Churches Quotes

551 Churches quotes by 424 unique authors

[Disestablishment was] the best thing that ever happened to the state of Connecticut. It cut the churches loose from dependence on state support. It threw… — Lyman Beecher
Churches are healthier and stronger if they assume responsibility both for financing their own programs and for stimulating their members to accept that responsibility. — John M Swomley
Since separation precludes financial support or special privilege from government, the churches are free to engage in prophetic criticism of the government and to work… — John M Swomley
There could be no more powerful argument against mixing religion and government than the success of independent African American churches in placing racial segregation and… — Susan Jacoby
Our society offers little in the way of reeducation for those who have been torn away from their traditional culture and suddenly exposed to all… — David Riesman
A Martian would think that the English worship at supermarkets, not in churches. — Jonathan Sacks
We do not want churches. They will teach us to quarrel about God. — Chief Joseph
The Church, during the apostolic age, did not consist of isolated, independent congregations, but was one body, of which the separate churches were constituent members,… — Charles Hodge
The church has been brought into the same value system as the world: fame, success, materialism and celebrity. We watch the leading churches and the… — Charles Colson
Yet through history gays have always dominated religious life and churches. — Reverend Malcolm Boyd
In places where marriage's core meaning has been altered through legal action, officials are beginning to target for punishment those believers and churches that refuse… — Salvatore J. Cordileone
Sports teams, people who follow sports teams, religion, churches, work - any company, I find that people just generally have a need to belong to… — Sean Durkin
The more I do bookstores, the more people come up to me from church groups. I spoke at Pittsburg State College and had 2 or… — Anita Diament
Some respected and beloved brethren insist that the forming and organising of churches is, according to God's will, the only means of finding blessing in… — John Nelson Darby
Some major churches overemphasize the importance of preaching as a means to increase membership and fail to reach out with compassion to their neighbors in… — Jimmy Carter
Young and old will sit and judge unfeeling, while the empty churches' bells are pealing. And the green hills lay ignored, untended, lonely watchers remain… — Pete Townshend
Adulterers in churches and pornography in the schools, you got gangsters in power and lawbreakers making rules. When you gonna wake up? — Bob Dylan
In your eyes I see the doorway to a thousand churches. — Peter Gabriel
I really started to get into reading the Bible and I started to look for a church to go to. Every Sunday I was going… — Angus T. Jones
The rosary was said every evening. I always liked that sentence about the medieval Churches, that they were the Bibles of the poor. The Church… — John McGahern
The most obvious and yet the oldest and most stubborn error on which the appeal of inflation rests is that of confusing ‘money’ with ‘wealth’…Real… — Henry Hazlitt
The problem with our churches today is that the lead pastor is some sissy boy who wears cardigan sweaters, has The Carpenters dialed in on… — Mark Driscoll
Before everything else, fidelity to the Church: One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic. Jesus did not found several churches, but one single Church. — Pope John XXIII
Those who seek consolation in existing churches often pay for their peace of mind with a tacit agreement to ignore a great deal of what… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
The first joint priority of the churches of any city should be that of making it hard for people to go to hell from that… — David Shibley

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