C Quotes
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“Church is a moment in time when the kingdom of God draws near, when a meal, a story, a song, an apology, and even a failure id made holy by the presence of Jesus among us and within us.”
“Church is a place where you get to practice what it means to be human.”
“Church is a wonderful place but it also at times it has represented the worst of who we are.”
Source: The Black Family's Guide to Healing Emotional Wounds
“Church is great, but I found my church here. Hugh Hefner has been nothing but a gentleman.”
“Church is important to most folks in the South. So the most important thing going is basically ruled by men as decreed by the Big Man himself. Not only that, but the church puts pressures on women that it does not put on men. Young women are expected to be chaste, moral, and pure, whereas young men are given way more leeway, ’cause, ya know, boys will be boys. Girls are expected to marry young and have kids, be a helpmate to their husbands (who are basically like having another child), and, of course, raise perfect little Christian babies to make this world a better place.
So while it’s the preacher man who controls the church, it’s the women—those helpmates—who keep that shit going. They keep the pews tidy and wash the windows; type up the bulletins; volunteer for Sunday school, the nursery, youth group, and Vacation Bible School; fry the chicken for the postchurch dinners; organize the monthly potluck dinners, the spaghetti supper to raise money for a new roof, and the church fund drive; plant flowers in the front of the church, make food for sick parishioners, serve food after funerals, put together the Christmas pageant, get Easter lilies for Easter, wash the choir robes, organize the church trip, bake cookies for the bake sale to fund the church trip, pray unceasingly for their husband and their pastor and their kids and never complain, and then make sure their skirts are ironed for Sunday mornin’ service. All this while in most churches not being allowed to speak with any authority on the direction or doctrine of the church.
No, no, ladies, the heavy lifting—thinkin’ up shit to say, standing up at the lectern telling people what to do, counting the money—that ain’t for yuns. So sorry.”
Source: The Liberal Redneck Manifesto: Draggin' Dixie Outta the Dark
“Church is missing transcendence. My generation was raised on a religion of moral control. Do this. Don't do that. And a lot of self-help religion. Feel better. Get out of debt. Six ways to overcome your fears. Seven ways not to lust. Ultimately that message didn't work. It was empty. There was no transcendence. The omniscient, omnipresent, all-powerful God of the universe wasn't the focus.”
“Church is not a museum for Saints, but rather a hospital for sinners.”
“Church is not an organization you join; it is a family where you belong, a home where you are loved and a hospital where you find healing.”
“Church is not meant to be fun. It's meant to be formative.”
“Church is not ‘Where’ but ‘Who’.
Church is not about the Place but the People.
Church is our HOME.
Church is about the People & Relationships.”
Source: How to Grow Your Church Younger and Stronger: The Story of the Kids who Built a World-Class Church
“Church is so confusing for Juvenalius. His new pastor preaches nothing but hate and condemnation of gays and lesbians, but no matter how carefully he reads his Bible, he can’t find where it says God hates him. Will things change when Juve's boyfriend Devis suggests that they all go to his church instead?”
“Church is the people that we get to do life with. It's the people that have courageous conversations with us. It's the people that love us. It's the people that invest in us. It's the people we get to do life with. And we also get to share with them. It's being able to have those people in our lives who we're able to inspire and they're able to inspire us. When we're down, they pick us up. When they're down, we pick them up. Iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another.”
“Church is the textured context in which we grow up in Christ to maturity. But church is difficult. Sooner or later, though, if we are serious about growing up in Christ, we have to deal with church. I say sooner.”
Source: Practice Resurrection: A Conversation on Growing Up in Christ
“Church is too often the most risky place to be spiritually honest.”
Source: The Sin of Certainty: Why God Desires Our Trust More Than Our "Correct" Beliefs
“Church is what you do. Church is who you are. Church is the human outworking of the person of Jesus Christ. Let's not go to Church, let's be the Church.”
“Church leaders have little to offer their congregants in the way of practical sex advice. This is why 'preacher' and 'sex god' are never synonyms.”
“Church leaders may get disappointed in ministry if they do not know God’s time.”
“Church, let’s shift the narrative from “marriage equals success” to “embracing where God has you equals success.”
Source: Is Being Single a Gift?: Trusting God While Unpacking Hard Truths on Singleness
“Church members are either pillars or caterpillars. The pillars hold up the church, and the caterpillars just crawl in and out.”
“Church membership is a gift. A gift must be treasured. It should not be taken for granted or considered lightly. Because it is a gift, we must always be thankful for it. And when we are thankful for something, we have less time and energy to be negative...Healthy church membership means you find your joy in being last, instead of seeking your way and being first.”
“Church membership was so important that Paul and Silas baptized the Philippian jailer into the membership of Christ's church at midnight with Paul's back still bloody from a beating! He did not even wait till morning! Identification with Christ's church is important; without it, one must be treated 'as a heathen and publican.'”
“Church of Jesus, let us please be men and women who understand the difference between moralism and the gospel of Jesus Christ. Let’s be careful to preach the dos and don’ts of Scripture in the shadow of the cross’s ‘Done!’”
“Church of painful love - unfulfilled,unrequited & unattained”
Source: Inferno: Special Illustrated Edition (Enhanced): Featuring Robert Langdon
“Church on time, makes me party.”
“Church only benefits you when you participate in the presence of God.”
“Church planting is still the most effective means for advancing the gospel locally, regionally and globally.”
“Church practice has been more influenced by Plato than by Jesus. We invariably prefer the universal synthesis, the answer that settles all the dust and resolves every question even when it is not entirely true over the mercy and grace of God.”
Source: Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life
“Church reminded me very much of going to shul. It was a bunch of men wearing long robes, speaking in a language I didn't understand.”
“Church's boss was a dick too--justice!”
Source: Grave Beginnings
“Church should be a place where love is evident, God delivers, lives are changed, hearts are healed, and families restored.”
“Church should be enjoyed, not endured.”
Source: How To Maximise Your Life
“Church should be like a dating service: tell you about His heart and then give you His contact information.”
“Church tax exemption means that we all drop our money in the collection boxes, whether we go to church or not and whether we are interested in the church or not. It is systematic and complete robbery, from which none of us escapes.”
“Church unity comes from corporate humility.”
“Church wants you on your place. Kneel, stand, kneel, stand. If you go for that sort of thing, I don't know what to do for you. A man makes his own way. No one gives it to you. You have to take it. 'Non serviam'.”
“Church was a requirement, there was no choice in the matter, so was vacation bible school. Gospel has been in me since I was a kid.”
“Church was doing what he often did when dropped - lying on his back with all four legs in the air, pretending to be dead in order to induce guilt in his owners.”
Source: City of Lost Souls
“Church was never intended to be a place where we serve God to the exclusion of meeting with Him.”
“Church was the thing for me. The fellowship and the message that was given and singing in the choir and singing the solos and really listening to the words that you were singing and seeing how it affected people was huge for me.”
“Church wealth are moving into everything-gas stations, banks, television stations, supermarket chains, hotels, steel mills, resort areas, farms, wine factories, warehouses, bottling works, printing plants, schools, theaters-everything you could conceivably think of that has nothing to do with religion, they are moving into big. They're even coming in as stockholders in the big oil companies, and the Bank of America is almost entirely owned by the Catholic Church.”
“CHURCH WINDOWS ARE MY MIRRORS
Blessed are the scars and the holiness of our hearts.
Only saints break it without remorse for sinners, I expect nothing else but playing their part with our gentle soul.
Church windows are my mirrors and prayers my gate to heavens end - I find everything by losing myself-nothing was ever lost from the beginning.”
“Church work ought to be at its core the work of loving people
like God loves them”
“Church, the spiritual power, and the executive power are working today united in a system that confronts people. This alliance or cooperation between the spiritual power and the executive power, between the church and the government, unfortunately takes away the Church's basic mission. It takes away their right to speak on moral or ethical subjects.”
“Church: if the world could see a snapshot of our worship today, would they perceive that we believe our God is worthy of praise?”
“Churches all over the country have decided they love their traditions more than their children.”
“Churches and mosques you shall not heed / The religion of Albanians is Albanism”
“Churches and trains
they all look the same to me now
they shoot you some place
while we ache to come home somehow.”
“Churches are good for prayer, but so are garages and cars and mountains and showers and dance floors.”
Source: Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith
“Churches are having a limited impact on society because they fail to understand that the goal of the church is not the church itself but the kingdom.”
Source: The Kingdom Agenda
“Churches are healthier and stronger if they assume responsibility both for financing their own programs and for stimulating their members to accept that responsibility.”
Source: Religious Liberty and the Secular State: The Constitutional Context