Church Quotes · Page 38

“Your body is temple of the holy spirit.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

the only door into her bedroom led through the church.

— Frances Parkinson Keyes

Prayer meetings are the throbbing machinery of the church.

— Charles Spurgeon

That's so cute! They have birdbaths in the church!

— Hilary Duff

“The Christian church is losing its grasp on heaven and hell.”

— Owen Strachan

In order to impact our society, we need to first model unity in the church.

— Tony Evans

I've been singing in church since I was little; my grandmother is a pastor.

— Fantasia Barrino

Definitely I'm convinced that behind my case there is a trial of the church.

— Augustin Misago

If I am depressed, I do not like to talk to my parents or friends, instead I go and sit in a…

— Rakhi Sawant

I will not say nothing. I will defend my church and my religion when it is insulted and spit on.

— James Joyce

I seemed so different from other kids; I grew up in church and felt a connection with God, and a lot of…

— Fantasia Barrino

If my duty does involve heralding His law in every arena, then the Church in America is failing radically today.

— Randall Terry

Dear brothers and sisters, the Church loves you! Be an active presence in the community, as living cells, as living stones.

— Pope Francis

The desire for legitimate offspring is, in fact, according to the Catholic Church, the only motive which can justify sexual intercourse.

— Bertrand Russell

The church hates a thinker precisely for the same reason a robber dislikes a sheriff, or a thief despises the prosecuting witness.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

How can a bishop marry? How can he flirt? The most he can say is "I will see you in the vestry…

— Sydney Smith

When a black church is hit in South Carolina by someone with hate in their spirit, that's something that touches all of…

— Harris Faulkner

Young actors ask me for advice. They say, 'Should I get an agent?' I tell them, 'Don't worry about that. Act, act,…

— Orson Bean

Storytelling has driven faith and religious practice, keeping them alive for millennia. Just as every hymn, icon, and stained-glass window in a…

— Martin Lindstrom

Out of the depths, O Lord, out of the depths,' begins the most beautiful of the services of our church, and it…

— Hall Caine

Today, Church policy in Ireland is to report allegations of abuse to the civil authorities. It recognises the Gardai and H.S.E. as…

— Sean Brady

I believe in the American tradition of separation of church and state which is expressed in the First Amendment to the Constitution.…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

I'm not against gay people... I have a relative who is also gay. We can't help it if they were born that…

— Manny Pacquiao

The Independent or Congregational theory includes two principles; first, that the governing and executive power in the Church is in the brotherhood;…

— Charles Hodge

“[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

The task of evangelizing all people constitutes the essential mission of the Church. It is a task and mission which the vast…

— Pope Paul VI

The church is always to be under the Word; she must be; we must keep her there. You must not assume that…

— Martyn Lloyd-Jones

“I was once reproved by a minister who was driving a poor beast to some meeting-house horse-sheds among the hills of New…

— Henry David Thoreau

So often people will say that I converted to the Catholic religion. This is false. Although I was raised as a Protestant,…

— Dave Brubeck

Adoration will heal our Church and thus our nation and thus our world... Adoration touches everyone and everything... [because it touches the…

— Peter Kreeft

In my dreams is a country where the State is the Church and the Church the people: three in one and one…

— George Bernard Shaw

I am a pastor so I eat and breathe the Church.

— Mark Batterson

Cast first to your church those visions you absolutely know are the Lord's.

— Matthew Carter

The church is a place where we make our prejudice sacred.

— Peter Rollins

I was baptized when I was younger because I grew up in the church.

— Jameis Winston

What unites the church is infinitely more important than what divides us.

— Nicky Gumbel

There is too much theology in the Church now, and too little of the Gospel.

— Lewis Tappan

All people and each individual man is called to come into the Church.

— Pope Pius XII

Pope Paul III was the greatest thief in the history of the church.

— Peter O'Toole