Church Quotes · Page 76

And this is the mission of the church--not civilization, but salvation--not better laws, purer legislation, social elevation, human equality and liberty, but…

— Abbott Eliot Kittredge

The church is God's vineyard.

— Heinrich Bullinger

The paid wealth which hundreds in the community acquire in trade, or by the incessant expansions of our population and arts, enchants…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

We get along, we talk music.Lenny Kravitz took me to Harlem to see this little jazz show in the back of a…

— Penn Dayton Badgley

“The greatest gift a church can receive is to have a group of families who take their responsibilities with such Christian seriousness…

— Anonymous

My beloved church misunderstood me. It preached the corruptibility of humanity when I came to demonstrate its potential for incorruptibility. It propounded…

— Barbara Marx Hubbard

There's this morbid side to the way many represent Christianity today, where you don't smile, because it's too serious, and you can't…

— George Harrison

When pastors don't have rich spiritual lives with Christ, they become victimized by other models of success - models conveyed to them…

— Dallas Willard

“Dysfunction comes when we intertwine the church and God and view them as one.”

— Randy Elrod

Me and Dave Chappelle were at Charlie Murphy's funeral. I got up there and I got to preaching, and I took over…

— Eddie Griffin

You may invite the entire 35th Division to your wedding if you want to. I guess it's going to be yours as…

— Bess Truman

I became a Christian within a fundamentalist church. I saw 'A Thief in the Night' on a 16 mm. print when I…

— Scott Derrickson

I did not grow up in the church. I'm not a church-goer now. I'm a very spiritual person.

— Malcolm D. Lee

My laboratory is like a church because it is where I figure out what I believe.

— Hope Jahren

The nation, like the church, has its visible symbols and insignia, its parchments engrossed with the revealed word, its dogmas, hymns, liturgy,…

— Michael Parenti

Church wealth are moving into everything-gas stations, banks, television stations, supermarket chains, hotels, steel mills, resort areas, farms, wine factories, warehouses, bottling…

— Madalyn Murray O'Hair

I feel like I'm not living a life different than anyone else. You know, I live in a house with 5 kids…

— TobyMac

I don't believe in an America where the separation of church and state are absolute.

— Rick Santorum

The Church has opposed every innovation and discovery from the day of Galileo down to our own time, when the use of…

— Mark Twain

Women work overtime, do double triple duty, juggle ten balls at once -- children, careers, husbands, schoolwork, housework, church work, and more…

— Susan L. Taylor

The history of the Church of Christ from the days of the Apostles has been a history of spiritual movements.

— Henry Parry Liddon

The root-trouble of the present distress is that the Church has more faith in the world and the flesh than in the…

— Samuel Chadwick

Evangelism was not a program in the Jerusalem church; it was a way of life. The believers' lives and behaviors created such…

— David Jeremiah

People just sticking names on places, so that no one could see those places properly any more. Every time they looked at…

— John Marsden

I think the strength of the Catholic church is that when it does finally identify a problem, it works to resolve it.

— Donald Wuerl

Despite much talk in this land about religious freedom, churches and their schools now confront grave difficulties.

— Russell Kirk

The fact that the Vatican is concluding a treaty with the new Germany means the acknowledgement of the National Socialist state by…

— Adolf Hitler

The purpose of my life had always been to free people from concern. I dubbed it, 'The church of freedom from concern,'…

— Jim Carrey

Our public schools began as ministries of the church; now it is time to return them to the Lord.

— Anonymous

We need revelation for the calling of officers in the Church. Men should not be called merely through impression.

— J. Golden Kimball

I add, that those who are bent on restoring the whole church ought to be well instructed in the word, and to…

— John Nelson Darby

The "door of faith" (Acts 14:27) is always open for us, ushering us into the life of communion with God and offering…

— Pope Benedict XVI

You know, these guys want to talk about God; 'Oh, I want to thank God. I want to thank God.' Listen, I'm…

— Chael Sonnen

We often say, and you have heard the expression as it has already been referred to in this conference, that "as man…

— Eldred G. Smith

Compared to America or Europe, God isn't a big part of our lives here. I don't know anyone here who goes to…

— Bjork

Well, the film's not only pricking the pomposity of the Church, it's pricking the pomposity, and sometimes you would think fraudulence, of…

— Billy Connolly

My grandmother was a very simple woman. She didn't want a whole lot. My grandmother wanted to go to church and Sunday…

— Shannon Sharpe

“And in the Incarnation the whole human race recovers the dignity of the image of God. Henceforth, any attack even on the…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The unity of Christendom is not a luxury, but a necessity. The world will go limping until Christ's prayer that all may…

— Charles Brent

I think I am the oldest member and have been in good standing longer than any other member of this church.

— John Harvey Kellogg