Church Quotes - page 54

The modern attempt to reduce Jesus to the level of political reformer, and the church to the same level, is a denial of Christ's true Kingship. (Rousas John Rushdoony)
The church today has fallen prey to the heresy of democracy. View quote
Rousas John Rushdoony
Pope Francis is not only changing the face of the Catholic Church, he's challenging us to be the face of God in the world by seeing the face of God in the person we least expect to see it, including the person in the mirror. View quote
Regina Brett
Hierarchy, as in the Catholic Church, has to do with power, and vertical attention has to do with longing. View quote
Robert Bly
I was called to start a mission, not a church. There is a difference. View quote
Robert H. Schuller
My family and I would never receive royalties on the revenue that my materials brought into the church; materials that were created on our own personal time. View quote
Robert H. Schuller
The Roman Catholic Church isn't going to change its theologies. View quote
Robert H. Schuller
We all know that a church is not a building. View quote
Robert H. Schuller
My ambition is to give Oakland's cathedral a universal character independent of the Catholic Church. View quote
Santiago Calatrava
The true church is too different for the world to tolerate it. View quote
Sinclair B. Ferguson
We are far too good at analyzing what is wrong with the culture and far too myopic at analyzing what is wrong in the church. (Sinclair B. Ferguson)
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. View quote
Sinclair B. Ferguson
Hollywood is run by people who sit up in their executive office, who are not connected to Mississippi, Alabama, Chicago, South Carolina. They know nothing about that, they don't go to church, and they make their decisions about what they think is right. View quote
Steve Harvey
My mother raised me in the church. I was not allowed to stay home on Sunday; there was no option. I sang in the choir all the way up until I went to college. View quote
Steve Harvey
It felt good, the whole family together on a sunny morning in a wholesome environment. If it hadn't been for the warshiping God part, he would have happily attended church on a regular basis. View quote
Tom Perrotta
You are free to reject God. Make sure that you're really rejecting God, not some caricature of God that the church has shown you. But I, one, respect a God who not only allows us to reject Him but includes the arguments we can use against Him in the Bible. I respect that. View quote
Philip Yancey
I go to church as an expression of my need for God and for God's family. View quote
Philip Yancey
The church is, above all, a place to receive grace: it brings forgiven people together with the aim of equipping us to dispense grace to others. View quote
Philip Yancey
We admit that we will never reach our ideal in this life, a distinctive the church claims that most other human institutions try to deny. View quote
Philip Yancey
[...]women much like this prostitute fled toward Jesus, not away from him. The worse a person felt about herself, the more likely she saw Jesus as a refuge. Has the church lost that gift? View quote
Philip Yancey
Our best efforts at changing society will fall short unless the church can teach the world how to love. (Philip Yancey)
Democrats don't want to hear about your church. If they really cared, they'd be Republicans. View quote
Frank Luntz
I had been raised in the church, but I wasn't a Christian. I had a lot of head knowledge but no heart knowledge. View quote
Francine Rivers
I just find the evangelical church too, well, restrictive. But the School of Practical Philosophy is non-confrontational. We believe there are many forms of scripture. What is true is true and will never change, whether it's in the Bible or in Shakespeare. It's about oneness. View quote
Hugh Jackman
The law of attraction will certainly and unerringly bring to you the conditions, environment and experiences in life, corresponding with your habitual, characteristic, predominant mental attitude. Not what you think about once in a while when you are in church, or have just read a good book, BUT your predominant mental attitude is what counts. View quote
Charles F. Haanel