Church Service Quotes

#1. But the truth is, I can't sip from an hour-long church service on Sunday morning or dash off a hasty prayer or gulp down a daily Bible verse and expect them to sustain me any more than I can expect a glass of water to last for a week.

Lynn Austin

#2. If you leave the church service thinking about how good the pastor was, he has missed the mark. If you leave consumed with Christ, the pastor has been used by the Lord.

Howard G. Hendricks

#3. Being around a church culture, even leading a gathering of believers, I've gotten pretty good at predicting what's going to happen in a church service.

Francis Chan

#4. A church service starts and ends with a prayer. A magazine starts and ends with an advert.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#5. There is no greater Church calling than that of a home teacher. There is no greater Church service rendered to our Father in Heaven's children than the service rendered by a humble, dedicated, committed home teacher.

Ezra Taft Benson

#6. No money, no church service, no eulogy,no funeral procession no matter how elaborate, can remove the legacy of a mean spirit. p 354

Abraham Verghese

#7. Sunday morning church service is not an enormous priority; spending time with other believers is.

Donald Miller

#8. You don't have to be in church service to worship, you can be in your own home. You enhance your spirituality, through the instrument of worship, when you really connect with the invisible, almighty God.

T.D. Jakes

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

C.S. Lewis

#10. My VIP patients often regret so many things on their deathbeds. They regret the bitterness they'll leave in people's hearts. They realize the no money, no church service, no eulogy, no funeral procession no matter how elaborate, can remove the legacy of a mean spirit.

Abraham Verghese

#11. I still love church. My favorite church service is T.D. Jakes at the Potter's House. I don't think there is a better preacher in the country. His ability to interpret scripture is like no other.

Oprah Winfrey

#12. Praise and worship shouldn't be a few hour church service entertainment. It should be our heartbeat and should never depart our lips. 'Let us come before him with thanks giving and extol him with music and song' (Psalms 95:2).

Euginia Herlihy

#13. The music was always in the background, like music at a church service; it was something to depend upon.

Joyce Carol Oates

#14. Worship is not a twenty minute period during a church service, but a lifestyle of relating to God in a particular way.

Mike Bickle

#15. The majority of believers on this earth find it laughable that we could reduce the call to follow Jesus and make disciples to an invitation to sit in church service.

Francis Chan

#16. Did you see the picture of Roy Rogers's horse attending a church service in Pasadena? I forgot whether his name was Tex or Trigger but he was dressed fit to kill and looked like he was having a good time. He doubled the usual attendance.

Flannery O'Connor

#17. The fact is, most people come to faith through the influence of family members, small-group Bible studies, or a conversation with a friend after a church service: Christians intentionally talking about the gospel.

J. Mack Stiles

#18. If you are called upon to play a church service, it is a greater honor than if you were to play a concert on the finest organ in the world ... Thank God each time when you are privileged to sit before the organ console and assist in the worship of the Almighty.

Albert Schweitzer

#19. Fewer and fewer people are attracted to the church service and more and more people are attracted to the service of the church.

Reggie McNeal

#20. We spend more time at cinemas, theaters, art galleries and theme parks than we do at churches, and they have become our new cathedrals. We can spend hours at any of these places of entertainment but if church service goes on too long we get impatient.

Michael Huffington

#21. Our studies consistently show a large majority of people leave their church's service without feeling as though they have connected with God. If those who regularly attend depart with such disappointment and confusion, what must it be like for those who are new to the church adventure?

George Barna

#22. The highest honor in the church is not government but service.

John Calvin

#23. The aim and the result of faithful, fruitful, and fulfilling service is to make God famous.

Don Cousins

#24. When women are restricted from the service of God in any capacity, the Church is mistakenly allowing an imperfect male-dominated ancient culture to drive our understanding and practice of Christ's redeeming work, instead of Jesus Christ and the whole of the Scriptures.

Sarah Bessey

#25. I remember the Inquisition, when pain in service to the church was raised to an art form.

James Rollins

#26. We will become mightier and more powerful in our own right in direct proportion to the service and contribution we make to strengthen the Church.

Henry D. Moyle

#27. The challenge is to make the church's yes to life concrete and effective. The struggle will be long, and it needs each one of you. Place your intelligence, your talents, your enthusiasm, your compassion and your fortitude at the service of life!

Pope John Paul II

#28. Love never ends or fails. Love never ends. Everything must be based on love - the relation between two friends, my ministry, my service; the church services in every field must be based on love. Why? Because God is Love.

Pope Theodoros II

#29. The Church is not an automobile showroom - a place to put ourselves on display so that others can admire our spirituality, capacity, or prosperity. It is more like a service center, where vehicles in need of repair come for maintenance and rehabilitation.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

#30. DEAR GOD, if I survive this near-death experience, I will:
-Well, I already go to church every Sunday
- I do a fair share of community service
-I help organize fundraisers
God, you owe me big time

Hasti Williams

#31. Those called to the service of governance in the church need to have a strong sense of justice, so that any form of injustice becomes unacceptable.

Pope Francis

#32. The Church is the Church only when it exists for others ... not dominating, but helping and serving. It must tell men of every calling what it means to live for Christ, to exist for others.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#33. God wants to use you right where you are. Every day you probably come in contact with people who will never enter a church, or talk with a pastor, or open a Bible - and God wants to use you to point them to Christ. You may be the "bridge" God would use to bring them to Himself.

Billy Graham

#34. If these hands, used to fighting, would be acceptable to His Holiness, we most thankfully dedicate them to the service of him who deserves so well of the Church and of the fatherland.

Giuseppe Garibaldi

#35. Are you serving in your local church or your are being served?

Saji Ijiyemi

#36. Whether or not we belong to a church or service organization or have a job that provides meaningful service opportunities, not a day goes by that we can't at least serve one other human being by making deposits of unconditional love.

Stephen Covey

#37. I know the celestial criteria measure service, not status; the use of our talents, not the relative size of our talent inventories. I know that Church membership is not passive security but continuing opportunity.

Neal A. Maxwell

#38. Service is an imperative for those who worship Jesus Christ and a covenant obligation of those who belong to his Church.

Dallin H. Oaks

#39. An angel is a spiritual creature created by God without a body for the service of Christendom and the church.

Leo Rosten

#40. Where Christ's Spirit is, it will bring men from their altitudes and excellencies, and make them to stoop to serve the church, and account it an honour to be an instrument to do good.

Richard Sibbes

#41. At ten minutes before eleven, Lanie slipped into her usual pew at Christ Episcopal Church. At least she hoped it was her pew. People could get pretty persnickety if you took their seat, and she usually came to early service.

Alicia Hunter Pace

#42. The only use for military service is that it reveals the number of morons in the population," he would remark. "And that can be discovered in the first two weeks; there's no need for two years. Army, Marriage, the Church and Banking: the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Yes, go on, laugh.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#43. It is impossible to stand still in Christian life and service, for when you stand still, you immediately start going backward. "Let us go on!" is God's challenge to His church (Heb. 6:1), and that means moving ahead into new territory.

Warren W. Wiersbe

#44. Living is giving. We live life best as we give our strengths, gifts, and competencies in the service of God's mission. We are called to serve, not survive. Our giving makes a difference in our families, our work, our community, our world, and our church.

Kennon Callahan

#45. Sweetheart," Bill said formally, "I have always loved you, and I will be proud to die in your service. When I'm gone, say a prayer for me in a real church.

Charlaine Harris

#46. Homosexuals want to come into churches and disrupt church services and throw blood all around and try to give people AIDS and spit in the face of ministers.

Pat Robertson

#47. Eisenhower, in contrast, turned spirituality into spectacle. At a transition meeting with his cabinet nominees, he announced that they and their families were invited to a special religious service at National Presbyterian Church the morning of the inauguration.

Kevin M. Kruse

#48. Ellie tells me, often, some variation on this theme: that I am a little too invested in how I'm feeling about church and God, and perhaps not invested enough in how I am serving church, God, neighbor.

Lauren F. Winner

#49. Not many of us serve in the Jesus Way. I don't. In fact, I don't see many people in the churches that do. Most of us do fairly worldly jobs in church and call them "service" and adopt a worldly role and call it "servant.

Christy Wimber

#50. No personal quiet time, no Christian book, no community or small group or service can substitute for the absence of God coming down to meet with His church corporately.

James MacDonald

#51. You may have confidence in the Lord's service. The Savior will help you do what He has called you to do, be it for a time as a worker in the Church or forever as a parent. You may pray for help enough to do the work and know that it will come.

Henry B. Eyring

#52. Just as the medieval church cut off the congregation from participating in the sung worship of the service, today many well-meaning Christian leaders have reconstructed a sung worship wherein congregational participation does not matter.

Douglas Bond

#53. I began to expand my personal service in the church, and to search more diligently for a closer relationship with God among my different business, professional and political interests.

Jimmy Carter

#54. The government and the church are two different realms of service, and those in political office have to face a subtle but important difference between the implementation of the high ideals of religious faith and public duty.

Jimmy Carter

#55. The choir always tittered and whispered all through service. There was once a church choir that was not ill-bred, but I have forgotten where it was, now. It was a great many years ago, and I can scarcely remember anything about it, but I think it was in some foreign country.

Mark Twain

#56. The church may update its techniques and methods, but it is always in service of the institutional organism. This is one of the reasons why the pedophile priest issue is and will remain an endemic disease in the Catholic Church.

Darrel Ray

#57. This isn't a very popular idea in the American church, where we separate our love for God from our service to God. We say we love God most, but it's a vague statement that yields little action.

Francis Chan

#58. It doesn't really matter how much of the rules or the dogma we accepted and lived by if we're not really living by the fundamental creed of the Catholic Church, which is service to others and finding God in ourselves and then seeing God in everyone - including our enemies.

Martin Sheen

#59. You don't go to church to find God; you bring him with you - attitude.

Shannon L. Alder

#60. For years, the church has emphasized evangelism, teaching, fellowship, missions, and service to society to the neglect of the very source of its power
worship.

Robert E. Webber

#61. But this could be interpreted primarily in terms of the ministry of word and sacrament, in accordance with the previous models of the Church, rather than in terms of caritative service.

Avery Dulles

#62. The legacies that parents and church and teachers left to my generation of Black children were priceless but not material: a living faith reflected in daily service, the discipline of hard work and stick-to-itiveness, and a capacity to struggle in the face of adversity.

Marian Wright Edelman

#63. My uncle Ernie didn't believe in God.
At least that's what he said. But he always
Went to church on Christmas. Which I thought
Seriously compromised his atheism.

Eugene H. Peterson

#64. I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#65. The Sunday morning service shows how popular your church is. The evening services show how popular your pastor is. Your private prayer time shows you how popular God is!

Leonard Ravenhill

#66. My elder brothers were all put apprentices to different trades. I was put to the grammar-school at eight years of age, my father intending to devote me, as the tithe of his sons, to the service of the Church.

Benjamin Franklin

#67. Culture wants to sexualize us; church, it seems, wants to desexualize us. In the end, women are left staring in the mirror and wondering if our skirt is too short for Sunday service.

Pam Hogeweide

#68. The second ceremony, are the musical instruments, which began to be used in the service of the church, in the time of Pope Vitalian, about the year 600 as Platina relates out of the Pontifical; or as Aimonius rather thinks in book iv. chapter 114, after the year 820, in the time of Lewis the Pious.

Robert Bellarmine

#69. I hope the day will never come when the church abandons the "class meeting" and the prayer service ... The old-fashioned "testimony" meeting should be revived, for through this medium we can share with others our faith and triumphs as well as our needs and mistakes.

Billy Graham

#70. If Your church says they want revival, check out their midweek prayer service. Someone may be lying

Joe Joe Dawson

#71. I ask the educational system, the parents, the church, and pillars of the community to help shape a new culture of honesty, patriotism, respect, discipline and service for young Filipinos.

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

#72. It's a wonder Hell don't open up and swallow her as the highlight of the service.

K. Martin Beckner

#73. It's because of you that I can go to any church and take whatever the service has to offer, all of it up for interpretation except kindness.

Mary-Louise Parker

#74. Communication has always been at the service of power. Michelangelo painted the Sistine Chapel for the Pope. Is it not an advertisement for the Church? I try to make the best pictures I can and sometimes they are used in advertising campaigns.

Oliviero Toscani

#75. I believe that a great number of people are going to die and go to hell because they're counting on their religiosity in the church instead of their relationship with Jesus to get them to heaven. They give lip service to repentance and faith, but they've never been born again.

Adrian Rogers

#76. The Church is or should go back to being a community of God's people, and priests, pastors and bishops, who have the care of souls, are at the service of the people of God.

Pope Francis

#77. Along that straight and true path there are other goals: missionary service, temple marriage, Church activity, scripture study, prayer, temple work. There are countless worthy goals to reach as we travel through life. Needed is our commitment to reach them.

Thomas S. Monson

#78. I give money for church organs in the hope the organ music will distract the congregation's attention from the rest of the service.

Andrew Carnegie

#79. The church's job is to equip the saints for works of service in the world.

Charles Colson

#80. To great sections of the Church the art of worship has been lost entirely, and in its place has come that strange and foreign thing called the "program." This word has been borrowed from the stage and applied with sad wisdom to the type of public service which now passes for worship among us.

A.W. Tozer

#81. The fact that you are attending church does not mean you are already serving the Lord

Sunday Adelaja

#82. Church burnout will not take place if we are seeking to please God in our service rather than to please people.

Thom S. Rainer

#83. The people who had turned their heads turned them again as the service proceeded; and at last observing her they whispered to each other. She knew what their whispers were about, grew sick at heart, and felt that she could come to church no more.

Thomas Hardy

#84. Since people no longer attend church, theater remains as the only public service, and literature as the only private devotion.

Franz Grillparzer

#85. I would sit in the back at church every Sunday trying to hide, and just when I thought I'd gotten through the service without her [grandmother] calling on me to sing 'His Eye Is On The Sparrow,' she'd always call me up

Brooke Valentine

#86. Negroes' problem is that they do not have their egos. That's why our churches end up having a white service, because our preacher is not arrogant enough to take God's word, so he have to go and get some white fellow's agenda and put it in his church.

Jesse Jackson

#87. Let me ever love Thyself more than Thy service.

Howard Carter

#88. I loved my mission in Switzerland and Germany. As I left on the train from Basel, Switzerland, tears flowed down my cheeks because I knew then that my full-time service in the Church had ended.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#89. All over America, churchgoers chafe at a Sunday morning service that runs an hour and ten minutes, but have no problem with three-hour football games on television.

Jim Cymbala

#90. It has come to be a dreadfully common belief in the Christian Church that the only man who has a "call" is the man who devotes all his time to what is called "the ministry," whereas all Christian service is ministry, and every Christian has a call to some kind of ministry or another.

Charles Spurgeon

#91. I find that I keep offering God my service when what He wants is my fellowship

John Paul Warren

#92. The Lord and His Church have always encouraged education to increase our ability to serve Him and our Heavenly Father's chlidren. For each of us, whatever our talents, He has service for us to give. And to do it well always involves learning, not once or for a limited time, but continually.

Henry B. Eyring

#93. I think I'm a real good person off the field. I've got good character traits, I go to Church often, and I do community service. I think I'm a really good role model.

Jeremy Shockey

#94. Have you ever wondered what a church full of Pharisees would be like? 1. They would all attend every service 2. They would all tithe 3. They would all work in the church 4. They would all go to hell

Adrian Rogers

#95. The jewels of spiritual service are always quarried in the depths of spiritual experience. Never is this more true than in revival. Bend the church and save the people.

Sinclair B. Ferguson

#96. No service in the Church or in the community transcends that given in the home.

Boyd K. Packer

#97. Standing in fron of the doors of a cCatholic church when service is over is a good way to die young.

Dia Reeves

#98. I went to a church where you could not sing out loud in the service until you had been saved.

Bernice Johnson Reagon

#99. Remove the centrality-of-Jesus-Christ message from ministry and meetings, and you can forget church life or organic meetings. He must be the center of everything ... not in lip service, but in the dynamic experiential whole.

Gene Edwards

#100. Much of what we accomplish in the church is due to the selfless service of women.

Quentin L. Cook