Storytellers are a threat. They threaten all champions of control, they frighten usurpers of the right-to-freedom of the human spirit -- in state, in church or mosque, in party congress, in the university or wherever.
Every once in a while I check and I say, do I still believe in God? And the answer is absolutely yes. And then I think, I suppose I should go to church now. But after going to so many churches in my life and trying to go with the flow with so many denominations, Eastern and Western, I don't really feel I need to go to church at all.
If you choose to be obedient to God, God meets you with divine enablement.
I leave it to the faithful to burn each other's churches and mosques and synagogues, which they can be always relied upon to do
I go to church every Sunday. I've always been a believer. I love singing. I don't have the best voice - I just love getting my emotions out.
Christians don't tell lies, they just go to church and sing them. How many times have you stood and sang, “Take my life and let it be” when you haven't given Him one ounce?
I am convinced that missionary work is not easy because salvation is not a cheap experience. Salvation never was easy. We are the Church of Jesus Christ, this is the truth, and He is our Great Eternal Head. How could we believe it would be easy for us when it was never, ever easy for Him?
Those who are the most devout, outstanding Unification Church members are they the most beautiful people externally or just so-so? Very often, those who have the features of an Idaho potato are the most loyal members of the Unification Church.
Wanderers, Dublin's oldest rugby club, has been described more than once as the club of the Church and the Army: the wags added ". . . unfortunately the wrong Church and the wrong Army. "
I'm sick of people who've never been to church telling me that church is full of hypocrites, and people who've never read the Bible telling me that it's baloney.
It doesn't say anywhere in the Constitution this idea of the separation of church and state.
The expiatory church of La Sagrada Família is made by the people and is mirrored in them. It is a work that is in the hands of God and the will of the people.
The clerical system of church management is exceedingly popular, but the whole thought is foreign to Scripture.
I am in love with every church And mosque And temple And any kind of shrine Because I know it is there That people say the different names Of the One God.
New believers are the lifeblood of the church. We can either evangelize or fossilize.
Love without courage and wisdom is sentimentality, as with the ordinary church member. Courage without love and wisdom is foolhardiness, as with the ordinary soldier. Wisdom without love and courage is cowardice, as with the ordinary intellectual. But the one who has love, courage and wisdom moves the world.
A beggarly people, A church and no steeple.
Too many church services start at eleven sharp and end at twelve dull.
Depend upon it, as long as the church is living so much like the world, we cannot expect our children to be brought into the fold.
God literally moves his throne from heaven. When this happens the church is building a chair, a seat, a place for God to come.