598 quotes found
“According to the historian William H. McNeil, European churches did not have pews until sometime in the eighteenth century. People stood or milled around, creating a very different dynamic than we ...”
“Church may be primarily for believers, but the gospel is for all people.”
“Christ is pre-requisite for "Church".”
“Church comforts the lonely, those who've lost, those who grieve. It is a weekly ritual that never changes, never goes away. You can go to mass anywhere around the world -- Waseca, North Dakota, Pol...”
“Beauty salons, like churches, are places where people tend to unburden themselves and bare their souls.”
“Our ministry should be an overflowing of our lives, an overflowing of our walk with Jesus Christ! We arent our ministry, its an byproduct of our relationship with Jesus Christ!”
“Here is where most preachers make their mistake. They are afraid that by preaching the gospel too clearly, it will be their fault if people lapse into sin. They imagine that the gospel is food for ...”
“The holy stone looked for all the world like a small iron pineapple, its surface divided into squares by deep grooves, a tarnished silver-steel handle or lever held tight to the side. In ancient ti...”
“The Church has no reason to exist except for the advancement of His Kingdom into areasit has never been before!”
“One can be an orthodox Church in every way: great structure, good theology, excellent sermons and teaching, lots of giving; but if the Great commission is not taught and obeyed, it is a heretical c...”
“Lenin held that religion was a simply product of social oppression and economic exploitation. 'The social oppression of toiling masses, their apparent complete helplessness before the blind forces ...”
“Most people that I know who go to church actually go there to twist the arms of God so that he can get all the discomfort away from them.”
“The secret of real prosperity in the church is to teach Gods people principles of economic empowerment”
“If colleges are going to justify themselves, they are going to have to thrive at those things that require physical proximity. That includes moral and spiritual development. Very few of us cultivat...”
“But wait ooo ....Alcohol(Outings & Fashion), Women/Men, Money, Thats all about it.you call this fun ? These don't satisfy ME and you both know how you feel when you are alone. IT STINKSJESUS SATISF...”
“I recommend getting yourself out from under any ministry that PREACHES LAW or a MIXTURE OF LAW AND GRACE, and instead listening to or reading anything you can find to reinforce the GRACE MESSAGE.”
“However grand our sacramental downsittings and updressings may be, they remain only and precisely sacraments: real presences, under particular signs, of the happier order that faith can discover un...”
“Spirituality is more about whether or not we can sleep at night than about whether or not we go to church. It is about being integrated or falling apart, about being within community or being lonel...”
“We have come to love darkness in the church rather than finding God in creation.”
“Money does not go only to those who go to church, it goes to those who know and comply with the laws of money”
