The Church has failed to be a positive influence for good in our nation and our world. — Tony Evans Copy Share Image
While I cannot be regarded as a pillar, I must be regarded as a buttress of the church, because I support it… — William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne Copy Share Image
I refuse the oration of all churches. I ask a prayer of all souls. I believe in God. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Why is it that the choice among churches always seems to be the choice between intelligence on ice and ignorance on fire? — Diana Butler Bass Copy Share Image
Following Jesus in faith is to walk with him in the communion of the Church. You cannot follow Jesus alone. — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
It bums me out tremendously what the church has become, and if it's got me bummed, imagine what Jesus Christ must be… — Whoopi Goldberg Copy Share Image
The way people come to church every week, know the songs and be hurting on the inside. We miss the moment to… — Israel Houghton Copy Share Image
“Hard by the church stood the public house; so often the two are closely conjoined, honorably sharing both joys and sorrows.” — Jeremias Gotthelf Copy Share Image
The next Republican that will win will campaign in the Latino community, will campaign amongst Asian-Americans, will campaign in the black churches,… — Jeb Bush Copy Share Image
Babies aren't born knowing differences in color, gender, religions. They're taught those things. They're taught them at home. They're taught in the… — Geraldine Ferraro Copy Share Image
“To conquer your biology, stop seeing people sexually and start seeing them as family. In our day, we have really a perverted… — Mark Driscoll Copy Share Image
A few places are especially conducive to inspiration - automobiles, church - public places. I plotted Couples almost entirely in church -… — John Updike Copy Share Image
The message of some churches today seems to be, "Only sing if it appeals to your sense of style, or your demographic."… — Keith Getty Copy Share Image
All contemporary religions and churches, all and every kind of religious organization, Marxism has always viewed as organs of bourgeois reaction, serving… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
The restoration of the church must surely depend on a new kind of monasticism, which has nothing in common with the old… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
The man who preaches truth and applies it to the lives of his hearers will feel the nails and the thorns. He… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
The Bible is big in my teaching. It's a wonder the ACLU didn't get after me pretty good. I really kept thinking… — Bobby Bowden Copy Share Image
I have a hard time with historians because they idolize the truth. The truth is not uplifting; it destroys. I could tell… — Boyd K. Packer Copy Share Image
Barna is correct when he writes, "After fifteen years of diligent digging into the world around me, I have reached several conclusions… — Ed Stetzer Copy Share Image
I never meet a church that wishes they didn't do it. I never meet a leader that wishes they didn't do it.… — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
The spiritual man habitually makes eternity-judgments instead of time-judgments. By faith he rises above the tug of earth and the flow of… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
While we destroyed the Centre Party, we have not only brought thousands of priests back into the Church, but to millions of… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
“Worship, then, needs to be characterized by hospitality; it needs to be inviting. But at the same time, it should be inviting… — James K.A. Smith Copy Share Image
Art is not a substitute religion: it is a religion (in the true sense of the word: 'binding back', 'binding' to the… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
“Why live by the rules in the Church, when the church rules against everything you live for?” — Michelle Geaney Copy Share Image
Fixing things requires change and change always creates conflict. But that is why you are a leader. — Andy Stanley Copy Share Image
I still call myself a communist, because communism is no more what Russia made of it than Christianity is what the churches… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
A church is in a bad way when it banishes laughter from the sanctuary and leaves it to the cabaret, the nightclub… — Helmut Thielicke Copy Share Image
If this government is doing the right thing by fighting corruption, the Church should support it. — Yemi Osinbajo Copy Share Image
Most people think that God wants us to demonstrate our love for God by having churches and by having symbols - and… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
If...we do not think that a local church is worthy of joining, why should we be considered worthy of serving in it? — Wayne Mack Copy Share Image
You cannot unify a church on any other foundation than agreement on sound doctrine. — John MacArthur Copy Share Image
The purpose of church is that we might learn to love unconditionally those we wouldn't normally like. — Richard Kuehn Copy Share Image
Christ's commandment to hear the Church . . . is binding on all men, in every period, and every country. — Pope Pius XI Copy Share Image
The Church used to be a lifeboat rescuing the perishing. Now she is a cruise ship recruiting the promising. — Leonard Ravenhill Copy Share Image
Even in my own church I heard the words, 'Francis Chan' more than I heard the words, 'Holy Spirit.' — Francis Chan Copy Share Image
Eastern churches simply often try to please Muslims. Why doesn't the New York Times report this? — Manfred Gerstenfeld Copy Share Image
The public schools shall be free from sectarian influences and, above all, free from any attitude of hostility to the adherents of… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Depend upon it, as long as the church is living so much like the world, we cannot expect our children to be… — Dwight L. Moody Copy Share Image
It was like a church in there as only the truly lost sit in bars on Tuesday mornings at 8:00 a.m. — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
