Best church & building Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“You tell me: Can you live crushed under the weight of the present? Without a memory of the past and without the desire to look ahead to the future by building something, a future, a family? Can you go on like this? This, to me, is the most urgent problem that the Church is facing.”

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Author:Pope Francis

“I never realised that the Edinburgh skyline was so interesting - it's gothic and very urban and there's a lot of church spires and old brownstone buildings.”

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Author:Jamie Bell

“We are not engaged in domestic politics, in church building or in social uplift work, but we are engaged in nation building.”

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Author:Marcus Garvey

“What is a church?Our honest sexton tells, 'Tis a tall building, with a tower and bells.”

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Author:George Crabbe

“The English Puritans pulled down church and state to rebuild Zion on the ruins, and all the while it was not Zion, but America, they were building.”

States America Church Building Ruins Church And State Puritan Zion

Book:Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)

“Most churches don't have the resources for these tricks and inducements but are still bound to the imagination that church happens on a Sunday in a building.”

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Book:The Faith of Leap (Shapevine): Embracing a Theology of Risk, Adventure & Courage

Source: The Faith of Leap (Shapevine): Embracing a Theology of Risk, Adventure & Courage

“Faith can be stirred within the walls of church buildings, but faith is formed and nourished in the waiting rooms of hospitals, helplessly witnessing a thirty-one-year-old sister suffer, holding kids affected by the AIDS epidemic, and being stretched outside of our own social makeup.”

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Author:Josh Ross

“Shepperton Church was a very different looking building five-and-twenty years ago. To be sure, its substantial stone tower looks at you through its intelligent eye, the clock, with the friendly expression of former days; but in everything else what changes!”

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Book:Silas Marner and Scenes of Clerical Life

Source: Silas Marner and Scenes of Clerical Life

“One of the major failures of the church is not a focus on building disciples but a focus on building members.”

Church Focus Building Members Majors Disciple

Author:Tony Evans

“It was a very aged, ghostly place; the church had been built many hundreds of years ago, and had once had a convent or monastery attached; for arches in ruins, remains of oriel windows, and fragments of blackened walls, were yet standing-, while other portions of the old building, which had crumbled away and fallen down, were mingled with the churchyard earth and overgrown with grass, as if they too claimed a burying-place and sought to mix their ashes with the dust of men.”

Source: The Old Curiosity Shop: And Reprinted Pieces

“While the focus in the landscape of Old World cities was commonly government structures, churches, or the residences of rulers, the landscape and the skyline of American cities have boasted their hotels, department stores, office buildings, apartments, and skyscrapers. In this grandeur, Americans have expressed their Booster Pride, their hopes for visitors and new settlers, and customers, for thriving commerce and industry.”

“Human artifacts not only include material structures and objects, such as buildings, machines, and automobiles, but they also include organizations, organizational structures like extended families . . . tribes, nations, corporations, churches, political parties, governments, and so on. Some of these may grow unconsciously, but they all originate and are sustained by the images in the human mind.”

“... together we can build the people's Church, a true Church. Not just a hierarchy, or a building, but a real change inside people.”

People Real Together Church Building Hierarchy Real Change Together We Can

Book:I, Rigoberta Menchu: An Indian Woman in Guatemala (Second Edition)

Source: I, Rigoberta Menchu: An Indian Woman in Guatemala (Second Edition)

“We don't have a lot of churches in America; we have a lot of really nice brick buildings on finely manicured lawns! Just because someone says they are of the Church or they are Christian, doesn't make it so.”

Christian America Church Nice Building Bricks Really Nice Lawns

Author:Paul Washer

“In China I told pastors about how, in the West, we have these church buildings and how we go to services each week that last an hour or so. I told them how if we don't like the music or the message then we can go to different buildings and services... They all broke out into laughter. They thought I was the funniest guy they had ever seen.”

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Author:Francis Chan

“Corporations care very much about maintaining the myth that government is necessarily ineffective, except when it is spending money on the military-industrial complex, building prisons, or providing infrastructural support for the business sector.”

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Author:Michael Lerner

“The public library building, in my view, is just a little lower than the church, the cathedral, the temple, the synagogue and the mosque. Within those walls and along those stacks, I have found security and assurance.”

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Author:Maya Angelou

“The only thing God is building in this world is his church.”

World Church This World Building

Author:Bakht Singh

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