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“I cannot at the same time accept the glory and give God the glory... Glorifying God means being occupied with and committed to His ways rather than preoccupied with and determined my own way. It is...”
“I thought I was looking at a building at first: that it was some kind of tent, as high as a country church, made of grey and pink canvas that flapped in the gusts of storm wind, in that orange sky:...”
“Referring to the church as a building is like referring to people as two-by-fours.”
“The Church right now has more fashion than passion, is more pathetic than prophetic, is more superficial than supernatural.”
“What would have become of the people five hundred years ago if they had followed strictly the advice of the doctors? They would have all been dead. What would the people have been, if at any age of...”
“[The Lord's Supper teaches that] Rituals are good, and they are instituted and used by God to 'connect' his people with him. We learn through ritual that the church is not just made up of individua...”
“Luther had passed many a white church in his day, heard them singing their hymns and chanting their "Amens" and seen them gather on a porch or two afterward with their lemonade and piety, but he kn...”
“We are being called to a new and deeper passion: to those who live under the shadow of the cross and those most in need of compassion. Then we become mothers of God, sisters and brothers of Jesus, ...”
“Hit dont make no difference what a man perfesses. I been in a heap o churches. Theres the Nazarene Church and the Pentecost and the Holy Rollers and the Baptists and I dont know what-all. I caint s...”
“You mean the day they stop needing the church," Vittoria challenged, moving toward him. "Doubt is your last shred of control. It is doubt that brings souls to you. Our need to know that life has me...”
“It is too easy to call the church political. The nature of fallen people is political. And they happen to make up the church. So the church is innately political. This cannot be helped. But it can ...”
“Your church is a baby-house made of blocks.”
“It was Sunday morning, and old people passed me like sad grey waves on their way to church.”
“I left that church with rich and royal hatred of the priest as a person, and a loathing for the church as an institution, and I vowed that I would never go inside a church again.[Eugene V. Debs, de...”
“Now, there are things I like just fine about church, and I dont just mean making money. The notion of getting together as a community to remind ourselves why we shouldnt behave like animals is a fu...”
“I have no objection to instruments of music in our worship, provided they are neither seen nor heard.”
“The Church is going to have to recognise that secularisation is not the cause of their decline, it is the result of it.”
“We do not need them. They would hinder rather than help our praise. Sing unto him. This is the sweetest and best music. No instrument like the human voice. What a degradation to supplant the intell...”
“I am an old man, and I here declare that I never knew them to be productive of any good in the worship of God, and have reason to believe that they are productive of much evil. Music as a science I...”
“There are congregations on nearly every corner. I'm not sure we need more churches. What we need is a church. I say one church is better than fifty. I have tried to remove the plural form churches ...”
