598 quotes found
“I sometimes wonder if God calls us into the church because it represents not the people of God at their best but us at our worst. I wonder if he calls us to become embedded in this wretched institu...”
“Spiritual maturity is not defined by how well one applies Biblical principles to suppress sin.”
“Whatever your problems may be, they pale in insignificance in the light of eternity. No matter how great your failures, God's grace is greater still. Lift up your heart and face life head-on.”
“The first obligation for every church is to teach their members the value of hard work.”
“The Church is not called to overthrow government but to influence culture.”
“It is not the balance in your check book that makes life count. It is the investment one makes in the lives of others.”
“Love is a heart smile.”
“God love's in the dark.”
“The burden of sin leads you to the need for a Savior.”
“Fear not, brothers and sisters, God, who is full of grace and abounding in steadfast love, meets us in our sin and transforms us for God's glory and the healing of God's world. In the name of the F...”
“We have taught this generation how to "market" the Gospel but we have neglected to encourage them to "preach" the Gospel.”
“The church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.”
“But pity there was none. For all his old age, and his one arm, and his blind eyes, he must die the death and be murdered, in order to light the gay bridals and other merry-makings of men, and also ...”
“For a Christian to be a Christian, he must first be a sinner. Being a sinner is a prerequisite for being a church member. The Christian church is one of the few organizations in the world that requ...”
“Reproof is unavoidable. Gods Word demands it when a brother falls into open sin. The practice of discipline in the congregation begins in the smallest circles. Where defection from Gods Word in doc...”
“With so much effort being poured into church growth, so much press being given to the benefits of faith, and so much flexing of religious muscle in the public square, the poor in spirit have no one...”
“We need to let ourselves be evangelized by the poor. They have much to teach us.”
“Confession is a difficult discipline for us, because we all too often view the believing community as a fellowship of saints before we see it as a fellowship of sinners. We feel that everyone else ...”
“The church is strong when she lives by divine understanding.”
“Unless we learn how to humbly tell each other our giving stories, our churches will not learn to give.”
