Church Quotes · Page 47

Raw cucumber makes the churchyards prosperous

— English Proverb

You give Italy Jesus Christ and you get the Roman Catholic Church.

— Indro Montanelli

You can minimize your sin. Rationalize your sin. Justify your sin.

— Johnny Hunt

Republicans can vote on Sundays too, just after they go to Church.

— Nathan Deal

People want to be part of something bigger than they are.

— Johnny Hunt

The Catholic Church was the church of the colonial fascist regime.

— Samora Machel

You can't touch the world by giving up a Starbucks...We've dumbed it down.

— Johnny Hunt

The church should train the Ritz Carlton on how to serve people.

— Jeff Henderson

Me and Sandra are thoroughly satisfied customers as parents of kids who came through this Orange model.

— Andy Stanley

I walked away from going to church when I was 8. I didn't set foot in another church until I was 28.

— Billy Corgan

The saints have always been the source and origin of renewal in the most difficult moments in the Church's history.

— Pope John Paul II

Unable to suppress love, the Church wanted at least to disinfect it, and it created marriage.

— Anonymous

He'd gone to church for forty years and was only getting worse. It seemed like this should tell God something.

— Sue Monk Kidd

The Holy Spirit was not sent so we can have bless ups in our churches but so the world can be changed.

— Mike Pilavachi

Step 1 in casting vision is to make sure your people love Jesus more than they love the vision you are casting.

— Matthew Carter

I go to church every Sunday, which is like going to the gas station once a week and really, really filling up.

— Anne Lamott

I didn't have an imaginary childhood friend, but I did one day imagine somehow tiny green men, and they were only tiny…

— Jim Parsons

Men can never understand the fear of everlasting punishment that fills the souls of women and children. The orthodox religion, as drawn…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

I had always owned them to be the Word of God... the careful reading of the Acts afforded me a practical picture…

— John Nelson Darby

The Lord never had - and never will have to the end of time - a church on the earth without prophets,…

— Wilford Woodruff

“The church is more than a bundle of ideals, as these younger fellows seem to believe. It’s more than a spiritual Boy…

— Stephen King

To be active in a church social life or church activities or even a church mission to help the hungry or reach…

— Max Lucado

A believing man will be a zealous man. Faith makes a man zealous. Faith shows itself by zeal. Not by zeal for…

— Horatius Bonar

I know I wanted to be a comic when I was nine. I was thirteen the first time I did it. I…

— Ralphie May

Although every organized religion works overtime to contribute its own brand of misogyny to the myth of woman-hate, woman-fear, and woman-evil, the…

— Robin Morgan

“In post-Christendom, the church is that community of people who look to discover what God is actively doing in the world around…

— Tim Keel

Here, the churches seemed to shrink away into eroding corners. They seem to have ceased to be essential parts of American life.…

— Sean O'Casey

I would beg the wise and learned fathers (of the church) to consider with all diligence the difference which exists between matters…

— Galileo Galilei

“In serving others, the church will save itself from becoming nothing more than a spiritualized 501c3 not-for-profit, self-centered corporation, organized for the…

— Ronnie McBrayer

For the machine meant the conquest of horizontal space. It also meant a sense of that space which few people had experienced…

— Robert Hughes

I go to a church here in New Jersey that is just a very exciting place, and I just love to be…

— John Shelby Spong

The library was a little old shaby place. Francie thought it was beautiful. The feeling she had about it was as good…

— Betty Smith

Don't jump down - folks, contraception in the Catholic Church is a thing.

— Rush Limbaugh

During my school days, I was the darling of the pastor in my church.

— Sherlyn Chopra

Yet through history gays have always dominated religious life and churches.

— Anonymous

I remember going to church about four times a week. I liked it a lot.

— Victoria Jackson

Where in the Constitution is the separation of church and state?

— Christine O'Donnell

I don't go to movies for redemption - if I want that, I'll go to church!

— Anson Mount

Sportsmanship, next to the Church, is the greatest teacher of morals.

— Herbert Hoover

The mission proper to the Church is that of proclaiming the Gospel.

— Karl Lehmann