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It is the doom of the Christian church to be always distracted with controversy. John Quincy Adams — Paul C. Nagel

The Church always seems to be behind the times, when it is really beyond the times. — G.K. Chesterton

As we consider the causes of depression, those of us in the church must face the ways we might be responsible for creating it. — Tony Campolo

Church may be primarily for believers, but the gospel is for all people. — Dillon Burroughs

Since the Church is to be servant to the poor, it is our fault if that wealth is not channeled to help the poor in our world. — Cesar Chavez

When you find the church you're supposed to be in, you will recognize the pastor's voice as an important spiritual authority in your life. — Stormie O'martian

The church is in turmoil today. The church is not to reflect the world but to be a portrait of Jesus Christ. — Billy Graham

God promised by the mouth of Isaiah that queens should be the nursing mothers of the church ... — John Calvin

The church is never a place to show off. Do your good deeds quietly. Serve; don't seek to be seen — Max Lucado

A growing church sees that the work of the ministry should be done by all — Neil T. Anderson

If the envious, the defamers and the backbiters were taken out of the average church, there would be revival overnight. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

To be effective the preacher's message must be alive; it must alarm, arouse, challenge; it must be God's present voice to a particular people. — A.W. Tozer

The church needs lifers and those who can be counted on for the long haul. — Kevin DeYoung

To introduce unconverted persons to the church, is to weaken and degrade it; and therefore an apparent gain may be a real loss. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Most problems in contemporary churches can be explained by the fact that members have never decided to follow Christ. — Dallas Willard

Moving forward implies MOTION when in all actuality it may be simply standing STILL and seeing the salvation of the Lord. — John Paul Warren

I was not a religious man, but if I were, the woods would be my church, the mountaintops my altar. — Tom Ryan

The opinion formulated by the Church has more value in my eyes than human reasons, whatever they may be. — Desiderius Erasmus

If the church does not identify with the marginalized, it will itself be marginalized. This is God's poetic justice. — Timothy Keller

Families can be together forever. — The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-day Saints

Church is the place to be broken together. — Mark Hall

Most people will not be persuaded to become Christians except in their "heart language. — Flavil R. Yeakley Jr.

Life seems to be fashioned and formed best out of the obstacles that seem unbearable. — John Paul Warren

We are insisting and we will continue to insist that this faith of the church must continue to be upheld come rain, come fire. That is our position. — Peter Akinola

I know a person with a Ph.D. who goes to a church based on Star Wars: May the force be with you. — Anne Lamott

In church, sacred music would make believers of us all - but preachers can be counted on to restore the balance. — Mignon McLaughlin

You may be poor yourselves in material ways, but you have an abundance of gifts to offer when you offer Christ and the community of his Church. — Pope Francis

What can the Church do? If she stands by her moral teaching, then she will be seen as standing in judgement over a vast percentage of Europeans. — Timothy Radcliffe

The church should be setting the pace. The church should be taking its proper place of leadership in the nation ... God help the church to wake up! — Billy Graham

I think the church and the religion right now have a lot more to be worried about than SLAYER. — Kerry King

I urge the husbands and fathers of this church to be the kind of a man your wife would not want to be without. — James E. Faust

It is my belief that everything you need to know about the world can be learned in a church choir. — Connie Willis

Richard Hadlee has the appearance of a rickety church steeple and a severe manner which suggests that women are not likely to be ordained yet. — Peter Roebuck

The church must be involved in all seven spheres of life — Sunday Adelaja

The church today has reduced the Christians to a level that has made them to be too weak to make anything happen. — Sunday Adelaja

The first exception [to the First Amendment] will not be the last. — Ira Glasser

Until the church is holy there'll be no rapture - I don't care what theory of the rapture you have. — Leonard Ravenhill

I think that a church should be setting the pace for social justice. — Max Lucado

The passion of the church and every follower of Christ should be that all peoples have an opportunity to hear, understand, and respond to the gospel. — Ed Stetzer

If the church would only be the church- if Christians would only be Christians- nothing could halt our onward march. — Vance Havner

The church that can't worship must be entertained. And leaders who can't lead a church to worship must provide the entertainment. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

Moltmann indicates, "the Church can only be apostolic when it takes up its cross. Its apostolic succession is the succession of the suffering Christ — Henry G. Covert

Maturity is learning not to be run by your emotions. You control your emotions; they don't control you. — Anna M. Aquino

We are the choice elected few
Let all the rest be damned
There is room enough in hell for you
We won't have heaven crammed! — Roland H. Bainton

History makes the point time and time again No greater mischief can be created than to merge the power of religion with the power of government. — Lowell P. Weicker Jr.

How can the Church be received as a trustworthy guide in the invisible, which falls into so many errors in the visible? — John William Draper

I've tried to be active in civic organizations as well as the Church. — Margaret D. Nadauld

If I wanted the ticket to be a $200 ticket, I'd have made it a $200 ticket, but I don't want it to be that. — Eric Church

I was in my dad's church, his Baptist church, and I think the first song I ever performed was 'Jesus Be a Fence Around Me.' — Aretha Franklin

Don't let hard lessons harden your heart. — Carlos A. Rodriguez

The Church's role should be separated from the state's role. — Roy Moore

The church should be a place where people can be free to say that they are sinners. — Timothy Keller

The current version of ... separation of church and state says you can be salt, and you can be light, but only inside the four walls of the church. — David Barton

I may not be as active in it as some people are, but I think that the church has taught me great life lessons. — Julianne Hough

Since politics fundamentally should be a moral enterprise, the church in this sense has something to say about politics. — Pope Benedict XVI

The life and fellowship of the church is to be a foretaste of life in the Kingdom of God. — George Eldon Ladd

Stop looking for the perfect church. It does not exist. Even if it did exist, the moment we joined it, it would no longer be perfect! — Nicky Gumbel

The custom of the Church has very great authority and ought to be jealously observed in all things. — Thomas Aquinas

When I get to Heaven they aren't going to see much of me but my heels, for I'll be hanging over the golden wall keeping an eye on the Lisu Church! — Isobel Miller Kuhn

Grey hoped the Church would yet be able to save England from the fate of Tyre or Carthage, the great trading nations — Thomas Hughes

The Church must be one because a fragmented church is not much help to a fragmented world. — Justo L. Gonzalez

To the lack of incentive to effort, which is the awful shadow under which we live, may be traced the wreck and ruin of scores of colored youth. — Mary Church Terrell

Jesus sleeps on the cross by the church door. When he wakes up, he'll be old. The air in the village will be brighter than his naked skin. — Herta Muller

The Church must be seen as the company of pilgrims on the way to the end of the world and the ends of the earth. — Lesslie Newbigin

The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool. — Lynn Lavner

It's troubling for me as a Catholic to be at odds with the church. — Andrew Cuomo

I went to church. It didn't help. In those days that was the best place to meet a girlfriend. In church! All of us praying to be different. — Jeffrey Eugenides

Proclaiming "the whole will of God" should be the goal - and the joy - of every church and every preacher. — Billy Graham

Don't give your money to the church. They should be giving their money to you. — George Carlin

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

To be a leader in the Church has always required strength and faith beyond the merely human. — J. Oswald Sanders

If Christ is the head of the church and we are the body, lets be disciples who master the noise. — Eric Samuel Timm

PRESBYTERIAN, n. One who holds the conviction that the government authorities of the Church should be called presbyters. — Ambrose Bierce

The Church does not pretend to be scientists. It teaches based upon what science tells it. — Wellington Mara

God wants every member of the Body of Christ to be a blessing one to another; that's why, everyone has to be involved in a ministry. — Sunday Adelaja

Standards of conduct appropriate to civil society or the workings of a democracy cannot be purely and simply applied to the Church. — Pope Benedict XVI

I'll bet the Catholic Church lost out on a lot of would-be nuns when they started dressing like ordinary meter maids. — Lucia Berlin

Holy Mother Church teaches us to end the year and also our days with an examination of conscience ... to be grateful and to ask for forgiveness. — Pope Francis

What I miss [about church] is being forced to be in community with people that aren't the same as me. — Win Butler

Wherever the bishop shall appear, there let the multitude also be; even as, wherever Jesus Christ is, there is the Catholic Church. — Ignatius Of Antioch

One of the hardest but most necessary calls on the church of Jesus Christ is to step up to be part of the social support system of the mentally ill. — Steve Bloem

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

Three, Christians who practice repentance should be the only ones allowed into church membership and leadership. — Mark Driscoll

For irrelevancy to be cancelled in the church, let kingdom priority and pursuit be restored — Sunday Adelaja

The wickedness of the church can be one thing and one only: turning the Good News of Jesus into the bad news of religion. — Robert Farrar Capon

The official language of the State of Illinois shall be known hereafter as the American language, and not the English language. — Frank Church

Attending church does not necessarily mean living the principles taught in those meeting. You can be active in a church but inactive in its gospel. — Stephen R. Covey

We would be 1,500 years ahead if it hadn't been for the church dragging science back by its coattails and burning our best minds at the stake. — Catherine Fahringer

You need to be in a church where the pastors are urging you, not so much to listen to what they say as to turn to the Bible from which they teach. — Alistair Begg

Church was never intended to be a place where we serve God to the exclusion of meeting with Him. — James MacDonald

Let's be clear, I'm one of the thicker bishops in the Church of England. — Justin Welby

Let's pray for whole world that there be brotherhood. I hope this journey of the church we begin today is fruitful for evangelization. — Pope Francis

Be she alewife,
fishmonger, washerwoman, or whore; the woman who fucks my whole cock shall I take to church's
door. — Lisa Valdez

Friends, the church is to be centered on the Lord Jesus Christ. — Billy Graham

(The Catholic Church, on the other hand, seized on the big bang model and in 1951 officially pronounced it to be in accordance with the Bible.) There — Stephen Hawking

We may not all be on the same chapter, but we should be in the same book".

~R. Alan Woods [2007] — R. Alan Woods

There is but one Church in which men find salvation, just as outside the ark of Noah it was not possible for anyone to be saved. — Thomas Aquinas

The church is so subnormal that if it ever got back to the New Testament normal it would seem to people to be abnormal. — Vance Havner

Most church members live so far below the standard, you would have to backslide to be in fellowship with them. — Vance Havner

Without God's Spirit, there is nothing we can do that will count for God's kingdom. Without God's Spirit, the church simply can't be the church. — N. T. Wright