“The Christian churches and Christianity have nothing in common save in name: they are utterly hostile opposites. The churches are arrogance, violence, usurpation, rigidity, death; Christianity is humility, penitence, submissiveness, progress, life.” ChristianNamesChurchCommonChristianityProgressViolenceHumilityOppositesChristian LifeArroganceHostileRigidityChristian ChurchUsurpationPenitence Author:Leo Tolstoy
“One should not seek among others the truth that can be easily gotten from the Church. For in her, as in a rich treasury, the apostles have placed all that pertains to truth, so that everyone can drink this beverage of life. She is the door of life.” InspirationalShouldChristianChurchReligiousRichDoorsDrinkChristian LifeOrthodoxApostlesTreasuryBeverages Author:Irenaeus of Lyons
“You can be genuinely forgiven by God and other people but still suffer the consequences from a particular sin in your life.” PeopleStillsChristianSufferingLeadershipChurchSinParticularConsequenceChristian LifeForgiven Author:Johnny Hunt
“The Christian life is anything but boring.” ChristianLife IsLeadershipChurchBoringChristian Life Author:Johnny Hunt
“In our manner of speech, our plans of living, our dealings with others, our conduct and walk in the church and out of it-all should be done as becomes the gospel (Phil. 1:27).” ShouldDoneChristianChurchWalksPlansBlessingSpeechChristian LifeDealingsChastisement Author:Albert C. Barnes
“The key to maturity is time and community. Discernment and godly wisdom develop in a community that spans generations. The church is called to be this place where the [God's] Spirit uses normal patterns and rhythms of the Christian life in a community, so that we may bear fruit like a well-watered tree. Despite common appearances, the church is the place where God's new creation is coming into existence and being sustained by the Spirit like a great vineyard.” WellsMayUseChristianSpiritCommunityChurchCommonExistenceGenerationsTreeCreationKeysBearsNormalFruitPatternsAppearanceChristian LifeDespiteRhythmMaturityGodlyDiscernmentVineyards Author:Michael Horton
“I taught Sunday school when I was younger, and ended up an elder in the church, and it just seemed to me that a lot of people who went to church certainly weren't - the rest of the week - living what I would call an Christian life.” PeopleSchoolChristianChurchWeekTaughtChristian LifeSundayEldersSunday School Author:Dick Van Dyke
“I do not believe one can experience conversion or the fullness of the Christian life apart from the church.” BelieveChristianChurchConversionChristian LifeFullness Author:Charles Colson