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Historically speaking, institutions are slow to change and usually resistant to any sudden moves - churches especially so.
if the devil can get the church to withdraw from prayer by believing reasonable excuses, the church is under his dominion.
The theatre is your pulpit - it is your church - and you want to be a priest in your church, and that's what I believe in.
To me, a theater is a kind of a sacred space. It needs a kind of ceremony, like what happens when you consecrate a church.
The churches must realize that when they take a position on a political event that they must accept the rules of the game.
Too often we treat prayer as the preparation for the work of the church. Do you not see? Prayer IS the work of the church.
I was in church a little bit as a very young kid, but, as they say in the South, 'it didnt take.' None of it took with me.
It is my province to teach to the church what the doctrine is. It is your province to echo what I say or to remain silent.
I'm a member and preacher to that church where the blind don't see and the lame don't walk and what's dead stays that way.
I'm tied of hearing about temperance instead of abstinence, in order to please the cocktail crowd in church congregations.
Jesus promised his disciples three things—that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble.
Church should be a place where love is evident, God delivers, lives are changed, hearts are healed, and families restored.
Being famous is uncomfortable because I grew up very simply. Everything revolved around friends, family, church and sports.
People forget that many of the aspects of the Selma campaign were laid out in response to the church bombing in Birmingham.
It is the church's job, as Dr. [Martin Luther] King says, to be the conscience of the state, not the chaplain of the state.
I get asked a lot why Apple's customers are so loyal. It's not because they belong to the Church of Mac! That's ridiculous.
I was in my dad's church, his Baptist church, and I think the first song I ever performed was 'Jesus Be a Fence Around Me.'
The Church right now has more fashion than passion, is more pathetic than prophetic, is more superficial than supernatural.
The church must be reminded that it is not the master, or the servant of the state, but rather the conscience of the state.
Art is History's nostalgia, it prefers a thatched roof to a concrete factory, and the huge church above a bleached village.
You can't be from Montgomery, Alabama, and not have a background in the church. It's at the core of who we are as a people.
Teaching Authority of the Church does not forbid ... research and discussions ... with regard to the doctrine of evolution.
The Church is where it is today because it has decided that the advertising agents know better than the Holy Spirit of God.
I'm afraid the SS's relationship with the Catholic Church is something the Church still has to deal with and does not deny.
My father is maestro at the Metropolitan church, which gives me an opportunity to write for the church as much as I please.
The Lord will remove the church but the Holy Spirit will still be working on planet Earth, bringing people into the kingdom.
I love what the church offers to us as a culture - black people in particular. We would be nowhere without the black church.
We do not seek a Christ whom we have invented, for only in the real communion of the Church do we encounter the real Christ.
Church hoppers are like wandering dogs. If they are not regularly patted on the head, they will go elsewhere until they are.
I consider myself a non-denominational Christian. I grew up in a Bible church and still hold those beliefs very close to me.
Wherever we see the Word of God purely preached and heard, there a church of God exists, even if it swarms with many faults.
Churchgoers are like coals in a fire. When they cling together, they keep the flame aglow; when they separate, they die out.
We are not engaged in domestic politics, in church building or in social uplift work, but we are engaged in nation building.
I was raised in the Baptist church... but I didn't really have a real committed experience with Christ until my father died.
I think what we're really bad at doing is recognising that it is possible to have lost of different views within the church.
I always felt God had called me to serve within the church because of what the church stands for. This has always been home.
I think if the church put in half the time on covetousness that it does on lust, this would be a better world for all of us.
We are far too good at analyzing what is wrong with the culture and far too myopic at analyzing what is wrong in the church.
The Church's mission is not political in nature. Her task is to open the world to the religious sense by proclaiming Christ.
You can know you're a Christian if, not are you dealing with your sin before God but is God dealing with you about your sin.
Some people have a fear of rejecting all the security that comes with family, church and state. They become fundamentalists.
The Church and only the Church has been given the keys to the kingdom, so we have unique access to God that nobody else has.
It bums me out tremendously what the church has become, and if it's got me bummed, imagine what Jesus Christ must be feeling.
Jesus did not say that the whole world should go to church.Essentia lly He said that the church should go to the whole world.
Expand within your church. Expand within the people you have contact. Bring them up to speed in knowledge on what’s going on.
When the government tries to invade the church to enforce its own opinion on [gay] marriage, that's when it's time to resist.
Jesus tells you exactly how to get it. Put your money in missions-and in your church and the poor-and your heart will follow.
No church property is taxed and so the infidel and the atheist and the man without religion are taxed to make up the deficit.
I think the Church is a conduit to God. The Church is not God. And I think that from the very beginning Jesus taught us that.
The root-trouble of the present distress is that the Church has more faith in the world and the flesh than in the Holy Ghost.