Church Quotes - Page 14

• After listening to modern tirades against the great creeds of the Church, one receives a shock when one turns to the Westminster Confession... and discovers that in doing so one has turned from shallow modern phrases to a "dead orthodoxy" that is pulsating with life in every word. In such orthodoxy there is life enough to set the whole world aglow with Christian love.

  John Gresham Machen

  Christian, Listening, Phrases

  John Gresham Machen (1923). “Christianity and Liberalism”, p.46, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• Because everyone who try a-go to church, and they were trying to teach but they weren't teaching, they was brainwashing. Since I would never call that teaching.

  Peter Tosh

  Teaching, Trying, Brainwashing

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• The downfall of the church will not come from a lack of apologetic teaching; it will come from disintegration of the families in the church.

  Josh McDowell

  Teaching, Apologetic, Downfall

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• We have our values from the church, the temple, the mosque. Do not rob, do not murder. But our behaviour changes the minute we go into the corporate place. Suddenly all of this is irrelevant.

  Anita Roddick

  Behaviour, Mosques, Temples

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• When one remembers how the Catholic Church has been governed, and by whom, one realizes that it must have been divinely inspired to have survived at all.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Catholic, Remember, Inspired

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• I am a God-fearing man. In fact, I don't go to church because I'm afraid I'll run into him there.

  Matthew Diamond

  Running, Men, God Fearing Man

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• But Christ could certainly not have established the Church. That is, the institution we now call by that name, for nothing resembling our present conception of the Church-with its sacraments, its hierarchy, and especially its claim to infallibility-is to be found in Christ's words or in the conception of the men of his time.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Men, Names, Hierarchy

  Leo Tolstoy (graf) (1951). “The kingdom of God: and peace essays”

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• O father, father
  Gone from us, lost to us,
  The church lies bereft,
  Alone,
  Desecrated, desolated.
  And the heathen shall build
  On the ruins
  Their world without God.
  I see it.
  I see it.

  T. S. Eliot

  Lying, Father, Gone

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950”, p.228, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Modern church music is so constructed that the congregation cannot hear one distinct word.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Church Music, Modern, Music Is

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• The Christian marginality of women has its roots in the patriarchal beginnings of the church and in the androcentrism of Christian revelation.

  Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza

  Christian, Roots, Revelations

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• A conflict arises when a religious community insists on the absolute truthfulness of all statements recorded in the Bible. This means an intervention on the part of religion into the sphere of science; this is where the struggle of the Church against doctrines of Galileo and Darwin belongs.

  Albert Einstein

  Religious, Struggle, Mean

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.23, Open Road Media

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• Few things have done more harm than the belief on the part of individuals or groups (or tribes or states or nations or churches) that he or she or they are in sole possession of the truth: especially about how to live, what to be and do - and that those who differ from them are not merely mistaken, but wicked or mad: and need restraining or suppressing.

  Isaiah Berlin

  Mad, Wicked, Groups

  "Unreasonable behaviour" by David Beresford, www.theguardian.com. September 17, 2007.

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• The actual point in question, throughout the centuries of Christian persecution, has never been faith in God, but faith in the Bible as the word of God, and in the Church (this Church or that) as the interpreter of that word.

  Joseph Campbell

  Christian, Faith In God, Century

  Joseph Campbell (1991). “The Masks of God: Creative Mythology”, Penguin Group USA

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• The church is under orders. Evangelistic inactivity is disobedience.

  John Stott

  Order, Inactivity, Disobedience

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• We cannot be content with an evangelism which does not lead to the drawing of converts into the church, nor with a church order whose principle of cohesion is a superficial social camaraderie instead of a spiritual fellowship with the Father and with his Son, Jesus Christ.

  John Stott

  Spiritual, Jesus, Father

  John Stott (2015). “TNTC Letters of John”, p.54, SPCK

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• You can sing the blues in church if you use the words right.

  Son House

  Use, Ifs

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• If kids got raped at Denny's as often as they get raped at church it would be illegal to take your kids to Denny's.

  Dan Savage

  Kids, Would Be, Illegal

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• The invasion of the Church by the world is a menace to the extension of Christ's Kingdom. In all ages conformity to the world by Christians has resulted in lack of spiritual life and a consequent lack of spiritual vision and enterprise. A secularized or self-centered Church can never evangelize the world.

  John Mott

  Christian, Spiritual, Self

  John Raleigh Mott (1905). “The Evangelization of the World in this Generation”

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• Evermore the Law must prepare the way for the gospel. To overlook this in instructing souls is almost certain to result in false hope, the introduction of a false standard of Christian experience, and to fill the Church with false converts... Time will make this plain.

  Charles Grandison Finney

  Christian, Law, Soul

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• Re-examine all you have been told in school or church or in any book,and dismiss whatever insults your own soul...  It is also not consistent with the reality of the soul to admit that there is anything in the known universe more divine than men and women. The master knows that he is unspeakably great and that all are unspeakably great.  There will soon be no more priests... They may wait awhile, perhaps a generation or two, dropping off by degrees. A superior breed shall take their place.A new order shall arise and they shall be the priests of man,and every man shall be his own priest.

  Walt Whitman

  Book, School, Reality

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• O, because I have had only that kind of benevolence which consists in lying on a sofa, and cursing the church and clergy for not being martyrs and confessors. One can see, you know, very easily, how others ought to be martyrs.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Lying, Kind, Cursing

  Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Beecher STOWE (2016). “Collected Works (Complete and Illustrated Editions: Uncle Tom's Cabin, Queer Little Folks, The Chimney-Corner, ...)”, p.287, Harriet Beecher Stowe

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• I am interested in Scripture and theology. This is an interest that I can assume I would share with a pastor, so that makes me a little bit prone to use that kind of character, perhaps, just at the moment. Then there is also the fact that, having been a church member for many years, I am very aware of how much pastors enrich people's experience, people for whom they are significant. I know that it's a kind of custom of American literature and culture to slang them. I don't think there is any reason why that needs to be persisted in.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Character, Thinking, Years

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I did not grow up in the church. I'm not a church-goer now. I'm a very spiritual person.

  Malcolm D. Lee

  Spiritual, Growing Up, Grows

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• I majored in religion for my entire undergraduate career at Duke University and then I went to seminary for a year unsure whether or not I really had the call to be a minister. I spoke with a pastor of my home church and told him I was going to seminary. He said "Do you feel the call to be a minister?" and I said "Honestly, I don't. I know it's the greatest call you could have but I'm not feeling that call myself. He said "Well, you know, you're wrong. It's not the greatest call. The greatest call is whatever calling God has for you."

  Randall Wallace

  Home, Years, Careers

  "Comparing “Heaven is for Real” with “God’s Not Dead” + an interview with “Heaven” writer/director Randall Wallace". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com.

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• I was baptized Episcopalian when I was maybe two years old and we went to an Episcopalian church. When we moved to Georgia, we started going to a Lutheran church and I fell in love with the church there - Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd in Douglasville, Georgia. I really have a home there.

  Elana Meyers

  Home, Years, Two Year Olds

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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