2,024 Quotes About Church

In the church, we think of ourselves as all part of God's family. That means that we think of the people of where we worship as brothers and sister--part of our family. The church people have been treating us as the family members we are.

If you want to see revival, plant your church in the gutter.

One in five American children are living in poverty, and yet, according to the Barna Research Group, 'half of all adults did nothing at all in the past year to help a poor person' and 'few churches have a serious ministry to the poor.' With such crying needs and such self-absorption among God's people, surely things have never been worse.

Did you attend church last Sunday?” I asked with no warning. The men all looked at each other.“No, sir. At least I wasn’t at church this past Sunday,” the old man answered first. The others followed and mumbled their negation under their breath."Aha, did you happen to find the irrefutable evidence that God is nonexistent?"“No, sir!

The Church is supposed to be the most influential entity throughout the world, because we are Christ, the God of this world. Nothing should happen on the Earth without our permission and authorisation.

Pope Benedict : A Church that marries the spirit of the age...Pope Francis : Yes, ..will be widowed in the next.

He looked around the church, at the altar, the tabernacle, the brass candles, and the European saints, pale like albinos in the dark continent.

Perhaps, if a future included more communal care between women, and if we saw models that flourished, those communal agreements could become more reliable and grow to contain more people, creating an expansive and resilient shield, in many ways more flexible than marriage, against the brutal realities of life and death, alone and together.

I don't visit churches, wherever I stand, becomes a church.