Church Quotes · Page 23

I grew up in church, and I have a wonderful family that always supported that.

— Carrie Underwood

The church does not draw people in; it sends them out.

— Charles Colson

God wants an opportunity to prove who He is.

— Johnny Hunt

I once heard a preacher who sorely tempted me to go to church no more.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A just government has no need for the clergy or the church.

— James Madison

I was reared in the church, in the Presbyterian Church.

— Billy Graham

The nearer to the church, the further from God.

— John Heywood

Well, I actually grew up singing in church, and I was in choirs.

— Guy Sebastian

The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Coming from the cotton plantation, the southern regions, I was brought up with real nice kids, mannered kids, who would go to…

— Luther Allison

When anyone has the power to destroy the whole human race in a matter of hours, it becomes a moral issue. The…

— Billy Graham

Buddha says: "Do not flatter your benefactor!". Let one repeat this saying in a Christian church : it immediately purifies the air…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The chiefest sanctity of a temple is that it is a place to which men go to weep in common.

— Miguel de Unamuno

I grew up in San Francisco in the 1970s. We were part of a church that belonged to the California Jesus movement.

— Sara Zarr

If the church would only be the church- if Christians would only be Christians- nothing could halt our onward march.

— Vance Havner

The problem in the church today is not the profession of faith, but it's possession.

— R. C. Sproul

I just followed my parents' example and advice on living, which was to leave the world a better place than you found…

— Ian Mckellen

The Church is everywhere represented as one. It is one body, one family, one fold, one kingdom. It is one because pervaded…

— Charles Hodge

I know of no crime that has not been defended by the church, in one form or other. The church is not…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Being in church so often, spending those hours sitting in front of a highly symbolic array of objects, hearing those beautiful texts…

— George Saunders

“Without the persistent rising up of individuals that seek the Lord and place themselves under His direct leadership, churches will inevitably...slip into…

— Henry Hon

We need to look beyond the obvious. Yes, there are minstrel images in hip-hop. Yes, there are demeaning, anti-racist, misogynistic and homophobic…

— Bakari Kitwana

I would think, to me, growing up in the south, growing up with all the gospel music, singing in the church and…

— Jackie DeShannon

The Church exists for nothing else but to draw men into Christ, to make them little Christs. If they are not doing…

— C. S. Lewis

You can leave the Church, but you can’t leave it alone. The basic reason for this is simple. Once someone has received…

— Glenn L. Pace

“Is it not strange that it should be precisely our century—a century of social science and of solidarity if ever there was…

— Antonin Sertillanges

Put yourself in the position of a person, sort of an ordinary American, "I'm a hard-working, god-fearing Christian. I take care of…

— Noam Chomsky

The issue is not going to church; rather, the issue is worshipping and renewing covenants as we attend church. The issue is…

— David A. Bednar

First of all, there's no separation of church and state in the Islamic world. They're one and the same. And so when…

— Michael Scheuer

In the agreement to rescue Rome [i.e., the Roman Catholic Church's hierarchy] from the predicament of losing its world control to Protestantism,…

— John Daniel

“[I]t seemed to me now that a Catholic church was the right companion for all these horrors. Didn't Catholicism deal with blood…

— Elizabeth Kostova

I believe He wants us to love others so much that we go to extremes to help them. I believe He wants…

— Francis Chan

It takes the whole church to know the whole truth.

— Rowan Williams

It was not just the Church that resisted the heliocentrism of Copernicus.

— Tycho Brahe

Jesus proclaimed the Kingdom of God and what came was the Church.

— Alfred Loisy

“It's astonishing what a number of churches and idiots there are in the world.”

— Karel Čapek

Veblen once asked a religious student the value of her church in kegs of beer.

— Robert Heilbroner

'Greenleaf' has such great affection for the church.

— Merle Dandridge

I went to church with my grandmother every Sunday.

— David Linley

Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God.

— Lenny Bruce