The Church Quotes

I feel very at home in an empty church. I feel the most protected. It's very mystical.

I know only one Church: it is the society of men.

Know thyself,’ said Socrates. Know thyself,’ said Sappho, ‘and make sure that the Church never finds out.

By the time we get to church, I need church cuz I've been yelled at by everyone in the family.

Christian is a term used to describe a broad range of those who believe that Jesus Christ is the son of God. I think of myself at an Evangelical Christian and regularly attend a Pentecostal church.

In my twenties, I was determined to change the world. In my thirties, I tried to transform the church. In my early forties, I discovered I was the problem.

The Church is not a fast food outlet. We can't always have it our way. Some day every knee shall bow and every tongue confess that Jesus is the Christ, and that salvation can only come His way.

I sang in church at 5. When I saw the reaction, I knew what I wanted to do with my life.

I was brought up singing gospel, and I really enjoy getting the church up on their feet, their hips swaying, their hands clapping, it's a great feeling to evoke that energy for the Lord.

The church has given me balance.

My grandmother always taught me, 'If you don't have a home, family, and church, you don't have anything.

I used to sing in the church choir. People would say it was unusual for such a small girl to have such a big voice. They would say, 'She sounds like she's grown.'

I’d smack you over the head with it so hard your bell would still be ringing for Church next Saturday night. ~ Jaz

I'm a devout individual so I remain faithful to my church.

There is a prophetic release that occurs in a church or an individual who fasts continually for forty days.

My first dunk ever was in middle school. We were playing, me and my church friends, and I dunked it, and I swear I could not sleep that night.

We sometimes idealize the early church and want our churches to go back to the simple, old ways. We need to carefully read the history. Harmony takes work.

The church should be a disciplined charging army. Christians, like slaves and solders ask no questions. We are fighting a holy war.

The white Christian church never raised to the heights of Christ. It stayed within the limit of culture.

I was a virgin. People find that hard to believe, but when you're raised in a church, that was just the way it is.

As God as my witness, they said, We're above the law. There's nothing you can do to us. You're just a church secretary.

Well, for me, I grew up very Southern Baptist, and I definitely lived in my bubble. You know, I lived in my bubble that was in my church.

The work of God can only be carried on by the power of God. The church is a spiritual organism fighting spiritual battles: only spiritual power can make it perform as God ordained.

Partner with churches to assist the poor.

I lived across from a Catholic church for 15 years that I never went into. And then I got married to my wife and - you know, and now we're going in there every other day baptizing a kid.

I never went to church when I was in college, either.

I would say that now I'm somebody who goes to church.

Pat Robertson is an embarrassment to the church and a danger to American politics, .. It's time for Christian leaders of all stripes to call on Robertson not just to apologize but to retire.

Some major churches overemphasize the importance of preaching as a means to increase membership and fail to reach out with compassion to their neighbors in need.

I believe strongly that in the eyes of God women and men should be the same and they should be given the same authority in the church, women should as men.

I began to expand my personal service in the church, and to search more diligently for a closer relationship with God among my different business, professional and political interests.

Humility is authenticity. It comes from the Latin word humus, meaning "earth." As the church has taught, we're made of dust, and unto dust we shall return.

Running is my church.

I'm Presbyterian and I don't go to church very much.

I don't want to just preach to the church. I feel like I have a broader message.

A lot of churches have not moved with the times.

I want get across to not just the church world. I want to get outside those walls to everyday people.

I'm a reverend and a pastor. A pastor of the church. I go by usually pastor.

When my father died, it sounds kind of simple but I just had the desire to step up and pastor the church. It was what I was supposed to do. I just took that step of faith.

The church that will not give up will be outdated and passed by, quicker than they realize.

Churches whose members fight with one another have lost their vision for the lost.

There are pockets of the church that will "give up," and reap a bountiful harvest. They are going to have huge success, like the church has never experienced since the Book of Acts.

The church will not stay the same. It will either blossom because someone understands the season the church is in, or it will wither very quickly.

Vision is something pastors and churches cannot afford to live without.

Anytime a church squabbles over minor things you can be certain they do not have a clear picture of what they need to be.

If the church is going to make a difference, it will need to go through the "big give-up" stage. Churches will need to quit being selfish and become relevant.

It was while I was pastoring that I began to realize that pastors were not growing churches because they didn't understand leadership because they were not trained, adequate leaders.

Without a vision our community will perish without Christ, but without a vision the church will perish as well.

If Vulcans had a church, they’d be Catholics.

How many times go we to comedies, to masques, to places of great and noble resort, nay even to church only to see the company.