Church Quotes

Those who criticize the innovative concept of multi-site churches must also remember that at one point stained glass and hymnals were new as well.

~ Braden Pedersen

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

~ Rev. Kellen Roggenbuck

WORSHIP IS ACTION.Worship is not lazy, boring and sad.Worship is zealous, famous and joyful.

~ Mac Canoza

Only those who do not practice sin can stand in the presence of the holy God. -I NEVER KNEW YOU

~ Mac Canoza

Resilient communities relied on informal networks of deep trust to contend with and heal disruption.

~ Andrew Zolli

In conversation we are sustained by the wisdom of those who have gone before us. We are also empowered to discern how we will face the challenges of both the present and the future. Reading is essential to this conversational way of life, as we often cannot literally converse with our forbears or with those who are following similar vocations in other places. We read as a way of listening to the wisdom of others. The conversation continues as we reply to this wisdom both internally and externally. Internally, we reply as we grapple to make sense of this wisdom in our own context. Externally, we reply to our reading as we discuss it with our church or work community.

~ C. Christopher Smith

churchgoing is not synonymous with personal spirituality. There are some people who get so busy in church worship and projects that they become insensitive to the pressing human needs that sourround them, contradicting the very precepts they profess to believe deeply.

~ Stephen R. Covey

Your body is temple of the holy spirit.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

She was going to be okay. I knew she was. She had forever changed my life and I had changed hers. I had heard a soldier once speak of the camaraderie men who fight in battle have with each other. I felt that way with Bathsheba now. She was more than just a name in my Bible, and we’d become more than just friends.

~ Anna Aquino

Holiness is as much about what you do on a Monday morning on the factory floor as it is about what you do on a Sunday morning in a church gathering. Holiness is as much about the kind of neighbour you are as it is about the kind of church member you are. It is as much about who you are when you are holding a steering wheel as who you are when you are holding a Bible.

~ Tim Chester

The places of quiet are going away, the churches, the woods, the libraries. And it is only in silence we can hear the voice inside of us which gives us true peace.

~ James Rozoff

All churches are an echo of this—the Cathedral of Nature.

~ Seth Adam Smith

The way to preserve the peace of the church is to preserve its purity.

~ Matthew Henry

The Church really does not know what [peace and justice] mean apart from the life and death of Jesus of Nazareth. After all, Pilate permitted the killing of Jesus in order to secure both peace and justice (Roman style) in Judea.

~ Stanley Hauerwas

The glorious presence of God is with us. Let us rise in mighty strength to build the nation.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

A blessed deed is saying hello with a smile to someone you meet on the street, in the shop, in the bus, in the office, in the church, in the holy places, in the mosque, at the park, at the school, at the university…..’ This is the greatest action of belonging to one another.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

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

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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 the husband we should all wish to be but in him whose marriage is most like a crucifixion; whose wife receives most and gives least, is most unworthy of him, is - in her own mere nature - least lovable. For the Church has not beauty but what the Bride-groom gives her; he does not find, but makes her, lovely. The chrism of this terrible coronation is to be seen not in the joys of any man's marriage but in its sorrows, in the sickness and sufferings of a good wife or the faults of a bad one, in his unwearying (never paraded) care or his inexhaustible forgiveness: forgiveness, not acquiescence. As Christ sees in the flawed, proud, fanatical or lukewarm Church on earth that Bride who will one day be without spot or wrinkle, and labours to produce the latter, so the husband whose headship is Christ-like (and he is allowed no other sort) never despairs. He is a King Cophetua who after twenty years still hopes that the beggar-girl will one day learn to speak the truth and wash behind her ears.

~ C.s. Lewis

Husbands and wives, recognize that in marriage you have become one flesh. If you live for your private pleasure at the expense of your spouse, you are living against yourself and destroying your joy. But if you devote yourself with all your heart to the holy joy of your spouse, you will also be living for your joy and making a marriage after the image of Christ and His church.

~ John Piper

In fact, the Bible tells us that the union of man and woman in marriage points to the climatic final scene - when Christ returns for His church, the bride He died to save (Ephesians 5:31-32).

~ Joshua Harris

A worshiping community should be the fountain from which life flows and the ocean into which your efforts are merged. That is where identity is defined, refined, and consolidated and where continuity remains.

~ Ravi Zacharias

Every Sunday behind bibles, virgins,soldiers tight against me, longing,and my pelvis rubbing gods'to the big black woman voices.Soldiers tight against me, longing,all that rising, sitting, kneelingto the big black woman voices,spirits warming, tensing, folding, thenall that rising, sitting, kneelinglike some kind of dance, a mating,spirits warming, tensing, folding andgod went “Shhhhh” between my thighs –

~ Jalina Mhyana

Let your body be your holy temple.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Perhaps, too, in the shift-the-blame society we live in, we have forgotten how to weep over our sins. David, the psalm writer, said, When I kept silent, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long (Psalm 32:3). I wonder if so many of us rush off to self-help groups because we have lost the ability to be real in our churches.

~ Sheila Walsh

Then the singing enveloped me. It was furry and resonant, coming from everyone's very heart. There was no sense of performance or judgment, only that the music was breath and food.

~ Anne Lamott

..moments of transport, and of comfort, and of a bracing vastness of possibility. That was all there for me sometimes when I plunged my mind into the Bible’s puzzles; and it was always there in the music of church. I wouldn’t have said it this way then. But I would feel all the cells in my body as I sang hymns that connected my little life with the grandeur of the cosmos, the Christian drama across space and time. This was my earliest experience of breath and body, mind and spirit soaring together, alive to both mystery and reality, in kinship with others both familiar and unknown. That’s one way I’d define the feeling of faith now.

~ Krista Tippett

Man's delight in the Lord is the absolute peak of human triumph. He praises God when full of joy, and when not, he praises God to become full of joy. For to know and to live as though God is worthy of all praise, in all one's circumstances, whether seemingly good or seemingly bad, is the primary definition of joy and the richest triumph for man under God.

~ Criss Jami

Don't give your money to the church. They should be giving their money to you.

~ George Carlin

I don't like bullshit and pretense.I can't enjoy the joy at church...without some cash in my wallet.

~ Toba Beta

The wealthy, Jesus says, can only get into heaven through the eye of a needle; the same applies to churches wealthy in numbers and programs.

~ Mark Galli

If you are established in the church and focused on Jesus, then you are still among the living

~ Sunday Adelaja

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

~ Matthew 5:8

Church should be like a dating service: tell you about His heart and then give you His contact information.

~ Lana M. H. Wilder

Your heart is your temple.

~ Suzy Kassem

God sits on a blue throne called the vena cava. There is no need for a temple to communicate or pray to him. His truths travel from his seat over a purple bridge in your heart, also known as your conscience. Your conscience is where his wisdom shines. A crystal embedded within a fold of your pulmonary trunk acts as a transmitter and receiver. God is closer than you think. In your heart, is his truth and light.

~ Suzy Kassem

Men after the heart of God become the moral conscience, the guidance and custodians of justice, not simply in the security of the four walls of their church

~ Sunday Adelaja

You do not need any preacher or prophet to learn about God. The teaching is spread on the trees and the mountains, on the stars and the river, on the Sun and the moon. The ultimate teaching is written in your heart. You just need to wake up and see.

~ Banani Ray

The Church should be more concerned about the hearts of the lost rather than the comforts of the saved.

~ Todd Stocker

All Christians are in ministry. Sometimes, they're in church work.

~ Todd Stocker

The Church is both organism and organization - Woven together in a beautifully messy dance that stumbles across the stage of a fallen world.

~ Todd Stocker