
Top 42 Church Doors Quotes
#1. Some of us attend the church on the corner, professing to worship the living God above all. Others, who rarely darken the church doors, would say worship isn't a part of their lives because they aren't "religious." But everybody has an altar. And every altar has a throne.
Louie Giglio
#2. Six wasn't sure religion was any more than a lot of people caught up in a collective delirium that disappeared the minute they stepped out of the church doors and onto the street.
Ayana Mathis
#3. If we wait for the needy to walk through our church doors, we may wait a long time. God doesn't wait for people to come to Him. He goes to them.
Beth Moore
#5. Ignore, then, whether you are tall and thin or short and stocky- whether they laughed at you at home (where they are often unkind) or at school (where they are mostly blind, anyway). Indeed-to hell with the lot of them if you 'feel' you can do it.
Percy Cerutty
#6. External circumstances do not create feeling states. Feeling states create external circumstances.
Martha Beck
#7. We're often so busy cutting through the undergrowth we don't even realise we're in the wrong jungle.
Stephen Covey
#8. Those were comfortable, carefree years. The word I'd use now is idyllic. On Friday nights, we cheered on the Bulldogs of Midland High. On Sunday mornings, we went to church. Nobody locked their doors. Years later, when I would speak about the American Dream, it was Midland I had in mind.
George W. Bush
#9. Even without church walls, or doors or sconces, Easter had come. Even without altars or crosses, Easter had come
Mark Andrew Poe
#10. Jesus planted the first church on earth with a group of hoodlums who wouldn't be let inside the doors of most churches today.
Preston Sprinkle
#11. I see no faults in the Church, and therefore let me be resurrected with the Saints, whether I ascend to heaven or descend to hell, or go to any other place. And if we go to hell, we will turn the devils out of doors and make a heaven of it.
Joseph Smith Jr.
#12. The church is a home for all to come together, regardless of the depth or the height of our testimony. I know of no sign on the doors of our meetinghouses that says, Your testimony must be this tall to enter.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
#13. It's a new dawn, it's a new day ... and I'm feeling good.
Nina Simone
#14. 'A sound Conservative government,' said Taper, musingly. 'I understand: Tory men and Whig measures.'
Benjamin Disraeli
#15. If you cannot find Christ in the beggar at the church door, you will not find Him in the chalice.
Saint John Chrysostom
#16. What if the Church and the State
Are the mob that howls at the door!
Wine shall run thick to the end,
Bread taste sour.
William Butler Yeats
#17. We need innovation. We need great ideas that can be simply and effectively produced all over the place.
Helen Clark
#18. Where there is no passion, the church perishes, even though it be full to the doors.
Leonard Ravenhill
#19. A sign in the yard of a church next door said CHRIST IS THE ANSWER. (The question, of course, is: What do you say when you strike your thumb with a hammer?)
Bill Bryson
#20. The ACLU sees the separation of church and state as so absolute that not a single religious word must be allowed to pass a schoolhouse door.
Nat Hentoff
#21. Nothing makes people in the church more angry than grace. It's ironic: we stumble into a party we weren't invited to and find the uninvited standing at the door making sure no other uninviteds get in.
Mike Yaconelli
#22. I left a church of kind, generous people because I couldn't pretend to believe things I didn't believe anymore, because I knew that no matter how hard I tried, I could never be the stick-figured woman in the Vote Yes On One sign standing guard in front of the doors. I didn't want to be.
Rachel Held Evans
#23. Standing in fron of the doors of a cCatholic church when service is over is a good way to die young.
Dia Reeves
#24. Of course same sex marriage is constitutional! The right to be yourself, to pursue life, liberty, and property, is protected several ways over several amendments. John Boehner should know this.
Henry Rollins
#25. Asking questions were the most important thing.
Franz Kafka
#26. The narrow sectarian cannot read astronomy with impunity. The creeds of his church shrivel like dried leaves at the door of the observatory.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#27. The reason why many clients don't value design is because haven't had a designer prove to them the value of it. You need to prove it to clients who've hired a bunch of shitty designers and their business has not been that successful. When they hire a good designer, they see the difference.
Jessica Hische
#28. Instead of being just a church that welcomes and receives by keeping the doors open, let us try also to be a church that finds new roads, that is able to step outside itself and go to those who do not attend Mass, to those who have quit or are indifferent.
Pope Francis
#29. I plead guilty to that when I was young pastor. In one of my churches I changed so much, one old wag said I'd changed everything in the church except the signs on the bathroom doors! I could have used a little more wisdom. And common sense.
Jerry Vines
#30. Christ is not knocking on the door of a sinner's heart, but on the door of a wayward church.
Paul Washer
#31. . Well, Teclan, wanna know something? Your government may have shut down my church. They may have closed the doors of our building and made us all go home. But no matter where true believers are, you can't shut down their soul.
Bernadette Allen
#32. If your Bible tells you that gay people ought not be married in your church, don't tell them they can't be married at city hall. Marriage is a civil rite as well a civil right, and we can't let religious bigotry close the door to justice to anyone.
Julian Bond
#33. In the Church, and in the journey of faith, women have had and still have a special role in opening doors to the Lord.
Pope Francis
#34. I know married Catholics in a second union who go to church, who go to church once or twice a year and say I want communion, as if joining in Communion were an award. It's a work towards integration, all doors are open, but we cannot say, 'from here on they can have communion.'
Pope Francis
#35. If the churches don't move, much of the community won't move. We've got a situation in which a black church is still a major institution in the black community where 55 percent of the black folk attend and over 75 pass through its doors.
Cornel West
#36. Many of the girls wear simple dresses to church. We do not make a point of 'dressing up,' nor do we study one another to see what is being worn. Nor does God. It's our hearts He views as we enter the doors to His church. Not our clothing.
Janette Oke
#37. The universal brotherhood of man is our most precious possession.
Mark Twain
#38. I started in time-sharing and networking with packet switching, which was the precursor to what became the Internet. Time-shared use on packet-switch networks, when you think about it, is the cloud.
Audrey MacLean
#39. We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts have their root in Greece
Percy Bysshe Shelley
#40. On the ordination of women, the church has spoken and said no. John Paul II, in a definitive formulation said that door is closed.
Pope Francis
#41. Three courses open lie to wealth, to give, enjoy, or lose, Who shrinketh from the former two, perforce the third doth choose.
Bhartrhari
#42. The Atonement of Jesus Christ is real; it brings immortality to all and opens the door to eternal life. The gospel of Jesus Christ is again on the earth. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is true and living.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
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