Quotes About Church

The "wall of separation between church and State" is a metaphor based on bad history.

The saints have always been the source and origin of renewal in the most difficult moments in the Church's history.

Art is History's nostalgia, it prefers a thatched roof to a concrete factory, and the huge church above a bleached village.

Not only is the destiny of the individual bound up with the entire Church; it is responsible for helping to sanctify the entire world of nature and history.

The history of the Church is the rise and progress of the kingdom of heaven upon earth, for the glory of God and the salvation of the world.

It will be one of the tragedies of Christian history if future historians record that at the height of the twentieth century the church was one of the greatest bulwarks of white supremacy.

Pope Paul III was the greatest thief in the history of the church.

I'm interested in the history of ideas and how these ideas take on flesh and influence culture, and the church.

It must not content us to take our bodies to church if we leave our hearts at home.

The Church, wherever it is, is not only Christ's witness to its own people and nation, but also the home-base for a mission to the ends of the earth.

The greatest burden in the world is superstition, not only of ceremonies in the church, but of imaginary and scarecrow sins at home.

Another thing I liked about my Dad at church: he did his sleeping at home. He never used the church as an adult nursery.

It's amazing to me the number of people who will volunteer to help at church but won't lift a finger to help at home!

I feel very at home in an empty church. I feel the most protected. It's very mystical.

Church can't be a place where we feel like a visitor, or somewhere we're afraid to allow others to see our messes. It's got to feel like home.

As I say, it never ceases to amaze me how gullible some of our Church members are.

Someone has said that the marks of a strong church are wet eyes, bent knees, and a broken heart. We'll never be powerful until we let God be God and jealously guard His honor.

The highest honor in the church is not government but service.

Let the Church always be a place of mercy and hope, where everyone is welcomed, loved and forgiven.

The local church is the hope of the world, and its future rests primarily in the hands of its leaders.

God is not calling us to go to church; he is calling us to be his church, the hope of the world.

Old-fashioned, Spirit-filled, Christ-honoring, sin-hating, soul-winning, Bible-preaching. It is the hope of the church. It is the hope of the nation. It is the hope of the world.

Jesus is the hope of the world and the local church is the vehicle of expressing that hope to the world.

Today five out of six non-Christians in our world have no hope unless missionaries come to them and plant the church among them.