Church Quotes · Page 95

Compassion in evangelical churches is out of balance. When I talk about it, I get a lot of glazed expressions.

— Max Lucado

Neither I nor anyone in the Church would ever tolerate hatred of or prejudice towards any of the Lord's children.

— Anonymous

It's obvious throughout secular and church history that significant legislation follows only after dramatic action.

— Carter Heyward

A 2008 poll of 35,000 Americans revealed that 57% of Evangelical church attenders believe that many religions can lead to eternal life.

— Robert Jeffress

Just going to church doesn't make you a christian any more than standing in your garage makes you a car.

— G K Chesterton

The thing is, dressing up, going to church, dropping a twenty in the offering plate, those things are all well and good,…

— Matthew West

All those football coaches who hold dressing-room prayers before a game should be forced to attend church once a week.

— Duffy Daugherty

When one loses the deep intimate relationship with nature, then temples, mosques and churches become important.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

The greatest heresy in the American Evangelical and Protestant church is that if you pray and ask Jesus Christ to come into…

— Paul Washer

I think that one of the things that Christianity really needs, and the church really needs, is credibility. People need to be…

— Joyce Meyer

It is a dogma of the Roman Church that the existence of God can be proved by natural reason. Now this dogma…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

A religion is a unified system of beliefs and practices relative to sacred things, that is to say, things set apart and…

— Emile Durkheim

The very word woman in the writings of the church fathers stood for the basest of temptations... As women were lowered in…

— Jane Addams

You know that Awkward moment on Sunday when the I didn't turn and look at you even though the preacher told me…

— Stevynne Callahan

The church still meets people at the transition points. Marriages break down. Children commit suicide and leave helpless parents. Death and suffering…

— Ravi Zacharias

...churchgoing is not synonymous with personal spirituality. There are some people who get so busy in church worship and projects that they…

— Anonymous

I wish there really was such a thing as a Time-Clock Puncher, though. I wish some gigantic, surly, stone-fisted Soap Mahoney-type guy…

— David James Duncan

Disciple making also involves teaching people to obey all that Christ has commanded us. Now some might say, "Isn't that what preachers…

— David Platt

“What was true of an ancient community of Christian believers struggling with a powerful and appealing philosophy is also true for Christians…

— Brian J. Walsh

I remember being at the church a few hours after the church was bombed in Birmingham, the 16th Street Baptist Church. It…

— John Lewis

For centuries the church has confronted the human community with role models of greatness. We call them saints when what we really…

— Joan D. Chittister

... it was religion that saved me. Our ugly church and parochial school provided me with my only aesthetic outlet, in the…

— Mary McCarthy

I used to be married to a pastor, and I had a church for two years. Pastors are just men, too, with…

— Niecy Nash

When I was three, I fell and I got Bell's palsy in my face. My mom said the first day she called…

— Roseanne Barr

When you go to church you are really listening in to the secret wireless from our friends.

— C. S. Lewis

I don't think the Church has ever contributed anything to anybody, anyplace, at any time.

— Madalyn Murray O'Hair

“This isn't just a shopping mall. It's more like..." "A religious experience?" "Exactly! It's like going to church...”

— J.G. Ballard

My entrance to music was singing gospel in church, and to hear that gospel language in a hip-hop song was cool.

— Jamila Woods

There was a lot of music in our home. Mom played piano in church and gave piano lessons.

— Ernie Isley

I'm all for teaching creation and allowing prayers in schools, as soon as scholars begin teaching Darwinism and geometry in church.

— J. Michael Straczynski

The Church recruited people who had been starched and ironed before they were washed.

— John Wesley

It's come to the point where you have people saying it's our Christian duty to embrace the homosexual movement. This is absurd.

— Randall Terry

Jesus tells you exactly how to get it. Put your money in missions-and in your church and the poor-and your heart will…

— Randy Alcorn

We went to church every Sunday. When I was a kid, the only time I sang was around my family.

— Darius Rucker

Every time I do interviews, they ask me about the same things - poverty, war, and the power of the church.

— Ian Brown

If you're not looking forward to church this morning perhaps it's time to look for a church.

— Andy Stanley

The church is not made up of one person but a whole congregation, and they should be able to interact with art…

— Chris Ofili

I actually grew up listening to music as like - church music and stuff like that.

— Cupcakke

I actually grew up playing the piano in the church and was deeply involved in music ministry.

— T. D. Jakes

Not everyone who goes to church is a member of the church, some are just numbers in the church..

— Anonymous