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The Church exists to connect people at the level of their hunger for a new world. — Rowan Williams

In other days people chose a church on the basis of their doctrinal convictions. Now, lacking doctrinal convictions, they choose for social reasons. — Vance Havner

I'm one of those people that, if I'm in the country, I will have a look inside an old church. — Alison Goldfrapp

Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God. — Lenny Bruce

I'm not denouncing the church, and I'm not interested in people who want me to denounce the church. It's not a church worthy of denouncing. — Barack Obama

The message of the gospel speaks loudest when people can see Christ in us. — Jerry Kinard

Sundays are for Dim Sum. While the rest of America goes to church, Sunday School, or NFL games, you can find Chinese people eating Cantonese food. — Eddie Huang

There is a God-designed way for us to live our lives here, and do church here, for the sake of people around the world who don't know Christ. — David Platt

God wants every local church to be the first place people think to go when they've really messed up ... not the last. — Tullian Tchividjian

The church's task is to open people's eyes so that they can see that there is nothing higher than God — Sunday Adelaja

The Church does not exist to condemn people but to bring about an encounter with the visceral love of God's mercy. — Pope Francis

As my friend said that when people say the church is full of hypocrites, he says we always have room for more. — Shane Claiborne

Nigerian nun Bernadette Duru says the African church hierarchy is indifferent to people in rural areas. — Sylvia Poggioli

I take square aim at an unbiblical churchianity that has resulted in a church-centric religion that fails to reflect the heart of God for people. — Reggie McNeal

Under pressure, people admit to murder, setting fire to the village church or robbing a bank, but never to being bores. — Elsa Maxwell

Our Christian identity is belonging to a people: the Church. Without the Church we are not Christians. — Pope Francis

That was one of the saddest things about people
their most important thoughts and feelings often went unspoken and barely understood. — Alexandra Adornetto

Without the gospel, a gathering of people, though they claim otherwise, cannot be an authentic church. — R.C. Sproul

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

To reject Christ because the church has sin of this sort in it is like rejecting hospitals because they are full of sick people. — Douglas Wilson

Many churches approach ministry to people through the lens of an educational system instead of through the analogy of the family. — Ross Parsley

The Church recruited people who had been starched and ironed before they were washed. — John Wesley

Politics and church are the same. They keep the people in ignorance. — Bob Marley

That level of expectation that I'm going to be conservative is really disappointing, but it is how many people think about clergy and the church — Alan Green

We have taken a giant step forward in correcting some of the misconceptions people have about the church. I think that we've made a lot of friends. — M. Russell Ballard

Like the residents of Brigadoon, the people in the church drifted in a long and dreamless sleep, freed of struggle and expectation. — Donald E. Westlake

The Lord has placed next to me many people, who, with generosity and love for God and the church, have helped me and been close to me. — Pope Benedict XVI

I do not think the devil cares how many churches you build, if only you have lukewarm preachers and people in them. — Charles Spurgeon

I will be so glad for you to hear not the sounds of gunfire but the sounds of church bells, and of people working in peace. — Elizabeth Berg

Was the church then so far from the Master that the people no longer found Him in the church? Was — Charles M. Sheldon

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

The secret of real prosperity in the church is to teach God's people principles of economic empowerment — Sunday Adelaja

The great achievement of the Catholic Church lay in harmonizing, civilizing the deepest impulses of ordinary, ignorant people. — Kenneth Clark

80% of the people who come into a Christ-following relationship is because a friend, co-worker, family member or neighbor invited them to church. — Johnny Hunt

The church should train the Ritz Carlton on how to serve people. — Jeff Henderson

Congregation is composed of people, who, upon entering a church, leave behind what people on the street name or call them. — Eugene H. Peterson

The goal of the church is to bring the kingdom answers to the people — Sunday Adelaja

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

People forget that many of the aspects of the Selma campaign were laid out in response to the church bombing in Birmingham. — Andrew Aydin

I'd argue that people today aren't rejecting Christ so much as they're rejecting the church. — Craig Groeschel

Dear young people, the Church expects great things of you and your generosity. Don't be afraid to aim high. — Pope Francis

Due to our consumer mindset, people are prone to jump from church to church, which weakens the church overall. — Francis Chan

To refer to the Church as a building is to call people 2 x 4's. — Shane Claiborne

People don't mind having the mystical aspect of a church being poorly defined as long as you make the rules of the church clear. — John Scalzi

Only the church can show people how to restore their lives according to the word of God — Sunday Adelaja

The reason most people don't go to church is because they've already been. — Mark Twain

Why does it seem that the church is more interested in people involvement rather than people engagement. — Todd Stocker

God needs people like this in the church, who will perform feats amidst their own generation — Sunday Adelaja

The great Head of the Church is actively engaged in providing for His people. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

The main purpose of a church is to bring relevance to people and make sure everyone discovers their calling — Sunday Adelaja

The church is not going to survive if they are going to tell people that they have to twist their minds into 1st century pretzels. — John Shelby Spong

Church must lead all other spheres of influence.We find people from all the mountains there.The church leaders must be able to mentor them — Paul Gitwaza

Most people that I know who go to church actually go there to twist the arms of God so that he can get all the discomfort away from them. — Sunday Adelaja

Church work ought to be at its core the work of loving people
like God loves them — Bill Hybels

Some people have a fear of rejecting all the security that comes with family, church and state. They become fundamentalists. — Harold Ramis

The purpose of my life had always been to free people from concern. I dubbed it, 'The church of freedom from concern,' or 'FFC. — Jim Carrey

The church was designed to proclaim God's love and forgiveness to all people and declare that Jesus Christ came to eradicate sin in people's hearts. — Billy Graham

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

On day one, the Church wasn't for church people because there weren't any church people. — Andy Stanley

Kind of the bottom line for me, I don't think people come to the church where I preach to hear my view on politics. — Max Lucado

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

Whenever a group of people who are designed to primarily unite around one thing try to unite around something else, the result is devastating for all. — Rob Tims

The more members of the clergy that are out there working to expand their congregations, the more people will go to church. — Rodney Stark

A lot of people are using the Church, but not a lot of people are loving the Church. — Mark Driscoll

Spiritual maturity is not measured by the years that you have spent in church, rather by your attitude before people different from you. — Paul Gitwaza

Your current situation and workplace are your personal mission field. Why? Because you can reach people a church can't. You're on the front lines! — Jarrid Wilson

Certainly the institutional church is ill. It's hemorrhaging young people at an astronomical rate. — Shane Claiborne

The thing that brings people to wail at a wall, or face Mecca, or to go to church, is a search for that feeling of purity. — Michael J. Fox

It's not about the church meeting your needs; it's about joining the mission of God's people to meet the world's needs. — Brian D. McLaren

People are funny. They want the front of the bus, the middle of the road and the back of the church. - Mrs. Miracle — Debbie Macomber

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

The problem is not that the churches are filled with empty pews, but that the pews are filled with empty people. — Charlie W Shedd

I tell people, you know, going to the club doesn't make me a bad person, going to church doesn't make you a good one. — Miley Cyrus

We also try to reach out to people who are far away, via digital means, the web and brief messaging. — Pope Francis

Christ's church is a place to grow people up in the Lord, not to enhance our leisure time. — Billy Graham

My dad had a church of 90 people when I was born. It was just, over the years it continued to grow. — Joel Osteen

Our task is not multiplying the number of our church members but making people happy — Sunday Adelaja

People didn't realize how important it was to hug the single people in church - particularly the widows. — Kris Knorr

Some people think they are too good to walk the same earth as the rest of us, let alone attend the same church. — Hetty King

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

God has clearly called and gifted some people in the church to teach his Word formally. — David Platt

It has been religious people, often within the organized church, who have been the most critical of and even hostile to my relationship with God. — Anne Graham Lotz

The Responsibility Of The Local Church Is To Help People Discover What They Are Created For — Sunday Adelaja

Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition. — Samuel Pepys

The Church, wherever it is, is not only Christ's witness to its own people and nation, but also the home-base for a mission to the ends of the earth. — Lesslie Newbigin

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

The church is God saying: 'I'm throwing a banquet, and all these mismatched, messed-up people are invited. Here, have some wine. — Rachel Held Evans

In a team setting, leadership is shared by a community of people, which counters the tendency for pastors to form congregations in their own images. — Adam S. McHugh

Wherever the bishop appears, there let the people be, even as wheresoever Christ Jesus is, there is the catholic church. — Ignatius Of Antioch

People sometimes ask me if it is a sin in the Church of Emacs to use vi. Using a free version of vi is not a sin; it is a penance. So happy hacking. — Richard Stallman

Reveal to the people and make them experience God first before you make them church members — Sunday Adelaja

Where better than the church for people like me, George Jones and Johnny Cash to go to get ourselves in shape enough to sing a gospel song? — Marty Stuart

The Church can't be a religious theater where paid men perform for the religious amusement of the people who pay them. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

Somewhere along the line, "Church" became a weekly event rather than a gathering of people who did life together. — Todd Stocker

The Church is not a museum to display perfect people, but a hospital for the hurting. — John Osteen

We need to be skilled into knowing God and His Word, then act as excellent translators of these things to the people in our churches. — Vicky Beeching

We have to assess: Are we making disciples along the way as we draw people to our churches? — Ed Stetzer

Depressions may bring people closer to the church but so do funerals. — Clarence Darrow

The Catholic Church made a serious mistake when they started caring about how many people are in the pews. — Michel Templet

All people and each individual man is called to come into the Church. — Pope Pius XII