Church Quotes · Page 70

It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the…

— Diane Frolov

“Our greatest fear as individuals & as a church should not be of failure, but of suceeding at things in life that…

— Francis Chan

My father was full of tales. He said his family were ministers in the Church of Scotland, or they were lawyers.

— Anne Reid

“Church is God’s people intentionally committing to die together so that others can find his kingdom.”

— Hugh Halter

I am an enthusiastic participant in a church, but I have never been particularly concerned with denominational identity.

— Stanley Hauerwas

No person, no idea, and no religion deserves to be illegal to insult, not even the Church of Emacs.

— Richard Stallman

My parents were in the local church choir, and I used to go along and sing and play the organ at all…

— Dolores O'Riordan

I was a Catholic youth minister for eight years... I'm not Catholic anymore. The church is too misogynistic.

— Cindy Sheehan

I discovered the same thing Gram Parsons did, that soul music and country music are practically identical. Based off of the same…

— Justin Townes Earle

What is a church? Let Truth and reason speak, They would reply, "The faithful, pure and meek, From Christian folds, the one…

— George Crabbe

Cardinal Dolan, of course, has a very, very hard job: trying to hold up Catholic family values in sexually liberal New York…

— Stephen Colbert

I grew up in a family where, through my teenage years, I was expected to go to church on Sunday. It wasn't…

— John Irving

This is the river of the great 19th-century landscapists; of Cole, Cropsey and Church, and at the end of the summer it…

— Judith Thurman

I compose with bells a lot. Bells and breath. Both things you react to without thinking about it. Bells traditionally give us…

— Sxip Shirey

A church has the right to set its own standards within its community. I don't think it has a right to prohibit…

— Reinhold Niebuhr

Hopefully when you see the movie, Maybe you don't have the Orlando in your life, but you know that guy. He goes…

— Shemar Moore

If [Pope's Francis] media-generated popularity, fragile as that may turn out to be when the world discovers that the pope is really…

— George Weigel

Many will say, "I can find God without the help of the Bible, or church, or minister." Very well. Do so if…

— Henry Ward Beecher

If the Christian church is to move responsibly towards the future, it must restore or renew its ties with its past. Contemporary…

— Ronald H. Nash

But it is daily tasks, daily acts of love and worship that serve to remind us that the religion is not strictly…

— Kathleen Norris

I kept careful record of the impact of religion on the election in my county. The religious issue permeated every meeting I…

— James A. Michener

If Jesus remained dead, how can you explain the reality of the Christian church and its phenomenal growth in the first three…

— Henry F. Schaefer, III

The Church worked hard at it night and day during nine centuries and imprisoned, tortured, hanged, and burned whole hordes and armies…

— Mark Twain

That solo on "Lord, I'm Discouraged" in terms of notes it isn't anything like it, but in terms of aesthetic, it's direct…

— Tad Kubler

To just read the Bible, attend church, and avoid “big” sins-is this passionate, wholehearted love for God?

— Francois Fenelon

My dad's a pastor; I grew up in the church, and it's really easy to just have a healthy respect for what…

— Brett Young

I leave it to the faithful to burn each other's churches and mosques and synagogues, which they can be always relied upon…

— Christopher Hitchens

The church has an unconditional obligation to the victims of any ordering society, even if they do not belong to the Christian…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Cheap grace is the deadly enemy of our church. We are fighting today for costly grace.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

All Christians have opportunities to serve those who might never come to church or listen to a sermon.

— Timothy Keller

The 'Church' is ... catholic because her communion embraces the whole human race.

— Pope Francis

I thought there was a glitch when they told me that in two or three weeks 'My Church' hit a million streams.

— Maren Morris

“Church is not ‘Where’ but ‘Who’. Church is not about the Place but the People. Church is our HOME. Church is about…

— Cecilia Chan

Music is like church to me. It's as spiritual a connection as I just about ever make.

— Lari White

The Church imposes nothing; she only proposes, she proposes like a lover to the beloved.

— Pope John Paul II

I was born and raised in the Westboro Baptist Church, an infamous congregation started by my grandfather, and consisting almost entirely of…

— Megan Phelps-Roper

If the presence of God is in the church, the church will draw the world in. If the presence of God is…

— Charles Grandison Finney

If you are too busy in your church activities to take care of your family, then perhaps we had better find something…

— Gordon B. Hinckley

The early Church was married to poverty, prisons and persecutions. Today, the church is married to prosperity, personality, and popularity.

— Leonard Ravenhill

First, I am definitely going to give some money to my mission program at church, and then I have to get my…

— Darci Lynne Farmer