America Quote by Norman Vincent Peale

Americans are so tense and keyed up that it is impossible even to put them to sleep with a sermon.

— Norman Vincent Peale

While attendance at traditional churches has been declining for decades... the evangelical movement is growing, and it is changing the way America worships.

— Tom Brokaw

We have the means of evangelizing our country, but they are slumbering in the pews of our churches.

— John Stott

That awkward moment when your sitting in church and fall asleep and start snoring, then the preacher calls your name and you say amen.

— D'quack

It's a frightening thing. To go to France, the elder daughter of the church, it's always called, and you get the feeling the church…

— John Wilkins

Church can’t be a place where we feel like a visitor, or somewhere we’re afraid to allow others to see our messes. It’s got…

— Ross Parsley

It's just that the churches have been sleeping for a long time. A lot of people argue that the churches are even dead. I…

— Cornel West

“Nosey gossiping church members were sucking out my passion for life leaving me an irritable shell of what I felt called to do on…

— Anna Aquino

I sometimes wonder whether our churches--living as we do in American death-denying culture, relentlessly smiling through our praise choruses--are inadvertently helping people live not…

— Mark Galli

The Catholic Church is not dead, it is not even tired!

— Pope Benedict XVI

Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God.

— Lenny Bruce