Church Quotes

"It would be far better to be of no church than to be bitter of any"

"We went to church every Sunday. When I was a kid, the only time I sang was around my family"

"I heard stories from my mother's mother who was an American Indian. She was spiritual, although she did not go to church, but she had the hum. She used to tell me stories of the rivers"

"The American Indian was an individualist in religion as in war. He had neither a national army nor an organized church"

"For the spiritual sense of the Word treats everywhere of the spiritual world, that is, of the state of the church in the heavens, as well as in the earth; hence the Word is spiritual and Divine"

"The Catholic Church - it's so difficult because I don't want say anything offensive but it makes me very angry that religious leaders from this faith have tried to respond negatively to sexual education and to the promotion of condom use"

"Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile"

"My mother raised me in the church. I was not allowed to stay home on Sunday; there was no option. I sang in the choir all the way up until I went to college"

"Hollywood is run by people who sit up in their executive office, who are not connected to Mississippi, Alabama, Chicago, South Carolina. They know nothing about that, they don't go to church, and they make their decisions about what they think is right"

"It's not enough to attend church and pray every Sunday; you have to act"

"I get asked a lot why Apple's customers are so loyal. It's not because they belong to the Church of Mac! That's ridiculous"

"Really I feel less keen about the Army every day. I think the Church would suit me better"

"A church debt is the devil's salary"

"I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching"

"Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable"

"A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there"

"For the judgment was accomplished not only upon all the men of the Christian church, but also upon all who are called Mohammedans, and, moreover, upon all the Gentiles in the whole world"

"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"

"The church saves sinners, but science seeks to stop their manufacture"

"I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit"

"Every church is a stone on the grave of a god-man: it does not want him to rise up again under any circumstances"

"He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all"

"Many come to bring their clothes to church rather than themselves"

"I challenge you to show me where the saloon has ever helped business, education, church, morals or anything we hold dear"

"God Almighty never intended that the devil should triumph over the Church. He never intended that the saloons should walk rough-shod over Christianity"

"Unless you have made a complete surrender and are doing his will it will avail you nothing if you've reformed a thousand times and have your name on fifty church records"

"Hypocrites in the Church? Yes, and in the lodge and at the home. Don't hunt through the Church for a hypocrite. Go home and look in the mirror. Hypocrites? Yes. See that you make the number one less"

"A revival does two things. First, it returns the Church from her backsliding and second, it causes the conversion of men and women; and it always includes the conviction of sin on the part of the Church. What a spell the devil seems to cast over the Church today!"

"Christianity means a lot more than church membership"

"I believe there is no doctrine more dangerous to the Church today than to convey the impression that a revival is something peculiar in itself and cannot be judged by the same rules of causes and effect as other things"