Quotes about Church
This common prayer project has taken years of energy, but we see it not as a way to leave our individual churches, but as a movement we hope to see permeate the larger Church.
- Shane Claiborne
I am convinced the Church is the greatest hope for humanity and for creating a new world where everyone is valued and embraced regardless of differences.
- Erwin McManus
I hope ["reanimated the papacy"] means that the new interest in the pope evokes a new interest in the Church's teaching, of which the pope is the custodian.
- George Weigel
The future and the hope for the middle class church lies in the renewal of its lifeblood, which is only possible if the church succeeds in winning the working class.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The church is her true self only when she exists for humanity.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
There is no such thing as separation of church and state. It is merely a figment of the imagination of infidels.
- WA Criswell
I believe this notion of separation of church and state was the figment of some infidel's imagination.
- WA Criswell
The epicenter of creativity and imagination should be the Church, reflecting the character and glory of God.
- Erwin McManus
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.
- Alan Hirsch
You never have to advertise a fire. Everyone comes running when there's a fire. Likewise, if your church is on fire, you will not have to advertise it. The community will already know it.
- Leonard Ravenhill
The Bible in the pulpit must never supersede the Bible at home.
- JC Ryle
Far from being disturbed by the presence of the church, the power structure of the average community is consoled by the church's often vocal sanction of things as they are.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.