Church Quotes

the Twelve Apostles are the most evident sign of Jesus' will regarding the existence and mission of ...

Vanity, showing off, is an attitude that reduces spirituality to a worldly thing, which is the worst...

The light of love proper to faith can illumine the question of our own time-concerning truth. Truth,...

We cannot become starched Christians, those overeducated Christians who speak of theological matters...

For the Church, the option for the poor is primarily a theological category rather than a cultural, ...

Mary was able to turn a stable into a home for Jesus, with poor swaddling clothes and an abundance o...

Will we let ourselves become a Church that calls and welcomes sinners with open arms, that gives cou...

There is a Marian "style" to the Church's work of evangelization. Whenever we look to Mary, we come ...

As religious leaders, we are called to be true "people of dialogue," to cooperate in building peace ...

We need to let ourselves be evangelized by the poor. They have much to teach us.

The word miracle, as pronounced by Christian churches, gives a false impression; it is a monster. It...

I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.

Because sometimes the Church seems like those posed circus tableaus where the curtain lifts and men,...

Finally, the work of the minister tended to be judged by his success in a single area - the saving o...

The only group large enough to handle," the world's biggest, "problems is the network of millions of...

History shows that when the church accommodates culture, it weakens it.

The fact is, it is selfish for a church to not want to grow. A church that says, “We’ve got enough p...

I never weary of great churches. It is my favourite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so h...

My point is, however, that churches do promote beliefs that would more appropriately find a place in...

But in every church there are people who, for reasons which seem sufficient to them, do not approve ...

Our government needs the church, because only those humble enough to admit they're sinners can bring...

Let me speak plainly: The United States of America is and must remain a nation of openness to people...

I long for the Church to be more truly itself, and for me this involves changing its stance on war, ...

Over the road there was a church: a modern gray building, which constantly played a recording of chu...

When we consider that so few generations had passed since thechurch left off disemboweling innocent ...

Those who would renegotiate the boundaries between church and state must therefore answer a difficul...

the church was an international institution long before globalization.

What if evangelical mega churches became known around the world for things like providing water acce...

There are congregations on nearly every corner. I'm not sure we need more churches. What we need is ...

The church is like Noah's ark. It stinks, but if you get out of it, you'll drown.

Perhaps one of the most powerful things the contemporary church could do is to confess our sins to t...

I had come to see that the great tragedy in the church is not that rich Christians do not care about...

I want a big church wedding.

There’s no stronger bulwark of sound conservatism than the evangelical church, and no better place t...

Saints cannot exist without a community, as they require, like all of us, nurturance by a people who...

The church is constituted as a new people who have been gathered from the nations to remind the worl...

The Church really does not know what [peace and justice] mean apart from the life and death of Jesus...

On the other hand, activist Christians who talk much about justice promote a notion of justice that ...

In fact, even Tillich's socialism was accommodationist because it continued the Constantinian strate...

That which makes the church "radical" and forever "new" is not that the church tends to lean toward ...

The church is not to be judged by how useful we are as a "supportive institution" and our clergy as ...

We would like a church that again asserts that God, not nations, rules the world, that the boundarie...

Two or three angelsCame near to the earth.They saw a fat church.Little black streams of peopleCame a...

You could say I lost my faith in science and progressYou could say I lost my belief in the holy Chur...

He'd gone to church for forty years and was only getting worse. It seemed like this should tell God ...

The humble were the elect of God. Did not the priests teach so, in their gemmed, kingly robes, from ...

I cannot think why we should be astonished at all the evils which exist in the Church, when those wh...

Malus: 'You look like a person with doubts.'Zoe: 'I wonder sometimes if any of this is real - or is ...

Hold firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this, and you dissolve the u...

The people who had turned their heads turned them again as the service proceeded; and at last observ...

One came out of the church with a kind of comfortable and satisfied feeling that something had been ...

Each of those churches shows certain books, which they call revelation, or the Word of God. The Jews...

Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported enti...

The people of God cannot be changed until the outcasts are restored to its body.

The central ideas of Christianity — an angry God and vicarious atonement — are contrary to every fac...

Christian missions to India imply that India is a land of heathens, and, therefore, stands on the sa...

Cathedrals Luxury liners laden with souls Holding to the east their hulls of stone.

I thought that some of the hymns bespoke the true religion of the place. The people didn't really wa...

My vision of the gathered church that had come to me... had been replaced by a vision of the gathere...

The fact that political ideologies are tangible realities is not a proof of their vitally necessary ...

The greatest gift a church can receive is to have a group of families who take their responsibilitie...

I don't like to hear cut and dried sermons. No—when I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if...

If we're going to impact our world in the name of Jesus, it will be because people like you and me t...

Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles, expressions of...

The style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue seems completely different from the s...

I therefore used the last ten minutes of our classes to recite with them words from the Bible and ve...

You telling me God love you, and you ain't never done nothing for him? I mean, not go to church, sin...

My mother was a not-too-devoted atheist. She went to Episcopal church on Christmas Eve every year, a...

I realized I was going to get through this disappointing service, and anyway, you have to be somewhe...

Teenagers who do not go to church are adored by God, but they don't get to meet some of the people w...

Then the singing enveloped me. It was furry and resonant, coming from everyone's very heart. There w...

The higher Christian churches...come at God with an unwarranted air of professionalism, with authori...

In a system of full capitalism, there should be (but, historically, has not yet been) a complete sep...

According to the historian William H. McNeil, European churches did not have pews until sometime in ...

One of the most amazing and perplexing features of mainstream Christianity is that seminarians who l...

Go is the first part of the word Gospel.It should be the watchword of every true follower of Christ....

When the Christian or the church becomes popular with the unbelieving world, something is seriously ...

There will come a time when people hungering for the truth will seek it where it is supposedly disse...

Unless the church quickly recovers the authoritative biblical message, we may witness the spectacle ...

What right does any church have even attempting to approve of lifestyles or certain acts for which G...

There are many who sit in some churches week after week, year after year, without hearing the whole ...

The church has lost its ability to discipline members who live openly in sin. Consequently, we have ...

The church is a storehouse of spiritual food whereby the inner man is fed, nourished, and developed ...

It could be said that going to church will not make one a Christian. But . . . refusing to fellowshi...

I hope the day will never come when the church abandons the “class meeting” and the prayer service ....

Down through the centuries the church has contributed more than any other single agency in lifting s...

The church isn’t just a particular building or congregation but the spiritual fellowship of all who ...

Many churches have molded their programs around the community—not the Word of God.

The Lord did not design the church to cater to people’s needs—the Lord breathed life into the church...

Statistics indicate that the church is rapidly losing in the population explosion. There are fewer C...

The Bible nowhere teaches that the church will ultimately convert the whole world to Jesus Christ. T...

Thousands of people have entered churches without discovering a vital experience with Jesus Christ. ...

I am convinced if the church went back to the main task of proclaiming the Gospel it would see peopl...

If we in the church want a cause to fight, let’s fight sin. Let’s reveal its hideousness. Let’s show...

The blood of Christ purchased the church.

The word church as applied to the Christian society was first used by Jesus Himself when He told Pet...

Pentecost was the day of power of the Holy Spirit. It was the day the Christian church was born.

The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.

Before three thousand people were brought into the church on the day of Pentecost, the disciples had...

If the church is acceptable to this present ageand is not suffering reproach, then it is not the tru...