Top Church Quotes

Let me speak plainly: The United States of America is and must remain a nation of openness to people of all beliefs. Our very unity has been strengthened by this pluralism. That's how we began; this i...

Your trials equal the power of God that works in you. If your battles are intense, then what God has deposited in you is deep.

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.

I was once reproved by a minister who was driving a poor beast to some meeting-house horse-sheds among the hills of New Hampshire, because I was bending my steps to a mountain-top on the Sabbath, inst...

Contemporary Christian church would normally think that things are impossible

Whose little boy are you?

[As a young man ] I came to the conclusion that the church was just a bunch of fascists that supported Franco. I stopped going on Sunday mornings and watched the birds with my father instead.

Cream always rises to the top...so do good leaders".

Part time christian cannot defeat a full time devil

However it—or the kind of extreme individualistic epistemology it embraces—can lead historians to an overly skeptical approach particularly to those sources that were intended to recount and inform ev...

The church must become a breeding ground for deliverers

Our government needs the church, because only those humble enough to admit they're sinners can bring democracy the tolerance it requires to survive

God designed the church to facilitate the increase of his kingdom

Going to the extreme of inviting and welcoming people into your church in order to hear you condemn them or to know from your policy that you condemn them is not much better than bullying.

God allows problem to come so that the church can discover and declare Her position

If God really valued loyalty, He would have blessed every single believer before He even considered blessing a single nonbeliever.

Another purpose for speaking in tongues is the edification of the church.

The fact that political ideologies are tangible realities is not a proof of their vitally necessary character. The bubonic plague was an extraordinarily powerful social reality, but no one would have...

No books is more fascinating than the Bible. And no books are less fascinating than most of our commentaries on the Bible. Nothing is more formidable and unconquerable than the Church Militant. But no...

Mankind will never know peace until the last politician is strangled to death with the entrails of the last priest.

Did those nice church ladies come by again? He nodded. I asked them if a man died and then the woman remarried, and then the three of them met in heaven, would it be a sin for them to have a threesome...