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

Things are getting much better, but I always wondered when I went to church on Sundays. I've always been one to ... I'm not just a boxer. — Muhammad Ali

The Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle — G.K. Chesterton

For what need would I have to say, 'I believe,' if I already knew?

(from The Church is One) — Aleksey Khomiakov

Listening to radio was like group meditation or a moment of silence in church. You can't get the same effect with TV unless you're very drunk. — Jackson Beck

We do not seek a Christ whom we have invented, for only in the real communion of the Church do we encounter the real Christ. — Pope Benedict XVI

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

In the time of Mrs Thatcher the church, to give it its due, spoke out and was an enemy of the Conservative government. — Alan Green

My life goal is to see the world's one billion people with disabilities embraced and encouraged by the church. — Joni Eareckson Tada

There is nothing more serious than the sacrilege of schism because there is no just cause for severing the unity of the Church. — Saint Augustine

We feel like if we miss a Sunday at church, that's one thing, but we can't miss an opportunity to help. — John Tesh

How do we help the church get their respect back? I have a plan: pedophile crucifixions. — Christopher Titus

Bursting into flame would definitely blow my cover. — Rob Thomas

I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

It was quite strange, because it's quite different from singing, although it's quite natural because you're used to performing or acting on stage. — Charlotte Church

We see that there are two worms that eat the fabric of the Church, weakening Her. Rivalry and vainglory go against this harmony, this agreement. — Pope Francis

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

If opposites attract why is the church trying so hard to mirror the world? — Lakesha Ruise

Educational institutes can no longer be prizes in church politics or furnish berths for failure in other walks of life. — E. Franklin Frazier

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. — Anne Lamott

It's because Jesus spoke so frequently about hell that the church should take the concept seriously. — R.C. Sproul

In revival, God is not concerned about filling empty churches, He is concerned about filling empty hearts. — Leonard Ravenhill

The thing the Church needs most today is the ability to heal wounds and to warm the hearts of the faithful. — Pope Francis

Satan has been the best friend the church has ever had, as he has kept it in business all these years! — Anton Szandor LaVey

The 'Church' is ... catholic because her communion embraces the whole human race. — Pope Francis

My mother started taking us to church when I was in seventh or eight grade. That was always a question, Do you believe in God? — Anne Waldman

If you're not remarkable, you're invisible. — Simon Sinek

I feel a special calling to impart hope to the church I serve. — John Piper

Princess Diana was a wonderful, caring philanthropist. She would come sometimes into the church and sit at the back and pray. — Princess Diana

I put myself in the hands of Christ, who is the true leader of the church. — Pope Theodoros II

'Down on Me' can't showcase my true talent. 'Birthday Sex' was robotic. When I perform it, I can't give you this church feeling I know I can give. — Jeremih

But that's impossible. Can you imagine Mr. Clutter missing church? Just to sleep? — Truman Capote

Don't just bring people to church; bring them to Christ. Churches are filled with church goers but not Christ followers. — Ramon M. Torres

Scientists were rated as great heretics by the church, but they were truly religious men because of their faith in the orderliness of the universe. — Albert Einstein

Bob Seger was a huge inspiration. — Eric Church

writing is an intensely solitary endeavor, but a story isn't truly heard until many hands have held it. — Elizabeth J. Church

God requires to be represented by a fiery Church ... two things are intolerable to Him-insincerity and lukewarmness. — Edward McKendree Bounds

Before I had crossed the threshold of my church I was made to realize that I was shepherd of a divided flock. — Anna Howard Shaw

I am all for getting Prayer/Religion back into the schools. And while we're at it we should get more Science/Physics into the church ... — George Martin

Most people would not want to live where there are no churches but many people live as though there were no churches. — Vance Havner

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? — Ann Romney

In the South, Sunday morning sex is accompanied by church bells. — Florence King

Worshipers never leave church ... we carry our sanctuary with us wherever we go. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

You can't have Christ without the Church, — Pope Francis

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

I define my life not by the things I have done, but by the people I have loved. — John Paul Warren

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

Even when we were standing in church and I was getting ready to take my vow I can remember wishing that you were standing there instead of him. — Nicholas Sparks

Membership in the church is not country club membership. It's not about paying your dues and getting perks. — Thom S. Rainer

I have a huge chip on my shoulder. — Eric Church

The early Church was birthed and sustained in almost constant persecution and pressures — Greg Gordon

Don't say pussy in church, motherfucker."
"Oh yeah? Because motherfucker is better? — Harper Sloan

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

We are far too good at analyzing what is wrong with the culture and far too myopic at analyzing what is wrong in the church. — Sinclair B. Ferguson

We just could not have the Church of Jesus Christ without the spirit of missionary work. — LeGrand Richards

The ministry found in the corners of one's life should match the ministry that is put on display. — Alisa Hope Wagner

born on a early Sunday morning in August, 1960. A church baby — Kathryn Stockett

Every local church has a leader but it seems so few local churches are being led. — Andy Stanley

I want the whole Christ for my Savior, the whole Bible for my book, the whole Church for my fellowship, and the whole world for my mission field. — John Wesley

The church didn't know what to do with Ray Charles or Al Green. And so they were kind of ostracized. — LeCrae

That's why I believe in a Constitution which separates church from state. I've seen what happens when they get in cahoots. — Craig Ferguson

The church has to show the way of freedom to the nation — Sunday Adelaja

Hold firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this, and you dissolve the unity of the Church. — Thomas Aquinas

the church community is a hospital for recovering addicts to selfishness. — Winfield Bevins

The first time I sang in church, when I was ten, the applause was so overwhelming that I started to weep. My mum had to rescue me from the stage. — Laura Mvula

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

Do you treat strangers as good as you do your friends or church family? (Acts 10:34) — Amanda Penland

Those nights when the future seemed to last only till the morning and he would count off the hours, one by one, by the chimes of distant church bells. — Paolo Giordano

Another claims, "Every Christian is a church planter, every home is a church, and every church building is a
training center. — Neil Cole

All is one in Darkseid. The mighty body is my church. When I command your surrender, I speak with three billion voices ... — Grant Morrison

Go to church once a week and nobody pays attention. Worship God seven days a week and you become strange! — Aiden Wilson Tozer

The great guardian principle of all conduct in the church of God is personal responsibility to the Lord. — John Nelson Darby

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

When the Church listens to the Holy Spirit, it becomes fruitful. New movements are born. — E. Stanley Jones

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

The Church's mission is not political in nature. Her task is to open the world to the religious sense by proclaiming Christ. — Pope Benedict XVI

Church is not meant to be fun. It's meant to be formative. — Matt Chandler

Standing in fron of the doors of a cCatholic church when service is over is a good way to die young. — Dia Reeves

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

If the property belongs to God he is able to pay the tax. — Robert Green Ingersoll

Baseball is like church. Many attend, few understand. — Leo Durocher

The wealthy, Jesus says, can only get into heaven through the eye of a needle; the same applies to churches wealthy in numbers and programs. — Mark Galli

Nearly all the evils in the Church have arisen from bishops desiring power more than light. They want authority, not outlook. — John Ruskin

Holy Spirit, who is forever the Comforter of the church. It is the Spirit's role to console the hearts of God's people. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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

Why don't church leaders forbid Catholics from joining the military with the same fervor they tell Catholics to stay away from abortion clinics? — William Blum

We must not reduce the bosom of the universal church to a nest protecting our mediocrity. — Pope Francis

There was a lot of music in our home. Mom played piano in church and gave piano lessons. — Ernie Isley

The thought of the word church and the word marketing in the same sentence makes me sick. — Rob Bell

Every time you walk a mile to church and carry a Bible with you, you preach a sermon a mile long. — Dwight L. Moody

I really learned to sing in church, I think, really with emotion. — Dolly Parton

God's people should be baptized because God commanded it, not because some church requires it. — John R. Rice

The cross has two sides to it. One side is what Jesus did for us. He forgave us our sins. The other is the God side. God now lives in man! — John Paul Warren

I sang in the choir for years, even though my family belonged to another church. — Paul Lynde

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

The Church must run the risk of dilution rather than leave the state to the cold light of reason, unwarmed by tenderness. — Martin Luther

To me, anything that is a church is really just far too close minded. — Marilyn Manson

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

The end product of the successful preacher's input is transformation. — Christian Michael