Serving Church Quotes

#1. 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

#2. My advice to a new husband is nothing more than 'husbands, love your wives.' And 'love your wife as Christ has loved the church.' Never forget that you are Christ's representative in serving your wife.

J.I. Packer

#3. If ... we do not think that a local church is worthy of joining, why should we be considered worthy of serving in it?

Wayne Mack

#4. God tries you in certain, certain ways. Some people are rich, and they believe in God. They lose the money, things get hard, they get weak and quit going to church. Quit serving God like they did.

Muhammad Ali

#5. Know that you will eventually have to leave everything behind; the writing will demand it of you.

Natalie Goldberg

#6. Nothing in the world has a greater power to enslave than fiction. ~ Aarush Kashyap

Kirtida Gautam

#7. Let us pray that the Church be holier and more humble, loving God by serving the poor, the lonely and the sick.

Pope Francis

#8. Faith has played a major role in my life. Whenever I feel an obstacle is too great, I can always go to God in prayer and He'll help me through it.

Patrick Henry Hughes

#9. You are as much serving God in looking after your own children, & training them up in God's fear, & minding the house, & making your household a church for God, as you would be if you had been called to lead an army to battle for the Lord of hosts.

Charles Spurgeon

#10. 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

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

Saji Ijiyemi

#12. As Christians we are called to make disciples of all the nations, meeting them where they are and serving them in ways that are relevant and meaningful. That is the challenge: as the church, to remain relevant and meaningful, in efforts to reach all people where they are in a way they need.

Kellen Roggenbuck

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

Sunday Adelaja

#14. Presumption is our natural and original malady. The most vulnerable and frail of all creatures is man, and at the same time the most arrogant.

Michel De Montaigne

#15. Separation of the Church and State is like a railroad track. It cannot be close to one another, neither can it be distant, because there will be derailment. We (Church) should cooperate with the government and the government should cooperate with us because we're serving the same people.

Jaime Sin

#16. Before you were conceived, I wanted you. Before you were born, I loved you. Before you were an hour, I would die for you. This is the miracle of love.

Maureen Hawkins

#17. On the church vaulting above was the clock-face of eternity, void of number and serving as its own hand, only one black finger was pointing and the dead wanted to tell the time by it.

Jean Paul Friedrich Richter