church had to find a way to protect Jesus' perfection so that he could do the work of salvation which, in their frame of reference, only God could do, because God had to come into this world from outside this world to rescue the fallen creation.

The Church, however, is a self-governing society, distinct from the State, having its officers and laws, and, therefore, an administrative government of its own.

The Church [in the 14th century] gave ceremony and dignity to lives that had little of either. It was the source of beauty and art to which all had some access and which many helped to create.

The Church is a family expecting guests.

The church is always to be under the Word; she must be; we must keep her there. You must not assume that because the church started correctly, she will continue so. She did not do so in the New Testament times; she has not done so since. Without being constantly reformed by the Word the church becomes something very different.

The Church is a perpetual construction site.

The Church is a terrible engine of oppression, especially as concerns woman

The Church is called to draw near to every person, beginning with the poorest and those who suffer.

The church is in Christ, as Eve was in Adam.

The church is like a swimming pool. Most of the noise comes from the shallow end.

The church is no more religion than the masonry of the aqueduct is the water that flows through it.

The Church is not an association that wishes to promote a certain cause. It is not about a cause. It is about the person of Jesus Christ.

The church is not an institution forcing us to follow rules but a community inviting us to still our hunger and thirst at its table.

The church is not built on the rock foundation of geniuses and influencers but of apostles and prophets.

The church is only a secular institution in which the half-educated speak to the half-converted.

The Church is the Body of Christ, and the Spirit is the Spirit of Christ. He fills the Body, directs its movements, controls its members, inspires its wisdom, supplies it's strength. He guides into truth, sanctifies its agents, and empowers for witnessing. The Spirit has never abdicated His authority nor relegated His power.