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title: "22 Come Church Quotes by 19 authors"
description: "Browse 22 Come Church quotes by 19 authors. Discover the best Come Church sayings and thoughts."
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> [Most of us come to the church by a means the church does not allow.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/flannery-o-connor/most-of-us-come-to-the-church-by-a-means-the-church-does-not-allow/)

[Flannery O'Connor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/flannery-o-connor/)

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> [So many great singers we know have come from the church.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lizz-wright/so-many-great-singers-we-know-have-come-from-the-church/)

[Lizz Wright](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lizz-wright/)

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> [All people and each individual man is called to come into the Church.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pope-pius-xii/all-people-and-each-individual-man-is-called-to-come-into-the-church/)

[Pope Pius XII](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pope-pius-xii/)

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> [THINGS JESUS NEVER SAID: "You should come with me to church.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-miller/things-jesus-never-said-you-should-come-with-me-to-church/)

[Donald Miller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donald-miller/)

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> [“We have come to the church, Sancho.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cervantes/we-have-come-to-the-church-sancho/)

[Cervantes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cervantes/)

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> [We come to church not to hide our problems but to heal them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dieter-f-uchtdorf/we-come-to-church-not-to-hide-our-problems-but-to-heal-them/)

[Dieter F. Uchtdorf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dieter-f-uchtdorf/)

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> [Kind of the bottom line for me, I don't think people come to the church where I preach to hear my view…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-lucado/kind-of-the-bottom-line-for-me-i-don-t-think-people-come-to-the/)

[Max Lucado](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/max-lucado/)

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> [Don't come to church for an emotional experience. Come to church for the truth.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-godfrey/don-t-come-to-church-for-an-emotional-experience-come-to-church-for/)

[Robert Godfrey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-godfrey/)

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> [“I liked the idea of loving people just to love them, not to get them to come to church.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-miller/i-liked-the-idea-of-loving-people-just-to-love-them-not-to-get-them/)

[Donald Miller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donald-miller/)

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> [“People come to church seeking a living word from the living Lord, not a commentary on life from another Garrison Keillor”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-schnasa-jacobsen/people-come-to-church-seeking-a-living-word-from-the-living-lord-not/)

[David Schnasa Jacobsen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-schnasa-jacobsen/)

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> [People don't come to church for preachments, of course, but to daydream about God.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kurt-vonnegut/people-don-t-come-to-church-for-preachments-of-course-but-to-daydream/)

[Kurt Vonnegut](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kurt-vonnegut/)

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> [The way people come to church every week, know the songs and be hurting on the inside. We miss the moment to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/israel-houghton/the-way-people-come-to-church-every-week-know-the-songs-and-be/)

[Israel Houghton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/israel-houghton/)

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> [“the point of church isn't to get people to come to church." "No?" said Steve, cocking an eyebrow. "What is it?" It…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sara-miles/the-point-of-church-isn-t-to-get-people-to-come-to-church-no-said/)

[Sara Miles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sara-miles/)

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> [...have you ever found God in church? I never did. I just found a bunch of folks hoping for him to show.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-walker/have-you-ever-found-god-in-church-i-never-did-i-just-found-a-bunch-of/)

[Alice Walker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-walker/)

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> [I think whites are used to being in power, so when whites think we ought to have integrated churches they think, "People…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-emerson/i-think-whites-are-used-to-being-in-power-so-when-whites-think-we/)

[Michael Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-emerson/)

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> [I wish that we might get back to worship again. Then when people come into the church they will instantly sense that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aiden-wilson-tozer/i-wish-that-we-might-get-back-to-worship-again-then-when-people-come/)

[Aiden Wilson Tozer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aiden-wilson-tozer/)

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> [So many people come to church with a genuine desire to hear what we have to say, yet they are always going…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dietrich-bonhoeffer/so-many-people-come-to-church-with-a-genuine-desire-to-hear-what-we/)

[Dietrich Bonhoeffer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dietrich-bonhoeffer/)

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> [If you want to put on a suit and come to church, fine. But it's a problem when you make people feel…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lecrae/if-you-want-to-put-on-a-suit-and-come-to-church-fine-but-it-s-a/)

[LeCrae](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lecrae/)

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> [Don't ever come to church without coming as though it were the first time, as though it could be the best time,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vance-havner/don-t-ever-come-to-church-without-coming-as-though-it-were-the-first/)

[Vance Havner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vance-havner/)

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> [“I didn't believe in dragging souls into some special club of the saved. 'I mean,' i' d told Steve once, exasperated after…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sara-miles/i-didn-t-believe-in-dragging-souls-into-some-special-club-of-the/)

[Sara Miles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sara-miles/)

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> [“The church’s approach to an intelligent carpenter is usually confined to exhorting him to not be drunk and disorderly in his leisure…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/timothy-keller/the-church-s-approach-to-an-intelligent-carpenter-is-usually-confined/)

[Timothy Keller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/timothy-keller/)

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> [“So many people come to church with the genuine desire to hear what we have to say, yet they are always going…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dietrich-bonhoeffer/so-many-people-come-to-church-with-the-genuine-desire-to-hear-what-we/)

[dietrich bonhoeffer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dietrich-bonhoeffer/)

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