Church Quotes · Page 82

“Yesterday is the last day of the past. Tomorrow is brimming with hope, so today is meant to lived large. Enjoy your…

— David Grachek

Before I had crossed the threshold of my church I was made to realize that I was shepherd of a divided flock.

— Anonymous

Then came the churches, then came the schools, then came the lawyers, then came the rules.

— Mark Knopfler

Wherever the bishop appears, there let the people be, even as wheresoever Christ Jesus is, there is the catholic church.

— Ignatius of Antioch

Without a vision our community will perish without Christ, but without a vision the church will perish as well.

— John C. Maxwell

The problem is not that the churches are filled with empty pews, but that the pews are filled with empty people.

— Charlie W Shedd

People who minister worldwide to protect and conserve the environment are of no lower status than those who minister to plant churches.

— Leonard Sweet

Art is History's nostalgia, it prefers a thatched roof to a concrete factory, and the huge church above a bleached village.

— Derek Walcott

My plea to the Body of Christ is while we must do all we can to meet the needs of the suffering…

— K.P. Yohannan

I never thought it was right to call up a man and try him because he erred in doctrine, it looks too…

— Joseph Smith, Jr

There is not much we can say with absolute confidence about the early church, but we can be fairly sure that the…

— Neil MacGregor

I think on the things - the issues that Pope Francis cares about - not just remaking the Church and in just…

— Joy-Ann Reid

Not only men, but also women, the weaker sex, in going by the narrow path of Christ have received for themselves the…

— Ephrem the Syrian

The Republican party is not a church. It does not promulgate doctrine and then exclude those who fail to share it. But…

— Ralph E. Reed, Jr

The Revelation speaks powerfully today, and its message to us is the same as it was to the early Church: that "there…

— Gary North

I was born into the Church of England but in the most nominal way possible you can imagine, so it's Christmas and…

— Richard Coles

We do it all the time, we legislate taste. We do it with the tax code. Churches and children get a tax…

— Bill Maher

Officers in the Church of Jesus Christ are called for two distinct purposes: First and foremost, to serve the people; and, secondly,…

— John Andreas Widtsoe

As the magistrate has no power to impose by his laws the use of any rites and ceremonies in any church, so…

— John Locke

By day, Venice is a city of museums and churches, packed with great art. Linger over lunch, trying to crack a crustacean…

— Rick Steves

“Perhaps it is no wonder that the women were first at the Cradle and last at the Cross. They had never known…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

But I hope that by the decision and authority of wise princes that sometime devout and learned men from the churches of…

— Philipp Melanchthon

A moment, and its glory was no more. The sun went down beneath the long dark lines of hill and cloud which…

— Charles Dickens

“Actually, what we really need to remember about Galileo is that most of the people who use his name in argument could…

— Michael Coren

There is no dogma that the organ or harmonium can be used in church, but not the drum.

— Francis Arinze

I just pray. And I'm not very religious at all - I was raised Catholic, but probably haven't gone to church since…

— Lynsey Addario

Hearing Mass is the ceremony I most favor during my travels. Church is the only place where someone speaks to me and…

— Charles de Gaulle

They are universal places, like churches, hallowed meeting places of all mankind.

— Iris Murdoch

We as [churches] may be lampstands, but all of the light is Christ Himself. We exist in order that He might shine…

— Alistair Begg

Rome has seven sacraments, but the Protestant churches, being less prosperous, feel that they can afford only two, and these of inferior…

— Ambrose Bierce

Each faithful young woman in the Church proclaims that individual worth is one of her most cherished values.

— Russell M. Nelson

All Catholics must ask themselves what they personally have done lately to build up the holiness of the church and ensure people…

— Pope Francis

Missionary work is an identifying feature of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Always has it been; ever shall it…

— Thomas S. Monson

Why do we people in churches seem like cheerful, brainless tourists on a packaged tour of the Absolute?

— Annie Dillard

To a true believer, death is but going to church: from the church below to the church above.

— Augustus Toplady

I sang in the choir growing up and more recently served on the worship team at my church in California.

— Deborah Joy Winans

In all that we do in the Church, we need to provide the way, as leaders, for parents and children to have…

— Boyd K. Packer

For me the hardest struggle in my faith life was the Catholic Church is against the death penalty.

— Tim Kaine

The most knowledgeable person is not necessarily the person who runs the government, nor the church, nor the business.

— Frederick Lenz

That is the job of the Catholic Church, to be a balance to the materialistic drives of our culture and of economy.

— David Brooks