CHURCH QUOTES

quotations about church

It became obvious why Catholics had built such beautiful cathedrals and churches throughout the world. Not as gathering or meeting places for Christians. But as a home for Jesus Himself in the Blessed Sacrament. Cathedrals house Jesus. Christians merely come and visit Him.

ALLEN R. HUNT

Confessions of a Mega Church Pastor


And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the powers of death shall not prevail against it.

JESUS

Matthew 16:18


The true Church is not an institution to be kept apart from the world because the world "is common and unclean," but a vital heart of truth and love, beating with the life of Jesus, and sending abroad its sanctifying pulsations until nothing shall be common and unclean.

E. H. CHAPIN

Living Words


Some keep the Sabbath going to church;
I keep it staying at home,
With a bobolink for a chorister,
And an orchard for a dome.

EMILY DICKINSON

"Some keep the Sabbath going to Church"


An humble spire, pointing heavenward from an obscure church, speaks of man's nature, man's dignity, man's destiny, more eloquently than all the columns and arches of Greece and Rome, the mausoleums of Asia, or the pyramids of Egypt.

WILLIAM E. CHANNING

Thoughts


The Church must be forever building, for it is forever decaying within and attacked from without.

T.S. ELIOT

The Rock


The church is precisely that against which Jesus preached -- and against which he taught his disciples to fight.

FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE

unpublished fragment, Nov. 1887


The True Church can never fail
For it is based upon a rock.

T.S. ELIOT

The Hippopotamus


There's a bunch of huge churches clustered together, trying to blend in with all the family-themed restaurants, because salvation is as easy as chicken wings, I guess.

PATRICK NESS

The Rest of Us Just Live Here


Where Christ erecteth his church, the devil in the same churchyard will have his chapel.

RICHARD BANCROFT

sermon preached at Paul's Cross, Feb. 9, 1589


The Church is not a gallery for the better exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit


When introverts go to church, we crave sanctuary in every sense of the word, as we flee from the disorienting distractions of twenty-first-century life. We desire to escape from superficial relationships, trivial communications and the constant noise that pervade our world, and find rest in the probing depths of God's love.

ADAM S. MCHUGH

Introverts in the Church: Finding Our Place in an Extroverted Culture


All churches are an echo of this--the Cathedral of Nature.

SETH ADAM SMITH

Rip Van Winkle and the Pumpkin Lantern


The nearer the Church the further from God.

LANCELOT ANDREWES

Sermon on the Nativity before James I


I never weary of great churches. It is my favourite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.

ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

Inland Voyage


I was afraid of a united Church; it makes a mighty power, the mightiest conceivable, and then when it by and by gets into selfish hands, as it is always bound to do, it means death to human liberty and paralysis to human thought.

MARK TWAIN

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court


Once I returned to the Church and began to see the universe as a place that really did incorporate redemption and really tried to understand the implications of there being a God, my identification with the vampires as outcasts, as outsiders and lost souls began to totally wane. It no longer worked for me. I had done it. It had led me to this point.

ANNE RICE

interview, BookPage, Nov. 2005


There is no salvation outside the church.

ST. AUGUSTINE

De Baptismo


There is one grand, all-comprehending church; and if I am a Christian, I belong to it, and no man can shut me out of it.

WILLIAM E. CHANNING

Thoughts


I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.

RALPH WALDO EMERSON

Essays