Quotes about Church
The problem is, many of the people in need of saving are in churches, and at least part of what they need saving from is the idea that God sees the world the same way they do.
- Barbara Brown Taylor
The vow of celibacy is a matter of keeping one's word to Christ and the Church. a duty and a proof of the priest's inner maturity; it is the expression of his personal dignity.
- Pope John Paul II
That very church which the world likes best is sure to be that which God abhors.
- Charles Spurgeon
Wherever we see the Word of God purely preached and heard, there a church of God exists, even if it swarms with many faults.
- John Calvin
The pulpit is not a place to settle scores, it's a place to preach the word of God.
- Greg Laurie
Church only benefits you when you participate in the presence of God.
- Bishop TD Jakes
The church is God's vineyard.
- Heinrich Bullinger
The most common mistake Christians make in worship today is seeking an experience rather than seeking God
- Rick Warren
Grace is God himself, his loving energy at work within his church and within our souls.
- Evelyn Underhill
If the church does not identify with the marginalized, it will itself be marginalized. This is God's poetic justice.
- Timothy Keller
It is far easier to be a Christian in isolation than it is to live out one's faith in the context of all those other imperfect people who make up God's church.
- Gordon Fee
And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.
- Hans Kung