Top Church Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of Church quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of Lauren F. Winner
The Spirit is the reason we can build a church and have confidence that we will get it at least a little bit right.
- Lauren F. Winner
Collection: Church
Image of Bernice Johnson Reagon
I went to a church where you could not sing out loud in the service until you had been saved
- Bernice Johnson Reagon
Collection: Church
Image of John Wesley
The church changes the world not by making converts but by making disciples.
- John Wesley
Collection: Church
Image of John Wesley
In all cases, the Church is to be judged by the Scripture, not the Scripture by the Church.
- John Wesley
Collection: Church
Image of Dallas Willard
Most problems in contemporary churches can be explained by the fact that members have never decided to follow Christ.
- Dallas Willard
Collection: Church
Image of Thomas Brooks
A preacher's life should be a commentary upon his doctrine... Heavenly doctrines should always be adorned with a heavenly life.
- Thomas Brooks
Collection: Church
Image of Frank Lloyd Wright
I attend the greatest of all Churches. I put a capital N on Nature, and call it my Church.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Collection: Church
Image of A. Whitney Brown
I never joined, but I used to go to church now and then. I liked it, because they always passed out plates of money at the end.
- A. Whitney Brown
Collection: Church
Image of Mary Roberts Rinehart
The one pleasure that never palls is the pleasure of not going to church.
- Mary Roberts Rinehart
Collection: Church
Image of Robert Bork
No church that panders to the zeitgeist deserves respect, and very shortly it will not get respect, except from those who find it politically useful, and that is less respect than disguised contempt.
- Robert Bork
Collection: Church
Image of Peter Rollins
The church is a place where we make our prejudice sacred.
- Peter Rollins
Collection: Church
Image of Henryk Sienkiewicz
I go to church because I am a skeptic in regard to my own skepticism.
- Henryk Sienkiewicz
Collection: Church
Image of Brian D. McLaren
The scarily brilliant Romantic poet and visionary William Blake dared to say what many of us have perhaps thought but kept to ourselves: “A good local pub has much in common with a church, except that a pub is warmer, and there’s more conversation.
- Brian D. McLaren
Collection: Church
Image of William Tyndale
The Church is the one institution that exists for those outside it.
- William Tyndale
Collection: Church
Image of Craig Groeschel
God is not calling us to go to church; he is calling us to be his church, the hope of the world.
- Craig Groeschel
Collection: Church
Image of Charles Grandison Finney
If the presence of God is in the church, the church will draw the world in. If the presence of God is not in the church, the world will draw the church out.
- Charles Grandison Finney
Collection: Church
Image of Irenaeus of Lyons
The church has been planted as a paradise in this world.
- Irenaeus of Lyons
Collection: Church
Image of K.P. Yohannan
Is this really the church of Christ, or are we just calling it the church because of our traditions and history?
- K.P. Yohannan
Collection: Church
Image of Pope Paul VI
Through some crack the smoke of satan has entered into the Church of God.
- Pope Paul VI
Collection: Church
Image of Eric Metaxas
Christianity contains within itself a germ hostile to the Church (Dietrich Bonhoeffer)
- Eric Metaxas
Collection: Church
Image of John Tesh
Really, at a time when theyre debating when and where a nativity scene can be used, this is the kind of stuff we need to have out there - outside of the church.
- John Tesh
Collection: Church
Image of David Platt
Do you realize the weight of the one who has invited us to follow him? He is worthy of more than church attendance and casual association; he is worthy of total abandonment and supreme adoration.
- David Platt
Collection: Church
Image of Jim C. Hines
...bookstores, libraries... they're the closest thing I have to a church.
- Jim C. Hines
Collection: Church
Image of Michelle Williams
I don't want to do anything to embarrass my family or my church because the town that I come from is so small. There are certain things that I just can't be part of because of my foundation.
- Michelle Williams
Collection: Church
Image of Alasdair Gray
Glasgow is still full of churches built in the last century. Half of them have been turned into warehouses.
- Alasdair Gray
Collection: Church
Image of Pope Benedict XVI
Without the Eucharist, the Church simply does not exist.
- Pope Benedict XVI
Collection: Church
Image of Igor Stravinsky
The Church knew what the psalmist knew: Music praises God. Music is well or better able to praise him than the building of the church and all its decoration; it is the Church's greatest ornament.
- Igor Stravinsky
Collection: Church
Image of Billy Sunday
The church is not a dormitory for sleepers, it is an institution for workers; it is not a rest camp, it is a front line trench.
- Billy Sunday
Collection: Church
Image of Hilaire Belloc
The Church is a perpetually defeated thing that always outlives her conquerers.
- Hilaire Belloc
Collection: Church
Image of Edvard Munch
The viewers must come to understand the sacredness of painting, so they will remove their hats as if they were in church.
- Edvard Munch
Collection: Church
Image of Adrian Rogers
Have you ever wondered what a church full of Pharisees would be like? 1. They would all attend every service 2. They would all tithe 3. They would all work in the church 4. They would all go to hell
- Adrian Rogers
Collection: Church
Image of Adrian Rogers
The Church is not a showboat; it's a battleship.
- Adrian Rogers
Collection: Church
Image of Della Reese
Yes, I'm a Pastor of a church called Understand Principles for Better Living Church, in Los Angeles, CA.
- Della Reese
Collection: Church
Image of Sinclair B. Ferguson
The true church is too different for the world to tolerate it.
- Sinclair B. Ferguson
Collection: Church
Image of Heber C. Kimball
It would be as easy for the United States to build a tower to remove the sun, as to remove polygamy, or the Church and Kingdom of God.
- Heber C. Kimball
Collection: Church
Image of David Bosch
Mission is not primarily an activity of the church, but an attribute of God.
- David Bosch
Collection: Church
Image of David Bosch
Missionary activity is not so much the work of the church as simply the Church at work.
- David Bosch
Collection: Church
Image of Pope Leo XIII
Remember and understand well that where Peter is, there is the Church; that those who refuse to associate in communion with the Chair of Peter belong to Antichrist, not to Christ. He who would separate himself from the Roman Pontiff has no further bond with Christ.
- Pope Leo XIII
Collection: Church
Image of Samuel Chadwick
Brethren, the crying sin of the church is her laziness after God.
- Samuel Chadwick
Collection: Church
Image of Richard Halverson
We've got far too many churches and so few fellowships
- Richard Halverson
Collection: Church
Image of Ralph Vaughan Williams
Why should we not enter into our inheritance in the church as well as the concert hall?
- Ralph Vaughan Williams
Collection: Church
Image of G. Campbell Morgan
The Church did the most when the Church was the least like the world.
- G. Campbell Morgan
Collection: Church
Image of Pope Pius X
The Church alone, being the Bride of Christ and having all things in common with her Divine Spouse, is the depository of the truth.
- Pope Pius X
Collection: Church
Image of John Bertram Phillips
Your God is too Small
- John Bertram Phillips
Collection: Church
Image of Augustus Toplady
To a true believer, death is but going to church: from the church below to the church above.
- Augustus Toplady
Collection: Church
Image of Ira Glasser
The first exception [to the First Amendment] will not be the last.
- Ira Glasser
Collection: Church
Image of Nicolas Gomez Davila
The Church used to absolve sinners; today it has the gall to absolve sins.
- Nicolas Gomez Davila
Collection: Church
Image of John Mott
The GREATEST HINDRANCES to the evangelization of the world are those within the Church.
- John Mott
Collection: Church
Image of Steve Scott
In the Church, when we talk about 'the world', we often create an us and them situation and end up planting the seeds of all that we feel wrong with the world in the soil of our own backyard.
- Steve Scott
Collection: Church
Image of Lester Roloff
Churches become poor if they become rich and care not for the poor.
- Lester Roloff
Collection: Church