Famous Quotes & Sayings

This church has been through this again, ... And we will rise again.

They were determined this church be handsome. That was the word in those days. Well-made, elegant and appropriate.

Hal Sparks

They say things like 'you know what I like about living in a small town? Everybody goes to church together and to the general store. Everybody knows everybody.' That's total horse shit.

Robert Jeffress

It's true, the Church will be raptured before the final seven years of Earth's history, but during that final seven years, many people will come to faith in Christ, but they will pay a terrible price to do so.

Michael Taylor

For me Christianity is about the Kingdom, not about the Church: it has to do with human growth and development not church growth and development

John Donne

For as every man is a world in himself, so every man is a church in himself

It's the oldest church in the city. It's pretty overwhelming.

Rob Brown

They are five times taller than our church steeples.

Rufus Choate

There was a state without king or nobles; there was a church without a bishop; there was a people governed by grave magistrates which it had selected, and by equal laws which it had framed

Mike Ferguson

There were so many needs that needed to be met in an expedited fashion, ... The Red Cross was running a very good operation at the center, and the volunteers at the church were running a very organized operation there. But people were just running from one task to the next, trying to meet the need that was most critical at that moment.

Chuck D.

There really is no separation in my mind. I mean, we're all citizens and the churches are an important part of our culture and an important part of who we are. When you look back at our history, it was church leaders who were very important to the history of our community.

There is not one nickel of church or town money involved. The residents will pay for the whole thing.

It's a fun church done just outside the box.

It's a process we have to start looking at. I want to make sure we don't get behind. We've already had a local church inquire about the Rocky Grove building.

They're a solid church; my family goes there, ... They're probably the most stable independent church in the area. I know them, and I trust them, and they're capable.

They realize that church members are just like us, but they have something we don't.

Dottie Peoples

It was church, totally church. Even with all of the reporters they flew in, it turned from a recording session to a church service. The spirit was there. The anointing was there. The clapping was there. The shouting was there.

Victoria Jackson

It was so fun because church lady was, from the get-go, a huge hit.

It was a really enjoyable evening. It was especially nice to see lots of old places and renew old acquaintances with the many people who have been involved with the church over the years.

It's a very special occasion for Rocky Mount to have a guy like this here. If you can only go to church one day in the year, this would be the Sunday we want you to be here.

Susan Glaspell

Declining to go to church with my parents in the morning, I would ostentatiously set out for the Monist Society in the afternoon, down an obscure street which it seemed a little improper to be walking on, as everything was closed for Sunday, upstairs through a sort of side entrance over a saloon.

Troy Polamalu

What's really neat about the Orthodox church is that it's like walking back in time 2,000 years to the time of the Apostles, when they created these services. You walk into that and it's really like... living it. They have maintained the truth ever since the beginning.

Tony Campolo

Insofar as the church fails to do the will of God, I am called upon to help it discover and to do the will of God; and I am called upon to help the government to do the same.

Tony Campolo

I read the Bible, I speak through issues, I see what I think is hypocrisy in the church and things that are wrong, and I speak to these things. But I could be wrong.

Charles Spurgeon

The moment the church of God shall despise the pulpit, God will despise her.

Charles Spurgeon

Persecution is the heirloom of the church, and the ensign of the elect.

Where Peter is, there must be the Church

Charles Baudelaire

Unable to suppress love, the Church wanted at least to disinfect it, and it created marriage.

Charles Hodge

The Church is everywhere represented as one. It is one body, one family, one fold, one kingdom. It is one because pervaded by one Spirit. We are all baptized into one Spirit so as to become, says the apostle, on body.

Charles Hodge

All the reasons which require the subjection of a believer to the brethren of a particular church require his subjection to all his brethren in the Lord.

Bill Maher

If you want to get rich with a tax free enterprise that sells nothing, start a church.

Whether or not these marriages are good is an issue. It is too simplistic to take something this church has wrestled with for 30 years and say it doesn't matter.

When we went through it, we had nowhere to turn, no one to talk to who had a similar experience. Small, rural churches usually have no money and little or no insurance to rebuild. So we helped form an organization that gives guidance to pastors whose churches have burned.