Church Quotes · Page 79

Well, traditionally, how I grew up, I grew up in the Baptist Church, always going to church every Sunday, Sunday school, vacation…

— Jameis Winston

To me, Christianity was so conservative and stuffy, but for me, it was just a relationship with God. The Church relationship was…

— Sonny Sandoval

I think for far too long the Church has concluded that Christians don't need the gospel, it's simple what non-Christian people need…

— Tullian Tchividjian

I figured anybody who talked about church as much as she did was using it a little like cocaine anyhow.

— Keith Ablow

My mother was very, very Protestant. I grew up Presbyterian, and I went to church every Sunday until I was 18. I…

— Rob Corddry

My mom is the piano player in my dad's church - she's also the choir director - and she's just a musician…

— Marc Martel

The right of the people to a substantive part in the government of the Church is recognized and sanctioned by the apostles…

— Charles Hodge

I think it's very important for people who are serving (in office) to make sure there's a separation of church and state.

— George W. Bush

After the phone call from The New Yorker, I walked more than a mile to church to thank God. But then I…

— Uwem Akpan

I think I never passed so sad an hour, Dear friend, as that one at the church to-night. The edifice from basement…

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

It is only the forcible propagation of conventional Christianity that makes the agnostic so bitter toward the church. He knows that all…

— H. P. Lovecraft

It is the wall of separation between church and state . . . that is largely responsible for religion thriving in this…

— Alan Dershowitz

The First Amendment has erected a wall between church and state. That wall must be kept high and impregnable. We could not…

— Hugo Black

I think whites are used to being in power, so when whites think we ought to have integrated churches they think, "People…

— Michael Emerson

The funny thing about being Catholic, and I was raised Catholic, is that you identify with the Church, just as part of…

— Alex Gibney

When I was commissioned with the purpose of helping to restore prophetic ministry to the Church for its last-day ministry, I was…

— Rick Joyner

The library was a little old shaby place. Francie thought it was beautiful. The feeling she had about it was as good…

— Betty Smith

“In serving others, the church will save itself from becoming nothing more than a spiritualized 501c3 not-for-profit, self-centered corporation, organized for the…

— Ronnie McBrayer

For the machine meant the conquest of horizontal space. It also meant a sense of that space which few people had experienced…

— Robert Hughes

Habit must play a larger place in our religious life. We worship when we feel like it, we pray when we feel…

— Ralph Washington Sockman

There is a study that shows that people who were asked their political opinions, when there was a picture of the American…

— Robert Cialdini

When I think of the Savior, I often picture Him with hands outstretched, reaching out to comfort, heal, bless, and love. And…

— Dieter F. Uchtdorf

To me the church's problem would be a hundred times worse if you felt everyone has written the church off, they don't…

— Chris Lowney

Fathers, yours is an eternal calling from which you are never released. Callings in the Church, as important as they are, by…

— Ezra Taft Benson

A Church that has lost its voice for justice is a Church that has lost its relevance in the world.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

You don't have to go to church to be spiritual, but there are certain times in your life that you know there…

— Tom Watson

“The church is the chief place for spiritual edification and growth (Acts 20:32; Eph. 4:11-16; 2 Tim. 3:16-17; 1 Pet. 2:1-2; 2 Pet. 3:18).”

— Ed Stetzer

Erecting the 'wall of separation between church and state'... is absolutely essential in a free society.

— Thomas Jefferson

By the time I was about ten, I had started to lose faith with church ways. I was educated in some ways…

— Ronee Blakley

Clearly the person who accepts the Church as an infallible guide will believe whatever the Church teaches.

— Thomas Aquinas

The world has lost the power to blush over its vice; the Church has lost her power to weep over it.

— Leonard Ravenhill

Few things are more pleasant than a village graced with a good church, a good priest and a good pub.

— John Hillaby

Where I can preach I do preach and where I can't I still preach with love but just not the normal words…

— Nick Vujicic

Everyone agrees the celibacy rule is just a Church law dating from the 11th century, not a divine command.

— Hans Kung

The church that can't worship must be entertained. And leaders who can't lead a church to worship must provide the entertainment.

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

The very word baptize, however, signifies to immerse; and it is certain that immersion was the practice of the ancient church.

— John Calvin

What the church most needs is not heroes of faith, but faithful followers of Jesus.

— Scot McKnight

Then one day I read about a book that said that the church is the only army that shoots its wounded.

— Keith Miller

Evangelical churches are weaker than we realize because we dont teach the confessions and doctrine.

— J. I. Packer

We are dealing in a day and time when the courts are defining sin different than the church.

— Johnny Hunt