Churches are having a limited impact on society because they fail to understand that the goal of the church is not the… — Tony Evans Copy Share Image
I went to church and couldn't swallow it. The music was nice but I don't belong there. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
I grew up in a very Catholic family. Up until puberty, I would go to a Catholic church every week. — Park Chan-wook Copy Share Image
I was raised Catholic, but my father's people were Methodist, so we went to both churches. — Aaron Neville Copy Share Image
I am a Congregationalist with Catholic sensibilities. Which probably explains how I ended up in a Episcopal church. — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
When Pat Robertson says there is no constitutional doctrine of separation of church and state, I say he is wrong. — Arlen Specter Copy Share Image
We always performed for our church, but we also just performed whenever the family got together. — Debra Wilson Copy Share Image
How is it that the Church produced no geometer in her autocratic reign of twelve hundred years? — John William Draper Copy Share Image
My elementary education was at Christ Church infant school and St. Stephen's junior school. At St. Stephen's, I encountered my first real… — Richard J. Roberts Copy Share Image
I watched my parents in their leadership callings in the Church and the community. We just grew up knowing that we should… — Margaret D. Nadauld Copy Share Image
You mark my words, and it won’t be long ... when persecution begins in this country [USA], and it strips everything from… — Paul Washer Copy Share Image
Men will surrender to the spirit of the age. They will say that if they had lived in our day, faith would… — Anthony of Padua Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
A Church Growth principle is a universal truth which, when properly interpreted and applied, contributes significantly to the growth of churches and… — Donald McGavran Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Sometimes I come across a tree which seems like Buddha or Jesus: loving, compassionate, still, unambitious, enlightened, in eternal meditation, giving pleasure… — Satish Kumar Copy Share Image
No sound system. No band. No guitar. No entertainment. No cushioned chairs. No heating or air-con. Nothing but the people of God… — David Platt Copy Share Image
If the pursuit of God's glory is not ordered above the pursuit of man's good in the affections of the heart and… — John Piper Copy Share Image
Give me a young man who has kept himself morally clean and has faithfully attended his church meetings. Give me a young… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
Culture is already there and the church will continue to be even more irrelevant when it quotes letters from two thousand years… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
Yet, even for us, there is left some loveliness of environment, and the dullness of tutors and professors matters very little when… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“With such luck as this, he rode the beast in the jaunty way that she deserved, back north, seemingly back from Mexico,… — Douglas Woolf Copy Share Image
Has God no living church? He has a church, but it is the church militant, not the church triumphant. We are sorry… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
One thing and one thing alone keeps us from complete decay in this hour - the church, the true Church. — Leonard Ravenhill Copy Share Image
There are financial bankruptcies in many parts of the church. No question about that. But we see the possibility of reimagining and… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
The holy universal Church teaches that it is not possible to worship God truly except in Her... — Pope Gregory XVI Copy Share Image
“Mankind will never know peace until the last politician is strangled to death with the entrails of the last priest.” — J.Adam Snyder Copy Share Image
I am convinced the Church is the greatest hope for humanity and for creating a new world where everyone is valued and… — Erwin McManus Copy Share Image
The church is a major bureaucracy, and major bureaucracies are disobedient to the gospel. — Philip Berrigan Copy Share Image
The Church is the place where the incompetent, the unfinished, and even the unhealthy are welcome. I believe Jesus agrees. — Mike Yaconelli Copy Share Image
My parents got my sister and I to go to church and have piano lessons. We were keen and they could see… — Gordon Lightfoot Copy Share Image
My head was a condemned church with a ceiling of bats, but I swung from this dark mood to euphoria when I… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
I can say a prayer while washing my teeth, but that does not mean I should wash my teeth in church. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
My dad is a preacher. Growing up, I went to church every time the doors were open. — Morgan Wallen Copy Share Image
According to Christian belief, man exists for the sake of God; according to the liberal church, in practice if not in theory,… — John Gresham Machen Copy Share Image
I've tried them all, I really have, and the only church that truly feeds the soul, day in, day out, is the… — Susan Sarandon Copy Share Image
They kicked me out of the church when I'm a little girl because they said I'm singing like a dog. They didn't… — Concha Buika Copy Share Image
The Church, therefore, has two constant needs; instruction in the truths by which it must live, and correction of the shortcomings by… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
“When you are close to Christ, you are enclosed in liberty. You can never be intimidated by man if you are intimate… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
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