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We follow the rules laid out in the Bible for running our church. -- William Brewster
Mere heathen morality, and not Jesus Christ, is preached in most of our churches. -- George Whitefield
We always performed for our church, but we also just performed whenever the family got together. -- Debra Wilson
My parents were terrific - mother was a church organist and my father was probably the most respected person in our church outside of the minister and sometimes maybe that much. The neighbors all called him - a gentleman. -- Jane Pauley
Negroes' problem is that they do not have their egos. That's why our churches end up having a white service, because our preacher is not arrogant enough to take God's word, so he have to go and get some white fellow's agenda and put it in his church. -- Jesse Jackson
Maybe you are the key to revival in your church. -- Leonard Ravenhill
Don't let your church be a cul-de-sac on the Great Commission highway. -- Ed Stetzer
It's not our church; it's God's - it's not our responsibility to run it! -- Charles R. Swindoll
You are not indispensable to your church, but you are indispensable to your family. -- Adam Hamilton
The devil doesn't care how big your church is - he cares how influential it is. -- Brian Houston
Cheap grace is the deadly enemy of our church. We are fighting today for costly grace. -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
If Jesus Christ isn't the central figure in our lives and in our churches, we're only fooling ourselves. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
If our church is not marked by caring for the poor, the oppressed, the hungry, we are guilty of heresy. -- Ignatius of Loyola
In the New Testament church it says they were all amazed - And now in our churches everybody wants to be amused. -- Leonard Ravenhill
God wants us to make Jesus Christ the central figure in our church--not just say that we do, but actually do it. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
Our wives, our families, and our churches need godly men who have discernment--discernment to deal with life and life-issues on a spiritual level. -- Jim George
The church has no authority to preach of inclusivity if we fear altering the look of our church by bringing in the poor. -- Matthew Barnett
In the United States, if one family out of every four churches adopted a child, there would be no orphans in the country -- Kay Warren
What does it say about our churches today that God birthed the church in a prayer meeting, and prayer meetings today are almost extinct? -- Jim Cymbala
Your impact on the lives of others--your family, the people at your church, your workmates--is cultivated with each decision you make, no matter how small. -- Jim George
The greatest missionary tool we have is that of demonstrating friendliness, brotherly kindness, harmony, love and peace in our homes and in all our church meetings. -- Theodore M. Burton
The most important criterion is this: hire someone whose character and humility and attitude you would like to have reproduced in your church and in yourself. -- John Ortberg
If you are too busy in your church activities to take care of your family, then perhaps we had better find something else for you to do. -- Gordon B. Hinckley
Everyone is busy, but I believe it depends on what you prioritize. My husband and I teach Sunday School together at our church and are very involved. -- Gretchen Carlson
So if we approach church membership from the perspective of entitlement, we have it upside down. You always ask first what you can do for your church. -- Thom S. Rainer
We sometimes idealize the early church and want our churches to go back to the simple, old ways. We need to carefully read the history. Harmony takes work. -- Jerry B. Jenkins
Start locally and build. Start small and grow. Start in your house, then move to your school, your book club, your gym, your church, your temple, your city. -- Laurie David
We give 10 percent of our income to our church every year. Do you think that is the kind of person who is trying to hide things, or do things? -- Ann Romney
The required cheerfulness that characterizes many of our churches produces a suffocating environment of pat, religious answers to the painful, complex questions that riddle the lives of hurting people. -- Tullian Tchividjian
We use a lot of creativity and new technology, cutting edge things to use in our church, but really what it comes down to is God changing a life. -- Kerry Shook
I am convinced that the influence of an army of godly women will be incalculable--in our homes, our churches, and our culture. Will you be one of those women? -- Nancy Leigh DeMoss
If we wait for the needy to walk through our church doors, we may wait a long time. God doesn't wait for people to come to Him. He goes to them. -- Beth Moore
Far more books get written about how to get more people in your church than how to get the people already in your church to have more humility and sincere love. -- John Ortberg
I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit. -- Khalil Gibran
Soul winning is not a method; it is a command. We are supposed to go soul winning and do soul winning if our churches grow or if our churches decrease in attendance. -- Jack Hyles
The kind of gospel that our churches are preaching sometimes are not powerful enough to change the very street where these churches are located talk less of the nation where they are -- Sunday Adelaja
Some churches make intercessory prayer part of their weekly schedule. If that's not the case at your church, find another person in the faith to intercede with or go before God on your own. -- Monica Johnson
How much would our churches be transformed if each of us made it a practice to thank God for others and then to tell those others what it is about them that we thank God for? -- D. A. Carson
I beg you, look for the words 'social justice' or 'economic justice' on your church Web site. If you find it, run as fast as you can. Social justice and economic justice, they are code words. -- Glenn Beck
We want a crowd to make us feel important and liked. But why is getting a crowd our focus? Jesus never suggested that crowds were the goal. He never addresses getting your church to grow. Never. -- Charles R. Swindoll
The gospel that has been preached in our churches has not been fair to the African continent. It has left us in a beggarly state, waiting on God for things we could produce by and for ourselves. -- Sunday Adelaja
The gospel that has been preached in our churches has not been fair to the African continent. It has left us in a beggarly state, waiting on God for things we could produce by and for ourselves -- Sunday Adelaja
I think whites are used to being in power, so when whites think we ought to have integrated churches they think, "People ought to come to our church. What can we do to get them to come?" -- Michael Emerson
If you can't PRAY for the peace your church, PROMOTE the Christian doctrines, PREPARE for every good work and PROVIDE for the expansion of the Church, you are just like the PEWS (table and chairs) in the chapel. -- Israelmore Ayivor
We as preachers/teachers/pastors have to figure out things to do in order to garner the attention of individuals and also keep them at our churches by making sure that we reinvent ourselves on a consistent basis. -- Marvin Sapp
I really started to get into reading the Bible and I started to look for a church to go to. Every Sunday I was going to like three or four churches, I was just looking for the right church. -- Angus T. Jones
People are not on a truth quest; they are on a happiness quest. They will continue to attend your church - even if they don't share your beliefs - as long as they find the content engaging and helpful. -- Andy Stanley
Out of the depths, O Lord, out of the depths,' begins the most beautiful of the services of our church, and it is out of the depths of my life that I must bring the incidents of this story. -- Hall Caine
The dismembering of a human being routinely in 30 minutes on an outpatient bases - or any other way - is barbaric. Four blocks from our church all year long - like churches within smelling distance of Auschwitz or Dachau or Buchenwald. -- John Piper
You are responsible for the world that you live in. It is not government's responsibility. It is not your school's or your social club's or your church's or your neighbor's or your fellow citizen's. It is yours, utterly and singularly yours. -- August Wilson
Good and evil are not what our parents told us, not what our church tells us, or our country, not what anybody else tells us! All of us decide good and evil for ourselves, automatically, by choosing what we want to do! -- Richard Bach
I noticed people would read these short articles I was assigned to write for our church bulletin and they would say, Boy, thats good stuff. I got letters from people around the country saying, Thats really good. And I thought, Is it really? -- Max Lucado
I did grow up poor. My mom managed to get a job as a custodian at our church, and it was really just a favor for her, and my dad's an electrician - just a blue-collar family, and the house was usually falling apart. -- Crystal Bowersox
Living is giving. We live life best as we give our strengths, gifts, and competencies in the service of God's mission. We are called to serve, not survive. Our giving makes a difference in our families, our work, our community, our world, and our church. -- Kennon Callahan
It is not your beauty, success or money that should define you; neither should your church calling, your charitable contributions or talents. Humility is the cornerstone of character, by which God judges our truth worth, and wisdom is the door he opens when we use it. -- Shannon L. Alder
You could remove the powerful preaching from our church and it would still continue. You could remove the administration of pastoral care through the cell group system and the church would still continue. But if you remove the prayer life of our church it would collapse. -- David Yonggi Cho
Your deepest, darkest sins and your shameful secrets are simply irrelevant when it comes to the counterintuitive, ecstatic announcement of the gospel. So are your goodness, your rightness, your church attendance, and all of the wise, moral, mature decisions you have made and actions you have taken." -- Rob Bell
Robertsons love Sundays! The most important thing we do is gather together with our church family for worship, teaching, and fellowship. After church, we like to have a nice lunch of roast, vegetables, and definitely rolls or biscuits. And I love catching a nap when I can. -- Kay Robertson
Your deepest, darkest sins and your shameful secrets are simply irrelevant when it comes to the counterintuitive, ecstatic announcement of the gospel. So are your goodness, your rightness, your church attendance, and all of the wise, moral, mature decisions you have made and actions you have taken. -- Rob Bell
Why would God send people to our church if we don't have a great dream? Why would God give a multigifted, multitalented, and multifinancially wealthy person to a church if the biggest thing you are going to do is paint the restrooms next year? That's bad stewardship. -- John C. Maxwell
One more soldier of the Cross has taken up his crown; one more beloved member of our church has gone to the great assembly above; one more Christian has triumphed in the living Faith; one more flower is planted and harvested in the garden of God's Kingdom. -- Reverend Ada Slaton Bonds
Incest, rape and abuse is rampant everywhere, even in our churches, but society is silent. It is a silent epidemic. One in three women will experience a sexual assault in her lifetime and one in six males, yet we don't speak of it, even in our churches! -- Diane Chamberlain
When my dad founded our church, he used either a globe or a map of the world behind him. It was symbolic of what Christ said: to go forth and preach hope to the world. We believe in the cross, but we just continued with the globe. -- Joel Osteen
I have long profited from Adele Ahlberg Calhoun's gifts in the field of spiritual development, and I am delighted that she has compiled her experience with spiritual disciplines into book form. I highly recommend it and I look forward to using it as a resource at our church. -- Timothy Keller
Martha Stewart contributes more to our civility than the Baptist church. -- Dave Hickey
Our church has been legal since late 1960s. I've been involved since 1972. I was ordained in 1975. -- Sally Kirkland
We must not reduce the bosom of the universal church to a nest protecting our mediocrity. -- Pope Francis
There was a lot of music in our home. Mom played piano in church and gave piano lessons. -- Ernie Isley
Our public schools began as ministries of the church; now it is time to return them to the Lord. -- Jay Alan Sekulow
Due to our consumer mindset, people are prone to jump from church to church, which weakens the church overall. -- Francis Chan
The family unit is fundamental not only to society and to the Church, but to our hope for eternal life. -- Henry B. Eyring
We see government's mission as fostering and enabling the important realms - our businesses, service clubs, Little Leagues, churches - to flourish. -- Mitch Daniels
Not far from our house, and opposite the old church with the golden cross, stood a large building, even larger than the church, and having many towers. -- Max Muller
Hallelujah' is going to be a standard that our grandkids, our great-great grandkids will learn to sing in church. It's one of those really, really special songs. -- Brandi Carlile
I think our failure in the production of good town churches of distinctive character must have struck you often, as it has me, when contrasted with our comparative success in country churches. -- George Edmund Street
I believe in the separation of church and state, absolutely. But I don't believe in the separation of public life from our values, our basic values, and for many of us, our religious values. -- Jim Wallis
My childhood was limited to mostly gospel music. We didn't have, like, a lot of records in our house, you know. It was like my grandparents who raised me. They were pretty old-fashioned in their religious ways, so it was like church, church, church, school, school, school. -- Faith Evans
I go to church too, y'all. And I've heard it, too. And I want to say to all of our faith leaders out there that I understand that probably in my Baptist church in Maryland, it is not likely that there will be performed - in my church - gay marriages. -- Donna Edwards
I really enjoy when I'm asked questions that leap from the physical world and the material world into our hearts. -- Jok Church
We just planted our 21st church. -- Johnny Hunt
The church is a place where we make our prejudice sacred. -- Peter Rollins
We missed a lot of church, so the music is our confessional. -- Big Boi
Our tendency is to be converted to church and not to Christ. -- Max Lucado
Thank God, under our Constitution there was no connection between church and state. -- James K. Polk
Worshipers never leave church...we carry our sanctuary with us wherever we go. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
Our culture doesn't like being told what to do; that's happening in the Church. -- Mike Pilavachi
Why are we mute? Where are our leaders, our legislators? Where is the church? -- Harry Belafonte
The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time. -- Alan Hirsch
As a church we must love Jesus, or else we have lost our reason for existence. -- Charles Spurgeon
The church meets to imagine what our lives can be like if the gospel were true. -- Walter Brueggemann
We may go to church once a week, but our Christian life is daily - step-by-step. -- David Jeremiah
Grace is God himself, his loving energy at work within his church and within our souls. -- Evelyn Underhill
I do not want church groups controlling the schools of our country. They must remain free. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
I'm grateful to God that, through the Negro church, the dimension of nonviolence entered our struggle. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
As I say, it never ceases to amaze me how gullible some of our Church members are. -- Harold B. Lee
Why should we not enter into our inheritance in the church as well as the concert hall? -- Ralph Vaughan Williams
When you go to church you are really listening in to the secret wireless from our friends. -- C. S. Lewis
We cannot be tepid disciples. The Church needs our courage in order to give witness to truth. -- Pope Francis
Our Christian identity is belonging to a people: the Church. Without the Church we are not Christians. -- Pope Francis
Revival precedes evangelism. The church must first repent. This is the blind spot in our eye today. -- Vance Havner
The Church knows nothing of a sacredness of war. The Church which prays'Our Father'asks God only for peace. -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The National Catholic Register's coverage of the Church universal, and the Church in our own country, is splendid. -- Timothy M. Dolan
What is a church?Â?Our honest sexton tells, 'Tis a tall building, with a tower and bells. -- George Crabbe
Our whole message is it's easy to just keep preaching to the church and people that already come. -- Joel Osteen
It must not content us to take our bodies to church if we leave our hearts at home. -- J. C. Ryle
Our public schools began as ministries of the church; now it is time to return them to the Lord. -- Jay Alan Sekulow
Our best efforts at changing society will fall short unless the church can teach the world how to love. -- Philip Yancey
The perfect church service would be one we were almost unaware of. Our attention would have been on God. -- C. S. Lewis
Without a vision our community will perish without Christ, but without a vision the church will perish as well. -- John C. Maxwell
We're not church planters. We are community planters and, as we work in our communities, we join local churches. -- Shane Claiborne
So our building of the visible Church becomes much like any natural business function, using natural means and natural motives. -- Francis Schaeffer
If the church would only be the church- if Christians would only be Christians- nothing could halt our onward march. -- Vance Havner
The church is not here to meet our needs. We are the church here to meet the needs of the world. -- Erwin McManus
Is this really the church of Christ, or are we just calling it the church because of our traditions and history? -- K.P. Yohannan
Why do we go through all the nonsense with security at our airport? It's not because the Catholic Church is falling apart. -- Michael T. Flynn
We attended stables, as we attended church, in our best clothes, thereby no doubt showing the degree of respect due to horses. -- Osbert Sitwell
I don't know whether we Church members fully appreciate the Book of Mormon, one of our sacred scriptures, as we really should. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
It's not how high we jump off our feet in church, it's what we do with them when we hit the ground! -- Tom Ridge
The Coptic Church respects the law but it does not accept rulings that go against the Bible and our freedom of religion. -- Pope Shenouda III
Hold firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this, and you dissolve the unity of the Church. -- Thomas Aquinas

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