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

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

It's a very common belief [among Mormons] that the Constitution will hang by a thread and the Church will save it. — Jan Shipps

The church is in turmoil today. The church is not to reflect the world but to be a portrait of Jesus Christ. — Billy Graham

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

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

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

The union of Church and State is not to make the Church political, but the State religious. — John Scott, 1st Earl Of Eldon

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

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

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

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

Our whole message is it's easy to just keep preaching to the church and people that already come. — Joel Osteen

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

It is better to have a Church that is wounded but out in the streets than a Church that is sick because it is closed in on itself. — Pope Francis

I know a person with a Ph.D. who goes to a church based on Star Wars: May the force be with you. — Anne Lamott

The Church is a mother, not an entrepreneur. — Pope Francis

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

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

Brethren, the crying sin of the church is her laziness after God. — Samuel Chadwick

In the church of my heart the choir is on fire — Vladimir Mayakovsky

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

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

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

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

To be a leader in the Church has always required strength and faith beyond the merely human. — J. Oswald Sanders

The spiritual leader should outpace the rest of the church, above all, in prayer. — J. Oswald Sanders

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

I have found truly jubilant Christians only in the Bible, in the Underground Church and in prison. — Richard Wurmbrand

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

By the time we get to church, I need church cuz I've been yelled at by everyone in the family. — Jeff Foxworthy

When I was young, I went to a church where the lighter-skinned you were, the closer you sat to the altar. — Lee Daniels

The Church of God could not live twenty four hours without Rhodes rolls at Thanksgiving. — Wilford Woodruff

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

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

How is it that the Church produced no geometer in her autocratic reign of twelve hundred years? — John William Draper

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

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

Don't give your money to the church. They should be giving their money to you. — George Carlin

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

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

The Church exists by mission as fire exists by burning. — Emil Brunner

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

I'm not somebody who goes to church on a regular basis. The specific elements of Christianity are not something I'm a huge believer in. — Bill Gates

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

Really I feel less keen about the Army every day. I think the Church would suit me better. — Winston Churchill

The Church is the Heart, not the amount of Sunday services you attend because many people goes to church but still partake in Devilish acts. — Henry Johnson Jr

Where I can preach I do preach and where I can't I still preach with love but just not the normal words we usually use in church. — Nick Vujicic

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

Country fans are the best fans out there because of the loyalty, and the way that they apply your music to every aspect of their life. — Eric Church

Religious Cult: The church down the street from yours. — Johnny Hart

The Church is called to draw near to every person, beginning with the poorest and those who suffer. — Pope Francis

When I get to Heaven they aren't going to see much of me but my heels, for I'll be hanging over the golden wall keeping an eye on the Lisu Church! — Isobel Miller Kuhn

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

Every story of change there is always someone who didn't have the resources or the network they needed and did something anyway. — 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 end product of the successful preacher's input is transformation. — Christian Michael

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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