Church Of Christ Quotes

• The Gates of Hell shall not prevail against it.

  Benjamin Rush

  Knowing Jesus, Going To Church, Truth Will Prevail

  Benjamin Rush (1951). “Letters of Benjamin Rush: 1793-1813”

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• I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Church Service, Silence

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1969). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VII: 1838-1842”, p.175, Harvard University Press

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• Christians don't tell lies they just go to church and sing them.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Lying, Church

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• It is not enough to be a member of the Church of Christ, one needs to be a living member, in spirit and in truth, i.e., living in the state of grace and in the presence of God, either in innocence or in sincere repentance.

  Pope Pius XI

  Grace, Church, Needs

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• Let it be a settled principle in our minds that the first and chief business of the Church of Christ is to preach the Gospel.

  J. C. Ryle

  Mind, Church, Principles

  J.C. Ryle (2015). “Bible commentary - The gospel of John”, p.56, Editora Dracaena

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• Worship, I say, rises or falls with our concept of God .... and if there is one terrible disease in the Church of Christ, it is that we do not see God as great as He is.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Fall, Church, Disease

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• Furthermore, in this one Church of Christ no man can be or remain who does not accept, recognize and obey the authority and supremacy of Peter and his legitimate successors.

  Pope Pius XI

  Men, Church, Doe

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• The Church of Christ has been founded by shedding its own blood, not that of others; by enduring outrage, not by inflicting it. Persecutions have made it grow; martyrdoms have crowned it.

  St. Jerome

  Christian, Blood, Church

  St. Jerome (2012). “The Sacred Writings of Saint Jerome (Annotated Edition)”, p.362, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The history of the Church of Christ from the days of the Apostles has been a history of spiritual movements.

  Henry Parry Liddon

  Spiritual, Church, Movement

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". P. 4. Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, 1895.

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• The Church of Christ, zealous and cautious guardian of the dogmas deposited with it, never changes any phase of them. It does not diminish them or add to them; it neither trims what seems necessary now grafts things superfluous . . . but it devotes all its diligence to one aim: To treat tradition faithfully and wisely; to consolidate and to strengthen what already was clear; and to guard what already was confirmed and defined.

  St. Vincent

  Church, Doe, Add

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• The holy mystery of the day of the Holy Spirit, Pentecost, is to be understood in the following manner: the spirit of man must be completed and perfected by the Holy Spirit, that is, it must be sanctified, illuminated, and divinized by the Holy Spirit. This holy mystery is realized continually in the Church of Christ and because of this the Church is really a continuous Pentecost.... From Holy Pentecost, the day of the Holy Spirit, every God-like soul in the Church of Christ is an incombustible bush which continuously burns and is inflamed with God and has a fiery tongue within it.

  Justin Popovic

  Men, Soul, Church

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• I was raised in the Church of Christ, which was a very abstinent faith. And I just didn't [drink] - there was never anything that I found seductive enough, I guess, to have a romance with it.

  Dwight Yoakam

  Seductive, Romance, Church

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Sometimes, looking up at Sophiatown... I have felt I was looking at an Italian village somewhere in Umbria. For you do 'look up' at Sophiatown, and in the evening light, across the blue-grey haze of smoke from braziers and chimneys, against a saffron sky, you see close-packed, red-roofed little houses. ...And above it all you see the Church of Christ the King, its tower visible north, south, east, and west.

  Trevor Huddleston

  Kings, Italian, Blue

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• For a long time religion made me feel guilty for being involved in music. Growing up, the religion I grew up in, the Church of Christ, encouraged a capella, but didn't allow musical instruments, so even though my parents allowed me to play trumpet in the band, and I was pretty good at it, it had this baggage.

  Gary Panter

  Growing Up, Play, Long

  Interview with David Jacob Kramer, believermag.com. June 1, 2009.

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• The Christian life is not just our own private affair. If we have been born again into God's family, not only has he become our Father but every other Christian believer in the world, whatever his nation or denomination, has become our brother or sister in Christ. But it is no good supposing that membership of the universal Church of Christ is enough; we must belong to some local branch of it. Every Christian's place is in a local church. sharing in its worship, its fellowship, and its witness.

  John Stott

  Christian, Brother, Father

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• Astronomers who do not draw theistic or deistic conclusions are becoming rare, and even the few dissenters hint that the tide is against them. Geoffrey Burbidge, of the University of California at San Diego, complains that his fellow astronomers are rushing off to join 'the First Church of Christ of the Big Bang.'

  Hugh Ross

  California, Rushing, Atheism

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• The Church of Christ, therefore, is one and the same forever.

  Pope Leo XIII

  Forever, Church, Christ

  Pope Leo XIII (1896*). “Encyclical Letter of Pope Leo XIII on the Unity of the Church, June 29, 1896”

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• Some of the stuff I'm writing is almost like hymns, some of my first singing and choral experiences were in church, the Church of Christ in Hicksville.

  Billy Joel

  Writing, Hymns, Singing

  "Backstage With Billy Joel: The Billboard Cover Story Interview (Exclusive)". Interview with Ray Waddell, www.billboard.com. January 31, 2014.

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• The church itself has got to go outside of its own borders and carry the gospel to ev'ry creature, or it is no church of Christ; and any mutual improvement club which thinks that by reading its Shakspearo, or by acting its pretty tableaux, or by having. this or that little reading from Spenser and from Chaucer, it is going to lift itself up into any higher order of culture or life, is wholly mistaken, unless as an essential part of its duty, it goes out into the world, finds those that are falling down, and lifts them up to the majesty of freemen, who are sons of God.

  Edward Everett Hale

  Fall, Reading, Son

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, 1895.

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• The Church of Christ is an anvil which has worn out many hammers. Our opponents may boast of their strength, but they do not realize what they have challenged.

  John Buchan

  War, Church, Hammers

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• Many man's scruples lie almost wholly about obedience to authority and compliance with indifferent customs, but very seldom about the dangers of disobedience and unpeaceableness and rending in pieces the Church of Christ by needless separations and endless divisions.

  John Tillotson

  Peace, Lying, Men

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• The utter folly of our time is lamentable, that men should think to assist God with human help and to protect the Church of Christ by worldly ambition.

  Hilary of Poitiers

  Ambition, Men, Thinking

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• No one statement wrested from its context is a sufficient warrant for actions that plainly controvert other commands. How excellent a thing it would be if the whole Church of Christ had learned that no law of life may be based upon an isolated text. Every false teacher who has divided the Church, has had, "it is written" on which to hang his doctrine.

  G. Campbell Morgan

  Teacher, Law, Church

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• At stake are two different visions of faith, the Church of Caesar, powerful and rich; and the Church of Christ - loving, poor and spiritually rich.

  Penny Lernoux

  Powerful, Two, Vision

  Penny Lernoux (1990). “People of God: the struggle for world Catholicism”, Penguin Group USA

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• The sacred rites, although not instituted specifically for proving the truth of the dogmas of the Catholic Faith incontrovertibly, are effectively the living voice of Catholic Truth, the oft-sounded expression of it. For that very reason the true Church of Christ, even as she shows great zeal to guard inviolate those forms of divine worship - since they are hallowed and are not to be changed - sometimes grants or permits something novel in the performance of them in certain instances. This she does especially when they are in conformity with their venerable antiquity.

  Pope Leo XIII

  Voice, Expression, Catholic

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