I walked away from going to church when I was 8. I didn't set foot in another church until I was 28. — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
Me and Sandra are thoroughly satisfied customers as parents of kids who came through this Orange model. — Andy Stanley Copy Share Image
Remember: Christ is calling you; the Church needs you; the Pope believes in you and he expects great things of you. — Pope John Paul I Copy Share Image
A church must grow larger and smaller at the same time. Larger through worship and smaller through small groups. — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
In America, evangelical churches have often been bastions of conservatism, providing support for the status quo. — Tony Campolo Copy Share Image
I'm more spiritual than I am religious. I don't go to church; I go to the beach. — Paula Deen Copy Share Image
It's a blessing to know that the church and the gospel are the same no matter where I go. I can find… — Eric Weddle Copy Share Image
The evangelical movement has become just a bit victimized by a success-oriented culture, wanting the church - like the corporation - to… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Which prophecy of Christ we see wonderfully to be verified, insomuch that the whole course of the Church to this day may… — John Foxe Copy Share Image
I had come to see that the great tragedy in the church is not that rich Christians do not care about the… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
There's a massive community in church. You have a real home. You can move to different parts of the world and you'll… — Michaela Coel Copy Share Image
Lukewarm people give money to charity and to the church…as long as it doesn't impinge on their standard of living. If they… — Francis Chan Copy Share Image
Know that no one can have indulged in the Holy Writers sufficiently, unless he has governed churches for a hundred years with… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
I sing this song in church - 'I don't believe He brought me this far to leave me.' I got a feeling… — Sharon Jones Copy Share Image
The Legislature of Lower Canada, consisting chiefly of Roman Catholics, could hardly be expected to support a church which they were taught… — John Strachan Copy Share Image
The challenge is to make the church's yes to life concrete and effective. The struggle will be long, and it needs each… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
I would like that all of us, after these days of grace, might have the courage - the courage - to walk… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
The trouble with Christianity was that by about 150, there were hardly any Jews left in the Christian church, and so from… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
“I wonder if I'm being disloyal, if being with Didier means I'm forgetting about Jones. But every time I go in a… — Gabrielle Williams Copy Share Image
I am not a religious man. I have not attended a service for many years. But I do believe in God. My… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
The churches that are growing and thriving are churches that I would call evangelical and orthodox for the most part in their… — Greg Laurie Copy Share Image
Over the years I've had strong friendships with many priests. As a matter of fact, a group of Christian leaders from the… — Dave Brubeck Copy Share Image
In at least one country where homosexual activists have won major concessions, we have even seen a church pastor threatened with prison… — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
“in A Moral Vision of the New Testament. Hays says, “This means that for the foreseeable future we must find ways to… — Ken Wilson Copy Share Image
Surely wisdom will come as we listen to learn from children, parents, partners, neighbors, Church leaders, and the Lord. — Russell M. Nelson Copy Share Image
Humility is authenticity. It comes from the Latin word humus, meaning "earth." As the church has taught, we're made of dust, and… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
I'm as true a Protestant, in sooth, as any fine lady that walks into church, but it's not wrong to turn sometimes… — Mary Mapes Dodge Copy Share Image
If I might control the literature of the household, I would guarantee the well-being of Church and State. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
God's people should be baptized because God commanded it, not because some church requires it. — John R. Rice Copy Share Image
I go to church every Sunday, which is like going to the gas station once a week and really, really filling up. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
The saving principles and doctrines of the Church are established, fixed, and unchangeable. — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
The Church needs your faith, your idealism and your generosity, so that she can always be young in the Spirit. — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
I felt like I was an outsider growing up in the black church, as a gay man, in a poor community. — Roger Ross Williams Copy Share Image
I gave my heart to Jesus. I accepted him as my Lord and Savior, started reading the Bible, started going to a… — Patricia Mauceri Copy Share Image
The church will not stay the same. It will either blossom because someone understands the season the church is in, or it… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
I have a relationship with Christ and it is ongoing. I study my Bible, I do fellowship at a Church, it's a… — Philip Bailey Copy Share Image
“A piece of paper doesn't make you a pastor any more than making predictions makes you a prophet.” — D.R. Silva Copy Share Image
“Alas! How the Church is allowing the world and its methods to influence and control her outlook and life.” — Martyn Llyod-Jones Copy Share Image
If you came to my church, you would say, 'He cries every week.' I'm an emotional guy. — Mark Jackson Copy Share Image
America is not just 'a nation with the soul of a church,' as G.K. Chesterton wrote in 1992: it is a nation… — Todd Gitlin Copy Share Image
