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Quotes About Church

They meet in church basements and offer bandages to those wounded by the shrapnel of exploding families.
~ Margaret Atwood
The church has historically been very slow to embrace technology. Until very recently, their idea of a laptop was an altar boy.
~ Bill Maher
If the Church is in Christ, its initial act is always the act of thanksgiving, of returning the world to God.
~ Alexander Schmemann
Joy and thanksgiving expressed in prayer and praise according to the Word of God are the heart of the Church's worship.
~ John Calvin
A time will come when instead of shepherds feeding the sheep, the church will have clowns entertaining the goats
~ Charles Spurgeon
The president of the branch in Atlanta was a pastor of a church, the Reverend Sam Williams, a wonderful guy. He was middle-class and fairly militant for the time and place.
~ Julian Bond
I'm getting married in the morning! / Ding dong! the bells are gonna chime. / Pull out the stopper! Let's have a whopper! / But get me to the church on time!.
~ Alan Jay Lerner
The medieval Church believed that the resurrection of Christ marked a new time for all of humanity.
~ Timothy Radcliffe
If the average church should suddenly take seriously the notion that every lay member man or woman is really a minister of Christ, we could have something like a revolution in a very short time.
~ D. Elton Trueblood
The utter folly of our time is lamentable, that men should think to assist God with human help and to protect the Church of Christ by worldly ambition.
~ Hilary of Poitiers
When the church finds its members falling into gross and scandalous sins, then it is time for the church to awake and cry to God for a Revival of Religion.
~ Charles Grandison Finney
I think if the church put in half the time on covetousness that it does on lust, this would be a better world for all of us.
~ Garrison Keillor
The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
~ Alan Hirsch
It's time for a new Reformation in the Church--to call the Church back to the authority of the Word of God, beginning in Genesis.
~ Ken Ham
There is a pile of dead bodies behind the Mars Hill bus, and by God's grace, it'll be a mountain by the time we're done.
~ Mark Driscoll
The quality of the Lord's church on earth, cannot be seen by any man, so long as he lives in the world, still less how the church in process of time has turned aside from good to evil
~ Emanuel Swedenborg
The Lord said that He was giving us a new president who is better than we deserve. He represents a reprieve from a New World Order that the Church is not prepared to face at this time.
~ Paul Cain
The Church gives more time, thought, and money to recreation and sport than to prayer.
~ Samuel Chadwick
When the problems in Northern Ireland started, it was not a question of Protestantism or Catholicism, because the Catholic church was the only church at that time-it was a nationalist conflict.
~ Harri Holkeri
The truth that makes us free is always ticking away like a time-bomb in the basement of everybody's church.
~ Robert Farrar Capon
Our public schools began as ministries of the church; now it is time to return them to the Lord.
~ Jay Sekulow
We don't know how to say goodbye, We wander on, shoulder to shoulder Already the sun is going down You're moody, and I am your shadow. Let's step inside a church, hear prayers, masses for the dead Why are we so different from the rest? Outside in the graveyard we sit on a frozen branch. That stick in your hand is tracing Mansions in the snow in which we will always be together.
~ Anna Akhmatova
I haven't lost my faith, but I've lost my religion. I still believe in something so deeply. ... I've never really gotten past that quote from Anne Frank in her diary, where she says that people are really good at heart. But I feel like the Catholic Church — no — the Catholic hierarchy has been disinviting people like me, and especially women like me, for so many years that I finally took the hint.
~ Anna Quindlen
Teenagers who do not go to church are adored by God, but they don't get to meet some of the people who love God back.
~ Anne Lamott