Those outside the church expect followers of Christ to live differently, yet today many in church are chasing after the world - not to win them, but to be like them.
Billy Graham
Related You can be committed to Church but not committed to Christ, but you cannot be committed to Christ an... JOEL OSTEEN The church sees the face of Christ in other people, so the church wants to care for those who are in... JEANETTE DEMELO Church isn’t where you meet. Church isn’t a building. Church is what you do. Church is who you a... BRIDGET WILLARD Church isnt where you meet. Church isnt a building. Church is what you do. Church is who you are. Ch... BRIDGET WILLARD Lo, thou, my Love, art fair; Myself have made thee so; Yea, thou art fair indeed, Whe... WILLIAM BALDWIN As for the depiction of the Catholic church, it's not meant to be a prediction. DAN SIMMONS Church isnt where you meet. Church isnt a building. Church is what you do. Church is who you are... BRIDGET WILLARD i know im not the girl you wanted. not the one you want to hear from. but what you see is what you g... SIMI GREWAL Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo... GERMANY KENT To be, or not to be, that is the question. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE You're afraid of getting hurt like I'm afraid to die. It doesn't mean I'm not going to live every da... VI KEELAND Be kind. We never know what people are going through. Give grace and mercy because one day your circ... GERMANY KENT What determines our brotherhood is what that man is by reason of Christ. Our community with one anot... DIETRICH BONHOEFFER The Church is the Church only when it exists for others...not dominating, but helping and serving. I... DIETRICH BONHOEFFER Many are called but few are chosen. There are sayings of Christ which suggest that the Church he cam... EDWARD NORMAN Feast of Joseph of Nazareth Some day, we hope, study will be as much a part of churchmanship as w... CARL R. SMITH To perpetuate the clerical role of answer man, the layman when inside the church building must act a... PAUL G. JOHNSON To be or not to be. That's not really a question. JEAN-LUC GODARD And they want the church to show them a better way in which to live. EDNA SMITH I happened to see Larry King interview Billy Graham shortly after the shootings at Columbine High Sc... DONALD MILLER For church buildings not to be enough is to build and equip church members to send them out SUNDAY ADELAJA Therefore, the church is not absolutely necessary as an object of faith, not even for us today, for ... WILLIAM AMES a church that is a church only on Sunday and at other formal gatherings of the congregation is not o... ROD DREHER May I never neither turn left nor turn right in my journey of life, but may I go straight to Christ ... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be... GARY F EVANS... Many people may be heartbroken, but not enough to take action. CRAIG GROESCHEL We need to embrace every day and enjoy it as much as we can. KAREN TODD SCARPULLA We are far from perfect but willing to be different. CRAIG GROESCHEL Growing up, I was blessed to be part of a great church. This is where I met many friends who have en... BETHANY HAMILTON It's a a damn good day to be alive. MICHAEL CLIFFORD In post-Christendom, the church is that community of people who look to discover what God is activel... TIM KEEL Boring people live boring lives. HABEEB AKANDE Do I have the courage of being a ruthless man to myself with the complete knowledge on my manner or ... FEREIDOON YAZDI The greatest hindrances to the evangelization of the world are those within the church. JOHN R. MOTT The world could not long ignore a holy church. The church is not despised because it is holy: it is ... W.E. (WILLIAM EDWIN) SANGSTER Go to church to learn about forgiveness; come back to become a forgiver! Go to church and learn abou... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Wake every morning with the same feeling. Live up high and fly on top of the ceiling. I just know th... ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES Feast of Ignatius, Bishop of Antioch, Martyr, c.107 Beginning a series on the church: The laity.... DOUGLAS RHYMES The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m... ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt... ANDREW TO Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank... ANDREW TO The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ... ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate... ANDREW TO We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ... ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices. ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag... ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future. ANDREW TO I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea... ANDREW TO The church today has reduced the Christians to a level that has made them to be too weak to make any... SUNDAY ADELAJA If the church is to survive as a place where head and heart are equal partners in faith, then we wil... ROBIN R. MEYERS How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine." The Q... LEWIS CARROLL Church isn’t where you meet. Church isnâ€âÂ�... BRIDGET WILLARD when the imitation of Christ does not mean to live a life like Christ, but to live your life as auth... HENRI J.M. NOUWEN We were in darkness when we were outside of the knowledge of Jesus and when we were not followers of... TODD COBURN We are members of the Church of Christ SUNDAY ADELAJA That it is Peter, the rock of the church, who incurs guilt here immediately after his own confession... DIETRICH BONHOEFFER Instead of being just a church that welcomes and receives by keeping the doors open, let us try also... POPE FRANCIS ... challenge the church to do better, be more of who Christ wants us to be ... JUSTIN LEE The actions of the police division today will be to assist the church for the funeral. We anticipate... THOMAS STREICHER Don't let fear cripple you and keep you from trying new things, changing things, exploring and livin... AKIROQ BROST To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be. GOLDA MEIR To be mad is worse than not to be if this is what it is. JOHNNY RICH Hamlet's Cat's Soliloquy "To go outside, and there perchance to stay Or to re... HENRY N. BEARD To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being. TOM ROBBINS Christ has not only ordained that there shall be such officers in his Church - he has not only speci... CHARLES HODGE A light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has never overcome it. JOHN THE EVANGELIST I liked the idea of loving people just to love them, not to get them to come to church. DONALD MILLER All Church power arises from the indwelling of the Spirit; therefore those in whom the Spirit dwells... CHARLES HODGE All believers are members of the same body and should be viewed and treated that way. HENRY HON Solemnity is proper in church, but things that are proper in church are not necessarily proper outsi... C. S. LEWIS Jesus did not command us to "develop" leaders. He commanded us to make "disciples". The world "devel... JOHN PAUL WARREN Christ the man died long ago, but Christ the idea of love, still exists, not in any church, rather i... ABHIJIT NASKAR I remember going to see Billy Graham in a cinema in Glasgow, and he was down in London. I used to go... JOHANN LAMONT Priesthood is the means whereby the Lord acts through men to save souls. One of the defining feature... DAVID A. BEDNAR Congratulations, to the people which made gotham series, still need some more and extra work! DEYTH BANGER To have the cognitive abilities to do research and development is vital to a forever expanding world... GARY F EVANS... The first and foremost human right or fundamental right is the right to exist. APURVA GAGLANI If we ever put research into what the subconscious is we could probably come to the conclusion that ... GARY F EVANS... Anything that is exclusive will be accused of elitism; living one’s dreams will be called pretenti... FENNEL HUDSON The laws of God given to mankind are embodied in the gospel plan, and the Church of Jesus Christ is ... HAROLD B. LEE The extra boxes will be put to good use. We can repackage the surplus supplies in those boxes and di... ANNETTE JOHNSON Whatever may be our differences of colour, culture, and class, the unity that is ours in Christ is g... AMBROSE REEVES I used to sing in church, too. Not like in the choir or anything, but for people around the church..... BRYSON TILLER We also hope to send out a clear message to gay-lesbian-bisexual-transgender students that God loves... JACOB REITAN ...we live on the edge of the abstract all the time. Look at something solid in the known world: an ... NATALIE GOLDBERG Each member of the Lord's body is directly connected and answers only to the Lord Jesus as the Head. HENRY HON A Sunday school teacher asked the children just before she dismissed them
to go to church, "And why ... UNKNOWN In my experience, most Koreans who allow their dogs to live indoors tend to spoil them while many of... YOON KERR Neither team could spend any arms today. But Church did a great job for them. EMPSY THOMPSON None of my life is based on how others think I should have lived it. DARNELL LAMONT WALKER I believe with all my heart that the Church of Jesus Christ should be a Church of blurred edges. GEORGE CAREY From New York to Los Angeles, Black gay people have been the backbone of the Black church. Through t... KEITH BOYKIN Creativity is not just thinking outside the box but living outside it. VICTOR SHAMAS Christ never existed, but is an invention of the Church. LUIGI CASCIOLI The Church was not left in this world to perfume the dung-heap of fallen humanity, but to take out, ... DONALD GREY BARNHOUSE Attending church does not necessarily mean living the principles taught in those meeting. You can be... STEPHEN R. COVEY But when one identifies the Church with a cultural and political bloc, there is the danger of making... KARL LEHMANN Too many in the Church today are likes babies in the nursery,they put everything in their mouth. JOHN PAUL WARREN But of course, when they ask for a "lead from the church," most people mean they want the clergy to ... C.S. LEWIS The church's position has been that they really didn't have anything against gays, although everyone... OLIN THOMAS
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BILLY GRAHAM The cross has become a symbol in much of the Western world, misused by many rock stars and others wh... BILLY GRAHAM Sin’s masterpiece of shame and hate became God’s masterpiece of mercy and forgiveness. Through t... BILLY GRAHAM Jesus Christ opened heaven’s door for us by His death on the cross. BILLY GRAHAM The law enables us to see ourselves as morally dirty and in need of cleansing. But it also points us... BILLY GRAHAM When Jesus hung on the cross, a great unseen cosmic battle raged in the heavens—and in the end, Ch... BILLY GRAHAM The cross shows the seriousness of our sin— but it also shows us the immeasurable love of God... BILLY GRAHAM One-third of Matthew . . . one-third of Mark . . . one-fourth of Luke, and one-half of John are give... BILLY GRAHAM Be willing to be sneered at than to be approved, counting the cross of Christ greater riches than al... BILLY GRAHAM Great crowds followed our Lord . . . as He healed the sick, raised the dead, and fed the hungry. How... BILLY GRAHAM Sin was conquered on the cross. [Christ’s] death is the foundation of our hope, the promise of our... BILLY GRAHAM Had Satan not set himself in opposition to God . . . there would have been no need for God to send H... BILLY GRAHAM Jesus was born with the cross darkening His pathway . . . From the cradle to the cross, [Jesus’] p... BILLY GRAHAM If Jesus had not risen from the dead, no right-minded person would have glorified anything so hideou... BILLY GRAHAM God undertook the most dramatic rescue operation in cosmic history. He determined to save the human ... BILLY GRAHAM Why is it that the cross has become the symbol of Christianity? It is because at the cross Jesus pur... BILLY GRAHAM The cross is the suffering love of God bearing the guilt of man’s sin, which alone is able to melt... BILLY GRAHAM The heart of the Christian Gospel with its incarnation and atonement is in the cross and the resurre... BILLY GRAHAM The ground is level at the foot of the cross. BILLY GRAHAM Once you have been to the cross, you will never be the same. BILLY GRAHAM The greatest vision of sin that a person can ever receive is to look at the cross. BILLY GRAHAM Heavenly Father, we come before you today to ask your forgiveness and to seek your direction and gui... BILLY GRAHAM The happiness which brings enduring worth to life is not the superficial happiness that is dependent... BILLY GRAHAM To take up your cross means to associate yourself with Christ and to share His rejection. It means y... BILLY GRAHAM Though the cross repels, it also attracts. It possesses a magnetic quality. BILLY GRAHAM The cross is the only way of salvation. And the cross gives a new purpose to life. BILLY GRAHAM It is the Holy Spirit's job to convict, God's job to judge and my job to love. BILLY GRAHAM The second coming of Christ will be so revolutionary that it will change every aspect of life on thi... BILLY GRAHAM