Quotes about Church
Christian proclamation might make the gospel audible, but Christians living together in local congregations make the gospel visible (see John 13:34-35). The church is the gospel made visible.
— Mark Dever
God is not just saving individuals and preparing them for heaven; rather, He is creating a people among whom He can live and who in their life together will reproduce God's life and character.
— Gordon Fee
The Christian life was never meant to be lived alone. Together we're a body. A family. The people of God.
— Matthew West
It is the voice of the Church that is heard in singing together. It is not you that sings, it is the Church that is singing, and you, as a member of the Church, may share in its song.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
What I thought as a young adult is you act like you have it together whether or not you do because that is what church people do. That is not what God has called us to do.
— Beth Moore
The problem is, many of the people in need of saving are in churches, and at least part of what they need saving from is the idea that God sees the world the same way they do.
— Barbara Brown Taylor
With so much effort being poured into church growth, so much press being given to the benefits of faith, and so much flexing of religious muscle in the public square, the poor in spirit have no one but Jesus to call them blessed anymore.
— Barbara Brown Taylor
They all attended Hester's church, which Dellarobia viewed as a complicated pyramid scheme of moral debt and credit resting ultimately on the shoulders of the Lord, but rife with middle managers.
— Barbara Kingsolver
Tomorrow these villagers would carry their secret icons into the church without any priest and light the candles themselves, moving together in single-minded grace. Like the school of the fish, so driven to righteousness they could flout the law, declare the safety of their souls, then go home and destroy the evidence.
— Barbara Kingsolver
It's football. Take that out of high school, it's church with no Jesus. Who would even go?
— Barbara Kingsolver
Attending church does not necessarily mean living the principles taught in those meeting. You can be active in a church but inactive in its gospel.
— Stephen Covey
churchgoing is not synonymous with personal spirituality. There are some people who get so busy in church worship and projects that they become insensitive to the pressing human needs that sourround them, contradicting the very precepts they profess to believe deeply.
— Stephen Covey