Church Quotes · Page 143

I actually grew up playing the piano in the church and was deeply involved in music ministry.

— T. D. Jakes

Not everyone who goes to church is a member of the church, some are just numbers in the church..

— Anonymous

Every time I do interviews, they ask me about the same things - poverty, war, and the power of the church.

— Ian Brown

Jesus tells you exactly how to get it. Put your money in missions-and in your church and the poor-and your heart will…

— Randy Alcorn

We went to church every Sunday. When I was a kid, the only time I sang was around my family.

— Darius Rucker

It's come to the point where you have people saying it's our Christian duty to embrace the homosexual movement. This is absurd.

— Randall Terry

Our churches should attract the people Jesus attracted and frustrate the people Jesus frustrated.

— Shane Claiborne

Again, as I had often met it in my own church, I was confronted with the Impurity of Women doctrine that seemed…

— Harper Lee

The Italians are very unmusical. If I go to a Protestant church in London or Amsterdam or listen to a black choir,…

— Gian Carlo Menotti

“Is the church really demonstrating the new life in Christ if there is no discipline, if there is no fencing in of…

— Michael Sattler

When an individual is motivated by great and powerful convictions of truth, then he disciplines himself, not because of the demands of…

— Gordon B. Hinckley

Peggotty!" repeated Miss Betsey, with some indignation. "Do you mean to say, child, that any human being has gone into a Christian…

— Charles Dickens

I belong to the Great Church which holds the world within its starlit aisles; that claims the great and good of every…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Christmas: It's the only religious holiday that's also a federal holiday. That way, Christians can go to their services, and everyone else…

— Samantha Bee

Historically, religious groups have been most effective when they have stood apart from government and critiqued the performance of government in light…

— Edd Doerr

Do what Jesus says,... what he commands through his ministers who are in the Church [see 1 Cor 6:4]. Be subject to…

— Bernard of Clairvaux

Barna is correct when he writes, "After fifteen years of diligent digging into the world around me, I have reached several conclusions…

— Ed Stetzer

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

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

Art is not a substitute religion: it is a religion (in the true sense of the word: 'binding back', 'binding' to the…

— Gerhard Richter

“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

While we destroyed the Centre Party, we have not only brought thousands of priests back into the Church, but to millions of…

— Adolf Hitler

The church of this country is not only indifferent to the wrongs of the slave, it actually takes sides with the oppressors……

— Frederick Douglass

I don't go and study other folks. I come from where I came from, as a kid, in the little black church…

— Cecil Williams

By the power invested in me by the state of New York and the Universal Life Church, I now pronounce you husband…

— Conan O'Brien

No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state.

— Felix Adler

But the churchmen fain would kill their church, As the churches have kill'd their Christ.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

Since people no longer attend church, theater remains as the only public service, and literature as the only private devotion.

— Franz Grillparzer

The great, God-blessed churches in the world today have one common characteristic: an insistence upon an exposition of God's infallible Word.

— O. S. Hawkins

My mother told me once that she and my father agreed that I would not be brought up Jewish in Chicago. She…

— Wesley Clark

It is uncomfortable to be reminded that the Catholic church only removed the reference to 'perfidious Jews' from the Good Friday liturgy…

— Justin Cartwright

Whether it's a church or politics or a corporation or a college or anywhere, leadership matters.

— Jane O'Meara Sanders

You can't compartmentalize unforgiveness. You can't control sin. You can't manage sin. Sin is never satisfied with the amount of you it…

— Johnny Hunt

When there's something in the Bible that churches don't like, they call it 'legalism.'

— Leonard Ravenhill

Prelate, n. A church officer having a superior degree of holiness and a fat preferment. One of Heaven's aristocracy. A gentleman of…

— Ambrose

Just going to church doesn't make you a christian any more than standing in your garage makes you a car.

— G K Chesterton

It's obvious throughout secular and church history that significant legislation follows only after dramatic action.

— Carter Heyward

A 2008 poll of 35,000 Americans revealed that 57% of Evangelical church attenders believe that many religions can lead to eternal life.

— Robert Jeffress

Compassion in evangelical churches is out of balance. When I talk about it, I get a lot of glazed expressions.

— Max Lucado

Neither I nor anyone in the Church would ever tolerate hatred of or prejudice towards any of the Lord's children.

— Anonymous