Church Quotes · Page 76

“If sickness brought glory God, Jesus would have spread disease, not healed it.”

— D.R. Silva

I have this certain reluctance when it comes to this idea that we are spiritual but not religious and we want Jesus…

— Shane Claiborne

The new American, like the new European, was the servant of the powerhouse, as the European of the twelfth century was the…

— Henry Adams

“The Church always seems to be behind the times, when it is really beyond the times.”

— G.K. Chesterton

When the Church listens to the Holy Spirit, it becomes fruitful. New movements are born.

— E. Stanley Jones

Without a common loyalty to either a state or a church they have nevertheless a vast deal in common.

— Emily Greene Balch

Jesus never heard of Beethoven and Bach. Why aren't we playing more country music in church ?

— Tex Sample

Sodomy is in the Bible, to be read in churches. I wouldn't rule it out of Mr. Bruce's act if he cares…

— Dorothy Kilgallen

Any church program, no matter how impressive, if it is not supported by an adequate prayer program, is little more than an…

— Paul Billheimer

I do not make decisions [as governor] based on what have I learned through my Bible studies, what have I learned in…

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

The only really effective apologia for Christianity comes down to two arguments, namely, the saints the Church has produced, and the art…

— Anonymous

I grew up as a kind of nondenominational Christian. I have two uncles who are Baptist ministers. I went to a Samoan…

— Troy Polamalu

“Because sometimes the Church seems like those posed circus tableaus where the curtain lifts and men, white, zinc-oxide, talcum-powder statues, freeze to…

— Ray Bradbury

I wanna tell you, ladies and gentlemen, that there's not enough troops in the army to force the Southern people to break…

— Strom Thurmond

I think we have muddled the terms of marriage, civil partnership, registry office, church etc. I would have liked that to have…

— Andrea Leadsom

The Chinese state is constructed in an entirely different way from western states. Unlike European states, for over a millennium the Chinese…

— Martin Jacques

The churches rose to power on the income from tax-free property. What earthly -or heavenly- right have they got to enjoy a…

— Madalyn Murray O'Hair

What does Christianity mean today? National Socialism is a religion. All we lack is a religious genius capable of uprooting outmoded religious…

— Joseph Goebbels

It was a strange feeling going into a church I did not know for a service that I did not really believe…

— Michael Palin

“The story that the church has been telling for two thousand years is an outrageous tale about a man who was executed…

— Emmanuel Katongole

I owe my nurture to evangelicalism. The evangelical wins hands down in the history of the church when it comes to nurturing…

— Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk

I did make several trips to the very wonderful [Georgia] O'Keeffe museum. Besides the art (my favorite paintings are from her Pelvis…

— Liza Campbell

[The church] is in its major part an opponent still of progress and improvement in all the ways that diminish suffering in…

— Bertrand Russell

But the most heinous crime of the Church has been perpetrated not against churchmen but against churchgoers. With its poisonous concepts of…

— Madalyn Murray O'Hair

I grew up in newsrooms. I've been in newsrooms since I was 17 years old. Journalism has been like my church; it's…

— Jose Antonio Vargas

When your vision is a biblical vision, the people arguing with it are not arguing with you. They are arguing with God.

— Matthew Carter

In most places in the Midwest, the best food is found in people's homes, on their farms, at church potlucks.

— Molly Yeh

The Christian Church should not be a secret society of specialists, but a public manifestation of believers in Jesus.

— Oswald Chambers

The greatest danger to the Christian church today is that of pitching its message too low.

— Dallas Willard

The carnal nature of man is that he places his tribe above others, but the only basis for the power and unity…

— Yemi Osinbajo

The holy scriptures as well as the local and General Authorities of the Church provide a safety net of counsel and guidance…

— James E. Faust

Being famous is uncomfortable because I grew up very simply. Everything revolved around friends, family, church and sports.

— Kenny Chesney

Growing up in the church in West Virginia, faith is always there. It's part of the fabric of the culture.

— DeVon Franklin

If the envious, the defamers and the backbiters were taken out of the average church, there would be revival overnight.

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

There are three traps that strangle philosophy: The church, the marriage bed, and the professor's chair.

— George Santayana

Regrettably, we've made it acceptable to sit in church week after week & do nothing & still call yourself a 'Christian.'

— Ed Stetzer

...learn to perceive and control your chakras; they are like seven churches within you, each holding a different aspect of the Mystery…

— E. Bernard Jordan

Jesus is the hope of the world and the local church is the vehicle of expressing that hope to the world.

— Andy Stanley

When I'm on stage, I'm trying to do one thing: bring people joy. Just like church does. People don't go to church…

— James Brown

If America is ever going to be saved, it will be through a church flowing both in the message of the cross…

— Rod Parsley