Church Quotes - Page 24

• Those who insist that a Church program exist for every contingency and need are as much in error as their counterparts who demand that government intervene in every aspect of our lives. In both instances the ideal balance is destroyed with a resultant detriment to human progress.

  Dean L. Larsen

  Errors, Government, Balance

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• Unless we members of the Church do all we can to preserve the freedoms we have within the bounds of the laws of God, we will be held accountable.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Law, Members, Preserves

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• The new American, like the new European, was the servant of the powerhouse, as the European of the twelfth century was the servant of the Church.

  Henry Adams

  Century, Servant

  Benjamin Franklin, Ulysses S Grant, Andrew Carnegie, Henry Adams (2016). “Great American Lives: The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant, Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie, and The Education of Henry Adams”, p.1678, Open Road Media

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• The capitalist has this over the politician and the clergyman; he has in practice done more to raise the standard of living of the poor than all the government and church programs in history....Monsanto and the Archer Daniels Midland Company have fed more hungry people than all the...soup kitchens combined.

  Dinesh D'Souza

  Archer, Soup Kitchens, Government

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• Worshiping the earth is more fun than going to church. It's also closer.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Fun, Going To Church, Earth

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “All the Trouble in the World: The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague, and Poverty”, p.172, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• The peace of the Eastern church was invaded by a swarm of fanatics [monks], incapable of fear, or reason, or humanity; and the Imperial troops acknowledged, without shame, that they were much less apprehensive of an encounter with the fiercest Barbarians.

  Edward Gibbon

  Humanity, Encounters, Troops

  Edward Gibbon (1846). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.349

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• Free healthcare and free and equal education and peace are about the only things I passionately believe in, and I think if you don't believe in those but you go to church on Sunday then that's hypocris.

  Robert Montgomery

  Believe, Sunday, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I like church. It's empty when I go. I walk around. There are so many beautiful Catholic churches in New York.

  Andy Warhol

  Beautiful, New York, Catholic

  Andy Warhol, Mark Francis, Mattjis Visser, Museum Kunst Palast (Düsseldorf, Germany), Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein (2004). “Andy Warhol: the late work”, Prestel Publishing

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• It is fruitless to search for a single musical style, or even any blend of musical styles, that can assist all Christians with true worship. The followers of Jesus are a far too diverse group of people-which is exactly as it should be. We need, rather, to welcome any worship music that helps churches produce disciples of Jesus Christ.

  Michael Adam Hamilton

  Christian, Jesus, Worship Music

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• The message of some churches today seems to be, "Only sing if it appeals to your sense of style, or your demographic." Yet when we look at heaven, we see that every tribe and every nation will sing together.

  Keith Getty

  Church Today, Heaven, Style

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• Cujus region, ejus rligio (Whoever's reign, his religion) ... He who owns the country owns the Church, and he that makes your laws for you has the right to make your religion for you.

  Martin Luther

  Country, Law, Reign

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• Advances in science help to delegitimize the rule of kings and the power of the Church.

  Karl Marx

  Kings, Helping, Advances In Science

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• The Mafia has higher standards than the Catholic Church hierachy because if their members were "raping children, they'd off them."

  Ernie Chambers

  Children, Catholic, Mafia

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• Churches should evaluate everything they do to determine how it can be done better.

  Thom S. Rainer

  Done, Should, Determine

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• Some churches would rather die than to get out of the comfort of the past.

  Thom S. Rainer

  Past, Comfort, Dies

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• So, you want to be like Christ? Me too. But that kind of godliness won't just happen by hanging around a church or thinking lofty thoughts three or four times a day or learning a few verses of Scripture. It will take more - much more. Disciplining ourselves will require the same kind of focused thinking and living that our Master modeled during His brief life on earth.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Thinking, Three, Earth

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• Many seducers clutter the simple message of the gospel with legalistic additions, with convoluted attempts to legitimize moral compromise, and with psychological theories that turn churches into relational support groups instead of houses of worship.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Simple, House, Support

  Charles R. Swindoll (2007). “So, You Want To Be Like Christ?: Eight Essentials to Get You There”, p.33, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• It's not our church; it's God's - it's not our responsibility to run it!

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Running, Responsibility

  Charles R. Swindoll (2007). “So, You Want To Be Like Christ?: Eight Essentials to Get You There”, p.76, Thomas Nelson

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• He [Peter after the resurrection] now understood that he and the church were to exercise a transcendent power that did not depend upon having a kingdom or government in any human sense, for it was literally a "God government" in which they were participants (Acts 1:6-8).

  Dallas Willard

  Exercise, Government, Kingdoms

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• The organized churches must become schools of spiritual discipline where Christians are taught how to own without treasuring (Matt. 6:21); how to possess without, like the "rich young ruler," being possessed (Mark 10:22); how to live simply, even frugally, though controlling great wealth and power.

  Dallas Willard

  Christian, Spiritual, School

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• I have come to think that the challenge confronting Christians is not that we do not believe what we say, though that can be a problem, but that what we say we believe does not seem to make any difference for either the church or the world.

  Stanley Hauerwas

  Christian, Believe, Thinking

  Stanley Hauerwas (2010). “Hannah's Child: A Theologian's Memoir”, p.159, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• I am convinced that if we lose kids to the culture of drugs and materialism, of violence and war, it's because we don't dare them, not because we don't entertain them. It's because we make the gospel too easy, not because we make it too difficult. Kids want to do something heroic with their lives, which is why they play video games and join the army. But what do they do with a church that teaches them to tiptoe through life so they can arrive safely at death?

  Shane Claiborne

  War, Kids, Army

  Shane Claiborne (2010). “The Irresistible Revolution: Living As an Ordinary Radical”, p.177, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The church is, above all, a place to receive grace: it brings forgiven people together with the aim of equipping us to dispense grace to others.

  Philip Yancey

  People, Grace, Together

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• We preach sermons, write books on apologetics, conduct city-wide evangelistic campaigns. For those alienated from the church, that approach no longer has the same drawing power. And for the truly needy, words alone don't satisfy; "A hungry person has no ears," as one relief worker told me. A skeptical world judges the truth of what we say by the proof of how we live.

  Philip Yancey

  Book, Writing, Drawing

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• The church works best not as a power center, rather as a countercultural community - in the world but not of it - that shows others how to live the most fulfilled and meaningful life on earth. In modern society that means rejecting the false gods of independence, success, and pleasure and replacing them with love for God and neighbor.

  Philip Yancey

  Meaningful, Community, Independence

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