Church History Quotes:

If Church history teaches us anything, it is that we cannot afford to be a vacillating Church. We minister to a people who are in great need of hearing truth, we dare not make any attempt to soft pedal that glorious truth.

- Martin Luther

topic: People, Church, Needs, Church History

I'm sick and tired of (only) reading about church history; let's make (some) by the grace of God

- Leonard Ravenhill

topic: Reading, Tired, Sick, Church History

It has been said by church historians that in those periods of Christian history where renewal, revival, and awakening took place and the church was at its strongest, that coincidental with those periods in church history, there was a strong focus on the psalms in the life of God's people-particularly in the worship of God's people.

- R. C. Sproul

topic: Christian, Strong, People, Church History, Psalms

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.

- James Madison

source: Virginia. General Assembly. House of Delegates, J. W. Randolph, James Madison (1850). “The Virginia Report of 1799-1800: Touching the Alien and Sedition Laws; Together with the Virginia Resolutions of December 21, 1798, Including the Debate and Proceedings Thereon in the House of Delegates of Virginia and Other Documents Illustrative of the Report and Resolutions”, p.136

topic: Exercise, Secular Society, Law, Redress, Founding

The Gates of Hell shall not prevail against it.

- Benjamin Rush

topic: Hell, Gates Of Hell, Gates, Keys To The Kingdom, Knowing Jesus

History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes.

- Thomas Jefferson

topic: Religious, Believe, Ignorance, Theism, State Government

There is a temptation for the writer or the teacher of church history to want to tell everything, whether it is worthy or faith promoting or not. Some things that are true are not very useful.

- Boyd K. Packer

source: "The Mantle Is Far, Far Greater Than the Intellect" by Boyd K. Packer, www.lds.org. 2004.

topic: Teacher, Scary, Temptation, Church History

According to Scripture, the invisible church includes everyone who has ever been genuinely born again for every age of church history. This church will not meet in a visible way until Christ returns. The visible church consists of believers who are alive and meeting together right now.

- Wayne Mack

topic: Age, Church, Together, Christs Return, Church History

Sit peacefully in a church and think of church history: witchburning perhaps, or child abuse, genocide, the amassing of disgusting wealth, the repression of women, inquisitions, castrating child choir singers, the denial of Santa Claus and the support of fascists in power.

- Kaz Cooke

topic: Children, Thinking, Support, Inquisition, Church History

It's obvious throughout secular and church history that significant legislation follows only after dramatic action.

- Carter Heyward

topic: Church, Action, Dramatic, Church History

And we find from Church history that the primitive Christians thus understood it; for that women did actually speak and preach amongst them we have indisputable proof.

- Catherine Booth

topic: Christian, Religion, Church, Church History

I don't know why Christians keep fighting over which is better-singleness or marriage-when it seems rather obvious, both from Scripture and from Church history, that both can glorify God.

- Rachel Held Evans

topic: Christian, Fighting, Church, Singleness, Church History

The resurrection of Christ from the dead, next to the Crucifixion itself, is the most significant event in church history. It isn't a peripheral issue; it's foundational. It's bedrock. It's the bottom line.

- Greg Laurie

topic: Issues, Church, Events, Church History, Significant Events

Epic: A Journey Through Church History fills an urgent need for adult Catholics to recover their history as a believing community, debunk false criticisms of their Church, and understand the Christian underpinnings of the modern world. This is a vivid, thorough and engaging program. I heartily recommend it.

- Charles J. Chaput

topic: Christian, Believe, Epic, Modern World, Church History

The American people need no course in philosophy or political science or church history to know that God should not be made into a celestial party chairman. To most of us, the manipulative invoking of religion to advance a politician or a party is frightening and divisive. The American people will tolerate religious leaders taking positions for or against candidates.

- Mario Cuomo

topic: Religious, Philosophy, Party, Church History, Religious Leaders

And God grant that His fire be not quenched! God save us from any smoothing over of these questions in the interests of a hollow pleasantness; God grant that great questions of principle may never rest until they are stettled right! It is out of such times of questioning that great revivals come. God grant that it may be so today! Controversy of the right sort is good; for out of such controversy, as Church history and Scripture alike teach, there comes the salvation of souls.

- John Gresham Machen

topic: Church History