Denomination Quotes

#1. No political party can or ought to exist when one of its corner-stones is opposition to freedom of thought and to the right to worship God "according to the dictate of one's own conscience," or according to the creed of any religious denomination whatever.

Ulysses S. Grant

#2. "Jesus said to 5 of 7 churches, "Repent or Else." That should be the focus of every pastor, denomination. We are headed for the OR ELSE."

Michael Catt

#3. The church is far greater than [a building or denomination]. It includes the whole family of God - that vast unseen fellowship of men and women throughout the ages who belong to Christ. Paul wrote of "God's household, which is the church of the living God" [1 Timothy 3:15 NIV).

Billy Graham

#4. Most talk of a catholic spirit but it is only till they have been brought into the pale of their own church. This is downright sectarianism, not Catholicism. How can I act consistently, unless I receive and love all the children of God, whom I esteem to be such, of whatever denomination they may be?

George Whitefield

#5. My music is kind of laid back, it doesn't have super crispy, shiny production, and I'm not singing my heart out or whatever. But that whole idea of blogs declaring: "this is the new denomination for this sound" is ridiculous to me.

Mac DeMarco

#6. In 1962 (Engel v. Vitale), the Supreme Court explained that the word 'church' would no longer mean a federally established denomination; it would now mean a religious activity in public.

David Barton

#7. TV evangelists say they don't favor any particular
denomination, but I think we've all seen their eyes
light up at tens and twenties.

Dennis Miller

#8. I know this, and I know it from actual experience in the Orient, that the progress of modern Christian civilization has largely depended on the earnest hard work of the Christian missions of every denomination.

William Howard Taft

#9. PSG Vestments is a leading vestments and cassock manufacturing company since 1976. We specialize in making customized cassock. We have world wide shipping facility. We make cassock in all denomination.

Anderson

#10. Faith encompasses so much more than a denomination!

Deborah Brodie

#11. You may have your diploma from a seminary, ordained by a Bishop, or commissioned by a denomination but ONLY God can "mark" a man.

John Paul Warren

#12. But as nearly every denomination in the United States faces declining membership and waning influence, Christians may need to get used to the idea of measuring significance by something other than money, fame, and power. No one ever said the fruit of the Spirit is relevance or impact or even revival

Rachel Held Evans

#13. Fear is the denomination of the Old Testament; belief is the denomination of the New.

Benjamin Whichcote

#14. In selecting men for office, let principle be your guide. Regard not the particular sect or denomination of the candidate - look to his character.

Noah Webster

#15. I tried not to laugh. I thought about how my Southern Baptist friends would respond to the suggestion that their entire denomination was making people gay.

Justin Lee

#16. We have to dissolve all the denominations in order to form from them the greater denomination of the homeland.

Ameen Rihani

#17. The Founders never intended to separate Christianity from government, only to keep a single denomination from running the nation.

David Barton

#18. There is something sadly wrong when it is more important to us whether others are a part of our denomination, rather than whether they repent of sin, believe on Christ and live holy lives.

J.C. Ryle

#19. In America you have the right to worship any way you choose. That's why virtually every faith and every denomination on Earth has a presence in our land. You have a right to not believe in God at all.

Marco Rubio

#20. This informal "pre-exclusion" is probably the more powerful and widely exerted form in many churches. It is in my denomination. As the divorced and remarried don't seek communion at a Roman Catholic parish, gays and lesbians don't seek to participate in most evangelical churches.

Ken Wilson

#21. Tragically, from the Orthodox point of view, we only too often convert people not to this one church, the body of Christ, but to our own denomination, at the same time imparting to them the "poison of division" (Nissiotis 1968:198).

David J. Bosch

#22. Mormons can testify whether I am willing to lay down my life for a Mormon; If it has been demonstrated that I have been willing to die for a Mormon I am bold to declare before heaven that I am just as ready to die for a Presbyterian, a baptist or any other denomination.

Joseph Smith Jr.

#23. Even people who don't share my specific faith (denomination, beliefs, etc.) are typically enthusiastic about my profession of faith in God and my commitment to living to God-given standards.

Zig Ziglar

#24. The Founders intended only to prevent the establishment of a single national denomination, not to restrain public religious expressions.

David Barton

#25. This is a paradox of Whitefield's legacy: evangelicalism draws people of different churches while dividing those within the same denomination.

Melanie Ross

#26. To divide a cube into two other cubes, a fourth power, or in general any power whatever into two powers of the same denomination above the second is impossible, and I have assuredly found an admirable proof of this, but the margin is too narrow to contain it.

Pierre De Fermat

#27. It's a curious thing in American life that the most abject nonsense will be excused if the utterer can claim the sanction of religion. A country which forbids an established church by law is prey to any denomination. The best that can be said is that this is pluralism of a kind.

Christopher Hitchens

#28. Freedom of religion, as the Founding Fathers saw it, was not just the right to associate oneself with a certain denomination but the right to disassociate without penalty. Belief or nonbelief was a matter of individual choice - a right underwritten in the basic charter of the nation's liberties.

Norman Cousins

#29. While the train racketed along, he sorted his currency into envelopes that he'd brought from home - each envelope clearly marked with a different denomination. (No fumbling with unfamiliar coins, no peering at misleading imprints, if you separate and classify foreign money ahead of time.)

Anne Tyler

#30. Any denomination or church group that forsakes inerrancy will end up shipwrecked. It is impossible to prevent the surrender of other important doctrinal teachings of the Word of God when inerrancy is gone.

Francis Schaeffer

#31. God does not deal with denomination, He deals with nomination and conformation for a higher life.

Vincent Ameh

#32. What this denomination stands for is, really, is the universal vision of all people being treated fairly under the law as God sees us in His sight.

Clementa C. Pinckney

#33. If you talk about race, it does not make you a racist. If you see distinctions between the genders, it does not make you a sexist. If you think critically about a denomination, it does not make you anti-religion. If you accept but don't celebrate homosexuality, it does not make you a homophobe.

Charlton Heston

#34. I was raised Catholic and I'm Presbyterian now, but I've always been a Christian, regardless of denomination. I believe that Jesus is the way.

Patricia Heaton

#35. May the life I live speak for me, not my religion or denomination title.

Dee Dee M. Scott

#36. Church history has repeatedly and clearly proven one thing: Once the highest view of Scripture is abandoned by any theologian, group, denomination, or church, the downhill slide in both its theology and practice is inevitable.

James R. White

#37. After lengthy consideration, my views have evolved sufficiently to support marriage equality legislation. This position doesn't require any religious denomination to alter any of its tenets; it simply forbids government from discrimination regarding who can marry whom.

Tim Johnson

#38. Your denomination is not defined by a style. So don't let style become a point of contention.

Ed Stetzer

#39. I have a couple of long, funky necklaces I enjoy, some chunky rings, a few big bracelets to cover my wrist tattoo when I'm speaking at First (fill-in-the-denomination) Church, USA.

Jen Hatmaker

#40. There are two traditions in Northern Ireland. There are two main religious denominations. But there is only one true moral denomination. And it wants peace.

David Trimble

#41. We view men's gifts as vital to the church. In contrast, we caution women to exercise their gifts discreetly to avoid causing problems or trespassing some invisible line - which changes location from church to church, sometimes even within the same denomination.

Carolyn Custis James

#42. For many years, the work advanced but slowly. One denomination after another embarked in the undertaking; and now, American missionaries are seen in almost every land and every clime.

Adoniram Judson

#43. When a denomination begins to consider doctrine divisive, theology troublesome, and convictions inconvenient, consider that denomination on its way to a well-deserved death.

Albert Mohler

#44. My wife is Greek. I was a non-denomination Christian before we got married.

Troy Polamalu

#45. No religious reading, instruction or exercise, shall be prescribed or practiced [in the elementary schools] inconsistent with the tenets of any religious sect or denomination.

Thomas Jefferson

#46. The Court abandoned the traditional constitutional meaning of 'religion' as a single denomination or system of worship and instead substituted a new 'modern' concept which even now remains vague and nebulous, having changed several times in recent years.

David Barton

#47. If you have a film that's talking about God, you would think that it would appeal to people that consider themselves religious, whatever denomination they're attached to.

John Curran

#48. It is easy to forget, since the Catholic Church is now the only large American religious denomination whose ecclesiastical hierarchy continues to oppose birth control, that only a century ago the leaders of nearly all churches were united in their resistance to any public discussion of the subject.

Susan Jacoby

#49. We are the same. There is no difference anywhere in the world. People are people. They laugh, cry, feel, and love, and music seems to be the commons denomination that brings us all together. Music cuts through all boundaries and goes right to the soul.

Willie Nelson

#50. The liberality of sentiment toward each other, which marks every political and religious denomination of men in this country, stands unparalleled in the history of nations.

George Washington

#51. All civil rights and the right to hold office were to be extended to persons of any Christian denomination.

Roger Sherman

#52. That I am not a member of any Christian church is true; but I have never denied the truth of the Scriptures, and I have never spoken with intentional disrespect of religion in general, or of any denomination of Christians in particular.

Abraham Lincoln

#53. I don't consider myself any denomination.

Antonio Sabato Jr.

#54. I grew up Protestant. My dad was a Charismatic pastor of the Families of God denomination. Often, we noticed that - during a lot of his evangelistic-type services - that some of the Amish and Old Order Mennonite couples would come and stand across the street from the church and look in the door.

Beverly Lewis

#55. It was Dr. Donald Grey Barnhouse who said that simply because a person is a member of a specific denomination, there is no reason to suppose that the entire denomination is represented by that person's theology,

Walter Ralston Martin

#56. We no longer find out identity or value in having the right theology or being a part of the right denomination.

Brandan Roberston

#57. Where any one body of educated men, of whatever denomination, are condemned indiscriminately, there must be a deficiency of information, (or smiling) of something else.

Jane Austen

#58. I define God as an energy - a spiritual energy. It has no denomination. It has no judgments.

Debbie Ford

#59. Who made man the exclusive judge, if woman partake with him the gift of reason?
In this style, argue tyrants of every denomination, from the weak king to the weak father of a family; they are all eager to crush reason; yet always assert that they usurp its throne only to be useful.

Mary Wollstonecraft

#60. There's not a denomination in the world that didn't spring from a revival.

D.L. Moody

#61. I'm a firm believer in God himself, but that's as far as I can go. I'm not any denomination. I'm not Catholic or Presbyterian or Baptist or Methodist or Jewish or Muslim. I'm none of those things. And I'm sure that's just fine with God.

Ray Charles

#62. I don't belong to any denomination or religion, I just belong to God.

Akiane Kramarik

#63. One of the characteristics of sects is that they judge all other believers to be lost. What they claim, in effect is, "Unless you agree with me on all issues that I define as essential, you cannot be saved.

Flavil R. Yeakley Jr.

#64. A major gap between many of the denominations stems from how people define some of the most basic terms, such as 'religion' itself.

Criss Jami