Top Church Quotes

Why are those who are notoriously undisciplined and unmoral also most contemptuous of religion and morality? They are trying to solace their own unhappy lives by pulling the happy down to their own ab...

Unless a person can give reasons, there is, literally, no reason why anyone else should take that person seriously. But without reasons, all we are left with is emotional blackmail. We sometimes call...

Church Definition

(n.) A building set apart for Christian worship.

(n.) A Jewish or heathen temple.

(n.) A formally organized body of Christian believers worshiping together.

(n.) A body of Christian believers, holding the same creed, observing the same rites, and acknowledging the same ecclesiastical authority; a denomination; as, the Roman Catholic church; the Presbyterian church.

(n.) The collective body of Christians.

(n.) Any body of worshipers; as, the Jewish church; the church of Brahm.

(n.) The aggregate of religious influences in a community; ecclesiastical influence, authority, etc.; as, to array the power of the church against some moral evil.

(v. t.) To bless according to a prescribed form, or to unite with in publicly returning thanks in church, as after deliverance from the dangers of childbirth; as, the churching of women.

It is wrong to say that schoolmasters lack heart and are dried-up, soulless pedants! No, by no means. When a child's talent which he has sought to kindle suddenly bursts forth, when the boy puts aside...

Our church has been legal since late 1960s. I've been involved since 1972. I was ordained in 1975.

Evangelism is more about being than being perfect.

For church buildings not to be enough is to build and equip church members to send them out

Get to Christ somehow, anyhow, for if you get to him you shall live. It is not the greatness nor the perfection of your faith, it is his greatness and his perfection which is to be depended on.

Roman Catholicism is a broken and utterly desperate thing, capable only of malignant mischief in our awakening world.

People who say we are just preaching "extreme grace" must not understand how extremely gracious our Father is.

It is time to change the paradigm of the church and of every Christian

It is interesting that Jesus encounters a person, personally, forgives him, transforms him adds Him into the Church - the Body of Christ, However today, Church is getting the other way around, she is...

A friend of mine commented yesterday that she has experienced similar insights that I talked about that all enlightened Masters and founders of religion are actually talking about the same ocean, the...

The temple is a place of beauty, it is a place of revelation, it is a place of peace. It is the house of the Lord. It is holy unto the Lord. It should be holy unto us.

If your ministry can't work without you, then it is no longer Christ-centered. Minister toward Jesus, not yourself.

God has a plan for your life and so does the devil. Whose plan will you choose to live out?

The husband is the head of the wife just in so far as he is to her what Christ is to the Church - read on - and give his life for her (Eph. V, 25). This headship, then, is most fully embodied not in t...

The destiny of your land is in the hands of the church and her willingness to declare the position of God in the society

If fishing is a religion, fly fishing is high church.

If any of you should ask me for an epitome of the Christian religion, I should say it is in that one word—prayer.

Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.