Church Quotes · Page 71

“I don't like bullshit and pretense. I can't enjoy the joy at church... without some cash in my wallet.”

— Toba Beta

The best title of the [professing] church of God today, in my judgment, is 'Unbelieving Believers.'

— Leonard Ravenhill

I look at tens of thousands of church leaders who still do need a bit of an awakening.

— Bill Hybels

My grandmother is a huge part of my life. She's just a great woman: a woman of the church.

— Chance The Rapper

Being gay is a sin . But EVERYTHING you do is a sin . Smoking, drinking,cursing, shooting etc..

— Anonymous

The church is always more than a school. But the church cannot be less than a school.

— Jaroslav Pelikan

We shall never see much change for the better in our churches in general till the prayer meeting occupies a higher place…

— Charles Spurgeon

The church does not simply have a missions department; it should wholly exist to be a mission.

— Timothy Keller

I realize that my ministry would someday come to an end. I am only one in a glorious chain of men and…

— Billy Graham

Religion is a superstition that originated in man's mental inability to solve natural phenomena. The Church is an orgainized institution that has…

— Emma Goldman

The church is a home for all to come together, regardless of the depth or the height of our testimony. I know…

— Dieter F. Uchtdorf

It may be a product of me being raised in episcopal church, but I have a love for ritual and theater and…

— Jonathan Meiburg

It might work in the short term, but it's not going to keep the people who hop from congregation to congregation. Church…

— J. Gordon Melton

Since many of you do not belong to the Catholic Church and others are non-believers, from the bottom of my heart I…

— Pope Francis

“Non-churchgoers tend to see Christians as takers rather than givers. When Christians sacrifice and give wildly to the poor, that is truly…

— Francis Chan

Yes, hypothetically, western Catholicism could revise the theme of celibacy. ... But for the moment, I am in favor of maintaining celibacy,…

— Pope Francis

Let us labor for the security of free thought, free speech, pure morals, unfettered religious sentiments, and equal rights and privileges for…

— Ulysses S. Grant

Consider the cost when Christians ignore Jesus commands to sell their possessions and give to the poor and instead choose to spend…

— David Platt

This practice of adoration is based on strong and solid reasons. For the Eucharist is at once a sacrifice and a sacrament;…

— Pope Pius XII

I think most people, if I asked, would say, "Yes, of course I believe." But I think for a great many of…

— Frederick Buechner

Those who are marginal in the world are central in the Church, and that is how it is supposed to be! Thus…

— Henri Nouwen

I think we all have a hunger that's hard to name. A lot of people who come to my retreats have never…

— Geneen Roth

Some go to church to take a walk; some go there to laugh and talk. Some go there to meet a friend;…

— Charles Spurgeon

The church has contributed nothing to civilization. It has progressed somewhat, and it has become a little more decent, in reflection of…

— E. Haldeman-Julius

We have taken a giant step forward in correcting some of the misconceptions people have about the church. I think that we've…

— M. Russell Ballard

Take what the old-church found in Mithra's tomb, candle and script and bell, take what the new-church spat upon and broke and…

— Hilda Doolittle

There are hours when the Church must say NO to those who should ask communion with her, in the doing of her…

— G. Campbell Morgan

The church is not a campus but a community. Pastors are not CEOs; they are shepherds.

— Dillon Burroughs

In the Church, great wonders daily occur, such as the forgiveness of sins, triumph over death . . . the gift of…

— Martin Luther

If Jehovah cannot support his religion without going into partnership with a State Legislature, I think he ought to give it up.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

The only place a new hat can be carried into with safety is a church, for there is plenty of room there.

— Leigh Hunt

Churches are not museums that display perfect people. They are hospitals where the wounded, hurt, injured and broken find healing.

— Nicky Gumbel

Some of the stuff I'm writing is almost like hymns, some of my first singing and choral experiences were in church, the…

— Billy Joel

We live in a church culture that has a dangerous tendency to disconnect the grace of God from the glory of God.

— David Platt

My father is maestro at the Metropolitan church, which gives me an opportunity to write for the church as much as I…

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

I'm a church boy. I got whuppin's. So I'm afraid at any moment my grandmother could just swing down from heaven with…

— Anthony Hamilton

I hate how spiritual formation gets positioned as an optional pursuit for a small special interest group within the church.

— John Ortberg

No person can be punished for entertaining or professing religious beliefs or disbeliefs, for church attendance or non-attendance.

— Hugo Black

God wants every local church to be the first place people think to go when they've really messed up...not the last.

— Tullian Tchividjian

Being raised in the church and being raised in hip-hop, it was just a really natural marriage.

— Kirk Franklin