Churches Quote by Umberto Eco

Every European goes on the streets and sees medieval churches. Not if you live in Indianapolis. The most exciting letters I received were from…

— Umberto Eco

“Europe has become a post-Christian culture in which the principal religious influence is visible in art treasures and cathedrals filled with tourists rather than…

— Charles W. Colson

In an urban environment, a church building is a thing of the past.

— Mark Batterson

I'm one of those people that, if I'm in the country, I will have a look inside an old church.

— Alison Goldfrapp

The fault seems to me to have been that men have taken ancient country churches as their models and have failed to discover that…

— George Edmund Street

“The frequent claims that empty churches and low levels of religious activity in Europe today reflect a steep decline in piety are wrong—it was…

— Rodney Stark

All too often the church holds up a mirror reflecting back the society around it, rather than a window revealing a different way.

— Philip Yancey

I think it's unfortunate that we don't go into the non-churchy places to be what I believe Jesus was.

— Kirk Franklin

I think in a lot of network television, everyone's vaguely Protestant and doesn't really go to church so they can be 'relatable.'

— Rachel Bloom

Sometimes, looking up at Sophiatown... I have felt I was looking at an Italian village somewhere in Umbria. For you do ‘look up’ at…

— Trevor Huddleston

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

A lot of churches have not moved with the times.

— Joel Osteen