Quotes about Church

People are so shocked when they find ... out I am Protestant. I am Presbyterian. And I go to church and I love God and I love my church.

Love the church because Jesus loves it.

Some of you are sitting at home saying, 'I don't need a church to love God,' and I am here telling you that you are so wrong.

Father, look upon us in Your goodness and kindness, we pray as a church. Help us to love each other.

The Church counters the culture of death with the culture of love.

As a church we must love Jesus, or else we have lost our reason for existence.

The church is the primary arena in which we learn that glory does not consist in what we do for God but in what God does for us.

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.

I was astonished to learn in one of these best-selling books (on church life) that the size of my church parking lot had far more to do with how things fared in my congregation than my choice of texts in preaching. I was being lied to and I knew it.

The North American church at present is conspicuous for replacing the Jesus way with the American way.

The devil does some of his best work behind stained glass.

The contrast between world and church in this regard is stark: American culture is doing its dead level best with its celebrities, consumerism, and violence to keep us in a perpetually arrested state of adolescence. Yet all the while the church is quietly and without false advertising immersing us in the conditions of becoming mature to the measure of the full stature of Christ.