Home / Topics / Church Quotes

Church Quotes

Browse 7813 quotes about Church.

Church Quotes

“It is one of the ironies of the ministry that the very man who works in God's name is often hardest put to find time for God. The parents of Jesus lost Him at church, and they were not the last ones to lose Him there.”

Men Lasts Time Jesus Names Lost Parent Loses Church Hardest Irony Ministry Christian Ministry

Author:Vance Havner

“God should be most where man is least: So, where is neither church nor priest, And never rag nor form of creed To clothe the nakedness of need,- Where farmer folk in silence meet,- I turn my bell-unsummoned feet; I lay the critic's glass aside, I tread upon my lettered pride, And, lowest-seated, testify To the oneness of humanity; Confess the universal want, And share whatever Heaven may grant. He findeth not who seeks his own, The soul is lost that's saved alone.”

Source: Among the Hills, and Other Poems

“Life and the Universe show spontaneity;Down with ridiculous notions of Deity!Churches and creeds are lost in the mists;Truth must be sought with the Positivists.”

Shows Religion Universe Lost Church Notion Ridiculous Creeds Deities Mist Spontaneity

Book:Selections from the Poetical Works of Mortimer Collins

Source: Selections from the Poetical Works of Mortimer Collins

“Once I returned to the Church and began to see the universe as a place that really did incorporate redemption and really tried to understand the implications of there being a God, my identification with the vampires as outcasts, as outsiders and lost souls began to totally wane. It no longer worked for me. I had done it. It had led me to this point.”

Soul Done Universe Lost Church Redemption Vampire Outsiders Implications Identification Outcast Lost Souls

Author:Anne Rice

“Philanthropy is lost. The human spirit is suppressed. Most people want a legacy; they want to give something back, a library, a hospital wing, a donation to their church. This is a form of socialism that must go.”

People Want Giving Humans Form Spirit Lost Church Wings Library Socialism Legacy Hospitals Philanthropy Human Spirit Donation

Author:Lindsey Graham

“The Church has lost a great religious poet in me; but I have lost an infinity of fun in the church, so the loss is even.”

Lost Fun Church Religious Loss Poet Infinity Great Religious

Book:The diaries of Sylvia Townsend Warner

Source: The diaries of Sylvia Townsend Warner

“Whenever the Psalter is abandoned, an incomparable treasure is lost to the Christian church. With its recovery will come unexpected power.”

Christian Lost Church Treasure Recovery Unexpected Abandoned Christian Church Incomparable

Book:Life Together: Prayerbook of the Bible

Source: Life Together: Prayerbook of the Bible

“[...]women much like this prostitute fled toward Jesus, not away from him. The worse a person felt about herself, the more likely she saw Jesus as a refuge. Has the church lost that gift?”

Persons Jesus Lost Felt Church Saws Refuge

Book:Grace Notes

Source: Grace Notes

“The first reform must be the attitude. The ministers of the Gospel must be people who can warm the hearts of the people, who walk through the dark night with them, who know how to dialogue and to descend themselves into their people's night, into the darkness, but without getting lost. The people of God want pastors, not clergy acting like bureaucrats or government officials.”

“I got kicked out of my church and lost all of my friends, but I realized that I had to obey God and not man.”

Men Lost Church My Friends I Realized

Author:Joyce Meyer

“For me, and maybe for many religious kids of the '60s, the church lost relevance the more it became a surrogate in the movement for social and political change.”

Kids Political Lost Social Church Religious Movement Relevance Surrogates Political Change

Author:Mike McCurry