Church History Quotes

I'm sick and tired of (only) reading about church history; let's make (some) by the grace of God — Leonard Ravenhill

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. — Barbara Brown Taylor

No time in history has the Church of Jesus Christ gone down! — Loren Cunningham

Pope Paul III was the greatest thief in the history of the church. — Peter O'Toole

Every church throughout history whose members were willing to surrender their lives for the sake of Christ witnessed dramatic and spontaneous growth. — Neil Cole

The whole history of the Christian Church is a mixture of errors and violence. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Conner answered, "Mrs. Turbeldy warned me that you have a history of running away. Where did you go?"
To the church of course. To confess my sins. — Jennifer A. Nielsen

The church, inserted and active in human society and in history, does not exist in order to exercise political power or to govern the society. — Claudio Hummes

Is this really the church of Christ, or are we just calling it the church because of our traditions and history? — K.P. Yohannan

I'm interested in the history of ideas and how these ideas take on flesh and influence culture, and the church. — Kevin Vanhoozer

There have been more people saved in the past twenty, thirty, or forty years around the world than at any other time in recorded church history. — Michael Brown

I am predominantly critical concerning the activities, and especially the political activities, through history of the official clergy. — Albert Einstein

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

Art is History's nostalgia, it prefers a thatched roof to a concrete factory, and the huge church above a bleached village. — Derek Walcott

The history of the Church of Christ from the days of the Apostles has been a history of spiritual movements. — Henry Parry Liddon

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.

Most readers will be shocked by the clear record of history linking Adolf Hitler and the Roman Catholic Church in a conspiracy to exterminate the Jews — John Hagee

The Church is simply the path of history, and not the actual kingdom of God. — Nikolai Berdyaev

Our discernment of Christian doctrines must include a basic knowledge of the history of the church. — Anonymous

Throughout history people have gazed at the skies in wonder. You only have to stand at the base of a church steeple to understand why. — Fennel Hudson

How a member of the church - one who had read the Good Lord's bible - could sit so calmly and watch a man be led to his destruction frightened me. — Jay Grewal

I have met so many young people who do not see the church as relevant and do not consider the Bible a real book of history that can be trusted. — Ken Ham

It's obvious throughout secular and church history that significant legislation follows only after dramatic action. — Carter Heyward

The history of the Church is the rise and progress of the kingdom of heaven upon earth, for the glory of God and the salvation of the world. — Philip Schaff

Then my extended family, there are preachers and evangelists, former priests. So I have quite a bit of history with Church, religion and spirituality. — Wes Bentley

The saints have always been the source and origin of renewal in the most difficult moments in the Church's history. — Pope John Paul II

Look, don't judge Christianity by the imperfect examples that we have seen in history. Judge it by Jesus Christ. — Chuck Smith

There once was a time when all people believed in God and the church ruled. This time was called the Dark Ages. — Richard Lederer

Overall, knowledge of Scripture, doctrine, and church history is poor among most Christians, not just young adult believers. — David Kinnaman

The man who mobilizes the Christian church to pray will make the greatest contribution to world evangelization in history. — Andy Murray

The prayer of the church determines the history and the fate of its people as well as the whole earth — Sunday Adelaja

Hundreds of young barefoot, long-haired, newly converted believers flocked to the church, and they brought their guitars with them. — Robert J. Morgan

The history of the Church of Rome is a constant leakage of members into such breakaway cults, which go on splitting. — Mary Douglas

Yes. But terrible heresies have proven to be grim truths many times before in the longer history of my Church, Sek Hardeen. — Dan Simmons