The Church Quotes

The Church Quote of the day

I am in love with every church And mosque And temple And any kind of shrine Because I know it is there That people say the different names Of the One God.

A time will come when instead of shepherds feeding the sheep, the church will have clowns entertaining the goats

Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile.

Sportsmanship... what a load of crap, don't preach your morality to me. Steve Austin doesn't have any mercy... you want mercy? Take your *ss to church!

If you cannot find Christ in the beggar at the church door, you will not find Him in the chalice.

The Bible is not the light of the world, it is the light of the Church. But the world does not read the Bible, the world reads Christians! “You are the light of the world.”

The Church says that the Earth is flat, but I know that it is round. For I have seen the shadow of the Earth on the moon, and I have more faith in the shadow than in the Church.

There are not one hundred people in the United States who hate The Catholic Church, but there are millions who hate what they wrongly perceive the Catholic Church to be.

When the church hears the cry of the oppressed it cannot but denounce the social structures that give rise to and perpetuate the misery from which the cry arises.

The less Holy Spirit we have, the more cake and coffee we need to keep the church going.

I believe that one reason why the church of God at this present moment has so little influence over the world is because the world has so much influence over the church.

The church changes the world not by making converts but by making disciples.

The expiatory church of La Sagrada Família is made by the people and is mirrored in them. It is a work that is in the hands of God and the will of the people.

To be spiritual is not by praying and going to church. Spiritualism is the understanding of the universe so that it can be a better place to live in.

It is a tragedy when the church saves money instead of saving souls. We MUST spend to save.

And I ask why am I black, they say I was born in sin, and shamed inequity. One of the main songs we used to sing in church makes me sick, 'love wash me and I shall be whiter than snow.

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.

It is better to go skiing and think of God, than go to church and think of sport.

We are formed by environment and grace, by politics and prayer, by church and conscience. All God's creatures conspire to teach us as well. We stumble. We stutter. We rise. We are lifted.

I'd rather have ten people that want God than 10,000 people who want to play church.

I’d rather be in the mountains thinking of God, than in church thinking about the mountains.

Help me, Lord, to remember that religion is not to be confined to the church... nor exercised only in prayer and meditation, but that every where I am in Thy Presence

Every church needs to be able to answer two questions. First, what is our plan for making disciples? And second, does our plan work?

Let the Church always be a place of mercy and hope, where everyone is welcomed, loved and forgiven.

[A]ll churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Muslim, are simply human inventions. They use fear to enslave us. They are a monopoly for power and profit.

Worshipers never leave church...we carry our sanctuary with us wherever we go.

If you’re a church person and not a Jesus person, my heart hurts for you. It’s like being engaged and never getting married. It’s miserable.

Prayer will make a man cease from sin, or sin will entice a man to cease from prayer.

To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.

Now the Church is not wood and stone, but the company of believing people; one must hold to them, and see how they believe, live and teach.

The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace liminality and adventure or continue to remain a religious ghetto for culturally co-opted, fearful, middle-class folk.

The greatest obstacle in the apostolate of the Church is the timidity or rather the cowardice of the faithful.

The less power a church has, the more entertainment it has.

Church is not an organization you join; it is a family where you belong, a home where you are loved and a hospital where you find healing.

A good local pub has much in common with a church, except that a pub is warmer, and there's more conversation.

Church is what you do. Church is who you are. Church is the human outworking of the person of Jesus Christ. Let's not go to Church, let's be the Church.

If our church is not marked by caring for the poor, the oppressed, the hungry, we are guilty of heresy.

In all cases, the Church is to be judged by the Scripture, not the Scripture by the Church.

The greatest sin today in the church is the man in the pew who is ignorant of the Bible.

Most people can't bear to sit in church for an hour on Sundays. How are they supposed to live somewhere very similar to it for eternity?

The reason why men do not look to the Church today is that she has destroyed her own influence by compromise.

The best remedy for a sick church is to put it on a missionary diet.

Persecution has never hurt the church ... only prosperity.

I want to throw open the windows of the Church so that we can see out and the people can see in.

The local church is the hope of the world, and its future rests primarily in the hands of its leaders.

The Church is not the building, its the people, its not just the gathering, its also the scattering.

The excellence of the Church does not consist in multitude but in purity.

Look, don't judge Christianity by the imperfect examples that we have seen in history. Judge it by Jesus Christ.

The church that is man-managed instead of God-governed is doomed to failure. A ministry that is college-trained but not Spirit-filled works no miracles.

I don't need a church to tell me I'm wrong where I already know I'm wrong; I need a Church to tell me I'm wrong where I think I'm right