(1733 quotes found)
“Church isn’t where you meet. Church isn’t a building. Church is what you do. Church is who you are. Church is the human outworking of the person of Jesus Christ. Let’s not go to Church, let’s be the Church.”
Bridget Willard
“The perfect church service,would be one we were almost unaware of.Our attention would have been on God.”
C.S. Lewis
“Depressions may bring people closer to the church but so do funerals”
Clarence Darrow
“The minority, the ruling class at present, has the schools and press, usually the Church as well, under its thumb. This enables it to organize and sway the emotions of the masses, and make its tool of them.”
Albert Einstein
“The Church recruited people who had been starched and ironed before they were washed.”
John Wesley
“One hundred religious persons knit into a unity by careful organizations do not constitute a church any more than eleven dead men make a football team. The first requisite is life, always.”
A. W. Tozer
“The churches must learn humility as well as teach it.”
George Bernard Shaw
“For me Christianity is about the Kingdom, not about the Church: it has to do with human growth and development not church growth and development”
Michael Taylor
“Anyone who is to find Christ must first find the church. How could anyone know where Christ is and what faith is in him unless he knew where his believers are?”
Martin Luther
“The United States government must not undertake to run the Churches. When an individual, in the Church or out of it, becomes dangerous to the public interest he must be checked.”
Abraham Lincoln