Top Church Quotes Collection - Page 6

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Image of Henry Ward Beecher
No church can be prospered in which all the ministration comes from the pulpit.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Collection: Church
Image of Steven Morrissey
Pass the pub that wrecks your body And the church, all they want is your money
- Steven Morrissey
Collection: Church
Image of Timothy Keller
In the church we have to deliberately let ourselves be transparent and accountable to others. We're a family.
- Timothy Keller
Collection: Church
Image of Charles Baudelaire
Unable to suppress love, the Church wanted at least to disinfect it, and it created marriage.
- Charles Baudelaire
Collection: Church
Image of Russell M. Nelson
Each holy temple stands as a symbol of our membership in the Church, as a sign of our faith in life after death, and as a sacred step toward eternal glory for us and our families.
- Russell M. Nelson
Collection: Church
Image of Rick Warren
The problem with most American churches is that they teach too much and don't do enough.
- Rick Warren
Collection: Church
Image of Rick Warren
Absolutely nothing will revitalize a discouraged church faster than rediscovering it's purpose.
- Rick Warren
Collection: Church
Image of William Faulkner
That which is destroying the Church is not the outward groping of those within it nor the inward groping of those without, but the professionals who control it and who have removed the bells from its steeples.
- William Faulkner
Collection: Church
Image of Pope Benedict XVI
The Church must never be satisfied with the ranks of those whom she has reached at a certain point or say that others are fine as they are: Muslims, Hindus and so forth. The Church can never retreat comfortably to within the limits of her own environment. She is charged with universal solicitude; she must be concerned with and for one and all... We must... as the Lord says - go out ever anew 'to the highways and hedges' (Luke 14:23), to deliver God's invitation to his banquet also to those who have so far heard nothing or have not been stirred within.
- Pope Benedict XVI
Collection: Church
Image of Dwight L. Moody
Satan is willing to have us worship anything, however sacred - the Bible, the crucifix, the church - if only we do not worship God Himself.
- Dwight L. Moody
Collection: Church
Image of George Bernard Shaw
Blasphemy and sedition (meaning the truth about Church and State).
- George Bernard Shaw
Collection: Church
Image of Mark Driscoll
So I decided to start a church, for three reasons. First, I hated going to church and wanted one I liked, so I thought I would just start my own. Second, God had spoken to me in one of those weird charismatic moments and told me to start a church. Third, I am scared of God and try to do what he says.
- Mark Driscoll
Collection: Church
Image of John Milton
God is decreeing to begin some newand great period in his Church, even to the reforming of Reformation itself. What does he then but reveal Himself to his servants, and as his manner is, first to his Englishmen?
- John Milton
Collection: Church
Image of Keith Ablow
I figured anybody who talked about church as much as she did was using it a little like cocaine anyhow.
- Keith Ablow
Collection: Church
Image of Edward Young
Some go to Church, proud humbly to repent, And come back much more guilty than they went: One way they look, another way they steer, Pray to the Gods; but would have Mortals hear; And when their sins they set sincerely down, They'll find that their Religion has been one.
- Edward Young
Collection: Church
Image of Colin Meloy
All instruments sound fantastic in a church.
- Colin Meloy
Collection: Church
Image of Teresa of Avila
About the injunction of the Apostle Paul that women should keep silent in church? Don't go by one text only.
- Teresa of Avila
Collection: Church
Image of Charles Spurgeon
The doctrines some now preach could not build a mouse-trap.
- Charles Spurgeon
Collection: Church
Image of Oprah Winfrey
My response is that I love the church.
- Oprah Winfrey
Collection: Church
Image of Barbara Tuchman
That the Jews were unholy was a belief so ingrained by the Church [by the 14th century] that the most devout persons were the harshest in their antipathy, none more so than St. Louis.
- Barbara Tuchman
Collection: Church
Image of Aiden Wilson Tozer
The world is perishing for lack of the knowledge of God and the Church is famishing for want of His Presence.
- Aiden Wilson Tozer
Collection: Church
Image of John Wesley
The bible knows nothing of solitary religion.
- John Wesley
Collection: Church
Image of Reinhold Niebuhr
When a church reaches up beyond its group and tries to enforce its standards upon a society that doesn't accept these standards, and perhaps for good reason, perhaps for bad reason, but anyway this is the problem we face in pluralistic society, that not necessarily every standard that every church tries to enforce upon the society is from the society's standpoint a good standard.
- Reinhold Niebuhr
Collection: Church
Image of L. Frank Baum
The absurd and legendary devil is the enigma of the Church.
- L. Frank Baum
Collection: Church
Image of Rowan Williams
It takes the whole church to know the whole truth.
- Rowan Williams
Collection: Church
Image of Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The church ... is not just to bandage the victims under the wheel, but to put a spoke in the wheel itself.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Collection: Church
Image of Sinclair B. Ferguson
We are far too good at analyzing what is wrong with the culture and far too myopic at analyzing what is wrong in the church.
- Sinclair B. Ferguson
Collection: Church
Image of J. B. Priestley
It is hard to tell where the MCC ends and the Church of England begins.
- J. B. Priestley
Collection: Church
Image of Aiden Wilson Tozer
The creeping wilderness will soon take over that church that trusts in its own strength and forgets to watch and pray.
- Aiden Wilson Tozer
Collection: Church
Image of Dallin H. Oaks
A person with homosexual inclinations, where they're kept under control, or, if yielded to are appropriately repented of, is eligible to do anything in the Church that can be done by any member of the Church who is single.
- Dallin H. Oaks
Collection: Church
Image of Charles Spurgeon
The most useful members of a church are usually those who would be doing harm if they were not doing good.
- Charles Spurgeon
Collection: Church
Image of Flannery O'Connor
I'm a member and preacher to that church where the blind don't see and the lame don't walk and what's dead stays that way.
- Flannery O'Connor
Collection: Church
Image of Thomas S. Monson
Every bishop can testify to the promptings that attend calls to serve in the Church. Frequently the call seems to be for the benefit not so much of those to be taught or led as for the person who is to teach or lead.
- Thomas S. Monson
Collection: Church
Image of Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The Church is a terrible engine of oppression, especially as concerns woman
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Collection: Church
Image of J. C. Ryle
If you want to warm a church, put a stove in the pulpit.
- J. C. Ryle
Collection: Church
Image of Harold B. Lee
Remember that, brethren. You cannot destroy the appointments of the prophets of God. The Lord knows whom He wants to preside in His Church, and sometimes it takes a lot of practicing, guiding, testing, before He may know whether or not one of us is prepared for the present assignment.
- Harold B. Lee
Collection: Church
Image of Carlos Santana
Whether you are doing it in the bar, the church, the strip joint, or the Himalayas, the first duty of music is to complement and enhance life.
- Carlos Santana
Collection: Church
Image of Kevin DeYoung
Don't try so hard to be hip. When the Church finds out what is cool, it is not cool anymore.
- Kevin DeYoung
Collection: Church
Image of Leo Tolstoy
Nowhere nor in anything, except in the assertion of the Church, can we find that God or Christ founded anything like what churchmen understand by the Church.
- Leo Tolstoy
Collection: Church
Image of Joe Rogan
I'll go to church with anyone who's willing to smoke pot and look through a telescope with me.
- Joe Rogan
Collection: Church
Image of Philip Sidney
The observances of the church concerning feasts and fasts are tolerably well kept, since the rich keep the feasts and the poor the fasts.
- Philip Sidney
Collection: Church
Image of Francis Chan
Proclaiming the gospel to a lost world cannot be just another activity to add to the church's crowded agenda. It must be central to who we are. It forms our identity.
- Francis Chan
Collection: Church
Image of Nikolai Berdyaev
The Church is simply the path of history, and not the actual kingdom of God.
- Nikolai Berdyaev
Collection: Church
Image of James Patterson
I want to do it too!" (sitting motionless) Nudge: "Nope, you stand out like a fart in a church." Max: (muttering) "Appropriately enough." Iggy: "What about me?" (stands still) Max: "No, you're visible." Iggy: "Am not!" Max: (throws a pinecone at him) "Could I do that if I wouldn't see you?
- James Patterson
Collection: Church
Image of Tom Waits
Well you say that it's gospel, But I know that it's only church.
- Tom Waits
Collection: Church
Image of Mitt Romney
Certainly, no church should be involved in trying to set the affairs of the nation.
- Mitt Romney
Collection: Church
Image of John Stott
As a body without breath is a corpse, so the church without the Spirit is dead.
- John Stott
Collection: Church
Image of Ezra Taft Benson
The Lord is letting the wheat and the tares mature before he fully purges the Church. He is also testing you to see if you will be misled. The devil is trying to deceive the very elect.
- Ezra Taft Benson
Collection: Church
Image of Pope Benedict XVI
The Church is missionary by nature and her principal task is evangelization, which aims to proclaim and to witness to Christ and to promote his Gospel of peace and love in every environment and culture.
- Pope Benedict XVI
Collection: Church