Church Quotes · Page 70

I walked away from going to church when I was 8. I didn't set foot in another church until I was 28.

— Billy Corgan

Remember: Christ is calling you; the Church needs you; the Pope believes in you and he expects great things of you.

— Pope John Paul I

Me and Sandra are thoroughly satisfied customers as parents of kids who came through this Orange model.

— Andy Stanley

A church must grow larger and smaller at the same time. Larger through worship and smaller through small groups.

— Rick Warren

Unable to suppress love, the Church wanted at least to disinfect it, and it created marriage.

— Anonymous

He'd gone to church for forty years and was only getting worse. It seemed like this should tell God something.

— Sue Monk Kidd

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

— Matthew Carter

The Holy Spirit was not sent so we can have bless ups in our churches but so the world can be changed.

— Mike Pilavachi

If anyone feels his sins, let him come at once, straight, direct, not merely to church, or to the sacrament, or to…

— J. C. Ryle

I heard stories from my mother's mother who was an American Indian. She was spiritual, although she did not go to church,…

— Tina Turner

We grew up going to church, and I believe in God. I don't know that I have the ability to define what…

— Uzodinma Iweala

I still love church. My favorite church service is T.D. Jakes at the Potter's House. I don't think there is a better…

— Oprah Winfrey

Wherever the bishop shall appear, let the multitude of also be, just as wherever Jesus Christ is, there is the catholic [i.e.,…

— Ignatius of Antioch

Church practice has been more influenced by Plato than by Jesus. We invariably prefer the universal synthesis, the answer that settles all…

— Richard Rohr

“to tell the world of its true Centre, of the law of mutual sacrifice by which its parts are bound together. The…

— Mark Chapman

What I think is that we in the church - and especially I as an Archbishop - I'm responsible for maintaining our…

— George Carey

The adoration of Jesus in the Most Blessed Sacrament is the end of the Church Militant, just as adoration of God in…

— Peter Julian Eymard

Multitudes of people who expect to go to Heaven will go to a Hell of torment. Thousands of "good" people, "moral" people,…

— John R. Rice

Towards orthodox religion, father's own attitude remained one of tolerance. He looked upon the New Testament as the noble story of a…

— Margaret Sanger

Long before I was ordained a priest, I knew that my church was the most implacable enemy of this republic. My professors…

— Charles Chiniquy

“The husband is the head of the wife just in so far as he is to her what Christ is to the…

— C.S. Lewis

“{ Wells discussing his experiences with Christianity } I realised as if for the first time, the menace of these queer shaven…

— H.G. Wells

Biblical backing for Mormon behavior is easy to find, although Mark Twain is reported to have denied its legitimacy to a Mormon.…

— Dennis McKinsey

We made four feature films with Sherwood Baptist. The wonderful thing was the church (members) volunteered. It was an awesome atmosphere of…

— Alex Kendrick

The evangelical movement has become just a bit victimized by a success-oriented culture, wanting the church - like the corporation - to…

— Henri Nouwen

I'm as true a Protestant, in sooth, as any fine lady that walks into church, but it's not wrong to turn sometimes…

— Mary Mapes Dodge

Humility is authenticity. It comes from the Latin word humus, meaning "earth." As the church has taught, we're made of dust, and…

— Joan D. Chittister

Surely wisdom will come as we listen to learn from children, parents, partners, neighbors, Church leaders, and the Lord.

— Russell M. Nelson

If I might control the literature of the household, I would guarantee the well-being of Church and State.

— Francis Bacon

The saving principles and doctrines of the Church are established, fixed, and unchangeable.

— James E. Faust

The Church needs your faith, your idealism and your generosity, so that she can always be young in the Spirit.

— Pope Benedict XVI

I go to church every Sunday, which is like going to the gas station once a week and really, really filling up.

— Anne Lamott

God's people should be baptized because God commanded it, not because some church requires it.

— John R. Rice

In America, evangelical churches have often been bastions of conservatism, providing support for the status quo.

— Tony Campolo

It's a blessing to know that the church and the gospel are the same no matter where I go. I can find…

— Eric Weddle

I'm more spiritual than I am religious. I don't go to church; I go to the beach.

— Paula Deen

“Alas! How the Church is allowing the world and its methods to influence and control her outlook and life.”

— Martyn Llyod-Jones

“A piece of paper doesn't make you a pastor any more than making predictions makes you a prophet.”

— D.R. Silva

America is not just 'a nation with the soul of a church,' as G.K. Chesterton wrote in 1992: it is a nation…

— Todd Gitlin

If you came to my church, you would say, 'He cries every week.' I'm an emotional guy.

— Mark Jackson