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Marriage is the mother of the world. It preserves kingdoms, and fills cities and churches, and heaven itself. — Jeremy Taylor

We should think of the church as an orchestra in which the different churches play on different instruments while a Divine Conductor calls the tune. — William Ralph Inge

Partner with churches to assist the poor. — Jim DeMint

For me, it's church and state, not church in state, and I really feel there are some churches in central Ohio crossing that line. — Eric Williams

Churches we build only by our own efforts and not in the strength of the Spirit will quickly collapse when we don't push and prod people along. — Francis Chan

We shall never see much change for the better in our churches in general till the prayer meeting occupies a higher place in the esteem of Christians. — Charles Spurgeon

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

I've always wondered how much can you do for your fellow man if your hands are constantly stuck together in Prayers for them? — Stanley Victor Paskavich

Churches are like announcement factories that pump toxic levels of noise pollution into the atmosphere. — Scott McClellan

Historically speaking, institutions are slow to change and usually resistant to any sudden moves - churches especially so. — Gene Robinson

...people don't think in churches.

[Noyce on what bothers him most about organized religion.] — Robert Noyce

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

Going to church is a beautiful act of humility. You are saying to the world, "I need God and His family. — Carlos A. Rodriguez

Today our churches are filled, but how many are actually practicing Christianity in daily life? — Billy Graham

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

Churches all over the country have decided they love their traditions more than their children. — Erwin McManus

It's no secret that in New York during the last 30 years there has been a tragic exodus from the churches into materialism, secularism and humanism. — Billy Graham

Churches don't need new members half so much as they need the old bunch made over. — Billy Sunday

It looked, she thought, as if the hand of God had come down over England and struck the earth, destroying everything men had made except churches. — Ken Follett

The great, God-blessed churches in the world today have one common characteristic: an insistence upon an exposition of God's infallible Word. — O. S. Hawkins

God builds his temple in the heart on the ruins of churches and religions. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Compassion in evangelical churches is out of balance. When I talk about it, I get a lot of glazed expressions. — Max Lucado

In healthy churches, the pastors life, not just his words, sets the tone for the church. — James MacDonald

Churches have given us great treasures such as music and architecture. Whether that pays for the harm they have done is another matter. — Daniel Dennett

Yes, I know it's easy to make fun of the organised churches, but has it occurred to anyone to wonder why it's so easy? — John Cleese

In no instance have ... the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people. James Madison, U.S. President — George Washington

Churches start looking for bodies to fill slots rather than spiritually alive saints to assume responsibility. — Neil T. Anderson

Churches thrive on martyrdom and persecution. — Robert A. Heinlein

I go to churches to pray, but I don't go to mass. — Andrea Corr

Every American has the right to feel safe in their schools, in their churches, in their movie theaters, and in their nightclubs. — Jackie Speier

Unless we learn how to humbly tell each other our giving stories, our churches will not learn to give. — Randy Alcorn

If real churches exist, such persons are not called on to make them. — John Nelson Darby

I attend the greatest of all Churches. I put a capital N on Nature, and call it my Church. — Frank Lloyd Wright

Let Catholics build their own churches and works. — Vladimir Zhirinovsky

The devil's not fighting churches today, he's joining churches. — Vance Havner

The fiercest storm is taking place in some of our churches - the unbelief and disobedience of God's Word. — Billy Graham

Sodomy is in the Bible, to be read in churches. I wouldn't rule it out of Mr. Bruce's act if he cares to comment on it. — Dorothy Kilgallen

The days are nouns: touch them
The hands are churches that worship the world — Naomi Shihab Nye

Let the world know what you live for ... not what you fall for! — John Paul Warren

Many new churches, I regret to say, can be described from the design point of view only as holy terrors. — Robin Boyd

Americans practice different faiths in churches, synagogues, mosques and temples. And many good people practice no faith at all. — George W. Bush

Italy was about churches, Greece it's ruins; but Israel was about surviving and about feeling glad. — Martha Gellhorn

There should be no mosque near Ground Zero in New York so long as there are no churches or synagogues in Saudi Arabia, — Newt Gingrich

Moore, Russell D. Adopted for Life: The Priority of Adoption for Christian Families & Churches. — Rosaria Champagne Butterfield

The problem with most American churches is that they teach too much and don't do enough. — Rick Warren

Churches were shut down and Stanislaw's father and three uncles had been sent to prison camps for speaking out. — Fannie Flagg

In 1054, the patriarch of Constantinople and the pope excommunicated each other.
That was the end of holiness for both churches. — Frank Herbert

Man is to become divine by realizing the divine. Idols or temples, or churches or books, are only the supports, the help of his spiritual childhood. — Swami Vivekananda

It takes more than a great church to reach a city, it takes a great movement of churches. — Timothy Keller

churches are evil, aren't they? What with the crosses and the rituals and the singing. — C.L.Stone

Only 13.7% of churches in America are consider multiethnic. This means that 86.3 % of churches are homogenous. — Derwin L. Gray

Death is easily fooled. If the churches don't work, a filter will do. — John Updike

Neighborhood grocery stores, coal yards, gas stations, cheap taverns, big old rundown houses, a few churches with blank embarrassed faces. — Ross Macdonald

The biggest challenge of Gods people is ignorance. Ignorance has become a mountain and a stronghold even in Christian churches — Sunday Adelaja

Nothing is more poisonous than the spirit of entitlement that permeates our culture and sometimes, sadly, our churches. — Randy Alcorn

If Satan wasn't around, churches would go out of business. — Marilyn Manson

Before everything else, fidelity to the Church: One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic. Jesus did not found several churches, but one single Church. — Pope John XXIII

Tourists as well as natives want to see cultural achievements - whether it's the Banaue Terraces, the old churches or museums. — F. Sionil Jose

Airports see more sincere kisses than wedding halls. The walls of hospitals have heard more prayers than the walls of churches. — Anonymous

Churches that depart from the Word will soon find that God has departed from them. — Robert Godfrey

We have the means of evangelizing our country, but they are slumbering in the pews of our churches. — John Stott

The churches must learn humility as well as teach it. — George Bernard Shaw

"Jesus said to 5 of 7 churches, "Repent or Else." That should be the focus of every pastor, denomination. We are headed for the OR ELSE." — Michael Catt

My husband is almost as heavy as I am. We were married in adjoining churches. — Roseanne Barr

You can look at anything as a cult. Churches are cults in their own way. — Philip Seymour Hoffman

Churches often confuse loyalty with competence. — Phil Cooke

Of course, if you ask, nobody was there when they torched the churches. — Javier Cercas

Why create churches for 50-year-olds and let culture have the students? — Andy Stanley

Forget the state concerns
we think this is bad for churches. Most churches are small and not ready to handle 500 pages of government red tape. — Michael Tanner

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

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

Glasgow is still full of churches built in the last century. Half of them have been turned into warehouses. — Alasdair Gray

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

When one loses the deep intimate relationship with nature, then temples, mosques and churches become important. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

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

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

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

If I ever found a church that didn't believe in knocking all the other churches, I might consider joining it. — W.C. Fields

The doctrines that have been preached in our churches in Africa and globally has not been helpful for believers to dominate the earth. — Sunday Adelaja

Yet through history gays have always dominated religious life and churches. — Malcolm Boyd

Apostles who do not save souls and establish churches are like farmers who do not produce a harvest. — David Cannistraci

By comparison with a night-club, churches are positively gay. — Aldous Huxley

My woods...the young fir balsams like a place
Where houses all are churches and have spires. — Robert Frost

I love God and I follow Jesus but I just don't have much affinity for the organized folderol of the churches in the Western World. — Larry Norman

Brethren let's face it. What we practice in Nigerian Churches and in most parts of the world today is more of religion than Christian faith. — Sunday Adelaja

Rock concerts are the churches of today. — Craig Chaquico

We do not want churches. They will teach us to quarrel about God. — Chief Joseph

Don't aim to plant churches. Aim to plant a church that will plant many other churches. — George Patterson

Churches can become places of cynicism, resistance, and pessimism. — John Ortberg

A close look at many churches will reveal that a central problem is the lack of biblical maturity among the men ... — Albert Mohler

Flesh sells. People don't want to see pictures of churches. They want to see naked bodies. — Helen Mirren

There is a big gap between what we read in Scripture about the Holy Spirit and how most believers and churches operate today. — Francis Chan

A lot of churches have not moved with the times. — Joel Osteen

We are not saved by nations or by churches or by families, but as individuals, through a personal interest in a personal Saviour. — John Angell James

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

But the churchmen fain would kill their church, As the churches have kill'd their Christ. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

The Lord did not tell us to build beautiful churches, but to evangelize the world — Oswald J. Smith

All churches and all religions contain aspects of the truth, but only God is truth. — Pat Buckley

Some Churches are heated and cooled 365 days a year. As homeless soldiers lay in alleys and bushes quite near. — Stanley Victor Paskavich

Some of us worship in churches, some in synagogues, some on golf courses. — Adlai Stevenson I