598 quotes found
“The Responsibility Of The Local Church Is To Help People Discover What They Are Created For”
“Only the church can show people how to restore their lives according to the word of God”
“The church represents the people of God who are the real power of any nation”
“The story goes that a public sinner was excommunicated and forbidden entry to the church. He took his woes to God. 'They won't let me in, Lord, because I am a sinner.''What are you complaining abou...”
“Teenagers who do not go to church are adored by God, but they don't get to meet some of the people who love God back.”
“Church should be like a dating service: tell you about His heart and then give you His contact information.”
“It's time we capture our imaginations for Christ”
“As for the general view that the Church was discredited by the Warthey might as well say that the Ark was discredited by the Flood. When the world goes wrong, it proves rather that the Church is ri...”
“I decided that in spite of my silence I would demonstrate and reproduce in reality the picture of the church that I saw inside my spirit”
“He'd gone to church for forty years and was only getting worse. It seemed like this should tell God something.”
“The Lord doesn't want anybody in His house who has to be dragged there.”
“People are not being reached in the context of the body of Christ--they're like newborn babies being left on a doorstep somewhere to feed and care for themselves.”
“Dysfunction comes when we intertwine the church and God and view them as one.”
“The whole world is a theatre for the display of the divine goodness, wisdom, justice, and power, but the Church is the orchestra, as it werethe most conspicuous part of it; and the nearer the appro...”
“An entire nation shook under the power of one mans [MLKs] dream! Now if one dream can do that for our nation, imagine what a dream can do for the Church.”
“The organist was almost at the end of the anthems long introduction, and as the crescendo increases the cathedral began to glitter before my eyes until I felt as if every stone in the building was ...”
“In big ways and small, I knew exactly how selfish a war could make me, and I saw all around me how fear and need drove other people to terrible betrayals. Yet over and over, I also saw how war crea...”
“The operation of the Church is entirely set up for the sinner; which creates much misunderstanding among the smug.(August 9, 1955)”
“The Church should be more concerned about the hearts of the lost rather than the comforts of the saved.”
“The holiest place on Earth, is not a temple or a church, but our relationship to one another.”
