Church Quotes · Page 66

I was brought up a Roman Catholic, so when I was a child I was frogmarched to church every Sunday.

— Harry Enfield

The chiefest sanctity of a temple is that it is a place to which men go to weep in common.

— Miguel de Unamuno

If the church would only be the church- if Christians would only be Christians- nothing could halt our onward march.

— Vance Havner

I grew up in San Francisco in the 1970s. We were part of a church that belonged to the California Jesus movement.

— Sara Zarr

Buddha says: "Do not flatter your benefactor!". Let one repeat this saying in a Christian church : it immediately purifies the air…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

When anyone has the power to destroy the whole human race in a matter of hours, it becomes a moral issue. The…

— Billy Graham

In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to appear better than we really are.

— E. Stanley Jones

I sang in church growing up. Memphis is the blues capital of the world, we like to say.

— Justin Timberlake

Put simply, the church finds itself in a post-Christendom era, and it had better do some serious reflection or face increasing decline…

— Alan Hirsch

The victory of the Church over the power which was embodied in the Roman imperial system was not won by seizing the…

— Lesslie Newbigin

Remarkable is the greater openness of the Catholic Church towards people of other religious traditions and persuasions. The development has not been…

— Francis Arinze

When I pastored a country church, a farmer didn't like the sermons I preached on hell. He said, Preach about the meek…

— Vance Havner

Real religion should be something that liberates men. But churches don't want free men who can think for themself and find their…

— Federico Fellini

And also those to whom these commandments were given, might have power to lay the foundation of this church, and to bring…

— Joseph Smith, Jr

For two thousand years, the Church has guided the development of music, carefully legislating to fuse artistic talent and aesthetic beauty with…

— Richard Morris

Put bluntly, the American church today accepts grace in theory but denies it in practice. We say we believe that the fundamental…

— Brennan Manning

How precious is the family as the privileged place for transmitting the faith! Speaking about family life, I would like to say…

— Pope Francis

“It is wrong to say that schoolmasters lack heart and are dried-up, soulless pedants! No, by no means. When a child's talent…

— Hermann Hesse

Last year I was on Pat Robertson's show, and we discussed our basic Christian faith - for instance, separation of church and…

— Jimmy Carter

“All agree that, the first responsibility for the alleviation of poverty and distress and for the care of the victims of the…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Dave Stark has taken the best of recent marketplace management concepts and married them to timeless biblical principles of leadership, translating business…

— Jonathan Reckford

I know a girl who has become a really enthusiastic Christian. I remember meeting her several years ago. She lived in a…

— Mark Dever

I know few Christians so convinced of the splendor of the rooms in their Father's house, as to be happier when their…

— John Ruskin

Without the Holy Spirit, Christian discipleship would be inconceivable, even impossible. There can be no life without the life-giver, no understanding without…

— John Stott

People are so shocked when they find... out I am Protestant. I am Presbyterian. And I go to church, and I love…

— Donald Trump

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints bears His name. He stands at its head and directs it through His chosen…

— Joseph B. Wirthlin

The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Coming from the cotton plantation, the southern regions, I was brought up with real nice kids, mannered kids, who would go to…

— Luther Allison

Whoever shall introduce into public affairs the principles of primitive Christianity will change the face of the world.

— Benjamin Franklin

I wouldn't want to criticise someone like Charlotte Church because she has done fantastically well, but personally I've always cared about the…

— Lesley Garrett

Meanwhile the Church more and more provided for the doctrine of the Holy Spirit, by practically chaining His influence to the hierarchy…

— Robert Rainy

God has clearly called and gifted some people in the church to teach his Word formally.

— David Platt

The choir always tittered and whispered all through the service. There was once a church choir that was not ill-bred, but I…

— Mark Twain

The war against illegal file-sharing is like the church's age-old war against masturbation. It's a war you just can't win.

— Lawrence Lessig

Go to church once a week and nobody pays attention. Worship God seven days a week and you become strange!

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

Christianity contains within itself a germ hostile to the Church (Dietrich Bonhoeffer)

— Eric Metaxas

if the devil can get the church to withdraw from prayer by believing reasonable excuses, the church is under his dominion.

— Edward McKendree Bounds

I've always said the theatre is my church. It's where I feel God the most. It's where I know there's a God.

— Ruthie Henshall

We need to avoid the spiritual sickness of a church that is wrapped up in its own world: when a church becomes…

— Pope Francis

My experience as a county commissioner has taught me that the best ideas often come from our neighbors, church groups, and community.

— Darryl Glenn