The Church must be intelligible to the simple as well as to the shrewd. — Robert Hugh Benson Copy Share Image
One of the challenges of the church is to accept humanity for all it is. — Tom Shadyac Copy Share Image
If you claim to be a follower of Christ, I encourage you to consider your present commitment to a local church. — David Platt Copy Share Image
Not for yourself, O church, do you exist, any more than Christ existed for himself. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
If there is anyone who's living the work of the New Testament, it's the nuns of the Catholic church and not the… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
God requires to be represented by a fiery Church... two things are intolerable to Him-insincerity and lukewarmness. — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
The Church is not an association that wishes to promote a certain cause. It is not about a cause. It is about… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
The church must be reminded that it is not the master, or the servant of the state, but rather the conscience of… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We need revelation for the calling of officers in the Church. Men should not be called merely through impression. — J. Golden Kimball Copy Share Image
“If that church is not adding value to your life, you may want to reconsider how often you go to church.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Helmut Walcha was a gifted organist, improviser, and composer! He would play Evensong every week at his church for free, the Dreikönigskirche… — Barbara Harbach Copy Share Image
The most heinous crime of the Church has been perpetrated not against churchmen but against churchgoers. With its poisonous concepts of sin… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
Bring the little ones to Christ. Lord Jesus, we bring them today, the children of our Sunday-schools, of our churches, of the… — Thomas De Witt Talmage Copy Share Image
The fact that I was taking naps in churches, in between takes of the [Ordinary World], and there was that guerilla style… — Billie Joe Armstrong Copy Share Image
Nothing can ever pass away from the words of Christ, nor can anything be changed in the doctrine which the Catholic Church… — Pope Pius IX Copy Share Image
We have devoted ourselves to the government and extension of the Church, and, among other objects, we have conceived it to be… — Pope Leo X Copy Share Image
“Christians are famous for telling people to be "child-like" and yet one of the greatest qualities of a child (the never ending… — D.R. Silva Copy Share Image
The church becomes irrelevant when it becomes purely a human creation. We are not all we were made to be when everything… — Francis Chan Copy Share Image
What I try to get beyond is playing music at people and, instead, to play music with people because audience members are… — Al Jarreau Copy Share Image
Doubt--because doubt is not a sin, it is a sign of your intelligence. You are not responsible to any nation, to any… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
"Do you love me?"; "Are you my friend?". The One who scrutinizes hearts (cf. Rom 8:27), makes himself a beggar of love… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
The sinners to whom Jesus directed His messianic ministry were not those who skipped morning devotions or Sunday church. His ministry was… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
“Here then are the choices we all face moment by moment: Will we aim to be impressive? Will we expect to be… — Ray Ortlund Copy Share Image
For how shall we fill people with blind faith in the correctness of a doctrine, if we ourselves spread uncertainty and doubt… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
In the old days, it was not called the Holiday Season; the Christians called it "Christmas" and went to church; the Jews… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
“A friend of ours, the wife of a pastor at a church in Colorado, had once told me about something her daughter,… — Todd Burpo Copy Share Image
“The church is not a museum for saints it's a hospital for sinners.” — Abigail Van Buren Copy Share Image
I grew up in the church and had always questioned what they were telling me. — Jimmy Cliff Copy Share Image
“The goal of the church is to bring the kingdom answers to the people” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Church is not a house for Saints... but rather, it is a Hospital for Sinners! — Anonymous Copy Share Image