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Rock music had become my religion. Radio my church. And these DJs my priests, rabbis and gurus.
I am not the Jesus of the official church tolerated by those in power. I am not your superstar.
Being part of a community with a church at its centre and singin' hymns is a great thing to do.
If a preacher tells you how God says you are, I don't see how you can say that's bad preaching.
Going to church doesn't make you any more a Christian than going to the garage makes you a car.
I grew up in the Baptist church and, honey, they baptized me about 14 times. It never did take.
Here's the Middle East. Here's the mosque, here's the church, open the temple, everybody's MAD!
Clergymen who publish pious frauds in the interest of the church are the orthodox liars of God.
How is it that the Church produced no geometer in her autocratic reign of twelve hundred years?
Is it faith to understand nothing, and merely submit your convictions implicitly to the Church?
If God gave Dad Alzheimer’s, He’s got to understand when Dad forgets what church he belongs to.
Absolutely nothing will revitalize a discouraged church faster than rediscovering it's purpose.
The church was first established and organized with a world-wide mission for a world-wide work.
Churches all over the country have decided they love their traditions more than their children.
In no other arena is the church at greater risk of losing its calling than in the public square
Jesus was a friend of women, the first and practically the last friend women had in the church.
Ambition that centers on the glory of God and welfare of the church is a mighty force for good.
If the Church is a body, and the body is a business, isn't that the same thing as prostitution?
God is not calling us to go to church; he is calling us to be his church, the hope of the world.
Church was never intended to be a place where we serve God to the exclusion of meeting with Him.
In proportion as a church is holy, in that proportion will its testimony for Christ be powerful.
Our public schools began as ministries of the church; now it is time to return them to the Lord.
What millennials really want from the church is not a change in style but a change in substance.
It is important to integrate immigrants into society and to welcome them in the church community
The church is not here to meet our needs. We are the church here to meet the needs of the world.
Eastern churches simply often try to please Muslims. Why doesn't the New York Times report this?
I believe with all my heart that the Church of Jesus Christ should be a Church of blurred edges.
What has the church gained if it is popular but there is no conviction, no repentance, no power?
I believe in the Devil. I believe there's a God, too. I met God at church - the Catholic Church.
The Church must stop expecting outsiders to act like insiders while insiders act like outsiders.
Can any church help us to win a war? If you can't help us win a war, then please don't press us.
The churches have no confidence in each other. Why? Because they are acquainted with each other.
We need a pope to oversee not simply a modernization of the church but its total transformation.
Avoid kneeling in unheated stone churches. Ecclesiastical dampness causes prematurely grey hair.
According to the New Testament, God wills that the church be a people who show what God is like.
I want to throw open the windows of the Church so that we can see out and the people can see in.
The church is only a secular institution in which the half-educated speak to the half-converted.
If a pagan asks you to show him your faith, take him into church and place him before the icons.
To regain her lost power the Church must see heaven opened and have a transforming vision of God.
A lot of people who are religious, I think they get lost. They go to church just to go to church.
Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.
In the Church, considered as a social organism, the mysteries inevitably degenerate into beliefs.
I grew up in the United Methodist Church, and church was always a very big part of my growing up.
Every time you walk a mile to church and carry a Bible with you, you preach a sermon a mile long.
It was like a church in there as only the truly lost sit in bars on Tuesday mornings at 8:00 a.m.
The Church must be forever building, for it is forever decaying within and attacked from without.
You are more committed to things that you give money to - whether it is a church or a politician.
We as a church need to decide whether we'll seek the Anointing of God or the God of the Anointing
If you cannot find Christ in the beggar at the church door, you will not find Him in the chalice.
It's hard for me to imagine why a church that has younger members wouldn't have a blog component.