Church Quotes

Hey, I was raised in the church.

— Cheech Marin

The stratosphere is my church.

— John Perry Barlow

“Nature is Satan's church.”

— Lars Von Trier

“Trust in God and go to church.”

— Earl Hamner

I like Church furniture.

— Andres Serrano

Turn in your guns at your local church

— Chuck Baldwin

Church should be enjoyed, not endured.

— Brian Houston

A scared world needs a fearless church.

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Catholic Church is not dead, it is not even tired!

— Pope Benedict XVI

The Church exists by mission, just as a fire exists by burning.

— Emil Brunner

Every time I'm in the woods, i feel like I'm in church

— Pete Seeger

You can sing the blues in church if you use the words right.

— Son House

“The most evil institution in the world is the Roman Catholic Church.”

— H.G. Wells

You don't go to church and tell the choir how to sing if you're a visitor.

— Omari Hardwick

I sang on Church Street, every place that had a stage.

— Ruth Brown

At 18, I guarded the parking lot at the Catholic church bingos. Now my dad made sure I could take care of…

— Susana Martinez

The most miserable man in this room tonight is the Christian who is not right with Him.

— Johnny Hunt

Well, for me, I grew up very Southern Baptist, and I definitely lived in my bubble. You know, I lived in my…

— Jessica Simpson

Things are getting much better, but I always wondered when I went to church on Sundays. I've always been one to... I'm…

— Muhammad Ali

I think a lot of bad things have happened in the name of the church and in the name of Christ. Therefore…

— John Lennon

There's all kind of vision in this Book. Just open it up and your people will follow.

— Matthew Carter

Why would God bless you if all that you do, is show up on Sundays and park in the pew?

— Kevin Pace

First, we can pray in communion with the Church on earth and in heaven. Let us not underestimate the power of so…

— Pope Francis

Caught between the longing for love, and the struggle for the legal tender, where the sirens sing and the church bells ring,…

— Jackson Browne

I lived across from a Catholic church for 15 years that I never went into. And then I got married to my…

— Jim Gaffigan

If the bookseller happens to desire a privilege for his merchandise, whether he is selling Rabelais or the Fathers of the Church,…

— Voltaire

I don't believe there is a separation of church and state. I think the Constitution is very clear. The only separation is…

— Tom DeLay

I am atheist in a very religious mould. I'm always asking myself the big questions. Where did we come from? Is there…

— Mark Haddon

Insofar as the church fails to do the will of God, I am called upon to help it discover and to do…

— Tony Campolo

It is theologically and anthropologically important for woman to be at the center of Christianity. Through Mary, and the other holy women,…

— Pope Benedict XVI

If the Church is 'in Christ,' she is involved in mission. Her whole existence then has a missionary character. Her conduct as…

— David Bosch

“The filling of the Holy Spirit brings a sharp separation between the believer and the world. Actually, after Pentecost, they were looking…

— A.W. Tozer

We urge persons with same-gender attractions to control those and to refrain from acting upon them, which is a sin, just as…

— Dallin H. Oaks

The church and the whorehouse arrived in the Far West simultaneously. And each would have been horrified to think it was a…

— John Steinbeck

I have a friend, a pastor, who applied with me and 419 other people for 25 seats on a special advisory board.…

— Jack Canfield

People are not losing their religious needs, but they are going to three places to get their needs met. One is to…

— Huston Smith

Some say they are not bound by the doctrine which teaches that the Mystical Body of Christ and the Roman Catholic Church…

— Pope Pius XII

On the one hand we are called to play the good Samaritan on life's roadside; but that will be only an initial…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

As Pope Francis says in Amoris laetitia, pastors must "make room for the consciences of the faithful, who very often respond as…

— John I. Jenkins