Church Quotes · Page 77

One thing the Devil fears the most is the Church that obeys and goes not just sits and talks.

— Artur Pawlowski

Devotion to the family and devotion to the Church are not different and separate things.

— Boyd K. Packer

What I miss [about church] is being forced to be in community with people that aren't the same as me.

— Win Butler

I used to tell people when I preached at a church, 'If you want a great sermon, be a great audience.'

— Michael Eric Dyson

When you're in a church, and you're singing about the presence of the Lord, it is so hard not to get overjoyed…

— Deborah Joy Winans

Wherever we turn in the church of God, there is Jesus. He is the beginning, middle and end of everything to us.

— Anonymous

Praying for revival equates to blaming God for the condition of your local church.

— Andy Stanley

The ordinance of confirming a new member of the Church and bestowing the gift of the Holy Ghost is both simple and…

— David A. Bednar

Those who believe for a while make only a brief tour in the kingdom, though thereafter they often feel qualified to inform…

— Neal A. Maxwell

Imagine if every church became a place where everyone is safe, but no one is comfortable. Image if every church became a…

— Rachel Held Evans

I have but one thought in my heart for the young folk of the Church and that is that they be happy.…

— Anonymous

I do think that the legacy of the Norman conquest is still strong in Britain. Our hereditary monarchy, our established church, our…

— Paul Kingsnorth

As Christians refine their methods, develop Church Growth eyes, feel church growth responsibility, communicate the Gospel, and educate those who are won…

— Donald McGavran

If Church history teaches us anything, it is that we cannot afford to be a vacillating Church. We minister to a people…

— Martin Luther

To attempt to pay for salvation with church membership, prayers, or good deeds is an insult to Christ, who paid the full…

— Dave Hunt

We were environmentalists of the Teddy Roosevelt theory. We believed in separation of church and state. We believed in the independence of…

— Pete McCloskey

The United States has adventured upon a great and noble experiment . . . of total separation of Church and State. .…

— John Tyler

That's why the virgin birth never gets rid of the human mother. The story only gets rid of the human father. So…

— John Shelby Spong

Such then in number and importance are the precious ties belonging to the Christian name which keep a believer in the Catholic…

— Saint Augustine

Although every organized religion works overtime to contribute its own brand of misogyny to the myth of woman-hate, woman-fear, and woman-evil, the…

— Robin Morgan

Economic and military power can be developed under the spur of laws and appropriations. But moral power does not derive from any…

— John Foster Dulles

I would beg the wise and learned fathers (of the church) to consider with all diligence the difference which exists between matters…

— Galileo Galilei

Here, the churches seemed to shrink away into eroding corners. They seem to have ceased to be essential parts of American life.…

— Sean O'Casey

“In post-Christendom, the church is that community of people who look to discover what God is actively doing in the world around…

— Tim Keel

I had been raised in the church, but I wasn't a Christian. I had a lot of head knowledge but no heart…

— Francine Rivers

If, hypothetically, Western Catholicism were to review the issue of celibacy, I think it would do so for cultural reasons, not so…

— Pope Francis

It's a frightening thing. To go to France, the elder daughter of the church, it's always called, and you get the feeling…

— John Wilkins

Dr. Boice's commentary series is a treasure for the church and for her pastors. No expository preacher can afford to be without…

— R. C. Sproul

The Lord did not tell us to build beautiful churches, but to evangelize the world

— Oswald J. Smith

Do not allow the Church or State to govern your thought or dictate your judgment

— Matilda Joslyn Gage

Missions is not the ultimate goal of the church. Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn't.

— John Piper

Being GAY is the ONLY sin people focus on. Cursing? Sin. Sex before marriage? Sin. Sins are sins. Y'all are too judgmental,…

— Jaylon Hillsman

Let us pray that the Church be holier and more humble, loving God by serving the poor, the lonely and the sick.

— Pope Francis

“No churchmen, I notice. Of course not. What use have they for a world without irrational fear?”

— Jonathan L. Howard

I believe with all my heart that the Church of Jesus Christ should be a Church of blurred edges.

— George Carey

If you're a Catholic you believe what the Church teaches and the climate makes no difference.

— Flannery O'Connor

What is a church?—Our honest sexton tells, 'Tis a tall building, with a tower and bells.

— George Crabbe

Sign at a New England church: Will the last person to leave please see that the perpetual light is extinguished?

— Dave Barry

According to the New Testament, God wills that the church be a people who show what God is like.

— Stanley J. Grenz

Not far from our house, and opposite the old church with the golden cross, stood a large building, even larger than the…

— Max Muller