Church Members Quotes:

Any man who takes Jesus Christ seriously becomes the target of the devil. Most church members do not give Satan enough trouble to arouse his opposition

- Vance Havner

source: Vance Havner (1976). “All the Days”, Fleming H. Revell Company

topic: Jesus, Men, Giving, Church Members

Pastors started killing their church members and church members killed pastors. Husbands killed wives. It's a situation no one can describe.

- Paul Rusesabagina

topic: Husband, Wife, Church, Church Members

Missionary work is but home teaching to those who are not now members of the Church, and home teaching is nothing more or less than missionary work to Church members

- Harold B. Lee

topic: Teaching, Home, Church, Church Members, Missionary Work

There are ten church-members by inheritance for one by conviction.

- Austin O'Malley

topic: Church, Inheritance, Conviction, Church Members

Church members are either pillars or caterpillars. The pillars hold up the church, and the caterpillars just crawl in and out.

- Grenville Kleiser

topic: Church, Pillars, Caterpillars, Church Members

Those who are the most devout, outstanding Unification Church members are they the most beautiful people externally or just so-so? Very often, those who have the features of an Idaho potato are the most loyal members of the Unification Church.

- Sun Myung Moon

topic: Beautiful, Idaho, People, Church Members, Unification

Plenty of church members are shaky about what they believe, while not many are shaken by what they believe.

- Vance Havner

topic: Believe, Church, Members, Church Members

There are a lot of Christians who are halfway fellows. They stand in the door, holding on to the Church with one hand while they play with the toys of the world with the other. They are in the doorway and we can't bring sinners in. And, until we get some of God's people right, we cannot hope to get sinners regenerated. Now they always accuse me of carrying around a sledge hammer with which to pound the church members. Yes sir, I do pound them, every time I come down, I knock one of the halfway fellows out of the doorway, and every time I knock one out I get a sinner in.

- Mordecai Ham

topic: Christian, Doors, Hands, Church Members

The doctrine of the Church cannot be fully understood unless it is tested by mind and feelings, by intellect and emotions, by every power of the investigator. Every Church member is expected to understand the doctrine of the Church intelligently. There is no place in the Church for blind adherence.

- John Andreas Widtsoe

topic: Feelings, Mind, Church, Investigators, Church Members

For some Church members the Book of Mormon remains unread. Others use it occasionally as if it were merely a handy book of quotations. Still others accept and read it but do not really explore and ponder it. The book is to be feasted upon, not nibbled (see 2 Nephi 31:20).

- Neal A. Maxwell

topic: Book, Church, Use, Church Members, Handy

Multitudes of people who expect to go to Heaven will go to a Hell of torment. Thousands of "good" people, "moral" people, church members, even church workers - yes, and, alas, even prophets, priests and preachers - will find themselves lost when they expected to be saved, condemned when they expected approval, cast out of Heaven when they expected to be received into eternal bliss. That is the explicit meaning of the words of our Lord... (see: Matt 7:21-23.]

- John R. Rice

source: John R. Rice (1939). “Religious But Lost”, p.5, Sword of the Lord Publishers

topic: Christian, People, Heaven, Church Members

To a large extent, the American church has become merged with the world. It has adopted so many of the world's ideals and standards that it has lost its ability to stem the tide of crime, deception and immorality that is sweeping the nation. For millions of church members there is no deep commitment to the cause of Christ, no regularity of attendance at public worship, no sacrificial giving, no personal religious discipline.

- Billy Graham

topic: Christian, Religious, Commitment, Church Members, Immorality

Those who yearn for true spiritual light and knowledge can only find it through the power of the Holy Ghost. The Spirit enlightens and gives understanding of the eternal purpose of life. By the Spirit, Church members know the restored gospel of Jesus Christ is true.

- M. Russell Ballard

topic: Spiritual, Jesus, Light, Spiritual Light, Light And Knowledge

As I say, it never ceases to amaze me how gullible some of our Church members are.

- Harold B. Lee

topic: Honesty, Church, Gullible, Church Members

I do think that if the Church can see its way to greater tolerance, Church members will have greater exposure to gay people, and the lives of those gay people will be better.

- Andrew Solomon

source: Source: andrewsolomon.com

topic: Gay, Thinking, People, Church Members

I think the hardest questions had to do with suffering. It had to do with all of our church members and friends passing through difficult times. Sometimes it's the global climate: tsunamis, earthquakes, radiation. I think these kinds of questions are absolutely the most difficult, yet we need to be ready to respond to them because we have to be able as pastors to walk people through these valleys, these tough times in their lives.

- Max Lucado

source: Source: www.sermoncentral.com

topic: Thinking, Earthquakes, People, Passing Through, Church Members

There is a moral virtue, a moral fidelity, ability and honesty, which other men, besides church members, are, by good nature and education, by good laws and good examples nourished and trained up in; so that civil places and trust and credit need not be monopolized into the hands of church members (who sometimes are not fitted for public office), while all others are deprived and despoiled of their natural and civil rights and liberties.

- Roger Williams

source: Source: www.libertymagazine.org

topic: Honesty, Men, Hands, Church Members, Public Office

I think the hardest one had to do with suffering. It had to do with all of our church members and friends passing through difficult times. Sometimes it's the global climate: tsunamis, earthquakes, radiation. I think these kinds of questions are absolutely the most difficult, yet we need to be ready to respond to them because we have to be able as pastors to walk people through these valleys, these tough times in their lives.

- Max Lucado

source: Source: www.sermoncentral.com

topic: Thinking, Earthquakes, People, Church Members

Each of our children during their high school years went to 'early morning seminary' - scripture study classes that met in the home of a church member every school day morning from 6:30 until 7:15.

- Clayton Christensen

topic: Morning, Children, Home, Church Members, School Days

Love without courage and wisdom is sentimentality, as with the ordinary church member. Courage without love and wisdom is foolhardiness, as with the ordinary soldier. Wisdom without love and courage is cowardice, as with the ordinary intellectual. But the one who has love, courage and wisdom moves the world.

- Ammon Hennacy

source: Ammon Hennacy (2010). “The Book of Ammon”, p.149, Wipf and Stock Publishers

topic: Love, Wisdom, Moving, Love And Courage, Love And Wisdom

Every home is a house of learning either for good or otherwise.

- Joseph B. Wirthlin

topic: Home, House, Self Reliant, Church Members, Obedient

There are a lot of Christians who are halfway fellows. They stand in the door, holding on to the Church with one hand while they play with the toys of the world with the other. They are in the doorway and we can't bring sinners in.

- Mordecai Ham

topic: Christian, Hands, Play, Church Members

Life is an 'open-book' exam, but the problem is that most of the students don't have the 'book', or refuse to open it-a fact that ought to spur us on as Church members to share the gospel more widely so that life would be meaningful for more people.

- Neal A. Maxwell

topic: Meaningful, Book, People, Church Members

Churches must extend their influence beyond the lives of church members to impact the broader community that they serve.

- Tony Evans

topic: Impact, Community, Church, Church Members

The concept of an inactive church member is an oxymoron. Biblically, no such church member really exists.

- Thom S. Rainer

source: Thom S. Rainer (2013). “I Am a Church Member: Discovering the Attitude that Makes the Difference”, p.16, B&H Publishing Group

topic: Church, Members, Oxymoron, Church Members

Recent surveys of Church members have shown a serious erosion in the number of families who have a year's supply of life's necessities. Most members plan to do it. Too few have begun... It is our sacred duty to care for our families, including our extended families.

- Thomas S. Monson

topic: Religious, Erosion, Years, Reliance, Church Members

When Jesus Christ comes back, it is not the liberal politicians who ought to be trembling, it's the pastors…because so many men have built their 'ministries' on the dry dead bones of unconverted church members.

- Paul Washer

topic: Jesus, Past, Men, Church Members

For a Christian to be a Christian, he must first be a sinner. Being a sinner is a prerequisite for being a church member. The Christian church is one of the few organizations in the world that requires a public acknowledgement of sin as a condition for membership.

- R. C. Sproul

topic: Christian, Organization, Church, Church Members, Church Membership

Our ultimate aim in this welfare work is to help Church members to become self-supporting, and to obtain work they can do best. The Church, with its members independent and free from debt, with time to labor in the ministry, can then successfully carry on the work of the Lord here on earth.

- Henry D. Moyle

topic: Independent, Self, Church, Church Members

A prayerless church member is a hindrance. He is in the body like a rotting bone or a decayed tooth. Before long, since he does not contribute to the benefit of his brethren, he will become a danger and a sorrow to them. Neglect of private prayer is the locust which devours the strength of the church.

- Charles Spurgeon

topic: Prayer, Long, Sorrow, Hindrance, Church Members

It is an absurd fiction that the churches are useful. They are nothing more than propaganda centers for superstitious faiths and doctrines. Church members have a right to believe in and propagate their various doctrines. But they should pay every item of the cost, of this propaganda, including fair taxation for all church property.

- E. Haldeman-Julius

topic: Believe, Church, Taxation, Church Members

Our spiritual immutarity never shows up more than in our lack of praying, be it alone or in a church prayer meeting. Let 20% of the chior members fail to turn up for rehearsal and the chior master is offended. Let 20% of the church members turn up for a prayer meeting, and the pastor is elated.

- Leonard Ravenhill

topic: Spiritual, Prayer, Past, Church Members, Prayer Meeting

We made four feature films with Sherwood Baptist. The wonderful thing was the church (members) volunteered. It was an awesome atmosphere of attitudes. The hard part was (that) all four of the first feature films we made take place in modern-day Albany, Georgia. We know that not all of our films going to be (set in) modern-day Albany, Georgia.

- Alex Kendrick

source: "'Courageous' filmmaker Alex Kendrick branches out with a new book, a new Erwin Brothers comedy and a new production company". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com. July 2013.

topic: Attitude, Atmosphere, Church, Albany, Church Members

I am interested in Scripture and theology. This is an interest that I can assume I would share with a pastor, so that makes me a little bit prone to use that kind of character, perhaps, just at the moment. Then there is also the fact that, having been a church member for many years, I am very aware of how much pastors enrich people's experience, people for whom they are significant. I know that it's a kind of custom of American literature and culture to slang them. I don't think there is any reason why that needs to be persisted in.

- Marilynne Robinson

source: Source: www.pbs.org

topic: Character, Thinking, Years, Church Members

I did a concert at five years old in the garden of one of the church members, and we raised some money to buy a new piano in our little church.

- Al Jarreau

source: "Jazz vocalist Al Jarreau". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. November 5, 2013.

topic: Garden, Years, Piano, Church Members

Most church members live so far below the standard, you would have to backslide to be in fellowship with them.

- Vance Havner

topic: Church, Fellowship, Members, Church Members

The same church members who yell like Comanche Indians at a ball game on Saturday sit like wooden Indians in church on Sunday.

- Vance Havner

topic: Sunday, Games, Church, Church Members, Church On Sunday

Like my parents, I have never been a regular church member or churchgoer. It doesn't seem plausible to me that there is the kind of God who watches over human affairs, listens to prayers, and tries to guide people to follow His precepts - there is just too much misery and cruelty for that.

- Benjamin Spock

topic: Prayer, People, Parent, Church Members, Plausible