Church Quotes · Page 91

'We really shouldn't look like a church.' I've heard that so much I want to vomit. 'Why?' I ask. 'Do you want…

— Charles R. Swindoll

The Code of the Vampires decreed that anyone who violated the Sacred Law was condemned to death, the blood burning. Charles had…

— Melissa de la Cruz

I've grown up in a generation that questions God for setting boundaries. Does He have the right to set boundaries? I've grown…

— Francis Chan

I grew up going to church three times a week in my family. It's been a center of my life.

— Debby Boone

If I'm going to meditate, there is a little church up in Montecito, California. It's an old Spanish mission, actually. I find…

— Michael Keaton

“Our fights should really be for the mission of the church and the mission of the family instead of trying to have…

— Reggie Joiner

Some have immersed themselves in internet materials that magnify, exaggerate, and in some cases invent shortcomings of early Church leaders. Then they…

— Quentin L. Cook

One should not go into churches if one wants to breathe pure air.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

But a priest's life is not supposed to be well-rounded; it is supposed to be one-pointed - a compass, not a weathercock.

— Aldous Huxley

We have to admit that there is an immeasurable distance between all that we read in the Bible and the practice of…

— Jacques Ellul

In all the ages the Roman Church has owned slaves, bought and sold slaves, authorized and encouraged her children to trade in…

— Mark Twain

Political organizations have slowly substituted themselves for the Churches as the places of believing practices, but for this very reason, they seem…

— Michel de Certeau

There is nothing like the local church when the local church is working right.

— Bill Hybels

I was raised by both parents up to 17. We had a good family. We had a middle class family, good teaching…

— Deontay Wilder

I can't speak to the differences within the Catholic Church.

— Jacob Lew

It is quite likely that the modern contrivances for making Sunday-schools amusing have given them a distate for the more solemn services…

— Samuel I. Prime

Being a member of the Church has never placed any roadblocks in my personal and professional life.

— LaVell Edwards

I've never missed anything I've given away.

— Johnny Hunt

My family prayed a lot, but we didn't really go to church. On Sunday, my mum and dad used to always tell…

— Daniel Sturridge

If we are at war with our parents, our family, our society, or our church, there is probably a war going on…

— Nhat Hanh

The reason I still go play the organ at church every Sunday and dedicate my talents to God first is because I…

— Zaytoven

“I wonder if I'm being disloyal, if being with Didier means I'm forgetting about Jones. But every time I go in a…

— Gabrielle Williams

We have battled in America since the century's turn to bring to nothing any and all Christian influences and we are succeeding.…

— Kenneth Goff

Step 1 in casting vision is to make sure your people love Jesus more than they love the vision you are casting.

— Matthew Carter

Basically what Salomé did with Rilke as a mentor was direct him toward the Russian Orthodox Church, so he could project his…

— Laura Marling

I try to practice my religion in a very devout way and follow the teachings of my church in my own personal…

— Tim Kaine

When "I" and "You" are absent, I've no idea if this is a mosque, synagogue, church or temple

— Mahmud Shabistari

“[I]t seemed to me now that a Catholic church was the right companion for all these horrors. Didn't Catholicism deal with blood…

— Elizabeth Kostova

Priesthood is the means whereby the Lord acts through men to save souls. One of the defining features of the Church of…

— David A. Bednar

I think with great affection and deep gratitude of my venerable predecessor, Benedict XVI, who during these years of his pontificate has…

— Pope Francis

The problem is poverty. And it hides the problem. We often associate black churches with a history of protest. But prosperity gospel…

— Anthony B Pinn

In Australia, they really want to turn me into a religion. A religion! Can you imagine? The Church of Edna? Oh. I…

— Barry Humphries

I would love to see the Church on the right side of history.

— Shane Claiborne

Sin will do a number on you.

— Johnny Hunt

In Poland, some people think that I'm kind of scandalous because I'm a woman who should stay at home with her kids…

— Malgorzata Szumowska

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

— Alistair Begg

The mission of Tom Peterson and Catholics Come Home to bring souls home to Jesus and the church is critically important during…

— Rick Warren

I make a forceful and urgent call to the entire Catholic Church, and also to every Christian of other confessions, as well…

— Pope Francis

Grace is my favourite church word. A state of being. Something you can pray for. Something God can grant. Something you can…

— Elizabeth Scott

I also never would have imagined I'd quote back a church lesson, but when the rest of the crowd stood up to…

— Richelle Mead