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"The church must be reminded that it is not the master or the servant of the state, but rather the conscience of the state. It must be the guide and the critic of the state, and never its tool. If the church does not recapture its prophetic zeal, it will become an irrelevant social club without moral or spiritual authority."
"When church is over and there's no one there to listen except the only One who matters, do you still have that same passionate joy in your spirit, just to be alone with the Living God?"
"Any revelation from God's Word that does not lead us to an encounter with God only serves to make us more religious. The Church cannot afford 'form without power,' for it creates Christians without purpose."
"God has a plan for His Church upon earth. But alas! we too often make our plan, and we think that we know what ought to be done. We ask God first to bless our feeble efforts, instead of absolutely refusing to go unless God go before us."
"If ever the church is to flourish again, one must begin by instructing the young."
"There is but one Church in which men find salvation, just as outside the ark of Noah it was not possible for anyone to be saved."
"I cannot live in mediocrity, content with merely knowing that there is more of God to experience and explore -and then do nothing about it. Truths that are not experienced are, in effect, more like theories than truths. Whenever God reveals truth to us He is inviting us into a divine encounter."
"Churches are good for prayer, but so are garages and cars and mountains and showers and dance floors."
"In such a fearful world, we need a fearless church"
"The Church exists for nothing else but to draw men into Christ, to make them little Christs. If they are not doing that, all the cathedrals, clergy, missions, sermons, even the Bible itself, are simply a waste of time. God became Man for no other purpose."
"Bells call others, but themselves enter not into the Church."
"Much of today’s church relies more on a book the early church didn't have, than the Holy Spirit they did."
"I thought lacrosse was what you find in la church."
"Politics and church are the same. They keep the people in ignorance."
"The black groups that boycott certain films would do better to get the money together to make the films they want to see, or stay in church and leave us to our work."
"Jesus promised his disciples three things—that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble."
"The Establishment Clause stands as an expression of principle on the part of the Founders of our Constitution that religion is too personal, too sacred, too holy, to permit its 'unhallowed perversion' by a civil magistrate."
"Church should be a place where love is evident, God delivers, lives are changed, hearts are healed, and families restored."
"Wherever we see the Word of God purely preached and heard, there a church of God exists, even if it swarms with many faults."
"The whole world is a theatre for the display of the divine goodness, wisdom, justice, and power, but the Church is the orchestra, as it were—the most conspicuous part of it; and the nearer the approaches are that God makes to us, the more intimate and condescending the communication of his benefits, the more attentively are we called to consider them."
