C Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with C. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Churches are like announcement factories that pump toxic levels of noise pollution into the atmosphere.”
“Churches are more prosperous than at any time within the past several hundred years. But the alarming thing is that our gains are mostly external and our losses wholly internal; and since it is the quality of our religion that is affected by internal conditions, it may be that our supposed gains are but losses spread over a wider field.”
Source: The Knowledge of the Holy
“Churches are not museums that display perfect people. They are hospitals where the wounded, hurt, injured and broken find healing.”
“Churches are not the kingdom of God, but are primary and inevitable expressions, outposts, and instrumentalities of presence of the kingdom among us. They are 'societies' of Jesus.”
“Churches are specially designed so that people like you could not spread their infection.” Ksyu grinned. “They are kind of a vaccine against a disease. You won’t make it, Timoshka! Science has long proved that there is no god and cannot be. No grand design! No freedoms! A man is a simple beast. A biological machine for gene reproduction.”
Source: The Interchange
“Churches are tax exempt because they are supposed to provide a public good. To prove that good to the IRS, churches arent supposed to hoard their money. They are supposed to spend it on goods and services for the faithful. Under this pretense, the church has made massive investments in tax free real estate all over the world. And when it comes to labor costs, they are almost free.”
“Churches are the primary partners that work with Habitat in an almost infinite variety of creative overlapping circles. We cherish these partnerships with churches…I have always seen Habitat for Humanity as a servant of the church and as a vehicle through which the church and its people can express their love, faith, and servanthood to people in need in a very tangible and concrete (literally!) way.”
Source: The Theology of the Hammer
“Churches are wonderful and beautiful, and they are vehicles for religion, but no Church can have more than a very little of the truth.”
“Churches become poor if they become rich and care not for the poor.”
“Churches can become places of cynicism, resistance, and pessimism.”
“Churches can easily bring together, in a short period of time, a substantial number of people, and politicians have to assume that these folks have the potential to vote. Although there's supposed to be a separation of church and state, they want to go to these churches to say hello to the people, and they assume their hello might turn into votes.”
“Churches crack me up. They're like money, a conspiracy of faith. Like everyone agreed to believe that not only is there a God, but he comes down and checks on folks, so long as they hang in certain places, put up alters, burn lots of candles and incense, and perform sit-stand-kneel and other wacky rituals that'd make a coven of witches not look OCD.”
Source: Iced: Fever Series
“Churches don't hold divinity, human hearts do.”
Source: Good Scientist: When Science and Service Combine
“Churches don't need new members half so much as they need the old bunch made over.”
Source: Billy Sunday, the Man and His Message: With His Own Words which Have Won Thousands for Christ
“Churches have given us great treasures such as music and architecture. Whether that pays for the harm they have done is another matter.”
“Churches may decay and perish; riches may make themselves wings and fly away-but he who builds their happiness on Christ crucified and union with Him by faith, that person is standing on a foundation which shall never be moved, and will know something of true peace.”
“Churches must extend their influence beyond the lives of church members to impact the broader community that they serve.”
Source: One Church Under God: His Rule Over Your Ministry
“Churches often confuse loyalty with competence.”
“Churches or monasteries don't make holiness, sacrifice does. I don't visit churches, wherever I stand, becomes a church.”
Source: Heart Force One: Need No Gun to Defend Society
“Churches provide a place of gathering for people who share common beliefs, support and encouragement for each other in faith, a place to find insight into and teaching about God's Word, and they provide a time and place where people can leave the world behind and focus only on their spiritual relationship with God.”
“Churches should be places where the living God encounters us, not entertains us. It's not about being impressed by clever ideas or mesmerized by lights and music, but about being changed by the power of Scripture”
“Churches should emphasis eternal values.”
“Churches should evaluate everything they do to determine how it can be done better.”
“Churches should prioritize spiritual growth over food and fellowship events, seeking first God's kingdom and righteousness, as Matthew 6:33 says, 'But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.' Let's keep our priorities straight - we're about God and spiritual growth, not just food and fun.”
“Churches should teach people on our to value eternal virtues.”
“Churches that depart from the Word will soon find that God has departed from them.”
“Churches that make an impact are more focused on putting boots on the streets than butts in the seats”
“Churches themselves are breeding covetousness.”
“Churches thrive on martyrdom and persecution.”
Source: Stranger in a Strange Land
“Churches typically argue is that God wants God's people to have a good life, and that a good life involves prosperity. This prosperity is not just emotional well-being, spiritual well-being, or physical well-being - it's also having good stuff. Having a nice house, a nice car, good clothing, etc. It's a package deal.”
“Churches we build only by our own efforts and not in the strength of the Spirit will quickly collapse when we don't push and prod people along.”
Source: The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply
“Churches were either great cavernous tributes not so much to God as the wealth and privilege of the community, or they were austere, cold tributes to the ecstasy of refusal.”
Source: Still Life
“Churches were never meant to be mental hospitals. They were supposed to be military outposts under orders to storm the gates of hell. Every believer is on active duty and called to serve a higher purpose with the rank of their blessings and talents.”
“Churches whose members fight with one another have lost their vision for the lost.”
“Churches, depending on their policy, can do fantastic work with people in the community.”
“churches, like all the rest of our major institutions, are rooted in capitalism. For a church to attack capitalism is to 'bite the hand that feeds it.”
“Churchgoers all across the nation say the Holy Spirit has entered them. They claim that God has given them a supernatural ability to follow Christ, put their sin to death, and serve the church. Christians talk about being born again say that they they were dead but now have come to life. We have become hardened to those words, but they are powerful words that have significant meaning. Yet when those outside the church see no difference in our lives, they begin to question our integrity, out sanity, or even worse, our God. And can you blame them?”
“Churchgoers are like coals in a fire. When they cling together, they keep the flame aglow; when they separate, they die out.”
Source: The Quotable Billy Graham
“Churchgoers feel righteous, responsible, and obedient to God's will. They view anyone unlike themselves as devoid of values, and therefore unworthy of God's love. By denying God to all those who have strayed from the path of righteousness, the devout are unwittingly taking on themselves a role that belongs only to God.”
“Churchill , he is a great man. He is, of course, our enemy and has always been the enemy of Communism, but he is an enemy one must respect, an enemy one likes to have.”
“Churchill and Columbus belong in the jungle, loudmouth karens belong in mental institution.”
Source: Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper
“Churchill and Roosevelt loved cats. Hitler and Napoleon hated them. That was a vastly reductive view on the matter, obviously, but it told you a lot.”
“Churchill decides from very early on that he will create a political position that is somehow above left and right, embodying the best points of both sides and thereby incarnating the will of the nation. He thinks of himself as a gigantic keystone in the arch, with all the lesser stones logically induced to support his position. He has a kind of semi-ideology to go with it - a leftish Toryism: imperialist, romantic, but on the side of the working man.”
Source: The Churchill Factor: How One Man Made History
“Churchill had found Linlithgow a congenial viceroy. Both men were for doing nothing for as long as possible.”
Source: Keeping the Jewel in the Crown: The British Betrayal of India
“Churchill is the very type of a corrupt journalist. There is not a worse prostitute in politics. He himself has written that it'sunimaginable what can be done in war with the help of lies. He's an utterly amoral repulsive creature. I'm convinced that he has his place of refuge ready beyond the Atlantic. He obviously won't seek sanctuary in Canada. In Canada he'd be beaten up. He'll go to his friends the Yankees. As soon as this damnable winter is over, we'll remedy all that.”
“Churchill knew instinctively what was wrong with communism - that it repressed liberty; that it replaced individual discretion with state control; that it entailed the curtailment of democracy, and therefore that it was tyrannous.”
“Churchill, put down his cigar and agreed, "When I hear a man say that his childhood was the happiest time of his life, I think, my friend you have had a pretty poor life.”
Source: Pearl Harbor Christmas: A World at War, December 1941
“Churchill's 2,054 page book "Second World War" makes no mention of genocide or the murder of Jews. Coincidentally, Churchill was a strong proponent of eugenic legislation prior to the outbreak of WWII.”
Source: From a "Race of Masters" to a "Master Race": 1948 to 1848
“Churchill says the Government had to choose between war and shame. They chose shame. They will get war, too.”
“Churchill was a big fat cannibal,
Leopold was an ugly deadly virus,
Columbus was a most wanted terrorist.”
Source: Sonnets From The Mountaintop