Church Quotes · Page 48

Small churches become more effective when they specialize in what they do best.

— Rick Warren

Most of us come to the church by a means the church does not allow.

— Flannery O'Connor

I wasn't one of those girls who sang at church.

— SZA

Christians don't tell lies they just go to church and sing them.

— Anonymous

Make sure you are passionate about the vision.

— Matthew Carter

As a church we must love Jesus, or else we have lost our reason for existence.

— Charles Spurgeon

The Church is the Church only when it exists for others.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The church is in Christ, as Eve was in Adam.

— Richard Hooker

Bell, thou soundest merrily, When the bridal party To the church doth hie! Bell, thou soundest solemnly, When, on Sabbath morning, Fields…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Until you start thinking right, you will never start behaving right. Repentance always deals with the changing of the mind.

— Johnny Hunt

The press is the exclusive literature of the million; to them it is literature, church, and college.

— Wendell Phillips

It would be as easy for the United States to build a tower to remove the sun, as to remove polygamy, or…

— Heber C. Kimball

I'm from Columbia, S.C., and my family is very religious. We'd go to church and Sunday school and we always had to…

— Jermaine O'Neal

I had actually gone to a church-related college, but I went on a football scholarship, not because of any interest in the…

— R. C. Sproul

Donald Trump in a church getting interrupted by the pastor because he started attacking Hillary Clinton.

— Bill Burton

The church is so subnormal that if it ever got back to the New Testament normal it would seem to people to…

— Vance Havner

You mark my words, and it won’t be long ... when persecution begins in this country [USA], and it strips everything from…

— Paul Washer

According to the Church, one of the key attributes of sainthood is death. You have to die first. So, I'll agree already…

— Lino Rulli

Millions of Christians can and do go through life attending church, listening to sermons, reciting the creeds and never confront the seeming…

— A. N. Wilson

Be sure to lay wide streets planted with shady trees, every other of a quick-growing variety. Be sure that there is plenty…

— Jamsetji Tata

The question is not, do we go to church; the question is, have we been converted. The crux of Christianity is not…

— Joan D. Chittister

A Church Growth principle is a universal truth which, when properly interpreted and applied, contributes significantly to the growth of churches and…

— Donald McGavran

When I went into gospel, I didn't think it was respectful to still do R&B and gospel at the same time. It…

— Regina Belle

I have devoted my energies to the study of the scriptures, observing monastic discipline, and singing the daily services in church; study,…

— Venerable Bede

“We have men sold to build churches, women sold to support the gospel, and babes sold to purchase Bibles for the poor…

— Frederick Douglass

I would hope that we would not lose the real objective of our cherished opportunities to serve. That objective, that eternal goal,…

— Thomas S. Monson

Unanimity of opinion may be fitting for a church, for the frightened or greedy victims of some (ancient, or modern) myth, or…

— Paul Feyerabend

“Luther had passed many a white church in his day, heard them singing their hymns and chanting their "Amens" and seen them…

— Dennis Lehane

Through its prohibition on birth control, the Church has suggested that the only right way to have children is through biological reproduction:…

— Nancy Mairs

There was the strangest combination of church influence against me. Baker is a Campbellite; and therefore, as I suppose with few exceptions,…

— Abraham Lincoln

In mission, also on a continental level, it is very important to reaffirm the family, which remains the essential cell of society…

— Pope Francis

“I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute; where no Catholic prelate would tell the President…

— John F. Kennedy

I am not a man who goes to church, but me and my team believe in God.

— Marcos Maidana

I grew up in the church, and my mom is, like a major prayer warrior.

— Rotimi

Our tendency is to be converted to church and not to Christ.

— Max Lucado

The last words of Jesus to the church (in Revelation) were ‘Repent!’

— Leonard Ravenhill

Dogmatics is the testing of Church doctrine and proclamation,

— Karl Barth

We need the church as urgently as a starving baby needs his mother’s milk.

— R. C. Sproul

The church is under orders. Evangelistic inactivity is disobedience.

— John Stott

There is no salvation for those outside the Church

— Mel Gibson