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Each of those churches shows certain books, which they call revelation, or the Word of God. The Jews...

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Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported enti...

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The people of God cannot be changed until the outcasts are restored to its body.

The central ideas of Christianity — an angry God and vicarious atonement — are contrary to every fac...

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Christian missions to India imply that India is a land of heathens, and, therefore, stands on the sa...

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Cathedrals Luxury liners laden with souls Holding to the east their hulls of stone.

I thought that some of the hymns bespoke the true religion of the place. The people didn't really wa...

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My vision of the gathered church that had come to me... had been replaced by a vision of the gathere...

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The fact that political ideologies are tangible realities is not a proof of their vitally necessary ...

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The greatest gift a church can receive is to have a group of families who take their responsibilitie...

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I don't like to hear cut and dried sermons. No—when I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if...

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If we're going to impact our world in the name of Jesus, it will be because people like you and me t...

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Alan HirschThe Forgotten Ways: Reactivating the Missional Church

Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles, expressions of...

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Alan HirschThe Shaping of Things to Come: Innovation and Mission for the 21st Century Church

The style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue seems completely different from the s...

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I therefore used the last ten minutes of our classes to recite with them words from the Bible and ve...

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You telling me God love you, and you ain't never done nothing for him? I mean, not go to church, sin...

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Alice WalkerThe Color Purple

My mother was a not-too-devoted atheist. She went to Episcopal church on Christmas Eve every year, a...

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I realized I was going to get through this disappointing service, and anyway, you have to be somewhe...

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Anne LamottGrace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith

Teenagers who do not go to church are adored by God, but they don't get to meet some of the people w...

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Anne LamottPlan B: Further Thoughts on Faith

Then the singing enveloped me. It was furry and resonant, coming from everyone's very heart. There w...

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Anne LamottTraveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

The higher Christian churches...come at God with an unwarranted air of professionalism, with authori...

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In a system of full capitalism, there should be (but, historically, has not yet been) a complete sep...

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Ayn RandThe Voice of Reason: Essays in Objectivist Thought

According to the historian William H. McNeil, European churches did not have pews until sometime in ...

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One of the most amazing and perplexing features of mainstream Christianity is that seminarians who l...

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Go is the first part of the word Gospel.It should be the watchword of every true follower of Christ....

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When the Christian or the church becomes popular with the unbelieving world, something is seriously ...

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There will come a time when people hungering for the truth will seek it where it is supposedly disse...

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Unless the church quickly recovers the authoritative biblical message, we may witness the spectacle ...

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Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

What right does any church have even attempting to approve of lifestyles or certain acts for which G...

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Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

There are many who sit in some churches week after week, year after year, without hearing the whole ...

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Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

The church has lost its ability to discipline members who live openly in sin. Consequently, we have ...

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Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

The church is a storehouse of spiritual food whereby the inner man is fed, nourished, and developed ...

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It could be said that going to church will not make one a Christian. But . . . refusing to fellowshi...

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I hope the day will never come when the church abandons the “class meeting” and the prayer service ....

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Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

Down through the centuries the church has contributed more than any other single agency in lifting s...

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The church isn’t just a particular building or congregation but the spiritual fellowship of all who ...

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Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

Many churches have molded their programs around the community—not the Word of God.

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Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

The Lord did not design the church to cater to people’s needs—the Lord breathed life into the church...

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Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

Statistics indicate that the church is rapidly losing in the population explosion. There are fewer C...

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Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

The Bible nowhere teaches that the church will ultimately convert the whole world to Jesus Christ. T...

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Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

Thousands of people have entered churches without discovering a vital experience with Jesus Christ. ...

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Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

I am convinced if the church went back to the main task of proclaiming the Gospel it would see peopl...

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Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

If we in the church want a cause to fight, let’s fight sin. Let’s reveal its hideousness. Let’s show...

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The blood of Christ purchased the church.

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Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

The word church as applied to the Christian society was first used by Jesus Himself when He told Pet...

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Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

Pentecost was the day of power of the Holy Spirit. It was the day the Christian church was born.

The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.

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Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

Before three thousand people were brought into the church on the day of Pentecost, the disciples had...

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Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

If the church is acceptable to this present ageand is not suffering reproach, then it is not the tru...

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Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

The church should not reflect pop culture but portray godly attributes. The church should not seek p...

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The church is blending into the community by embracing what the world enjoys and, in turn, bringing ...

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Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

Christ’s church is a place to grow people up in the Lord, not to enhance our leisure time.

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Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

Church is not for pretenders and performers. Church is a place for pastors to preach principles of t...

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Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

No church is perfect, but don’t let that discourage you. Someone has said that if you ever find one ...

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The church should not be pampered but rather prepare for, and expect, persecution—for it is Christ’s...

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We have become so tolerant and accepting of the world’s ways that it is hard for many in the church ...

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Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

When the church begins to entertain the flock and respond to the cult of self—it is diminished to a ...

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Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

The fiercest storm is taking place in some of our churches—the unbelief and disobedience of God’s Wo...

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Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

The church is in turmoil today. The church is not to reflect the world but to be a portrait of Jesus...

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Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

In our desire to make Christ known and to increase the influence of the church, we are many times pr...

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Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

I am afraid the church is trying to speak out on too many issues that really do not concern the chur...

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Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

In some churches today and on some religious television programs, we see the attempt to make Christi...

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Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

In thousands of churches [people] are led astray theologically. Thus spiritually and morally they ar...

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Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

The church in America has been deeply infiltrated by the “world,” and in the process it is beginning...

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Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

Satan] invades the Sunday school, the Bible class, and even the pulpit. He even invades the church u...

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Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

God did not ordain that the church should drift aimlessly in the seas of uncertainty without compass...

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Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

The church should be setting the pace. The church should be taking its proper place of leadership in...

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Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

The church holds the key to revival. It is within our grasp.

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Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

America and Western Europe are on a moneymaking, pleasure-mad spree unparalleled in the history of t...

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We have been trying to solve every ill of society as though society were made up of regenerate men t...

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Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

God’s church is a Bible-centered church, and it grows strong under persecution.

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Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

Preaching the whole council of God involves man’s environment and physical being as well as his soul...

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Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

Sometimes it is difficult to differentiate the Christian from the man of the world. In America, for ...

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Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

It is vitally important for local church leaders to keep in touch with the spiritual state of their ...

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Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

The church is far greater than [a building or denomination]. It includes the whole family of God—tha...

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Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

Go is the first part of the word Gospel.It should be the watchword of every true follower of Christ....

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When the Christian or the church becomes popular with the unbelieving world, something is seriously ...

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There will come a time when people hungering for the truth will seek it where it is supposedly disse...

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Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

Unless the church quickly recovers the authoritative biblical message, we may witness the spectacle ...

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Picture of Billy Graham
Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

What right does any church have even attempting to approve of lifestyles or certain acts for which G...

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Picture of Billy Graham
Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

There are many who sit in some churches week after week, year after year, without hearing the whole ...

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Picture of Billy Graham
Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

The church has lost its ability to discipline members who live openly in sin. Consequently, we have ...

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Picture of Billy Graham
Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

The church is a storehouse of spiritual food whereby the inner man is fed, nourished, and developed ...

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Picture of Billy Graham
Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

It could be said that going to church will not make one a Christian. But . . . refusing to fellowshi...

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Picture of Billy Graham
Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

I hope the day will never come when the church abandons the “class meeting” and the prayer service ....

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Picture of Billy Graham
Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

Down through the centuries the church has contributed more than any other single agency in lifting s...

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The church isn’t just a particular building or congregation but the spiritual fellowship of all who ...

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Picture of Billy Graham
Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

Many churches have molded their programs around the community—not the Word of God.

Picture of Billy Graham
Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

The Lord did not design the church to cater to people’s needs—the Lord breathed life into the church...

Show More
Picture of Billy Graham
Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

Statistics indicate that the church is rapidly losing in the population explosion. There are fewer C...

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Picture of Billy Graham
Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

The Bible nowhere teaches that the church will ultimately convert the whole world to Jesus Christ. T...

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Picture of Billy Graham
Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

Thousands of people have entered churches without discovering a vital experience with Jesus Christ. ...

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Picture of Billy Graham
Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

I am convinced if the church went back to the main task of proclaiming the Gospel it would see peopl...

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Picture of Billy Graham
Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

If we in the church want a cause to fight, let’s fight sin. Let’s reveal its hideousness. Let’s show...

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Picture of Billy Graham
Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

The blood of Christ purchased the church.

Picture of Billy Graham
Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

The word church as applied to the Christian society was first used by Jesus Himself when He told Pet...

Show More
Picture of Billy Graham
Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

Pentecost was the day of power of the Holy Spirit. It was the day the Christian church was born.

The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.

Picture of Billy Graham
Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

Before three thousand people were brought into the church on the day of Pentecost, the disciples had...

Show More
Picture of Billy Graham
Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

If the church is acceptable to this present ageand is not suffering reproach, then it is not the tru...

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Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes