Evangelical churches are weaker than we realize because we don't teach the confessions and doctrine. — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
Most problems in contemporary churches can be explained by the fact that members have never decided to follow Christ. — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
Churches that make an impact are more focused on putting boots on the streets than butts in the seats — Miles McPherson Copy Share Image
Although most Christian churches advocate some sort of mission to non-Christians, no Jewish group advocates a mission to non-Jews. Proselytization seems to… — David Novak Copy Share Image
But I have been in some very beautiful churches, then I've looked outside and seen people starving to death. — Don Van Vliet Copy Share Image
In academia, I discovered that issues and insights, commonplace among the scholars, are viewed as highly controversial and even as 'heresy' in… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
Some churches make intercessory prayer part of their weekly schedule. If that's not the case at your church, find another person in… — Monica Johnson Copy Share Image
Churches are not museums that display perfect people. They are hospitals where the wounded, hurt, injured and broken find healing. — Nicky Gumbel Copy Share Image
We spend more time at cinemas, theaters, art galleries and theme parks than we do at churches, and they have become our… — Michael Huffington Copy Share Image
“Brethren, you won’t believe what I discovered. I found out that in every place, people listened to the message (the shift our… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“The choir always tittered and whispered all through service. There was once a church choir that was not ill-bred, but I have… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
At the end of the 1960s, I was part of the downtown theatrical movement in New York that was making work in… — Robert Wilson Copy Share Image
There used to be a tradition of the loveable rogue who would steal from the honour boxes in churches and buy a… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
In Rome, I particularly love the history, churches, sculptures and architecture and the fact that you can walk along a tiny cobbled… — Philip Treacy Copy Share Image
As a preacher who has spent significant time in churches and houses of worship all across the country, I can tell you… — Al Sharpton Copy Share Image
“People think we didn't have theatres in Scotland for centuries because the Church suppressed them. Well, perhaps. But you could also argue… — James Robertson Copy Share Image
Lovers of Norfolk churches can never agree which is the best and I think one is either a Salle or a Cawston… — John Betjeman Copy Share Image
Glasgow is still full of churches built in the last century. Half of them have been turned into warehouses. — Alasdair Gray Copy Share Image
“Some churches will be a Michael Phelps. Some will be a Nastia Liukin. Some might be an Albert Einstein, a Steve Jobs,… — Jeremy Myers Copy Share Image
Many churches today have special programs for people who are grieving, and these can be very helpful. — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
I've always wondered how much can you do for your fellow man if your hands are constantly stuck together in Prayers for… — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
“If the chanting in temple would help inner peace, if the preaching in a mosque would address humanity and the choirs in… — Preeth Nambiar Copy Share Image
“Shetani naye anamtumia Mungu kama wakala wake wa kutoa adhabu kwa binadamu kwa sababu Shetani siku hizi anaishi makanisani na misikitini. Anamtumia… — Enock Maregesi Copy Share Image
The required cheerfulness that characterizes many of our churches produces a suffocating environment of pat, religious answers to the painful, complex questions… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
I walked across Tuscany from Siena to Rome, which was a lovely way to see the landscape. It was sunny but not… — Diana Quick Copy Share Image
Many churches are measuring the wrong things. We measure things like attendance and giving, but we should be looking at more fundamental… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
“Were I a Roman Catholic, perhaps I should on this occasion vow to build a chapel to some saint, but as I… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Sects and 'isms' have branched out in one direction and another, but still Jesus from the invisible worlds enfolds in his love… — Max Heindel Copy Share Image
“Go to church to learn about forgiveness; come back to become a forgiver! Go to church and learn about kindness; come back… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
The fault seems to me to have been that men have taken ancient country churches as their models and have failed to… — George Edmund Street Copy Share Image
I was raised in Austin, Texas, around trial lawyers. My friend and I - we were 14 - would go and watch… — Julie White Copy Share Image
I knew there would be some controversy over the 'Potter' series between religious people and secular-minded people - that was inevitable -… — Michael O'Brien Copy Share Image
Jesus is why women have traveled continents, spent decades learning a strange language so they could translate the Gospel, planting churches, caring… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
The result has been that although few conservative Presbyterian churches actually worship in the Puritan way, the Puritan theology of worship remains… — John Frame Copy Share Image
If we do not do this our churches will lighthouses without light, wells without water, dumb witnesses, sleeping watchmen, silent trumpets, messengers… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
No, we are not the master of the state, said King. We are not the servant of the state. We are the… — Jim Wallis Copy Share Image
“The problem with churches of all sorts,” he continued, “is that so often they ignore the key teachings of the Sermon on… — David Holdsworth Copy Share Image
Nightclubs are the equivalent of a Catholic Church in a poor country. You hear a lot of stuff about churches filled with… — Oscar Hijuelos Copy Share Image
“There are relatively few churches that have a heart for the lost and for the inner city; Jim Cymbala and the Brooklyn… — Jim Cymbala Copy Share Image
I support mosques, obviously. We need churches, temples, mosques. Whatever people use to speak with their god or to receive spiritual inspiration… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
