Church Quotes · Page 77

The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.

— Alan Hirsch

“It is very difficult sometimes to keep awake, especially at church, but there is no difficulty at all about sleeping.”

— Oscar Wilde

If the church is going to make a difference, it will need to go through the "big give-up" stage. Churches will need…

— John C. Maxwell

The downfall of the church will not come from a lack of apologetic teaching; it will come from disintegration of the families…

— Josh McDowell

Know thyself,’ said Socrates. Know thyself,’ said Sappho, ‘and make sure that the Church never finds out.

— Jeanette Winterson

We all want to feel spiritually vigorous, and we hurt when we don't. This pain is intensified for people who lead church…

— John Ortberg

Sweetheart," Bill said formally, "I have always loved you, and I will be proud to die in your service. When I'm gone,…

— Charlaine Harris

I was raised Catholic and I have a lot of respect for the good in the Catholic Church. But I don't go…

— Dolores O'Riordan

He [Gen. Douglas MacArthur] never went to church, but he read the Bible every day and regarded himself as one of the…

— William Manchester

“Go to church to learn about forgiveness; come back to become a forgiver! Go to church and learn about kindness; come back…

— Israelmore Ayivor

I do not love the Sabbath, The soapsuds and the starch, The troops of solemn people Who to Salvation march. I take…

— Robert Graves

I don't really get to attend church. That's definitely one of the challenges. I'm always playing on Sunday, and that's tough because…

— Tony Finau

Fly to the Catholic Church! Adhere to the only faith which continues to exist from the beginning, that faith which was preached…

— Hippolytus of Rome

There is nothing so despicable as a secret society that is based upon religious prejudice and that will attempt to defeat a…

— William Howard Taft

Nothing is plainer than that, if the principles of the church of Rome prevail here, our Constitution would fall. The two cannot…

— Richard Thompson

If anyone in word and mind does not properly and truly confess according to the holy Fathers all even to the last…

— Pope Martin I

Being disconnected from the local church, for whatever reason, is a dangerous way to live. Not only do these “ lone rangers”…

— Nancy Leigh DeMoss

May a merciful God preserve me from a Christian Church in which everyone is a saint! I want to be and remain…

— Martin Luther

Without prolonged moments of adoration, of prayerful encounter with the word, of sincere conversation with the Lord, our work easily becomes meaningless;…

— Pope Francis

One can understand nothing of Christ without the mystery of the Trinity, nothing of the Church without faith in the divinity and…

— Hans Urs von Balthasar

Some people prefer solitude. They say their peace of mind depends on this. Others say they would be better off in church.…

— Meister Eckhart

“Baptism is one of those more effective rites that come in with the new covenant. The fact that baptism takes the place…

— Peter Leithart

the twelve or fifteen millions in the British Empire, who, while they possess no electoral rights, are yet persuaded they are freemen,…

— Richard Cobden

There are dons who care for the intellect and the imagination, and there are priests who care for the spirit; but broadly…

— Hugh Kingsmill

That is the power of the Eucharist. At the communion table you have rich and poor together in the early church and…

— Shane Claiborne

I give money for church organs in the hope the organ music will distract the congregation's attention from the rest of the…

— Andrew Carnegie

Marriage is a civic matter. It is really not, together with all its circumstances, the business of the church.

— Martin Luther

If our church is not marked by caring for the poor, the oppressed, the hungry, we are guilty of heresy.

— Ignatius of Loyola

New York is to the nation what the white church spire is to the village - the visible symbol of aspiration and…

— Anonymous

The questions of today's average young person, who is the product of America's intellectual bastions, have been virtually unaddressed by the church.

— Ravi Zacharias

Jesus was born again in the pit of hell. .. The church started when Jesus was born again in the gates of hell.

— Charles Capps

All the reasons which require the subjection of a believer to the brethren of a particular church require his subjection to all…

— Charles Hodge

I'm afraid I haven't become a born-again Christian. I'm sort of 'Church of England, lapsed' is about as far as I go.

— David Gilmour

The Church exists to connect people at the level of their hunger for a new world.

— Rowan Williams

Scientific dogmatics must devote itself to the criticism and correction of Church proclamation and not just to a repetitive exposition of it.

— Karl Barth

Sunday morning church service is not an enormous priority; spending time with other believers is.

— Donald Miller

Church reminded me very much of going to shul. It was a bunch of men wearing long robes, speaking in a language…

— Amy-Jill Levine

I urge the husbands and fathers of this church to be the kind of a man your wife would not want to…

— James E. Faust

A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never…

— H. L. Mencken

The importance of the Bible to a church is to keep the church on track. The role of the Constitution in government…

— Ted Haggard