Churches Quotes

551 Churches quotes by 424 unique authors

Most churches make the mistake of selecting as leaders the confident, the competent, and the successful. But what you most need in a leader is… — Timothy Keller
The Almighty can hardly be such a fool as the churches make out. — W. Somerset Maugham
By comparison with a night-club, churches are positively gay. — Aldous Huxley
Avoid kneeling in unheated stone churches. Ecclesiastical dampness causes prematurely grey hair. — John Cheever
Bleak factory buildings and billboard-cluttered avenues look as beautiful, through the camera's eye, as churches and pastoral landscapes. — Susan Sontag
I think records and music are more appropriate and more respectful of the human soul than the churches are. And more respectful of the needs… — Will Oldham
And that is why I think that God has used it in churches because we have seen a lot of healing take place in churches… — Kerry Shook
Churches can become places of cynicism, resistance, and pessimism. — John Ortberg
However, as the Eastern churches have always maintained, through Christ creation is intended eventually to share in the life of God, the life of divine… — John Polkinghorne
I think there's an awful lot of noise about the Church being persecuted but there is a more real issue that the conventional churches face… — Trevor Phillips
We could say that people who eat grits, listen to country music, follow stock-car racing, support corporal punishment in the schools, hunt 'possum, go to… — John Shelton Reed
The fault seems to me to have been that men have taken ancient country churches as their models and have failed to discover that between… — George Edmund Street
We remember a few people who've been enlightened. We build churches and edifices in their name. But few people, if any, feel that they could… — Frederick Lenz
Most people would not want to live where there are no churches but many people live as though there were no churches. — Vance Havner
Satan is not fighting churches; he is joining them. He does more harm by sowing tares than by pulling up wheat. He accomplishes more by… — Vance Havner
A mortician can make a dead man look better than he ever did when he was alive. So churches like Sardis may appear very much… — Vance Havner
The imminent demise of the church has been predicted since the middle of the 18th century. This is the regular secular mantra if churchgoing declines.… — N. T. Wright
Churches come and go, but there has ever been but one religion. The only religion is conscience in action. — Henry Demarest Lloyd
"Religion" can no more be equated with what goes on in churches than "education" can be reduced to what happens in schools or "health care"… — Harvey Cox
By operating independently of government aid, the churches . . . avoid the resentment of those who do not want to be forced to contribute… — John M Swomley

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