Powerful Church Quotes

#1. A powerful church is capable of transforming our world to God's kingdom standard

Sunday Adelaja

#2. The Church must be all-powerful. You discover these horrors within institutions because predators find ways of hiding in plain sight.

Alex Gibney

#3. I always sang in church always was in a gospel choir and directed choirs and always performed, but I never thought of it as a powerful thing.

Charles King

#4. At stake are two different visions of faith, the Church of Caesar, powerful and rich; and the Church of Christ - loving, poor and spiritually rich.

Penny Lernoux

#5. We are called to see that the Church does not adapt its thinking to the horizons that modernity prescribes for it but rather that it brings to those horizons the powerful antidote of God's truth. It is not the Word of God but rather modernity that stands in need of being demythologised.

David F. Wells

#6. It is not our diversity which divides us; it is not our ethnicity, or religion or culture that divides us. Since we have achieved our freedom, there can only be one division amongst us: between those who cherish democracy and those who do not.

Nelson Mandela

#7. Because modern Protestants have not only forgotten what Rome was, what she is, and what she will for ever be; the most irreconcilable and powerful enemy of the Gospel of Christ; but they consider her almost as a branch of the church whose corner stone is Christ.

Charles Chiniquy

#8. The apostles and their successors are God's vicars in governing the Church which is built on faith and the sacraments of faith. Wherefore, just as they may not institute another Church, so neither may they deliver another faith, nor institute other sacraments.

Thomas Aquinas

#9. Perhaps one of the most powerful things the contemporary church could do is to confess our sins to the world, the humbly get on our knees and repent for the terrible things we have done in the name of God.

Shane Claiborne

#10. Evidence is of no longer consequence when hope enters the fray, and this is
where faith is born - a seemingly abundant commodity certain powerful
organizations feed on fervently, if not lavishly.

Justin Villanueva

#11. Nothing is more powerful than the black church experience. A good choir and a good sermon in the black church, it's pretty hard not to be move and be transported.

Barack Obama

#12. Our point is that to reJesus the church, we need to go back to the daring, radical, strange, wonderful, inexplicable, unstoppable, marvelous, unsettling, disturbing, caring, powerful God-Man.

Michael Frost

#13. 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

#14. You could remove the powerful preaching from our church and it would still continue. You could remove the administration of pastoral care through the cell group system and the church would still continue. But if you remove the prayer life of our church it would collapse.

David Yonggi Cho

#15. The declared enemies of God and His Church, heretics and schismatics, must be criticized as much as possible, as long as truth is not denied. It is a work of charity to shout: 'Here is the wolf!' when it enters the flock or anywhere else.

Saint Francis De Sales

#16. I had the good luck a few years ago to visit the archeological site of Zippori in Israel ... I could see here displayed the Greek culture that Jesus decisively rejected, the same Greek culture that infiltrated the Christian religion soon after his death and has dominated Christianity ever since.

Freeman Dyson

#17. Faith is a very powerful force in the history of humanity. So I greatly respect different kinds of faith. Just as I think diversity is a really good thing genetically, it's also a good thing societally.

George M. Church

#18. To attempt to commit the Church to social and political programs may be a short cut . to escape from the more difficult and costly responsibility of submitting ourselves to those deeper changes of disposition and outlook which are in the end a much more powerful revolutionary force.

J. H. Oldham

#19. When the doctrine is clear and the culture is beautiful, that church will be powerful. But there are no shortcuts to getting there. Without the doctrine, the culture will be weak. Without the culture, the doctrine will seem pointless.

Raymond C. Ortlund Jr.

#20. Magic isn't inherently evil. But it does seem to be terribly bad for people.

Jo Walton

#21. It's all so sexy and cute and romantic...until the music changes to "In Da Club" by 50 Cent.

C.M. Stunich

#22. The woman's essence has always been the most powerful force
much like nature has always been Satan's church.
Quote from the Vampire exhibit at Hallands Kulturhistoriska museum 2012

Czon

#23. Only is a powerful word. It is extreme. It picks a fight. It draws a line in the sand.

Rob Rienow

#24. Well, I guess they aren't gay anymore, Liz," Susan said loudly from the direction of the kitchen doorway.
Liz started snickering next to her. "I always knew they were full of shit.

Victoria Michaels

#25. It is only within the context of the church that ongoing spiritual care, encouragement, and accountability can occur. It is only as we use the powerful word of the gospel in each other's lives that we can change.

Elyse M. Fitzpatrick

#26. Someone has said that the marks of a strong church are wet eyes, bent knees, and a broken heart. We'll never be powerful until we let God be God and jealously guard His honor.

Erwin W. Lutzer

#27. The fact that political ideologies are tangible realities is not a proof of their vitally necessary character. The bubonic plague was an extraordinarily powerful social reality, but no one would have regarded it as vitally necessary.

Wilhelm Reich

#28. A scarecrow man came from nowhere to dance madly in a hail of bullets.

Charles Allen Gramlich

#29. Well, whatever one thinks of the Roman Church, it is a worthy and powerful foe. I could accept that sort of conversion with grace. But I shall be very disappointed indeed if we lose him to the Presbyterians.

Donna Tartt

#30. In proportion as a church is holy, in that proportion will its testimony for Christ be powerful.

Charles Spurgeon

#31. When an individual is motivated by great and powerful convictions of truth, then he disciplines himself, not because of the demands of the church, but because of the knowledge within his heart

Gordon B. Hinckley