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Quotes About Church

Without God's Spirit, there is nothing we can do that will count for God's kingdom. Without God's Spirit, the church simply can't be the church.
~ N. T. Wright
Sign at a New England church: Will the last person to leave please see that the perpetual light is extinguished?
~ Dave Barry
The tribunal of God and of the pope is one and the same.
~ Ignaz von Dollinger
Bad theology dishonors God and hurts people. Churches that sever the root of truth may flourish for a season, but they will wither eventually or turn into something besides a Christian church.
~ John Piper
This doctrine (justification) is the head and the cornerstone. It alone begets, nourishes, builds, preserves, and defends the church of God and without it the church of God cannot exist for one hour.
~ Martin Luther
I've always said the theatre is my church. It's where I feel God the most. It's where I know there's a God.
~ Ruthie Henshall
The first thing I do when I start my day is, I get down on my hands and knees and give thanks to God. Whenever I go outside of my house, the first thing I do is stop at the church.
~ Mark Wahlberg
After my study of today's church, my conclusion is that the church is politely bored with God.
~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
The meetings least attended in our churches today are the ones whose only attraction is God.
~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
A local church will only be as great as its conception of God.
~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
It is scarcely possible in most places to get anyone to attend a meeting where the only attraction is God
~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
I contend that whatever does not raise the moral standard of the church or community has been a revival from God.
~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
Who builds a church to God and not to fame, Will never mark the marble with his name.
~ Alexander Pope
Something I've noticed. Church planters don't pray for revival. They pray for opportunity, favor with the unchurched and leaders.
~ Andy Stanley
Once an old woman at my church said the secret is that God loves us exactly the way we are and that he loves us too much to let us stay like this, and I'm just trying to trust that.
~ Anne Lamott
The church is the only institution supernaturally endowed by God. It is the one institution of which Jesus promised that the gates of hell will not prevail against it.
~ Charles Colson
I believe a very large majority of church goers are merely unthinking, slumbering worshipers of an unknown God.
~ Charles Spurgeon
I began to expand my personal service in the church, and to search more diligently for a closer relationship with God among my different business, professional and political interests.
~ Jimmy Carter
The hippopotamus's day Is passed in sleep; at night he hunts; God works in a mysterious way- The Church can sleep and feed at once.
~ T. S. Eliot
The all-important and crowning blessings of membership in the Church are those blessings which we receive in the temples of God
~ Thomas S. Monson
It felt good, the whole family together on a sunny morning in a wholesome environment. If it hadn't been for the warshiping God part, he would have happily attended church on a regular basis.
~ Tom Perrotta
I don't go to church so much, but I do believe in God and I understand the consequences of faith.
~ Usain Bolt
Whenever an important event, a revolution, or a calamity turns to the profit of the church, such is always signalised as the Finger of God.
~ Voltaire
Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.
~ William Cowper