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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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