Church Quotes · Page 46

“There has never been a meaningful life built on easy street.”

— John Paul warren

I go to church because I am a skeptic in regard to my own skepticism.

— Henryk Sienkiewicz

Worshipers never leave church...we carry our sanctuary with us wherever we go.

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

The Missional church always thinks of the long haul rather than the quick fix

— Michael Frost

“As long as the focus is on God the style of the music is irrelevant.”

— Virginia Smith

...the Church is the merciless heart of the State.

— Pier Paolo Pasolini

Both my parents are Methodist preachers, I grew up in a church.

— Wes Bentley

A church is a hospitals for sinners,not a club for saints

— ChristianQuotes

Churches are good for prayer, but so are garages and cars and mountains and showers and dance floors.

— Anne Lamott

“A worshipping Church or a prayer group is a magnet that draws the Lord and His people to connect with each other!”

— Gangai Victor

The problem is that you can't impose the church's teachings on all Americans as a matter of law.

— Mario Cuomo

Most of us spend the first six days of each week sowing wild oats; then we go to church on Sunday and…

— Fred Allen

“The faithful have no dread of using the traditional language of the church. Terms like incarnation and resurrection need to be explained,…

— Thomas C. Oden

After my study of today's church, my conclusion is that the church is politely bored with God.

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

If I believe in anything, it is in the dark night of the soul. Awe is my religion, and mystery is its…

— Charles Simic

Zen has no theory. It is a non-theoretical approach into reality. It has no doctrine and no dogma - hence it has…

— Rajneesh

When I was a small boy, my father told me never to recommend a church or a woman to anyone. And I…

— Edmund G. Love

Respect for the dignity of the human person is the foundational principle of any just society. From a Catholic perspective, it also…

— Salvatore J. Cordileone

Night, like a giant, fills the church, from pavement to roof, and holds dominion through the silent hours. Pale dawn again comes…

— Charles Dickens

When the devil sees a man or woman who really believes in prayer, who knows how to pray, and who really does…

— R. A. Torrey

I believe in the absolute separation of church and state and in the strict enforcement of the Constitution that Congress shall make…

— Al Smith

You are free to reject God. Make sure that you're really rejecting God, not some caricature of God that the church has…

— Philip Yancey

If I repeated some passages from the homilies of the Church Fathers, in the second or third century, about how we must…

— Pope Francis

Though the world may often appear to be more charitable than the church, it is crucial to remember that, for the church,…

— Stanley Hauerwas

After listening to modern tirades against the great creeds of the Church, one receives a shock when one turns to the Westminster…

— John Gresham Machen

The separation of church and state can sometimes be frustrating for women and men of deep religious faith. They may be tempted…

— Edward Kennedy

It has not been without bitter resistance by the clergy that woman's property and educational rights have advanced. Woman's anti-slavery work, her…

— Matilda Joslyn Gage

“I am an old man, and I here declare that I never knew them to be productive of any good in the…

— Adam Clarke

In church I was told that if I so much as smoked a cigarette or tasted alcohol, I’d be damned in hell…

— Willie Nelson

If therefore our houses be houses of the Lord, we shall for that reason love home, reckoning our daily devotion the sweetest…

— Matthew Henry

My only experience with the megachurch oeuvre was a show called 'A Current Affair,' and they would sometimes put clips on of…

— Edi Patterson

By sixteen I thought, "Ah, this is all crap, you're all sheep, I'm not going to church, leave me alone." And then…

— Ayana Mathis

If God did not care for you, there would never be a sense of a need to respond.

— Johnny Hunt

Religion stands, the Church blocking the sun.

— Stephen Spender

The outpouring of Christ's blood is the source of the church's life.

— Pope Benedict XVI

It is hard to tell where the MCC ends and the Church of England begins.

— J. B. Priestley

A cold church is like cold butter, it doesn't spread well.

— Anonymous

I grew up singing in the church choir, but I've not really had any training.

— Jayma Mays

I grew up in the Holiness Church, where prayer was an event.

— Iyanla Vanzant

Not everything in church is truth ... And not all truth turns up in church.

— Faith Sullivan