Church Quotes · Page 44

Yes, though I have nothing but gratitude for my upbringing in the church.

— John McGahern

May the Lord destroy all the tyrants of the church. Amen.

— Michael Servetus

And I say to you, you are Kepha, and on this kepha I will build my church.

— William Hendriksen

“I couldn't go to church and worship God if I didn't try to help that man.”

— Harper Lee

The Church tries to fit Christ into it, not the Church into Christ.

— Swami Vivekananda

The mark of the true church is an expanding witness to the presence of God.

— Gregory Beale

“The Christian commitment is a journey inviting multiple conversions.”

— David A. Fiensy

“What women these Christians have.” ~ Libanius, fourth-century pagan scholar”

— Lorry Lutz

I don't go to church so much, but I do believe in God and I understand the consequences of faith.

— Usain Bolt

Half the Christian churches of New York are trying to ruin the free public schools in order to replace them by religious…

— W. E. B. Du Bois

The promise to the Church is a promise of persecution, if faithful in this world, but a promise of a great inheritance…

— C. I. Scofield

“The work of the church is not survival. She exists to fulfill the Great Commission.”

— Brother Andrew

We're not church planters. We are community planters and, as we work in our communities, we join local churches.

— Shane Claiborne

“Open-handed generosity and caring for the poor and marginalized as if we were caring for Jesus himself are extensions of our worship.”

— C. Christopher Smith

I believe in the Devil. I believe there's a God, too. I met God at church - the Catholic Church.

— Trippie Redd

I think the church needs – I think this is the world we are living in and we need to affirm people…

— Rob Bell

The Christian church is a society of sinners. It is the only society in the world membership in which is based upon…

— Charles Clayton Morrison

I certainly think there are things that impressed me as a child about the church. The smells and the sounds and the…

— Jonathan Meiburg

You sang in church, you know, and you didn't act at all. You tried not to act, you tried to tell the…

— James Earl Jones

Far from being disturbed by the presence of the church, the power structure of the average community is consoled by the church's…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

My position on the issue of homosexuality is no different from the position of the Anglican Church and all the major denominations…

— Nicky Gumbel

Any denomination or church group that forsakes inerrancy will end up shipwrecked. It is impossible to prevent the surrender of other important…

— Francis Schaeffer

An old argument with me is that the true religious force in the world is not the church, but the world itself:…

— Wallace Stevens

The true man of God is heartsick, grieved at the worldliness of the Church, grieved at the toleration of sin in the…

— Leonard Ravenhill

When we struggle for human rights, for freedom, for dignity, when we feel that it is a ministry of the church to…

— Anonymous

I believe in a wall between church and state so high that no one can climb over it. When religion controls government,…

— Sam Ervin

It didn't seem to have relevance, except in Central America or South America, countries where the church was connected to the fight…

— Susan Sarandon

The domestic NSA-led Surveillance State which Frank Church so stridently warned about has obviously come to fruition. The way to avoid its…

— Glenn Greenwald

Respectability is a very good thing in its way, but it does not rise superior to all considerations. I would not for…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

We have no idea who we really are. Whatever glory bestowed, whatever glory is being restored, we thought the whole Christian thing…

— John Eldredge

My family didn't go to church. Once when I slept over at the house of a friend, her parents brought me to…

— Cheryl Strayed

Since 1993, there have been eight or nine, depending how you count, abortion providers who have been murdered in this country. There…

— David X. Cohen

Anybody who cannot learn to hear by feeling will not go very far in church.

— S. Dilworth Young

The only time I catch you up at church is for a funeral.

— JCole

I've been singing forever; I grew up singing in church.

— Sevyn Streeter

“The problem with the church is the church”

— R. Alan Woods

Why is the church always a taillight rather than a headlight?

— Martin Luther King, Jr

I probably go to church two Sundays out of four.

— Mel Giedroyc

“The purpose of the church is to reveal to the people who God is”

— Sunday Adelaja

Churches become poor if they become rich and care not for the poor.

— Lester Roloff