(1733 quotes found)
“The church says the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen the shadow on the moon, and I have more faith in a shadow than in the church”
Ferdinand Magellan
“Welcome to the new church! Can I get an 'Amen'?”
Gerard Way
“Prayer is a strong wall and fortress of the church; it is a goodly Christian weapon.”
Martin Luther
“One of our great allies at present is the Church itself. Do not misunderstand me. I do not mean the Church as we see her spread out through all time and space and rooted in eternity, terrible as an army with banners. That, I confess, is a spectacle which makes our boldest tempters uneasy. But fortunately it is quite invisible to these humans.”
C.S. Lewis
“There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.”
James Joyce
“The first time I sang in the church choir; two hundred people changed their religion.”
Fred Allen
“Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.”
Samuel Pepys
“Doctrinal rightness and rightness of ecclesiastical position are important, but only as a starting point to go on into a living relationship - and not as ends in themselves”
Francis Schaeffer
“Why did men worship in churches, locking themselves away in the dark, when the world lay beyond its doors in all its real glory?”
Charles de Lint
“The church is so subnormal that if it ever got back to the New Testament normal it would seem to people to be abnormal.”
Vance Havner
