Top 77 Church Inspirational Quotes
#1. I don't think that we should waste our time criticizing other people. Self-criticism allows us to be the best version of ourselves.
Braden Pedersen
#2. I grew up in a very spiritual home in a Liberty City neighborhood of Miami, FL. I was raised in the church, and my mother was a very inspirational person in my life.
Robert Battle
#3. A sad man, is man with the lights turned off.
Arsenie Boca
#4. With so much effort being poured into church growth, so much press being given to the benefits of faith, and so much flexing of religious muscle in the public square, the poor in spirit have no one but Jesus to call them blessed anymore.
Barbara Brown Taylor
#5. For years, the church has emphasized evangelism, teaching, fellowship, missions, and service to society to the neglect of the very source of its power
worship.
Robert E. Webber
#6. The world is my church. My actions are my prayer. My behavior is my creed.
Steve Maraboli
#7. People go to church for the same reasons they go to a tavern: to stupefy themselves, to forget their misery, to imagine themselves, for a few minutes anyway, free and happy.
Circular Letter to My Friends in Italy
Mikhail Bakunin
#8. Hundreds of young barefoot, long-haired, newly converted believers flocked to the church, and they brought their guitars with them.
Robert J. Morgan
#9. Life of any real value or substance is not formed during good times merely enjoyed.
John Paul Warren
#10. If she were Catholic, she could kneel, kneel and bow her head inside a church with brilliant stained-glass windows and streaks of golden light falling over her. Yes, oh yes, she would kneel and stretch out her arms, holding to her Amy and Dottie and Bev.
Elizabeth Strout
#11. Spiritual maturity is not measured by the years that you have spent in church, rather by your attitude before people different from you.
Paul Gitwaza
#12. Of course we're Christian. The very name of the church declares that. The more people see us and come to know us, the more I believe they will come to realize that we are trying to exemplify in our lives and in our living the great ideals which (Jesus Christ) taught.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#13. Religion and spirituality can easily be intertwined; however, there is a very distinct separation between the two.
Ricky Maye
#14. Man is the head of the family, just as Christ is the Head of the Church.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#15. True worship leaders worship the Lord at all times and use songs only when necessary.
Gangai Victor
#16. Just as a father hates cancer, because of what it does to his child, so God hates divorce, because of what it does to His children.
Kyle Idleman
#17. Faith can be stirred within the walls of church buildings, but faith is formed and nourished in the waiting rooms of hospitals, helplessly witnessing a thirty-one-year-old sister suffer, holding kids affected by the AIDS epidemic, and being stretched outside of our own social makeup.
Josh Ross
#18. I have concluded that the more we seek the Lord, with a passion for His worthiness, the more we are gripped with our neediness. Adoration cultivates desperation.
Daniel Henderson
#19. You don't need a Master's in Theology to love people.
D.R. Silva
#20. Yesterday is the last day of the past. Tomorrow is brimming with hope, so today is meant to lived large. Enjoy your moments!
David Grachek
#21. The Real Self is dangerous: dangerous to the established church, dangerous to the state, dangerous to the crowd, dangerous to tradition, because once a man knows his real self, he becomes an individual.
Osho
#22. We think being a Christian means to go to church on Sunday and trying to be good through the week. Now I see it means suffering, being willing to let the hard things happen to you, so that God can use us to do His work on this earth!
Kimberly L. Smith
#23. The Church is both organism and organization - Woven together in a beautifully messy dance that stumbles across the stage of a fallen world.
Todd Stocker
#24. I am accountable.
I am correctable.
I am transformable.
Presenting myself a living sacrifice to God.
By the love of God.
By the word of God.
Completely supplied in Christ Jesus.
Unto all good works.
Carlton T. Brown
#25. I have not learned a single lesson, been inspired or impacted by another person's life void of negative experiences.
John Paul Warren
#27. Jesus didn't just give hugs; He also gave a hammer. Paul didn't just pass on holy kisses; he also tirelessly dealt out swift and holy kicks to the rear end of the ancient church. The Bible has the manly stuff intact, and that is why it is such a great mystery how it got lost in the modern church.
Eric Ludy
#28. The future of the Church is in the hands of wisdom
Sunday Adelaja
#29. Do you treat strangers as good as you do your friends or church family? (Acts 10:34)
Amanda Penland
#30. If you aren't willing to fight for what you believe in, then you don't really believe in it. Faith is a verb.
Kellen Roggenbuck
#31. If we ever forget that we're one nation under God, then we will be one nation gone under.
Ronald Reagan
#32. The Word that will change a man must first show the man who he really is.
Christian Michael
#33. Coming to the END of MYSELF and all SELF effort ... seems to be the very point that God steps in and shows HIMSELF to be more than ENOUGH.
John Paul Warren
#34. You go to church to respect God, not the priest. By not going to church, you disrespect God, not the priest.
- Don Camillo
Giovannino Guareschi
#35. Well, I'm going to church. But i've got to tell you that it's full of hypocrites.
My friend, if you keep your eyes on Christians, you will be disappointed every day of your life. Your hope is to keep your eyes on Christ.
Jan Karon
#36. Why does it seem that the church is more interested in people involvement rather than people engagement.
Todd Stocker
#37. You can wake up every day looking forward to new adventures with hope smiling brightly before you because you have a Savior. You are baptized in His Church ... You just need to stay in, pressing forward with a brightness of hope to your heavenly home.
Julie B. Beck
#38. What we see taking place in the church today is the reduction of God to an idol.
Peter Rollins
#39. The real architect of a life is the hard and almost impossible circumstances one faces.
John Paul Warren
#40. Look not to legislatures and churches for your guidance, nor to any soulless incorporated bodies, but to inspirited or inspired ones.
Henry David Thoreau
#41. Growing up, in church we had the homily; at home it's what I call the 'momily' - the inspirational and instructive mom-isms that every family has.
Christine Pelosi
#42. Many believe that the Vatican withheld important parts of the Third Secret, perhaps because its contents were too dangerous to reveal...
Peter J. Tanous
#43. The contemporary church is so often a weak, ineffectual voice with an uncertain sound. It is so often the arch supporter of the status quo.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#44. [R]eal prayer is not an excuse for laziness but, in fact, is one of the most arduous engagements I know of in ministry. Prayer is not a replacement for hard work but, in most cases, empowerment for even more fruitful work.
Daniel Henderson
#46. Truly embracing the fragility and tensions of life ... brings with it the possibility of true joy.
Peter Rollins
#47. Life seems to be fashioned and formed best out of the obstacles that seem unbearable.
John Paul Warren
#48. Your religion is not what you do on Sunday. It is how you live Monday through Saturday.
Shannon L. Alder
#49. Then the singing enveloped me. It was furry and resonant, coming from everyone's very heart. There was no sense of performance or judgment, only that the music was breath and food.
Anne Lamott
#50. This book is about a salvation that takes place within our unknowing and dissatisfaction,
Peter Rollins
#51. We were so created to worship God that it is probably embedded in our spiritual DNA itself!
Gangai Victor
#52. There has never been a meaningful life built on easy street.
John Paul Warren
#53. We are weak Christians simply because we have refused to be bondservants of Christ
Paul Gitwaza
#54. Your trials equal the power of God that works in you. If your battles are intense, then what God has deposited in you is deep.
Paul Gitwaza
#56. The end product of the successful preacher's input is transformation.
Christian Michael
#57. Whatcha doing, Lieu?" she asked cautiously. "Praying," he muttered. "I suck at it."
"Your doing it wrong," she said flatly. "I'm not big on church, but I'm pretty sure you're supposed to do it with a friend.
Amy Lane
#58. Now, there are things I like just fine about church, and I don't just mean making money. The notion of getting together as a community to remind ourselves why we shouldn't behave like animals is a fucking great idea.
Nick Offerman
#59. The nearer to the church, the further from God.
John Heywood
#60. The deepest reason why the Church is weak and the world is dying is that there are not enough saints. No, that's not quite honest. The reason is that WE are not saints.
Peter Kreeft
#61. Surely you know that if a man can't be cured of churchgoing, the next best thing is to send him all over the neighbourhood looking for the church that "suits" him until he becomes a taster or connoisseur of churches.
C.S. Lewis
#62. Dad never went to church. Here, in waning rain and emerging sunshine, was his church. It was the abiding experience of the day, converted in the instant into boundless existential expression -- bold, cold, subtle, warm, fleeting and timeless -- a dance of natural opposites.
George Heuston
#63. The operation of the Church is entirely set up for the sinner; which creates much misunderstanding among the smug.
(August 9, 1955)
Flannery O'Connor
#66. Some of the most unkind,judgmental people I've ever known go to church every Sunday and read the Bible.
I don't know how some people are able to
disassociate their own cruelty and shortcomings from their religious obligations and convictions, but many are able to do that.
Judith McNaught
#67. People who say we are just preaching "extreme grace" must not understand how extremely gracious our Father is.
D.R. Silva
#68. All Christians are in ministry. Sometimes, they're in church work.
Todd Stocker
#69. One should not seek among others the truth that can be easily gotten from the Church. For in her, as in a rich treasury, the apostles have placed all that pertains to truth, so that everyone can drink this beverage of life. She is the door of life.
Irenaeus Of Lyons
#70. If the church of today does not recapture the sacrificial spirit of the early church, it will lose its authentic ring, forfeit the loyalty of millions, and be dismissed as an irrelevant social club with no meaning for the twentieth century.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#71. Don't ask God to show you the way if you're not willing to get moving.
Kellen Roggenbuck
#72. I was astonished to learn in one of these best-selling books (on church life) that the size of my church parking lot had far more to do with how things fared in my congregation than my choice of texts in preaching. I was being lied to and I knew it.
Eugene H. Peterson
#73. Our real beliefs are generally not to be found at the level of ego.
Peter Rollins
#74. Leaders in OVER their heads is the mere result of getting ahead of their intended SEASON.
John Paul Warren
#75. Building a prayer culture takes time. . . and relentless pressure over time. I often say that it is much more a crock pot than a microwave.
Daniel Henderson
#76. I don't care what it looks, I don't care what it feels like, I believe God.
Michelle Cook-Hall
#77. . 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
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