The Church is a terrible engine of oppression, especially as concerns woman Votes: 3
Elizabeth Cady StantonThe Church is not called to overthrow government but to influence culture. Votes: 3
John Paul WarrenThe Church doesn't censor. It tries to guide its faithful through catechism. Votes: 3
Claudio HummesMy family for several generations have been members of the Unitarian Church. Votes: 3
Leverett SaltonstallThe Church is looking for better methods; God is looking for better men. Votes: 3
Edward McKendree BoundsDon't jump down - folks, contraception in the Catholic Church is a thing. Votes: 3
Ruqaiyyah Waris MaqsoodThe universal Church of the faithful is one outside of which none is saved. Votes: 3
Pope Innocent IIIGreater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife. Votes: 3
Lyndon B. JohnsonThe Church used to absolve sinners; today it has the gall to absolve sins. Votes: 3
Nicolas Gomez DavilaIt wasn't until my second year that I got to actually work with Church. Votes: 3
Stephen Cole KleeneBeing accepted by the world is the worst thing that can happen to the Church. Votes: 3
Michael L. BrownThe Church is simply the path of history, and not the actual kingdom of God. Votes: 3
Nikolai BerdyaevThe Church will pray to God for the dead. The survivor has honour and glory. Votes: 3
Alexander SuvorovMan is the head of the family, just as Christ is the Head of the Church. Votes: 3
Lailah Gifty AkitaPrayer is a strong wall and fortress of the church; it is a goodly Christian weapon. Votes: 3
Martin LutherThe old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better. Votes: 3
Thomas CarlyleIt is better to go skiing and think of God, than go to church and think of sport. Votes: 3
Fridtjof NansenThe Church has always been willing to swap off treasures in heaven for cash down. Votes: 1
Robert Green IngersollI understood that the Church had a Heart, and that this Heart was burning with love. Votes: 1
Therese of LisieuxIf there were no ministers and no priests, how long would there be any churches? Lemuel K Votes: 1
Lemuel K. WashburnEvery church that has a standard higher than human welfare is dangerous. Votes: 0
Robert Green IngersollIt's not our church; it's God's - it's not our responsibility to run it! Votes: 0
Charles R. SwindollI put myself in the hands of Christ, who is the true leader of the church.
Pope Tawadros II of AlexandriaThe whole history of the Christian Church is a mixture of errors and violence.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe church teaches us that we can make God happy by being miserable ourselves.
Robert Green IngersollDo not allow the Church or State to govern your thought or dictate your judgment
Matilda Joslyn GageThe Catholic Church is like a thick steak, a glass of red wine, and a good cigar.
Gilbert K. ChestertonThe coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church
Gilbert K. ChestertonHuman life is God's outer church. Its needs and urgencies are priests and pastors.
Henry Ward BeecherBecoming a junior usher at a black church was my entry into the wonder of worship.
Isaiah WashingtonThe church alone beyond all question Has for ill-gotten goods the right digestion.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe church that is married to the spirit of this age, becomes a widow in the next.
William Ralph IngeNot for yourself, O church, do you exist, any more than Christ existed for himself.
Charles SpurgeonI would suggest the taxation of all property equally whether church or corporation.
Ulysses S. GrantThe wall of separation between church and state is a metaphor based on bad history.
William RehnquistMarriage is a living sign that truly communicates the love of Christ and the Church.
Christopher WestThe Church of the Apostles was a Church of the poor; of silver and gold it had none.
Henry Parry LiddonI'd rather have ten people that want God than 10,000 people who want to play church.
Leonard RavenhillWhere there is no passion, the church perishes, even though it be full to the doors.
Leonard RavenhillWe can find loopholes in a lot of things if we want to bend the rules of the church.
Vaughn J FeatherstoneWho builds a church to God and not to fame, Will never mark the marble with his name.
Alexander PopeWe cannot survive spiritually with one foot in the Church and the other in the world.
Bruce R. McConkieThe church is always more than a school. But the church cannot be less than a school.
Jaroslav PelikanCertainly, the church is not primarily a moral institution, but the bearer of a hope.
Johann Baptist MetzI do not speak for my church on public matters; and the church does not speak for me.
John F. KennedyI attended a Baptist church as a child and was an avid reader starting with the Bible.
John Henrik ClarkeThere's an awful lot of biblical ignorance, and the church perpetuates that ignorance.
John Shelby SpongNow the church is not wood and stone, but the company of people who believe in Christ.
Martin LutherThe Church gives more time, thought, and money to recreation and sport than to prayer.
Samuel ChadwickSeparation of church and state is the big club pulled out to beat back the Christians .
David BartonThe church expect too much from the pastors and there's barely anytime left for prayer.
David WilkersonGrace is God himself, his loving energy at work within his church and within our souls.
Evelyn UnderhillDon't aim to plant churches. Aim to plant a church that will plant many other churches.
George PattersonAll faithful members of the Lord's Church are equally blessed by priesthood ordinances.
Julie B. BeckThe Church became both more accessible and less imposing. It threw itself open to risk.
Lance MorrowWhy should we not enter into our inheritance in the church as well as the concert hall?
Ralph Vaughan WilliamsVoices that say the age of the church is over are voices who haven't listened to Jesus.
Robert GodfreyI do not condone hostility toward any church simply to vent personal malice or umbrage.
Roger WilliamsThe church is not a museum for pristine saints, but a hospital ward for broken sinners.
Timothy KellerTwo persons who love each other are in a place more holy than the interior of a church.
William Lyon PhelpsOn day one, the Church wasn't for church people because there weren't any church people.
Andy StanleyDoing good doesn't always make you feel good. I don't care what they tell you in church.
Ann RinaldiSome make Conscience of wearing a Hat in the Church, who make none of robbing the Altar.
Benjamin FranklinDevotion to the family and devotion to the Church are not different and separate things.
Boyd K. PackerHow do we help the church get their respect back? I have a plan: pedophile crucifixions.
Christopher TitusWhen the Church listens to the Holy Spirit, it becomes fruitful. New movements are born.
E. Stanley JonesThe twentieth century saw the emergence of a Churchless Mission and a Missionless Church
Eddie GibbsI believe without any doubt that you are the finest generation this Church has ever had.
Gordon B. HinckleyThe greatest sin today in the church is the man in the pew who is ignorant of the Bible.
J. Vernon McGeeWe just could not have the Church of Jesus Christ without the spirit of missionary work.
LeGrand RichardsI did not grow up in the church. I'm not a church-goer now. I'm a very spiritual person.
Malcolm D. LeeIn a weird way, [hockey] is like church and therapy and exercise all rolled up into one.
Michael VartanGod has lots of children in the church today; I'm honestly not sure He has many friends.
Mike PilavachiThe Church imposes nothing; she only proposes, she proposes like a lover to the beloved.
Pope John Paul IIThe less Holy Spirit we have, the more cake and coffee we need to keep the church going.
Reinhard BonnkeA dynamic praying church must be built from the inside out, employing all four levels of
Richard BurrI added up all the money the church paid me for the first 25 years and gave it all back.
Rick WarrenI am ready to die for my Lord, that in my blood the Church may obtain liberty and peace.
Thomas BecketThe election of John F Kennedy will lead to the death of a free church and a free state.
W. A. CriswellThe Christian church does not need more popular preaching, but more unpopular preaching.
Walter Russell BowieThe Church of God could not live twenty four hours without Rhodes rolls at Thanksgiving.
Wilford WoodruffBut the churchmen fain would kill their church, As the churches have kill'd their Christ.
Alfred Lord TennysonThe Bible, the whole Bible, and nothing but the Bible is the religion of Christ's church.
Charles SpurgeonSeparation of Church and State is the perineum of America and the episiotomy didn't hold.
Doug StanhopeIf you go to church, and like the singing better than the preaching, that's not orthodox.
E. W. HoweWhat is a church?ÂOur honest sexton tells, 'Tis a tall building, with a tower and bells.
George CrabbeThe life and fellowship of the church is to be a foretaste of life in the Kingdom of God.
George Eldon LaddIf you would rather pick a fight than solve a problem, do not consider leading the church
J. Oswald SandersProclaiming the gospel to all mankind is a fundamental part of the mission of the Church.
M. Russell BallardI follow no doctrine. I don't belong to a church or a temple or a synagogue or an ashram.
Meryl StreepThe church is a major bureaucracy, and major bureaucracies are disobedient to the gospel.
Philip BerriganThere is nothing the Church can do except try to educate people to become good consumers.
Pope FrancisMy church is fifty percent millennials. There's a connectivity between millennials and I.
T. D. JakesIt takes more than a great church to reach a city, it takes a great movement of churches.
Timothy KellerThe first step towards the evangelizing of the world is the christianizing of the church.
Vance HavnerIt's not so much that the church has a mission, it's that the mission of God has a church.
Alan HirschWhen you go to church you are really listening in to the secret wireless from our friends.
C. S. LewisYou're telling me that the separation of church and state is found in the First Amendment?
Christine O'DonnellThe greatest danger to the Christian church today is that of pitching its message too low.
Dallas WillardModern church music is so constructed that the congregation cannot hear one distinct word.
Desiderius ErasmusI do not want church groups controlling the schools of our country. They must remain free.
Eleanor RooseveltI attend the greatest of all Churches. I put a capital N on Nature, and call it my Church.
Frank Lloyd WrightThe Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle
Gilbert K. ChestertonThe Church must be one because a fragmented church is not much help to a fragmented world.
Justo L. GonzalezThere would be no need for the women's movement if the church and Bible hadn't abused them
Leo BoothIf you are not a member of the church you regularly attend, you may well be going to hell.
Mark DeverJesus, could you please rapture the charismaniac lady who brings her tambourine to church?
Mark DriscollWhat would it matter if, for the sake of the Christian Church, one were to tell a big lie?
Martin LutherMama gives you money for Sunday school, you trade yours for candy after church is through.
Stevie WonderIt is the whole business of the whole church to preach the whole gospel to the whole world.
Charles SpurgeonIt is the task of youth not to reshape the church, but rather to listen to the word of God.
Dietrich BonhoefferEverything we see in a Catholic church is there for a single purpose: to tell a love story.
Donald WuerlThe saving principles and doctrines of the Church are established, fixed, and unchangeable.
James E. FaustThe church that will not give up will be outdated and passed by, quicker than they realize.
John C. MaxwellHe who does not believe according to the tradition of the Catholic Church is an unbeliever.
John of DamascusThe union of Church and State is not to make the Church political, but the State religious.
John Scott, 1st Earl of EldonIn all cases, the Church is to be judged by the Scripture, not the Scripture by the Church.
John WesleyThis is what heaven's gonna be like. Not just a white church or a black church, but people.
Mr. WrestlingIf you're not looking forward to church this morning perhaps it's time to look for a church.
Andy StanleyI went to a church where you could not sing out loud in the service until you had been saved
Bernice Johnson ReagonI'd argue that people today aren't rejecting Christ so much as they're rejecting the church.
Craig GroeschelThe church is not made up of spiritual giants; only broken men can lead others to the cross.
David BoschDonald Trump would never belong to a church that required a ten percent hit. He's too smart.
Gene WeingartenWoodrow Kroll is dead-on in his assessment of the church's lack of engagement with the Word.
Howard G. HendricksThe birth of the church was during a prayer meeting, not preaching, not singing, but prayer.
Jim CymbalaI'd rather be in the mountains thinking of God, than in church thinking about the mountains.
John MuirWe are dealing in a day and time when the courts are defining sin different than the church.
Johnny HuntDon't try so hard to be hip. When the Church finds out what is cool, it is not cool anymore.
Kevin DeYoungThe name of the new religion," said Rumfoord, "is The Church of God the Utterly Indifferent.
Kurt VonnegutWhen "I" and "You" are absent, I've no idea if this is a mosque, synagogue, church or temple
Mahmud ShabistariA man is accepted into a church for what he believes and he is turned out for what he knows.
Mark TwainChrist is not knocking on the door of a sinner's heart, but on the door of a wayward church.
Paul WasherIt is necessary to broaden the opportunities for a stronger presence of women in the church.
Pope FrancisIt wasn't in books. It wasn't in a church. What I needed to know was out there in the world.
Robert FulghumA man who is well grounded in the testimonies of the Scripture is the bulwark of the Church.
St. JeromeCreeds have been the bane of the Christian church ... made of Christendom a slaughter-house.
Thomas JeffersonDoes any sane man imagine that the church could cease to be missionary and remain the church?
Arthur JudsonOne thing the Devil fears the most is the Church that obeys and goes not just sits and talks.
Artur PawlowskiA red brick Presbyterian church... captured by kudzu vines as surely as a butterfly in a net.
Barbara AscherUnable to suppress love, the Church wanted at least to disinfect it, and it created marriage.
Charles BaudelaireUnable to do away with love, the Church found a way to decontaminate it by creating marriage.
Charles BaudelaireIf your church loves the way you do church more than your children, it loves the wrong thing.
Ed StetzerIf you're a Catholic you believe what the Church teaches and the climate makes no difference.
Flannery O'ConnorTake heed of thinking. The farther you go from the church of Rome, the nearer you are to God.
Henry WottonThe Church ever operates in full light. There is no secrecy about its doctrine, aim, or work.
John Andreas WidtsoeThe key word in the church community is relationships, you know brother and sister in Christ.
John C. MaxwellThere is nothing in the U.S. Constitution that sanctifies the separation of church and state.
Pat RobertsonWe cannot be tepid disciples. The Church needs our courage in order to give witness to truth.
Pope FrancisNeither the true faith nor eternal salvation is to be found outside the Holy Catholic Church.
Pope Pius IXJesus never heard of Beethoven and Bach. Why aren't we playing more country music in church ?
Tex SampleAs like a church and an ale-house, God and the devell, they manie times dwell neere to ether.
Thomas NashStanding in a garage no more makes you a car than standing in a church makes you a Christian.
Woody AllenOne of the special marks of the Holy Ghost in the Apostolic Church was the spirit of boldness.
A. B. SimpsonAfter my study of today's church, my conclusion is that the church is politely bored with God.
Aiden Wilson TozerVoluntary self-directed religion was more dangerous to the Church than any number of infidels.
Barbara TuchmanI don't understand why the police are infallible. They remind me a lot of the Catholic Church.
Bill MaherWhere a people prays, there is the church; and where the church is; there is never loneliness.
Dietrich BonhoefferSo we went on what we now call "The Beck Family Church Tour" and man did we see some churches.
Glenn BeckThe church lives on the fact that modern research about Jesus is not known amongst the public.
Hans ConzelmannBy the time we get to church, I need church cuz I've been yelled at by everyone in the family.
Jeff FoxworthyWhen we sincerely turn to God, we will find that His church always moves forward, not backward
Jim CymbalaI'll go to church with anyone who's willing to smoke pot and look through a telescope with me.
Joe RoganGod promised by the mouth of Isaiah that queens should be the nursing mothers of the church...
John Calvin"The Church of England," I said, seeing that Mr. Inglesant paused, "is no doubt a compromise."
Joseph Henry ShorthouseIf we truly long for revival, we will rejoice even when it starts at the church down the road.
Kevin DeYoungThe church does not simply have a missions department; it should wholly exist to be a mission.
Timothy KellerIf the Church is a body, and the body is a business, isn't that the same thing as prostitution?
Ann VoskampAmbition that centers on the glory of God and welfare of the church is a mighty force for good.
J. Oswald Sanders