Church Quotes
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The first time I sang in church, when I was ten, the applause was so overwhelming that I started to weep. My mum had to rescue me from the stage.
Laura Mvula
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I went to church irregularly and was mostly reading comics in the pew.
Alice Sebold
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In an urban environment, a church building is a thing of the past.
Mark Batterson
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In church, the music is for everyone. People are singing off tune, loud; they're not ashamed - it's for their healing. That's kind of just what I strive for, that feeling.
Jamila Woods
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I still go to church occasionally. I went the other day and found peace.
David LaChapelle
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Unlimited trust should only be placed in the real Word of the Revelation that we encounter in the faith transmitted by the Church.
Pope Benedict XVI
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My friends, nothing in all the world is so much worth thinking of as God, Christ, the Bible, sin and salvation, the divine purposes for humankind, life everlasting. But you cannot challenge the dedicated thinking of this generation to these sublime themes upon any such terms as are laid down by an intolerant church.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
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Every true prayer is a prayer of the Church; by means of that prayer the Church prays, since it is the Holy Spirit living in the Church, Who in every single soul 'prays in us with unspeakable groanings'.
Edith Stein
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At the end of 1795 and beginning of 1796, I was ordered to write to the Church ministers.
Joanna Southcott
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If you grow up playing in church, it removes a lot of the boundaries that other musicians might have, growing up with sheet music or whatever.
Anderson Paak
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The real crisis of worship today is not that the preaching is paltry or that it's too drafty in church. It is that people have no sense of the presence of God, and if they have no sense of His presence, how can they be moved to express the deepest feelings of their souls to honor, revere, worship, and glorify God?
R. C. Sproul
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I am drawn to Christ but I have real problems with the Catholic Church.
Andres Serrano
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I grew up in the church. I was raised in the church.
Quinton Aaron
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The Church in England is the Church of England.
Joseph Barber Lightfoot
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Supreme authority in both church and home has been divinely vested in the male as the representative of Christ, who is Head of the church. It is in willing submission rather than grudging capitulation that the woman in the church (whether married or single) and the wife in the home find their fulfillment.
Elisabeth Elliot
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Where do you learn how to act? Not at church. America is a lot more like pagan Rome than we think. We still sacrifice to objects to gain our social goals.
Dave Hickey
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When my father died, I had a real experience with Christ, a real conversion with Christ and I had it in a Oneness church.
T. D. Jakes
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My grandmother was a church organist, but we only went on Easter and Christmas Eve sometimes.
Zach Anner
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The specter of single-issue religious groups is growing over our land. … One of the great strengths of our political system always has been our tendency to keep religious issues in the background. By maintaining the separation of church and state, the United States has avoided the intolerance which has so divided the rest of the world with religious wars.
Barry Goldwater
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It's a funny thing when you think you're dead. You're not terrified of it anymore. There's a sort of a epiphany to religious thing; it's not sort of church-based, but you end up with a serenity which you didn't have before, and I just simply enjoy it. It really does sound stupid, but I've got to tell you it's made my life.
David Lange
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I went to Catholic school in and out. I'm what you call a recovering Catholic. I have many major issues with the church.
Jon Bon Jovi
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I look at tens of thousands of church leaders who still do need a bit of an awakening.
Bill Hybels
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Hey, I was raised in the church.
Cheech Marin
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'Down on Me' can't showcase my true talent. 'Birthday Sex' was robotic. When I perform it, I can't give you this church feeling I know I can give.
Jeremih Felton