Quotes of: Church Keyword

160 million-plus people call themselves Christians. They go to church once a month at least. That's a lot of people.

David A. R. White

My attraction to heavy church-goers has more to do with me wanting to see who'd win the fight; me or god

Darnell Lamont Walker

To reject Christ because the church has sin of this sort in it is like rejecting hospitals because they are full of sick people.

Douglas Wilson

Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.

Erica Jong

In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to appear better than we really are.

E. Stanley Jones

I look at tens of thousands of church leaders who still do need a bit of an awakening.

Bill Hybels

They kicked me out of the church when I'm a little girl because they said I'm singing like a dog. They didn't want me to sing there anymore.

Concha Buika

How the early priests came into possession of these secrets does not appear, and if there were ever any records of this kind the Church would hardly allow them to become public.

Harry Houdini

The number, the industry, and the morality of the priesthood, and the devotion of the people have been manifestly increased by the total separation of the church from the state.

James Madison

Evangelical churches are weaker than we realize because we don't teach the confessions and doctrine.

J. I. Packer

People can't stand it when you deal with issues of race and class, and also sometimes the church, and you give a perspective that flushes out hypocrisy.

Jose Padilha

The Church no more gave us the New Testament canon than Isaac Newton gave us the force of gravity.

J.I. Packer

In early church polemics, Jews are deemed no longer worthy of their own Scriptures because they have failed to accept Christ as the Messiah.

Jack Schwartz

Well, for me, I grew up very Southern Baptist, and I definitely lived in my bubble. You know, I lived in my bubble that was in my church.

Jessica Simpson

Child abuse is a heinous and personally damaging crime; it is therefore incumbent on the Church to treat such matters with the utmost seriousness.

John Sentamu

Oh the Christian church has encouraged enormous immaturity among the peoples who are its primary adherence.

John Shelby Spong

Inequality for gay and lesbian people is no longer a debatable issue in either church or state.

John Shelby Spong

In academia, I discovered that issues and insights, commonplace among the scholars, are viewed as highly controversial and even as 'heresy' in the churches.

John Shelby Spong

The church is not going to survive if they are going to tell people that they have to twist their minds into 1st century pretzels.

John Shelby Spong

Ritual murder is referred to in court files which are located in Rome. There are pictures in it which show that in 23 cases, the Church itself has dealt with the question.

Julius Streicher

Anybody who had come up with a new concept would have been under suspicion for being out of step with the tradition or out of step with the teachings of the church.

John Templeton