Church Quotes

Some women have been faking orgasms for so long that they sometimes fake one when they are masturbating.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Some women do not masturbate for pleasure, they masturbate to make a political statement: to remind us that women do not really need men (or at least not as much and as frequently as every single male chauvinist and every single misogynist believes).

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

A man cannot really be called (sexually) confident if he has never bought his woman a vibrator.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Most if not all sexually active people do not really love having sex, they merely love experiencing an orgasm every now and then.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Some men do not know the father of 'their' children.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The primary goal of a righteous parent who has a daughter is to minimize the number of boys and men for whom their daughter will have willingly opened her legs come her wedding day; the closer to zero, the more righteous they will seem.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Some people are so sexually unattractive that the thought of masturbating turns them off.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Coco Chanel is said to have said that a girl should be two things: who and what she is. I say a girl should do two things: what and who she wants.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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 regarded it as vitally necessary.

~ Wilhelm Reich

There’s no stronger bulwark of sound conservatism than the evangelical church, and no better place to make friends who’ll help you to gain your rightful place in the community than in your own church-home!

~ Sinclair Lewis

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

~ J.adam Snyder

That which makes the church radical and forever new is not that the church tends to lean toward the left on most social issues, but rather that the church knows Jesus whereas the world does not. In the church's view, the political left is not noticeably more interesting than the political right; both sides tend towards solutions that act as if the world has not ended and begun in Jesus.

~ Stanley Hauerwas

Again, as I had often met it in my own church, I was confronted with the Impurity of Women doctrine that seemed to preoccupy all clergymen.

~ Harper Lee

Officially, the New Testament church at an early stage took seriously their responsibility for widows who lacked family or other resources. The office of deacon was instituted initially to address this pressing need.

~ Carolyn Custis James

Much of what we accomplish in the church is due to the selfless service of women.

~ Quentin L. Cook

Don’t ever forget you are beautiful, although your life, your past and your present situation may be ugly. You are beautiful.

~ Ricky Maye

Change is inevitable. Progression is a choice. We all move, but are you going to move forward?

~ Ricky Maye

If you do not cultivate your life's environment, you will not captivate the worlds enlightenment.

~ Ricky Maye

Ninety-nine percent of everything that goes on in most Christian churches has nothing whatsoever to do with the actual religion. Intelligent people all notice this sooner or later, and they conclude that the entire one hundred percent is bullshit, which is why atheism is connected with being intelligent in people's minds.

~ Neal Stephenson

The church exists primarily for two closely correlated purposes: to worship God and to work for his kingdom in the world ... The church also exists for a third purpose, which serves the other two: to encourage one another, to build one another up in faith, to pray with and for one another, to learn from one another and teach one another, and to set one another examples to follow, challenges to take up, and urgent tasks to perform. This is all part of what is known loosely as fellowship.

~ N.t. Wright

Our greatest fear as individuals & as a church should not be of failure, but of suceeding at things in life that dont really matter.

~ Francis Chan

A good church is a Bible-centered church. Nothing is as important as this--not a large congregation, a witty pastor, or tangible experiences of the Holy Spirit.

~ Alistair Begg

The spirit of Christ is the spirit of missions. The nearer we get to Him, the more intensely missionary we become.

~ Henry Martyn

What is to be gained if we are so intent in reaching out to the unchurched that we then unchurch the reached?

~ David F. Wells

The church is constituted as a new people who have been gathered from the nations to remind the world that we are in fact one people. Gathering, therefore, is an eschatological act as it is the foretaste of the unity of the communion of the saints.

~ Stanley Hauerwas

Let us not forget: we are a pilgrim church, subject to misunderstanding, to persecution, but a church that walks serene, because it bears the force of love.

~ Oscar A. Romero

The institutions of Churchianity are not Christianity. An institution is a good thing if it is second, immediately an institution recognizes itself it becomes the dominating factor.

~ Oswald Chambers

There are wolves within, and there are sheep without.

~ Augustine Of Hippo

Get plugged in at your church. Find a way to invest yourself. Let's change the church's problem from 'Where do we find the help we need?' to 'What do we do with all the help we have?' The revolution begins now, and it starts with you.

~ Tyler Edwards

Church is too often the most risky place to be spiritually honest.

~ Peter Enns

For Christians to influence the world with the truth of God's Word requires the recovery of the great Reformation doctrine of vocation. Christians are called to God's service not only in church professions but also in every secular calling. The task of restoring truth to the culture depends largely on our laypeople.To bring back truth, on a practical level, the church must encourage Christians to be not merely consumers of culture but makers of culture. The church needs to cultivate Christian artists, musicians, novelists, filmmakers, journalists, attorneys, teachers, scientists, business executives, and the like, teaching its laypeople the sense in which every secular vocation-including, above all, the callings of husband, wife, and parent--is a sphere of Christian ministry, a way of serving God and neighbor that is grounded in God's truth. Christian laypeople must be encouraged to be leaders in their fields, rather than eager-to-please followers, working from the assumptions of their biblical worldview, not the vapid clichés of pop culture.

~ J. Gresham Machen

If you cannot see that divinity includes male and female characteristics and at the same time transcends them, you have bad consequences. Rome and Cardinal O'Connor base the exclusion of women priests on the idea that God is the Father and Jesus is His Son, there were only male disciples, etc. They are defending a patriarchal Church with a patriarchal God. We must fight the patriarchal misunderstanding of God.

~ Hans Küng

Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles, expressions of the Holy Spirit’s power, evangelism to seekers, or Bible teaching, these so-called new movements still operate out of the fallacious assumption that the church belongs firmly in the town square, that is, at the heart of Western culture. And if they begin with this mistaken belief about their position in Western society, all their church planting, all their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension.

~ Alan Hirsch

For better of for worse the church in the West bought modernity's claims. We were baptized in its story (even though it said it did not have one) and accepted its categories and definitions. But somewhere along the way we also began to believe that the ways in which we accessed knowledge about God or Jesus or the Spirit or Christianity were those things themselves.

~ Tim Keel

True worship leaders worship the Lord at all times and use songs only when necessary.

~ Gangai Victor

As a newborn baby breathes and cries, so the signs of life in a newborn Christian are faith and repentance, inhaling the love of God and exhaling an initial cry of distress. And at that point what God provides, exactly as for a newborn infant, is the comfort, protection, and nurturing promise of a mother.If God is our father, the church is our mother. The words are those of the Swiss Reformer John Calvin ... it is as impossible, unnecessary, and undesirable to be a Christian all by yourself as it is to be a newborn baby all by yourself.

~ N.t. Wright

There is no indication that any church official suggested or supported the emperor's action against gay people. On the contrary, the only persons known by name to have been punished for homosexual acts were prominent bishops.

~ John Boswell

For centuries after Christ, the church and other religions that use cruciform symbols have misrepresented the physical nature of Christ's death with a satanic symbol (cross), and a pagan idol (corpus). This secret has been concealed by the church for centuries after Christ.

~ Nwaocha Ogechukwu

Don't just cry over your 10 or 20 member church. Sometimes, God gives you your future first. The ones you call little carry in them every possibility you desire of the future. God would send you leaders but they may come as weak men and women first. Don't be so 'gift' conscious that you fail to realize that certain things are results of growth.

~ Kingsley Opuwari Manuel

The faithful have no dread of using the traditional language of the church. Terms like incarnation and resurrection need to be explained, not avoided.

~ Thomas C. Oden