Church Quotes · Page 27

The church that does not evangelize will fossilize.

— Oswald J. Smith

All politics are local, and so in church.

— Greg Boyle

The church changes the world not by making converts but by making disciples.

— John Wesley

Persecution is the heirloom of the church, and the ensign of the elect.

— Charles Spurgeon

I was a Presbyterian minister at a small church in Omaha, Nebraska.

— Sam Barry

“will, hereafter, see that the Church in Jerusalem”

— Anonymous

My parents always made me dress up for church. I really didn't want to.

— Amar'e Stoudemire

Church of painful love - unfulfilled,unrequited & unattained

— Dan Brown

Following Jesus in faith is to walk with him in the communion of the Church. You cannot follow Jesus alone.

— Pope Benedict XVI

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

The Church has failed to be a positive influence for good in our nation and our world.

— Tony Evans

A time will come when instead of shepherds feeding the sheep, the church will have clowns entertaining the goats

— Charles Spurgeon

Through the ages, God has used the church to keep alive and pass down the story of what Christ has done for…

— Tony Campolo

“When others sit, a #StaticJedi is found standing—even standing along, with a message not in hand but secure in heart!”

— Eric Samuel Timm

I tell people, you know, going to the club doesn’t make me a bad person, going to church doesn’t make you a…

— Miley Cyrus

I don't go to church regularly. I wouldn't say I was religious, but more spiritual.

— Julian Ovenden

That's all the information I need to know about the church, Jesus picked it. And so instead of me telling the church…

— Bob Goff

Cardinal Dolan, of course, has a very, very hard job: trying to hold up Catholic family values in sexually liberal New York…

— Stephen Colbert

I grew up in a family where, through my teenage years, I was expected to go to church on Sunday. It wasn't…

— John Irving

This is the river of the great 19th-century landscapists; of Cole, Cropsey and Church, and at the end of the summer it…

— Judith Thurman

What is a church? Let Truth and reason speak, They would reply, "The faithful, pure and meek, From Christian folds, the one…

— George Crabbe

Priesthood is not a convenient, historically conditioned form of Church organisation, but is rooted in the Incarnation, in the priesthood and mission…

— Arthur Middleton

A Church without women is like the college of the Apostles without Mary... Our Lady is more important than the Apostles! She…

— Pope Francis

I journeyed to London, to the timekept City, Where the River flows, with foreign flotations. There I was told: we have too…

— T. S. Eliot

No sovereign, no court, no personal loyalty, no aristocracy, no church, no clergy, no army, no diplomatic service, no country gentlemen, no…

— Henry James

Expressions of sharp and even violent criticism of religion and the church have been welcomed, for they usually imply sincerity of thought.…

— Halford Luccock

Paul was Nero's prisoner, but Nero was much more God's... But how does the great apostle spend his time in prison?... We…

— William Gurnall

It is true that going out on to the street implies the risk of accidents happening, as they would to any ordinary…

— Pope Francis

To an age which has unashamedly sold itself to the gods of greed, pride, sex, and self-will, the church mumbles on about…

— J. I. Packer

If the church says you are not allowed to steal, and we will ostracize you in our midst if you did, if…

— Yemi Osinbajo

I believe that the tragedy [like terror attack] that's caused so much grief and suffering to so many thousands and thousands of…

— Jane Goodall

Some men at the approach of a dispute neigh like horses. Unless there be an argument, they think nothing is doing. Some…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

But I don't necessarily define my faith by going to church every Sunday.

— Miley Cyrus

There is no record in the Bible of a weak man falling.

— Johnny Hunt

The church converteth the whole world by blood and prayer.

— Martin Luther

I didn't go to church all the time, just 'cause I was an antsy kid.

— Michael Keaton

You ain't gotta go to church to find your God.

— Jay-Z

If you find a perfect church don't join it: You'd spoil it.

— Billy Graham

The less power a church has, the more entertainment it has.

— Leonard Ravenhill

I have written many works to accompany Old Church Slavonic texts.

— Krzysztof Penderecki