Church Quotes · Page 145

“No churchmen, I notice. Of course not. What use have they for a world without irrational fear?”

— Jonathan L. Howard

Let us pray that the Church be holier and more humble, loving God by serving the poor, the lonely and the sick.

— Pope Francis

The holy scriptures as well as the local and General Authorities of the Church provide a safety net of counsel and guidance…

— James E. Faust

Regrettably, we've made it acceptable to sit in church week after week & do nothing & still call yourself a 'Christian.'

— Ed Stetzer

There are three traps that strangle philosophy: The church, the marriage bed, and the professor's chair.

— George Santayana

If the envious, the defamers and the backbiters were taken out of the average church, there would be revival overnight.

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

Growing up in the church in West Virginia, faith is always there. It's part of the fabric of the culture.

— DeVon Franklin

Being famous is uncomfortable because I grew up very simply. Everything revolved around friends, family, church and sports.

— Kenny Chesney

God has a plan for His Church upon earth. But alas! we too often make our plan, and we think that we…

— Andrew Murray

As soon as the Gospels were written, speech without experience began to dabble with the new facts proposed by the existence of…

— Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy

Cheap grace is the grace we bestow on ourselves. Cheap grace is the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance, baptism without church…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The [book of the bible] Song Of Songs is an amazing erotic love poem that the church has tried very hard not…

— Alan Green

As fanatical as it may sound to fundamental evangelical Christians, the Church is destined to subdue all things and put all things…

— Bill Hamon

I think it is wrong for the federal government to force Christian individuals, businesses, pastors, churches to participate in wedding ceremonies that…

— Bobby Jindal

There is a tradition that the church represents, without which we wouldn't have the church, that's all about diving deep beneath the…

— Parker J. Palmer

I poured the wine into the chalice our church had given me. In the one-sixth gravity of the moon the wine curled…

— Buzz Aldrin

If the Africans and Arabs were ruling Spain from 711 to 1492, had they destroyed the Catholic church, they still would be…

— John Henrik Clarke

Missionary work isn't the only thing we need to do in this big, wide, wonderful Church. But almost everything else we need…

— Jeffrey R. Holland

Some communities don't permit open, honest inquiry about the things that matter most. Lots of people have voiced a concern, expressed a…

— Rob Bell

There were positive things about the church, that is, in the European cultural sense, the architecture, the liturgy, the music, the art,…

— Frank McCourt

The usual struggle squeezing my bloated Citroën, absurdly named “Picasso,” in or out of any old Italian town. I should be taking…

— Joscelyn Godwin

I have an evening dress, pink mull over silk (I'm perfectly beautiful in that), and a blue church dress, and a dinner…

— Jean Webster

Let us remember Paul VI's words: "For the Catholic Church, no one is a stranger, no one is excluded, no one is…

— Pope Francis

When a church reaches up beyond its group and tries to enforce its standards upon a society that doesn't accept these standards,…

— Reinhold Niebuhr

...learn to perceive and control your chakras; they are like seven churches within you, each holding a different aspect of the Mystery…

— E. Bernard Jordan

Jesus is the hope of the world and the local church is the vehicle of expressing that hope to the world.

— Andy Stanley

What I miss [about church] is being forced to be in community with people that aren't the same as me.

— Win Butler

I used to tell people when I preached at a church, 'If you want a great sermon, be a great audience.'

— Michael Eric Dyson

Devotion to the family and devotion to the Church are not different and separate things.

— Boyd K. Packer

One thing the Devil fears the most is the Church that obeys and goes not just sits and talks.

— Artur Pawlowski

If America is ever going to be saved, it will be through a church flowing both in the message of the cross…

— Rod Parsley

When I'm on stage, I'm trying to do one thing: bring people joy. Just like church does. People don't go to church…

— James Brown

When you're in a church, and you're singing about the presence of the Lord, it is so hard not to get overjoyed…

— Deborah Joy Winans

Wherever we turn in the church of God, there is Jesus. He is the beginning, middle and end of everything to us.

— Anonymous

The ordinance of confirming a new member of the Church and bestowing the gift of the Holy Ghost is both simple and…

— David A. Bednar

Praying for revival equates to blaming God for the condition of your local church.

— Andy Stanley

If, hypothetically, Western Catholicism were to review the issue of celibacy, I think it would do so for cultural reasons, not so…

— Pope Francis

I had been raised in the church, but I wasn't a Christian. I had a lot of head knowledge but no heart…

— Francine Rivers

Without a common loyalty to either a state or a church they have nevertheless a vast deal in common.

— Emily Greene Balch

When the Church listens to the Holy Spirit, it becomes fruitful. New movements are born.

— E. Stanley Jones