Church Quotes · Page 111

I tell priests to flee from clericalism because clericalism distances people. May they flee from clericalism and I add: it's a plague…

— Pope Francis

The blues to me is like being very sad, very sick, going to church, being very happy ... it's sort of a…

— Billie Holiday

The secular world looks to the church and to its chagrin, finds no love, no life, no laughter, no hope and no…

— Rod Parsley

The church can have light only as it is full of the Spirit, and it can be full only as the members…

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

The true Church of England, at this moment, lies in the Editors of the newspapers.

— Thomas Carlyle

This room is a testimony that there are men who want to be a man for God and a man of God.

— Mike Huckabee

If a leader goes with their gut, it should be after listening first to people they trust.

— Andy Stanley

The upright, honest-hearted man Who strives to do the best he can, Need never fear the church's ban Or hell's damnation.

— Robert Burns

It's crazy, if you think about it. The God of the universe - the creator of nitrogen and pine needles, galaxies and…

— Francis Chan

The message has to go to the streets, it's imperative that we reach those who may not get to a church. We…

— Robert Hood

I think corporate worship is the stimulating of one another, love and good works as we come together. Even the early church…

— John MacArthur

The Book of Job and the 19th Psalm, which even the Church admits to be more ancient than the chronological order in…

— Thomas Paine

I confess to you guys, I confess to the church, I know I have backed away from certain things because of my…

— Francis Chan

I tend to give to those who have helped me along the road of life: Blair Academy, Princeton University, our church, and…

— John C. Bogle

One of the greatest thrills in all of life is to feel the hand of God working through you and to be…

— Bill Hybels

My parents wanted me to be a Baptist minister. I was a youth minister in my church when I was still in…

— Dick Gephardt

It is within the sanctuary of the Church that we protect our faith. Meeting together with others who believe, we pray and…

— Neil L. Andersen

My mother's family is Christian: her father was a Baptist lay preacher, and her brother, in a leap of Anglican upward mobility,…

— Shereen El Feki

And how did little Tim behave?” asked Mrs Cratchit, when she had rallied Bob on his credulity and Bob had hugged his…

— Charles Dickens

Sporadic and shallow dipping in the doctrine of Christ and partial participation in His restored Church cannot produce the spiritual transformation that…

— David A. Bednar

But, irreverently consorting with these grave, reputable, and pious people, these elders of the church, these chaste dames and dewy virgins, there…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

It happens a little bit more in the West, where there's more fluid - where everybody's originally from somewhere else. So they…

— Michael Emerson

People - Catholics and non-Catholics - are amazingly open to begin again in their walk with Jesus and in the Church when…

— Jonathan Morris

Aesthetics is not an end in itself. But in our culture, which is becoming more multi-sensory and less respectful of God, we…

— Dan Kimball

The greatest obstacle in the apostolate of the Church is the timidity or rather the cowardice of the faithful.

— Pope Pius X

“THE Holy Spirit has never left the Church. Neither have His gifts, miracles and manifestations.”

— Jeff Doles

We as a church need to decide whether we'll seek the Anointing of God or the God of the Anointing

— Paul Cain

It is a tragedy when the church saves money instead of saving souls. We MUST spend to save.

— Reinhard Bonnke

I don't go to church much anymore, but Methodist values still wind me up and send me ticking into my daily life.

— Mem Fox

Singing actually came first. As a kid, I grew up singing in church and around the house.

— Tink

This is why we give up on things that break our heart because it requires change.

— Andy Stanley

Before 'Music and Lyrics,' I was just doing high school plays and singing in my church choir and my school choir.

— Haley Bennett

The union of church and state put the church under a political control... The church was thoroughly subordinated to the state.

— H. J Eckenrode

“Without vision, a church devolves into a lukewarm, aimless organization characterized by infighting, budget grabbing and a dead heart for the lost.”

— Todd Stocker

whatever devotion to something else there was in him had been made impure by church taken as a weekly, dutiful thing.

— Kay Boyle

I was just a kid then. But I won't forget. Nor will others. There's lots of people with reason to hate the…

— Terry Pratchett

Church growth strategies are the death gurgle of a church that has lost its way.

— Stanley Hauerwas

What seems to me white, I will believe black if the hierarchical Church so defines.

— Anonymous

You'd tell me if we were getting married, wouldn't you? I mean, you wouldn't just appear on my doorstep one day and…

— Janet Evanovich

There are three bodies no sensible man directly challenges: the Roman Catholic Church, the Brigade of Guards and the National Union of…

— Harold MacMillan