The Church Quotes

Fixing things requires change and change always creates conflict. But that is why you are a leader.

Every story of change there is always someone who didn't have the resources or the network they needed and did something anyway.

On day one, the Church wasn't for church people because there weren't any church people.

No one ever has the resources they need.

If you're a preacher's kid, you see the church differently.

Something I've noticed. Church planters don't pray for revival. They pray for opportunity, favor with the unchurched and leaders.

In leadership there are always problems to be solved and tensions to be managed. When you try to solve a tension, you create a problem.

I really started to get into reading the Bible and I started to look for a church to go to. Every Sunday I was going to like three or four churches, I was just looking for the right church.

We have our values from the church, the temple, the mosque. Do not rob, do not murder. But our behaviour changes the minute we go into the corporate place. Suddenly all of this is irrelevant.

Liberals don't have to emerge from the hot tub and start attending NASCAR races or - God forbid - church, but it would be nice if they'd stop lying all the time.

Doing good doesn't always make you feel good. I don't care what they tell you in church.

We give 10 percent of our income to our church every year. Do you think that is the kind of person who is trying to hide things, or do things?

On social welfare the Church does so much good around the world - nuns running schools and homeless shelters, priests ministering to people who are in crisis.

There were so many outstanding women in scripture that were leaders. And, you know, the organized church sometimes puts boundaries on us that the Bible doesn't.

Once an old woman at my church said the secret is that God loves us exactly the way we are and that he loves us too much to let us stay like this, and I'm just trying to trust that.

I feel incredibly successful. I make a living as a writer and am able to help support a big family, my church, my bleeding-heart causes.

I have to move away from organized religion. The toxic confusion and anger I was feeling in church had become too great.

Churches, depending on their policy, can do fantastic work with people in the community.

I don't go to movies for redemption - if I want that, I'll go to church!

Let's start with the church. As you know, it's my background, it's a natural setting for me and it's definitely my roots.

Does any sane man imagine that the church could cease to be missionary and remain the church?

We are to introduce our people into the life of the Church, which is salvation, that they may grasp its meaning, its contents and purpose, to taste and see how good the Lord is.

One thing the Devil fears the most is the Church that obeys and goes not just sits and talks.

Definitely I'm convinced that behind my case there is a trial of the church.

That a mouse of scandal whisks its foolish tail across the church's floor is not sufficient cause for clamorous leaping out of its windows.

Black churches minister to social needs out of necessity.

I'm not denouncing the church, and I'm not interested in people who want me to denounce the church. It's not a church worthy of denouncing.

Nothing is more powerful than the black church experience. A good choir and a good sermon in the black church, it's pretty hard not to be move and be transported.

A red brick Presbyterian church... captured by kudzu vines as surely as a butterfly in a net.

Church can be extremely boring. It can be very meaningful, it can be character forming, but can be have very little fizz in it.

To be in the mainline is to have a history and not simply to be an amalgam, a community church of who knows what that came from who knows where.

They all attended Hester's church, which Dellarobia viewed as a complicated pyramid scheme of moral debt and credit resting ultimately on the shoulders of the Lord, but rife with middle managers.

a church ought to express the joy of religion as well as its majesty.

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.

The Church [in the 14th century] gave ceremony and dignity to lives that had little of either. It was the source of beauty and art to which all had some access and which many helped to create.

Voluntary self-directed religion was more dangerous to the Church than any number of infidels.

The Hundred Years' War, like the crises of the Church in the same period, broke apart medieval unity.

My religion is life, and my church is the universe.

The church, the state, and the poor, are 3 daughters which we should maintain, but not portion off.

Men differ daily about things which are subject to sense, is it likely then they should agree about things invisible.

If the Church is not now as bad as the Soviet Government, that is due to the influence of those who attacked the Church

The first effect of emancipation from the Church was not to make men think rationally, but to open their minds to every sort of antique nonsense

Neither the Church nor modern public opinion condemns petting, provided it stops short at a certain point.

One who believes, as I do, that the free intellect is the chief engine of human progress, cannot but be fundamentally opposed to Bolshevism, as much as to the Church of Rome.

A sign in the yard of a church next door said CHRIST IS THE ANSWER. (The question, of course, is: What do you say when you strike your thumb with a hammer?)

Donald Trump in a church getting interrupted by the pastor because he started attacking Hillary Clinton.

I think the reason why more rapists go into the military is the same reason why predators go into the Catholic Church. It's a place they know they can get away with it.

I don't want to start a movement that mirrors religion. I don't want to create the church of the non-believers where I'm the preacher and we're all gathering together and reciting things.

My bike is my gym, my wheelchair and my church all in one. I'd like to ride my bike all day long but I've got this thing called a job that keeps getting in the way.

A lot of kids, when they go to church, they don't really pay much attention to what they're saying or whatever.