Church Quotes · Page 112

The church is like a swimming pool. Most of the noise comes from the shallow end.

— John Shelby Spong

The biggest lie about grace that Satan wants the church to buy is the idea that it’s dangerous and therefore needs to…

— Tullian Tchividjian

Churches should evaluate everything they do to determine how it can be done better.

— Thom S. Rainer

A dull, dark, depressing day in Winter: the whole world looks like a Methodist church at Wednesday night prayer meeting.

— H. L. Mencken

We made The Who look like church boys on Sunday. We done things only fools'd do.

— Ronnie Van Zant

Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools…

— Samuel Pepys

In other days people chose a church on the basis of their doctrinal convictions. Now, lacking doctrinal convictions, they choose for social…

— Vance Havner

“Sometimes the church isn´t the place where we meet Jesus, it´s the place where we hide ourselves from the world.”

— Alin Sav

To great sections of the church the art of worship has been lost entirely, and in its place has come that strange…

— Anonymous

The hard struggle which the Pan-Germans fought with the Catholic Church can be accounted for only by their insufficient understanding of the…

— Adolf Hitler

We're always trying to elevate the platform of Christian and gospel music, church music, worship music and not just elevate it to…

— Israel Houghton

Christian proclamation might make the gospel audible, but Christians living together in local congregations make the gospel visible (see John 13:34-35). The…

— Mark Dever

The people responsible for the dollars that will buy the sex and violence so many deplore, don't even know what's going -…

— Norman Lear

The doctrine of hell is not "mediaeval priestcraft" for frightening people into giving money to the church: it is Christ's deliberate judgment…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

When I married Humphrey I made up my mind to like sermons, and I set out by liking the end very much.…

— George Eliot

I want the Church to go out onto the streets, I want us to resist everything worldly, everything static, everything comfortable...eve rything…

— Pope Francis

When, as a child, I first opened my eyes on a Sunday-morning, a feeling of dismal anicipation, which began at least on…

— Lewis Carroll

one trouble with all the churches is that they have too many incurable saints in them, men and women who pray too…

— Corra May Harris

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

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

I used to have to do readings in church, and it was terrifying. I would never have my glasses. The words are…

— Jim Gaffigan

My grandmother took me to church on Sunday all day long, every Sunday into the night. Then Monday evening was the missionary…

— Maya Angelou

We planted the church by starting a Sunday night outreach. The very first Sunday we had 70 people turn up. The second…

— Brian Houston

When you live in the present moment, time stands still. Accept your circumstances and live them. If there is an experience ahead…

— Barbara Johnson

In general, in the matters that relate to theology or behavior, people to one another, Paul was obviously biblically correct. But when…

— Jimmy Carter

By dividing the people of God as clergy and laymen, we have made the latter a majority of lame men.

— Richard P. Stanley

We had a church together. We co-founded and co-pastored the ministry, but Randy [White] was really a strong part.

— Paula White

A church without a missions or a mission without the church are both contradictions. Such things do exist, but only as pseudostructures

— Carl Braaten

This is a great country, and it's a melting pot. People shouldn't judge other people by the color of their skin, their…

— Jesse White

I think theater and church are so relatable because it's traditional call-and-response in the way that an audience interacts with the actors.

— Danielle Brooks

I feel very at home in an empty church. I feel the most protected. It's very mystical.

— Jean Dujardin

Make sure your vision is biblical. You want to make sure you can defend the vision biblically.

— Matthew Carter

Preacher's Daughter' was speaking on my experience in the church and as a child.

— Ethel Cain

A Church without Youth is a Church without a future. Moreover, Youth without a Church is Youth without a future.

— Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria

The President of the Church will not lead the people of the Church astray. It will never happen.

— James E. Faust

Absolutely nothing will revitalize a discouraged church faster than rediscovering it's purpose.

— Rick Warren

Y'know, if those pews reclined, and the priests gave the Raiders scores I'd go to church every Sunday.

— George Lopez

the music was always in the background, like music at a church service; it was something to depend upon.

— Joyce Carol Oates

In this life, such things as service in the Church, including missionary service, all of this is available to anyone who is…

— Lance B. Wickman

And let me tell you 'Kingdom of God' language is really big in the emerging church.

— Doug Pagitt

The trouble is that neutrality is confused with hostility. We're not disrupting churches, or interrupting people's prayers. We're not fighting religion.

— Dan Barker