Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pope Benedict XVI

It's a great responsibility before God, the judge who guides us, who draws us to truth and good, and in this sense the church must unmask evil, rendering present the goodness of God, rendering present his truth, the truly infinite for which we are thirsty.

Adrian Rogers

Have you ever wondered what a church full of Pharisees would be like? 1. They would all attend every service 2. They would all tithe 3. They would all work in the church 4. They would all go to hell

Adrian Rogers

The Church is not a showboat; it's a battleship.

Abraham Kuyper

The seminaries must be like the churches' poor relations, prolonging their existence with austerity.

Ron Carter

We never dreamed they would need our church for an emergency so far away, but we are glad we can help. If you look at the images on TV, I think everybody is moved to compassion.

We know these people have suffered deeply. The church is doing a great deal to help.

Marvin Sapp

My church has a health and fitness ministry to encourage our members to take care of spiritually and physically; how could I not?

Aaron Gray

We've got our church clothes ready for Sunday morning. You can write that down.

We've had church and civic groups, like the Lion's Club, that have found the festival helpful either as a fund raiser or for public service to the community. Several churches have given away free cold water at the festival as an outreach effort.

We will move forward as a church. I don't know how, when, why, where, or what's going to happen, but we will continue as a church in the community, because that is what Kyle would have wanted.

Julie Brown

We wanted to give (local Hispanics) a church home away from home. We thought we'd offer something so they can pray in their own language. I understand that pull to pray in your own language.

Cherie Blair

As a Catholic, I am proud of the social mission of the church and its concerns for the poor and dispossessed, but I still personally would support women priests.

Enrico Caruso

I had always sung, as far back as I can remember, for the pure love of it. My voice was contralto, and I sang in a church in Naples from fourteen till I was eighteen.

Jai Rodriguez

When Queer Eye hit, the church told my mom they were praying for me. She said, God loves him too. And I support him 100 percent.

Dallas Willard

The Great Commission is still the mission statement of the Church.

Dallas Willard

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

Curtis Martin

God doesn't want you to go to church. He wants you to want to go to church.

Dave Hickey

Martha Stewart contributes more to our civility than the Baptist Church.

David Jeremiah

Every believer is commanded to be plugged in to a local church.

David Baldacci

See, that why I ain’t go to church. Figger I got me a church wherever I be. Want’a talk to God, well I say, ‘howdy-howdy, God,’ and we jaw fer a bit.’ - Jimmy ‘Diamond’ Skinner

David Wilkerson

When you strip it of everything else, Pentecost stands for power and life. That's what came into the church when the Holy Spirit came down on the day of Pentecost.

David Wilkerson

The church used to confess its sin, now it confesses its right.

David O. McKay

Next to being one in worshipping God there is nothing in this world upon which the Church should be more united that in upholding and defending the Constitution of the United States

The government should not become the church and the church should not become the state, ... We've seen the consequences of that. Just look at the Taliban.

David Bergen

We at this church will not perform the civil unions of same-sex couples because it would be un-Biblical to do so.

Marvin Sapp

We as preachers/teachers/pastors have to figure out things to do in order to garner the attention of individuals and also keep them at our churches by making sure that we reinvent ourselves on a consistent basis.

Billy Graham

You need to be in fellowship of a church...If you separate a live coal from the others, it will soon die out. However, if you put a live coal in with other live coals, it will be a glow that will last for hours.

Ignatius of Antioch

I am writing to all the churches to let it be known that I will gladly die for God if only you do not stand in my way... Let me be food for the wild beasts, for they are my way to God.

Frederica Mathewes-Green

My mother was an unbeliever - and still is. My father was a nominal Catholic. We would go in to church at the last minute before the gospel reading, take Communion, and walk right out again.

Meryl Streep

I follow no doctrine. I don't belong to a church or a temple or a synagogue or an ashram.

Robert H. Schuller

The concept of the megachurch - some have attributed that to me. Whatever people want to buy, they can get it in the shopping center. It's one-stop shopping. Churches should be that way.

Bailey Chase

I went to church as a kid, but it was as much a social thing as anything going to the youth group with the other kids and whatnot. It wasn't until I got out of college that I got on my own religious trip and started finding other things out there as well as philosophies. I've kinda been on my own spiritual path since then.

Henry B. Eyring

The Savior will help you do what He has called you to do, be it for a time as a worker in the Church or forever as a parent. You may pray for help enough to do the work and know that it will come.