The Church must stop expecting outsiders to act like insiders while insiders act like outsiders. — Andy Stanley Copy Share Image
The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time. — Alan Hirsch Copy Share Image
“It is very difficult sometimes to keep awake, especially at church, but there is no difficulty at all about sleeping.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The downfall of the church will not come from a lack of apologetic teaching; it will come from disintegration of the families… — Josh McDowell Copy Share Image
If the church is going to make a difference, it will need to go through the "big give-up" stage. Churches will need… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Know thyself,’ said Socrates. Know thyself,’ said Sappho, ‘and make sure that the Church never finds out. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
We all want to feel spiritually vigorous, and we hurt when we don't. This pain is intensified for people who lead church… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
I am a God-fearing man. In fact, I don't go to church because I'm afraid I'll run into him there. — Matthew Diamond Copy Share Image
When church is over and there's no one there to listen except the only One who matters, do you still have that… — Keith Green Copy Share Image
The ideal to which John Adams subscribed-that we would be a nation of laws, not of men-was quickly subverted when the churches… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
God was something I did not understand the way kids who went to church did. They said God was a man in… — Melissa Coleman Copy Share Image
It seemed to me that I, the spirit of so many worlds, the flower of so many ages, was the Church Cosmical,… — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share Image
So when you say who does Christ die for? He died for the church, okay. I don't think God's death on the… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
When we place our faith in Christ, God becomes our Father, we become his children, other believers become our brothers and sisters,… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
No Church-yard is so handsom, that a man would desire straight to bee buried there. [No churchyard is so handsome that a… — George Herbert Copy Share Image
Anytime you hear the concept of the separation of church and state being talked about these days, it is never in regard… — D. James Kennedy Copy Share Image
Another hallmark of Christianity is that salvation is not individualistic-it's not something one person receives for himself or herself. Salvation is the… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
Wherever we look in the ancient world the past has been controlled, but nowhere more rigorously than in the history of the… — Hugh Nibley Copy Share Image
“So here is what I see when we reclaim the church ladies: a woman loved and free is beautiful. She is laughing… — Sarah Bessey Copy Share Image
I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not serve that in which I… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
One of the delights of the new age is that it's a turning of consciousness to give us permission to look beyond… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
For hundreds of years the world was wrapped in a veil of spiritual darkness, until there was not one fundamental truth belonging… — Joseph Fielding Smith Copy Share Image
As calls come to us for church service by the Lord's representatives, it is natural for us to wonder why we have… — Henry D. Taylor Copy Share Image
In the early days of the December that my father was to die, my younger brother brought me the news that I… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The church is not built on the rock foundation of geniuses and influencers but of apostles and prophets. — Russell D. Moore Copy Share Image
Then my extended family, there are preachers and evangelists, former priests. So I have quite a bit of history with Church, religion… — Wes Bentley Copy Share Image
Your momma used to live at the church on Sunday You just go to LIV after church on Sunday — Drake Copy Share Image
Churches are good for prayer, but so are garages and cars and mountains and showers and dance floors. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“A worshipping Church or a prayer group is a magnet that draws the Lord and His people to connect with each other!” — Gangai Victor Copy Share Image
The problem is that you can't impose the church's teachings on all Americans as a matter of law. — Mario Cuomo Copy Share Image
“The faithful have no dread of using the traditional language of the church. Terms like incarnation and resurrection need to be explained,… — Thomas C. Oden Copy Share Image
Most of us spend the first six days of each week sowing wild oats; then we go to church on Sunday and… — Fred Allen Copy Share Image
Two persons who love each other are in a place more holy than the interior of a church. — William Lyon Phelps Copy Share Image
All too often the church holds up a mirror reflecting back the society around it, rather than a window revealing a different… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
The Taj, the Blue Mosque in Istanbul, Cracao Basilica and Polish church are some monuments that hold a special place in my… — Shaan Copy Share Image
The church has no power over our lives any more, which is something of a blessing for those who do not enjoy… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
I grew up in a church. My mom is a minister so she would make us go to every possible church she… — Saint Jhn Copy Share Image
If you want to get rid of counterfeit money, put it in the collection plate at church. — George Carlin Copy Share Image
The thing the Church needs most today is the ability to heal wounds and to warm the hearts of the faithful. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
We have to work harder to develop a profound theology of women within the church. The feminine genius is needed wherever we… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
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