Church Quotes

The First Amendment has erected a wall between church and state. That wall must be kept high and impregnable. We could not approve the slightest breach.

Hugo Black
- Religious
- Wall
- Liberty
I think it is going to be very difficult for any church that still calls itself a church, never to try and convince someone that their religion is the best one.

Barry W. Lynn
- Church
- Religion
- I Think

Our relationships with God go through similar phases sometimes. We aren’t comfortable with each other. The conversation doesn’t flow as well. We aren’t sure we can trust as before — or we aren’t sure we can be trusted as before. At those tough times, I have learned that there is a lot to be said for just hanging in there. For keeping on going to church. For saying your prayers. For keeping the communication lines open. For sustaining your relationship on pure, stubborn commitment when all the warm feelings of affection seem gone forever. That kind of willpower, I am learning, is one of the purest forms of faith — a kind of faith you just don’t develop until you are forced to, when your relationship with God seems to have gone bad. Sometimes faith means believing that doubt is just a stage, a rotten mood that will pass, and that in time, by the grace of God, you will get over it, and be old friends again in a new, deeper way.

Brian D. McLaren
- God
- Relationship
- Prayers
I believe strongly in the Constitutional principle of separating church and state. Our founders were right in fearing that religious freedom would be threatened in the long run by a departure from governmental neutrality in spiritual matters.

Sargent Shriver
When any sector of the church stops learning, God simply overflows the structures that are in the way and works outside them with those willing to learn.

Brian D. McLaren
- God
- Way
- Church
The history of governmentally established religion, both in England and in this country, showed that whenever government had allied itself with one particular form of religion, the inevitable result had been that it had incurred the hatred, disrespect and even contempt of those who held contrary beliefs.

Hugo Black
- Country
- Belief
- Hatred
The church does not exist for us. We are the church, and we exist for the world.

Erwin McManus
- Church
- Exist
The health, long-term mission, and viability of the church are not going to be determined by those who gather on Sunday morning. The future of the church will be determined by the depth of its disciples.

Ed Stetzer
- Health
- Church
- Disciples