Church Quotations | Page 5

The bible is not a blueprint for every day of your life, it is an inspiration not a blueprint. That requires that we listen to one another and get challenged and grow by living with difference within the body of the church.

I'm getting married in the morning! / Ding dong! the bells are gonna chime. / Pull out the stopper! Let's have a whopper! / But get me to the church on time!.

Night, like a giant, fills the church, from pavement to roof, and holds dominion through the silent hours. Pale dawn again comes peeping through the windows: and, giving place to day, sees night withdraw into the vaults, and follows it, and drives it out, and hides among the dead.

Some wish to live within the sound of a chapel bell, I want to run a rescue shop within a yard of Hell.

How little chance the Holy Ghost has nowadays. The churches and missionary societies have so bound Him in red tape that they practically ask Him to sit in a corner while they do the work themselves.

The task of the Church after Jesus' resurrection and ascension was to proclaim the forgiveness of sins to all nations.

I certainly respect other people's opinions, but I would not vote for a woman to be the pastor of a church.

If the church marries herself to the spirit of the times, she will find herself a widow in the next generation.

The moment the church of God shall despise the pulpit, God will despise her.

If you have to give a carnival to get people to come to church, then you will have to keep giving carnivals to keep them coming back.