Church sayings

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◆ Jesus is interested in a relationship with you, not a 45 minute date every Sunday morning. Make Him first in your life.

- Joyce Meyer99

◆ Church is not just about Sunday morning; you need to get this. This confessing, this joining together, can't all happen on Sunday morning. It can start there, but we have to determine that we are going to give ourselves to the body, not just on Sunday morning, but in our daily lives.

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◆ Just because you don't go to church Sunday morning doesn't mean you forfeit your right of having any help or guidance from God.

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◆ Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and state forever separate.

- Ulysses S Grant99

◆ If there were no ministers and no priests, how long would there be any churches? Lemuel K

- Lemuel K Washburn99

◆ One must beware of ministers who can do nothing without money, and those who want to do everything with money.

- Indira Gandhi99

◆ The purpose of church is that we might learn to love unconditionally those we wouldn't normally like.

- Richard Kuehn99

◆ (The Catholic Church must) clean out the pedophiles, break up the gay cliques, tighten up the seminary, and restore the good name of the priesthood

- Andrew Greeley99

◆ Doctrinal rightness and rightness of ecclesiastical position are important, but only as a starting point to go on into a living relationship - and not as ends in themselves

- Francis Schaeffer99

◆ The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women's emancipation

- Elizabeth Cady Stanton99

◆ People go to church for the same reasons they go to a tavern: to stupefy themselves, to forget their misery, to imagine themselves, for a few minutes anyway, free and happy

- Mikhail Bakunin99

◆ The church is near but the road is icy, the bar is far away but I will walk carefully

- Russian Proverb99

◆ Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God.

- Lenny Bruce99

◆ The perfect church service,would be one we were almost unaware of. Our attention would have been on God.

- CS Lewis99

◆ The Church knew what the psalmist knew: Music praises God. Music is well or better able to praise him than the building of the church and all its decoration; it is the Church's greatest ornament.

- Igor Stravinsky99