Let the Church always be a place of mercy and hope, where everyone is welcomed, loved and forgiven.

Religion should be about your relationship with God, not what the church says you can and can't do.

The missional church is not a new trend or the latest new technique for reaching postmodern people.

Fixing things requires change and change always creates conflict. But that is why you are a leader.

I do object to the sensationalism or even the voyeurism of doing things in church or out of church.

Evangelical churches are weaker than we realize because we dont teach the confessions and doctrine.

The custom of the Church has very great authority and ought to be jealously observed in all things.

We also try to reach out to people who are far away, via digital means, the web and brief messaging.

Burnin' churches, fearin' God, Who can be so cruel, We all ignorant to AIDS, Till it happens to you.

Few things are more pleasant than a village graced with a good church, a good priest and a good pub.

The Church needs you, your enthusiasm, your creativity and the joy that is so characteristic of you.

The church didn't know what to do with Ray Charles or Al Green. And so they were kind of ostracized.

All Church activities, advancements, quorums, and classes are means to the end of an exalted family.

I have a great staff at the church; they protect me and allow me to focus on more of what I do best.

If the whole church goes off into deception, that will in no way excuse us for not following Christ.

Something about being rejected at Church Camp felt so much more awful than being rejected at school.

Father, look upon us in Your goodness and kindness, we pray as a church. Help us to love each other.

It's because Jesus spoke so frequently about hell that the church should take the concept seriously.

I still consider myself a very spiritual person but the structure of the church isn't really for me.

The Church is not the building, its the people, its not just the gathering, its also the scattering.

No matter how corrupt the Church may become, it carries within it the seeds of its own regeneration.

I'm definitely not a traditionalist, because a traditionalist would be going to church every Sunday.

Saturate your preaching with the gospel in the church, so that you people speak gospel in the world.

Unconfessed sin is a terrible, heavy burden to carry. God loves us too much to have unconfessed sin.

My ambition is to give Oakland's cathedral a universal character independent of the Catholic Church.

The seminaries must be like the churches' poor relations, prolonging their existence with austerity.

We can’t expect the nation to operate by Christian principles… but we can expect this of the church.

The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women's emancipation.

The press is the exclusive literature of the million; to them it is literature, church, and college.

I walked away from going to church when I was 8. I didn't set foot in another church until I was 28.

The Manifesto was not a divine production but something manufactured to outwit the church's enemies.

Overheard in a Washington D.C. church confessional: "Bless me Father, for sins have been committed."

Missions is not the ultimate goal of the church. Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn't.

The first persecution of the Church took place in the year 67, under Nero, the sixth emperor of Rome.

The best-run churches and organizations are masters of the midcourse correction. They plan in pencil.

I believe the collapse of the House of Windsor is tied in with the collapse of the Church of England.

The council now beginning rises in the Church like the daybreak, a forerunner of most splendid light.

To hell with the Church when it becomes a State and the hell with the State when it becomes a Church.

The day the Church abandons Her universal tongue will be the day before She returns to the Catecombs.

Churches that make an impact are more focused on putting boots on the streets than butts in the seats

All I know is, if I don't care about the poor, if my church doesn't care about the poor, that's evil.

But it's a poor church that cares only for what happens to a soul after it leaves this life." -Damien

I used to tell people when I preached at a church, 'If you want a great sermon, be a great audience.'

Churches are good for prayer, but so are garages and cars and mountains and showers and dance floors.

People in Northern Ireland vote for their church, they don't vote with their heads; it is ridiculous.

Nothing doth so much keep men out of the Church, and drive men out of the Church, as breach of unity.

A cold, self-righteous prig who goes regularly to church may be far nearer to Hell than a prostitute.

It wasn't Luther or Calvin that reformed the church. It was the Word of God that reformed the church.

Christmas, as a practicing Catholic child, was seen as a reward for lots and lots and lots of church.

We have Sunday morning breakfast before church. I don't do the dishes, but I do cook. I'm the griller.

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