Churches Quotes
551 quotes by 424 authors
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Our government has become too responsive to trivial or ephemeral concerns, often at the expense of more important concerns or an erosion of our liberty,…
— William A. Niskanen
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Economic and military power can be developed under the spur of laws and appropriations. But moral power does not derive from any act of Congress.…
— John Foster Dulles
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The Lord did not tell us to build beautiful churches, but to evangelize the world
— Oswald J. Smith
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Do you believe that Jesus is worth abandoning everything for? Do you believe him enough to obey him and to follow him wherever he leads,…
— David Platt
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How much would our churches be transformed if each of us made it a practice to thank God for others and then to tell those…
— D. A. Carson
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I listened so hard because it felt like, while she was telling me stories, she was massaging my soul, letting me know that I was…
— Donald Miller
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There were no politics to polarize us then, to magnify every slight. The "negroes" of Washington had their public schools, restaurants, bars, movie houses, playgrounds…
— Pat Buchanan
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This much is sure in all churches, forgetting party labels; the smallest meeting numerically is the prayer-meeting. If weak in prayer we are weak everywhere.
— Leonard Ravenhill
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I greet you from Smyrna together with the Churches of God present here with me. They comfort me in every way, both in body and…
— Ignatius of Antioch
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Why is it that the choice among churches always seems to be the choice between intelligence on ice and ignorance on fire?
— Diana Butler Bass
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A church must be more deeply and practically committed to deeds of compassion and social justice than traditional liberal churches and more deeply and practically…
— Timothy Keller
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Christians tend to motivate others with guilt. We tend to say: You would do this if you were really committed Christians, indicating that we are…
— Timothy Keller
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When there's something in the Bible that churches don't like, they call it 'legalism.'
— Leonard Ravenhill
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False self is an identity based on what you have, what you do, and what others think about you. In stark contrast to this is…
— Basil Pennington
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If we do not do this our churches will lighthouses without light, wells without water, dumb witnesses, sleeping watchmen, silent trumpets, messengers without tidings, a…
— Robert E. Lee
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Because religious training means credulity training, churches should not be surprised to find that so many of their congregations accept astrology as readily as theology,…
— Barbara G. Walker
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This huge and terrible industry [the slave trade] was blessed by all churches and for a long time aroused absolutely no religious protest. . .…
— Christopher Hitchens
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The decline of witch-belief was . . . entirely the product of religious skepticism. . . . The Catholic Church did not reform itself on…
— S. T. Joshi
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It is easy to forget, since the Catholic Church is now the only large American religious denomination whose ecclesiastical hierarchy continues to oppose birth control,…
— Susan Jacoby
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This is very much becoming a reality in churches across the country.
— Gary Moore
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