T Quotes
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“The church teaches us that we can make God happy by being miserable ourselves.”
Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll
“The church that can't worship must be entertained. And leaders who can't lead a church to worship must provide the entertainment.”
“The church that does not evangelize will fossilize.”
Source: I Have Walked Alone with Jesus : Day by Day Meditations of Oswald J. Smith
“The church that doesn't want to grow is saying to the world, "go to hell."”
Source: The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For?
“The church that is man-managed instead of God-governed is doomed to failure. A ministry that is college-trained but not Spirit-filled works no miracles.”
Source: Why Revival Tarries
“The church that is married to the spirit of this age, becomes a widow in the next.”
“The church that is not jealously protected by mighty intercession and sacrificial labors will before long become the abode of every evil bird and the hiding place for unsuspected corruption. The creeping wilderness will soon take over that church that trusts in its own strength and forgets to watch and pray.”
“The church that preaches the gospel in all of its fullness, except as it applies to the great social ills of the day, is failing to preach the gospel.”
“The church that silences questions builds a fortress for ignorance”
“The church that took two thousand years to build in Iraq and Syria, started by the apostles themselves, has nearly been destroyed in the blink of an eye at the hands of manics who won't stop until they win or they die. At least that's what everyone I met in Iraq believes. Every single one of them.”
“The church that will not give up will be outdated and passed by, quicker than they realize.”
“The church the Bible described is exciting and adventurous and wrought with sacrifice. It cost believers everything, and they still came.”
Source: 7: An Experimental Mutiny Against Excess
“The Church therefore has one inescapable task: To lift up Christ. When she seeks to lift herself up she becomes weak, but when she acknowledges her own weakness and proclaims her Lord, she is strong.”
“The Church today is more likely to alienate than to seduce...”
Source: On the Genealogy of Morals / Ecce Homo
“The church today is riddled with fad doctrines and new sounds that distract from the clear message of the Great commission in the New Testament. Any message that attracts you which does not bring glory to Christ is the message of a seducing spirit and the man giving it is in deception.”
“The church trembled and the hail hammered the roof, but his words glided in the air, joyful and bright like the birds at the cliffs. They floated freely around one another without colliding and the wind carried them high up into heaven.”
“The Church tries to fit Christ into it, not the Church into Christ.”
Source: Complete Works
“The Church used to absolve sinners; today it has the gall to absolve sins.”
“The Church used to be a lifeboat rescuing the perishing. Now she is a cruise ship recruiting the promising.”
“The church used to confess its sin, now it confesses its right.”
“The church wanted souls; the government wanted subjects and taxes; the conquistadors wanted gold. In each case, they needed people, and they needed people identified as Indian. But they each sought to remake Indigenous peoples to fit their own desires. The church claimed rights to evangelize Indigenous peoples, the Crown to tax them, and the conquistadors to enslave them. As they jostled for control, they subjected Indigenous forms of religion, governance, and labor to their sometimes-competing objectives.”
Source: Central America's Forgotten History: Revolution, Violence, and the Roots of Migration
“The church wanted us to give out food to malnourished children, but they didn't want us to question why they were malnourished to begin with.”
Source: Don't Be Afraid, Gringo
“The church was always very adept at incorporating all the different artistic disciplines. What we call the church is actually an assemblage of different artistic forms, whether in its Biblical literature, or sculpture, painting, music.”
“The Church was as concerned with this world as the next: I saw that virtually all of the achievements of Africans seemed to have come about through the missionary work of the Church.”
Source: Long Walk To Freedom
“The church was custom built by Jesus, and we are all works in progress. We do not expect people to get their sin in order before attending church any more than a hospital expects people to get healed before they show up.”
Source: A Call to Resurgence: Will Christianity Have a Funeral or a Future?
“The church was first established and organized with a world-wide mission for a world-wide work.”
Source: The Spontaneous Expansion of the Church and the Causes Which Hinder it
“The Church was founded upon Peter: although elsewhere the same is attributed to all the Apostles, and they all receive the keys of the kingdom of heaven, the strength of the Church depends upon them all alike, yet one among the twelve is chosen so that when a head has been appointed, there may be no occasion for schism.”
“The church was made for mission-God's mission”
Source: The Mission of God: Unlocking the Bible's Grand Narrative
“The Church was redeemed at the price of Christ's blood. Jew or Greek, it makes no difference; but if he has believed, he must circumcise himself from his sins [in baptism (Col. 2:11-12)] so that he can be saved . . . for no one ascends into the kingdom of heaven except through the sacrament of baptism . . . "Unless a man be born again of water and the Holy Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God"”
“The Church was resolved to have a New Testament, and as, after the lapse of more than three hundred years, no handwriting could be proved or disproved, the Church, which like former impostors had then gotten possession of the State, had everything its own way. It invented creeds, such as that called the Apostle's Creed, the Nicean Creed, the Athanasian Creed, and out of the loads of rubbish that were presented it voted four to be Gospels, and others to be Epistles, as we now find them arranged.”
Source: Appendix to the Theological Works of Thomas Paine
“The church was simply the former chapel of the castle, fronting upon its grass-grown court, which, however, was of generous enough width to have given up its quaintest corner to a little graveyard. Here the very headstones themselves seemed to sleep, as they slanted into the grass.”
Source: The American
“The church was the political headquarters our communities turned to long before we had 'elected' officials advocating for us. (Reclaiming the Black Church: A Call to Restore Leadership, Unity, and Purpose – blog)”
“The Church welcomes technological progress and receives it with love, for it is an indubitable fact that technological progress comes from God and, therefore, can and must lead to Him.”
“The church which is not a missionary church will be a missing church when Jesus comes.”
“The church, which squatted among the headstones like a wet mother dodo, had been at various times Presbyterian, Congregationalist, Unitarian, and Universally Apocalyptic. It was now the Church of God the Utterly Indifferent.”
Source: The Sirens of Titan
“The Church which taught men not to keep faith with heretics, had no claim to toleration.”
“The Church will be punished because the majority of her members, high and low, will become so perverted. The Church will sink deeper and deeper until she will at last seem to be extinguished, and the succession of Peter and the other Apostles to have expired. But, after this, she will be victoriously exalted in the sight of all doubters.”
“the Church will go on being a Royal Academy of Males.”
Source: Pilgrimage
“The Church will never reach her full redemptive potential until men and women with the leadership gift step up and lead.”
“The church will not stay the same. It will either blossom because someone understands the season the church is in, or it will wither very quickly.”
“The Church will pray to God for the dead. The survivor has honour and glory.”
“The Church wishes, for example, to apply Rosmini's invitation to 'hear loftily of God' with worthy liturgical celebrations, stripping the concept of God from the guises, at times ingenuous and caricatural, in which an agrarian and prescientific civilization had dressed it. But it is a hard job. On the right, they shout impiety and sacrilege every time an old ritual is abandoned for a new one. On the left, vice versa, novelty is indiscriminately hailed for the sake of novelty, the whole edifice of the past is merrily dismantled, paintings and statues are sent up to the attic; idolatry and superstition are found everywhere, and it is even said that, to safeguard God's dignity, God must be spoken of in only the most select terms, or there must actually be silence.”
Source: Illustrissimi: Letters from Pope John Paul I
“The Church worked hard at it night and day during nine centuries and imprisoned, tortured, hanged, and burned whole hordes and armies of witches, and washed the Christian world clean with their foul blood. Then it was discovered that there was no such thing as witches, and never had been. One doesn't know whether to laugh or to cry. Who discovered that there was no such thing as a witch - the priest, the parson? No, these never discover anything.”
“The church works best not as a power center, rather as a countercultural community - in the world but not of it - that shows others how to live the most fulfilled and meaningful life on earth. In modern society that means rejecting the false gods of independence, success, and pleasure and replacing them with love for God and neighbor.”
“The church would betray its own love for God and its fidelity to the gospel if it stopped being . . . a defender of the rights of the poor . . . a humanizer of every legitimate struggle to achieve a more just society . . . that prepares the way for the true reign of God in history.”
“The Church's basic moral principle regarding reproductive technologies is this: if a given technology assists the marital embrace in achieving its natural end, it can be morally acceptable, even praiseworthy. However, if it replaces the marital embrace as the means by which the child is conceived, it's not in keeping with God's design.”
“The Church's challenge is staying close to the people, close to the people of the United States, not being a detached Church from the people but close to them, close, close, and this is something that the Church in the United States has understood and understood well.”
“The church's final word is not 'church' but the glory of the Father and the Son in the Spirit of liberty”
Source: The church in the power of the spirit: a contribution of Messianic Ecclesiology
“The Church's foundation is unshakable and firm against the assaults of the raging sea. Waves lash at the Church but do not shatter it. Although the elements of this world constantly batter and crash against her, she offers the safest harbor of salvation for all in distress.”
“The church's job is to equip the saints for works of service in the world.”