Go To Church Quotes

#1. I go to church every Sunday, which is like going to the gas station once a week and really, really filling up.

Anne Lamott

#2. My grandmother, she say I shouldn't be playing. I should go to church. Fially, I say I'm going do this, I'm going do it. And she got where she didn't bother me about it.

Muddy Waters

#3. Mum was a tremendous Anglo-Catholic. Very impressive, actually. She made me go to church for years - I still don't want to because of that.

Jane Gardam

#4. Reminded of favorite poem by Wendy Cope which goes:
At Christmas little children sing and merry bells jingle.
The cold winter air makes our hands and faces tingle.
And happy families go to church and cheerily they mingle,
And the whole business is unbelievably dreadful if you're single.

Helen Fielding

#5. Obviously I don't really go to church any more - no time.

Kimbra

#6. When I was a kid in Michigan, I used to play ball with a town team on Sunday. Of course, I'd go to church first. Played the church organ, as a matter of fact.

Larry MacPhail

#7. My wife and I like to go to church if we're in town. On Sundays, I try to be as chill as I can, whether I'm watching golf or barbecuing.

Josh Duhamel

#8. I was raised Catholic and I have a lot of respect for the good in the Catholic Church. But I don't go to church.

Dolores O'Riordan

#9. I consider myself spiritual and I'm married to a man who is both an atheist and a humanist, and my kids have been raised with the traditions of different religions, but they do not go to church or temple. My feeling is that everyone should be able to believe what they want or need to believe.

Jodi Picoult

#10. God is not calling us to go to church; he is calling us to be his church, the hope of the world.

Craig Groeschel

#11. Some people maybe try to justify their laziness. You take out what you put in and the more I go to church and the more I turn myself over to the process of believing in Jesus, and to listening to his word and have him guide my hand I feel the pressure's off me.

Sylvester Stallone

#12. They sounded like intestines, only on the outside, and the men in the Bible were always having them cut off and not being able to go to church. Horrid.

Jeanette Winterson

#13. Church tax exemption means that we all drop our money in the collection boxes, whether we go to church or not and whether we are interested in the church or not. It is systematic and complete robbery, from which none of us escapes.

E. Haldeman-Julius

#14. My friends, it is one thing to go to church or chapel; it is quite another thing to go to God.

Charles Spurgeon

#15. I once heard a preacher who sorely tempted me to go to church no more.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#16. I've grown so much since 1996. I think that was the turning point of when I started to go to church every Sunday and not just because you're supposed to. But because you enjoy going and listening to the Word and being excited about it.

Lisa Leslie

#17. The two great moments in human history are the day that Christ was born and the day He was raised from the dead. These are represented by Christmas and Easter - the two biggest holidays for the church. People who don't even go to church do go on these days.

Louie Giglio

#18. In Britain, when someone says they do not believe in God, they stop going to church. In the U.S., many who may have doubts about Christian orthodoxy may continue to go to church. They do so because they assume that a vague god vaguely prayed to is the god that is needed to support family and nation.

Stanley Hauerwas

#19. If we go to church we are confronted with a system of begging so complicated and so resolute that all other demands sink into insignificance by its side.

Agnes Repplier

#20. Where I'm from, you're a square if you go to church or if you decide to read the Koran or Bible.

Lamar Odom

#21. education and money. I go to church with the kids for the same reason Genie and I play our grandchildren classical music and litter the floors and chairs all over our home with open art books. Jack, age three, eats his lunch with a big Goya book propped in front of him asking for the

Frank Schaeffer

#22. One of them is probably Michael, I think. All I have to do to find my dad is go to church.

Cynthia Hand

#23. read your Bible, go to church, say your prayers, and ask God to take care of you; then you need never fear dreams or anything else, for you must always remember that God has more power than the devil, and always will have.

Walter Hubbell

#24. I was raised in a Catholic school, and I would always go to church on Sunday, and I would hear the same music over and over and over and over again, same gospels, hymns, everything.

Charlie Puth

#25. I've been troubled with weak moments lately, 'tis true. I've been drinky once this month already, and I did not go to church a-Sunday, and I dropped a curse or two yesterday; so I don't want to go too far for my safety. Your next world is your next world, and not to be squandered offhand." "I

Thomas Hardy

#26. I hate phrases like that. "Jesus vocab," El would call them. Things you learn in church that are hammered into you until they're so normal that you expect everyone else who doesn't go to church to know what you mean.

Julie Murphy

#27. I go to church because I am a skeptic in regard to my own skepticism.

Henryk Sienkiewicz

#28. Many so-called spiritual people, they overeat, drink too much, they smoke and don't exercise. But they do go to church every week and pray 'Please help my arthritis. Please help me bring up my strength, make me young again.'

Jack LaLanne

#29. It's really important to me to go to church, which is sometimes tough when I get back from road trips late on Saturday night, but I try to make it a priority to go every week.

Jeremy Lin

#30. When I'm on stage, I'm trying to do one thing: bring people joy. Just like church does. People don't go to church to find trouble, they go there to lose it.

James Brown

#31. The thing that brings people to wail at a wall, or face Mecca, or to go to church, is a search for that feeling of purity.

Michael J. Fox

#32. This heretical perversion of the message of Jesus that most often passes for Christianity today has been aptly termed churchianity. People go to church, profess a belief in Jesus totally devoid of a belief in his teachings, and then self-righteously proclaim themselves to be "Christians.

Robert S. McElvaine

#33. For a man to argue, 'I don't go to church; I pray alone,' is no wiser than if he should say, 'I have no use for symphonies; I believe only in solo music.'

George Arthur Buttrick

#34. A lot of people who are religious, I think they get lost. They go to church just to go to church.

Justin Bieber

#35. A lot of kids, when they go to church, they don't really pay much attention to what they're saying or whatever.

Billy Bob Thornton

#36. Nothing agrees with me. If I drink coffee, it gives me dyspepsia; if I drink wine, it gives me the gout; if I go to church, it gives me dysentery.

Mark Twain

#37. The Foxy character and Inga Marchand are two different people. My fiance calls me Inga. No one around me calls me Foxy. I go to church every Sunday. I go to Bible study every Friday night. I'm saved.

Foxy Brown

#38. There warn't anybody at the church, except maybe a hog or two, for there warn't any lock on the door, and hogs likes a puncheon floor in summer-time because it's cool. If you notice, most folks don't go to church only when they've got to; but a hog is different.

Mark Twain

#39. 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

#40. And you know, we'd go to church. We were Baptists. And every now and then there'd be a tent would set up, and it was the Holiness folks. And we liked their music.

Mel Tillis

#41. 897Archer lifted his gaze heavenward as he tilted the dun-colored hat back on his head. "I say my prayers," Archer sighed. "I go to church when I can and I even take old women to the grocery store when they need me to. And this is the thanks I get.

Lora Leigh

#42. Lots of Orthodox go to church every Sunday but don't know much about the faith. Yet they know that there is something that they don't know much about.

Frederica Mathewes-Green

#43. I'm more spiritual than I am religious. I don't go to church; I go to the beach.

Paula Deen

#44. Never wait for fitter time or place to talk to Him. To wait till thou go to church or to thy closet is to make Him wait. He will listen as thou walkest.

George MacDonald

#45. The biggest cause of society's change today is that people no longer believe in orthodox religion. They go to church, but they no longer believe in God.

Li Hongzhi

#46. The problem with thinking "we go to church" is that it gives us a consumer mindset: I'm looking for a church that meets my needs. I need a good church that will help me.

Craig Groeschel

#47. You don't go to church to find God; you bring him with you - attitude.

Shannon L. Alder

#48. 160 million-plus people call themselves Christians. They go to church once a month at least. That's a lot of people.

David A.R. White

#49. More men go to church than want to.

Mark Twain

#50. My mother wanted me to go to church to meet women. That's wrong, ain't it? 'Praise the Lord! Hey, how ya doing? Nice dress. Look, I'm going to go over there and get some of this wine and crackers, want some?'

Warren Hutcherson

#51. It's not about going to church every week because you know there's a lot of people who go to church all of the time who aren't going to heaven. It's not even about that, it's not about kissing God's ass, it's about being aware.

Ryan Montgomery

#52. [Conservatives] go to church, they do lots of things for free for each other. They hold potluck dinners ... They serve food to poor people. They share, they give, they give away for free. It's the very same people leading Wall Street firms who, on Sundays, show up and share.

Lawrence Lessig

#53. Where there is real love one wants to go to church first.

Rebecca West

#54. For example, I was a White House intern the summer before I dropped out of law school. Everybody knew about it. I'd come home and go to church and everybody would say, 'Oh, my God. Demetri, you're working at the White House.'

Demetri Martin

#55. If you want to get healthy, you just might not want to go to a doctor. You might instead, go to church.

Mark Hyman

#56. I don't have to go to church. The church is within me and the experience is my own. It's my life experience.

Mariel Hemingway

#57. She started walking toward me and perfect white teeth caught her full bottom lip between them. I'd fantasized about those lips way too many times. She'd barely covered up her long tanned legs with a pair of shorts that made me want to go to church this Sunday just to thank God for creating her.

Abbi Glines

#58. My credentials, briefly: I no longer go to church or believe in God, but I can still name every one of the fruits of the Spirit and reeled for days upon hearing the announcement that Audio Adrenaline was reunited with one of the singers from DC Talk.

Mallory Ortberg

#59. I think in a lot of network television, everyone's vaguely Protestant and doesn't really go to church so they can be 'relatable.'

Rachel Bloom

#60. The question is not, do we go to church; the question is, have we been converted. The crux of Christianity is not whether or not we give donations to popular charities but whether or not we are really committed to the poor.

Joan D. Chittister

#61. It would be easier for the Devil to go to church and cross himself with holy water than for these people to comprehend the ideas which are accepted facts to us today.

Adolf Hitler

#62. There are days when I go to church just for the chance to maybe see her smile at me.

Frank Warren

#63. 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

#64. Ethan Wate: What I can't figure is, you go to church everyday, how do you believe in all of this and still believe in God?
Amma: God created all things didn't he? Only man will decide which ones is mistakes. - Beautiful Creatures

Kami Garcia

#65. Just because you go to church doesn't mean you're a Christian. I can go sit in the garage all day and it doesn't make me a car

Joyce Meyer

#66. I was green. All I knew was to walk my dog and go to church.

Jessica Hahn

#67. I am a God-fearing man. In fact, I don't go to church because I'm afraid I'll run into him there.

Matthew Diamond

#68. The more members of the clergy that are out there working to expand their congregations, the more people will go to church.

Rodney Stark

#69. My mother always used to say, 'Well, if you had been born a little girl growing up in Egypt, you would go to church or go to worship Allah, but surely if those people are worshipping a God, it must be the same God' - that's what she always said. The same God with different names.

Jane Goodall

#70. When you go to church, if the pastor at some point doesn't make you laugh, he probably ain't gonna make you join.

R. Kelly

#71. Coming from the cotton plantation, the southern regions, I was brought up with real nice kids, mannered kids, who would go to church on Sunday.

Luther Allison

#72. I don't go to church so much, but I do believe in God and I understand the consequences of faith.

Usain Bolt

#73. Many people who no longer go to church end up falling prey to superstition.

Umberto Eco

#74. I'm getting old, don't wear underwear, and I don't go to church.

Jimmy Buffett

#75. I don't necessarily go to church every week, but I am a Christian, and I believe in God and Jesus Christ.

Andrew Forrest

#76. If you go to Atlanta, the first question people ask you is, "What's your business?" In Macon they ask, "Where do you go to church?" In Augusta they ask your grandmother's maiden name. But in Savannah the first question people ask you is "What would you like to drink?

John Berendt

#77. I always go to church on Sundays and Bible study on Tuesdays.

Lil' Kim

#78. The reason most people don't go to church is because they've already been.

Mark Twain

#79. Mom and Dad would stay in bed on Sunday morning, but the kids would have to go to church.

Lynn Johnston

#80. My parents are pretty religious, devout, but did they force it on me? No, I don't think so. I still think of myself as a Lutheran, just one who doesn't go to church.

Kristen Schaal

#81. The worlds of folklore and religion were so mingled in early twentieth venture German culture that even families who didn't go to church were often deeply Christian.

Eric Metaxas

#82. I grew tired of religion some time not long after birth. I believe in people, I believe in humans, I believe in a car, but I don't believe something I can't have absolutely no evidence of for millenniums. And it's funny, people think analysis or psychiatry is mad, and they go to church ...

John Malkovich

#83. It is better to go skiing and think of God, than go to church and think of sport.

Fridtjof Nansen

#84. I go to church strapped with a 45 glock.

Master P

#85. If you are rushed for time, sow time and you will reap time. Go to church and spend a quiet hour in prayer. You will have more time than ever and your work will get done. Sow time with the poor. Sit and listen to them, give them your time lavishly. You will reap time a hundredfold.

Dorothy Day

#86. What I miss today more than anything else - I don't go to church as much anymore - but that old-time religion, that old singing, that old praying which I love so much. That is the great strength of my being, of my writing.

Ernest Gaines

#87. I still follow the lifestyle of the Mormon church. I try to go to church every Sunday even when I'm on tour. It's not only my upbringing, but it helps me stay sane. It helps me remember my purpose and the overall picture of what is important to me and what makes me happy.

Lindsey Stirling

#88. I'm agnostic because I went through the usual process of parents insisting you go to church, and yet they didn't. So there's me, sitting in the chairs, thinking, 'Jeez, why am I here? I'd rather be playing tennis, seriously.'

Ridley Scott

#89. I am spiritual but not massively religious, and I don't go to church. If someone said 'What religion are you?' I would say 'Christian.' But I don't practice.

Sophia Myles

#90. See, that why I ain't go to church. Figger I got me a church wherever I be. Want'a talk to God, well I say, 'howdy-howdy, God,' and we jaw fer a bit.' - Jimmy 'Diamond' Skinner

David Baldacci

#91. Free healthcare and free and equal education and peace are about the only things I passionately believe in, and I think if you don't believe in those but you go to church on Sunday then that's hypocris.

Robert Montgomery

#92. We may go to church once a week, but our Christian life is daily - step-by-step.

David Jeremiah

#93. Declining to go to church with my parents in the morning, I would ostentatiously set out for the Monist Society in the afternoon, down an obscure street which it seemed a little improper to be walking on, as everything was closed for Sunday, upstairs through a sort of side entrance over a saloon.

Susan Glaspell

#94. If you can get a spiritual connection without going to church, why go to church?.

Brian Kenny

#95. My parents got my sister and I to go to church and have piano lessons. We were keen and they could see that.

Gordon Lightfoot

#96. I was an outcast growing up with a bunch of Christian people. My father didn't go to church, and that was not good news if you lived right in the middle of it.

Del Shannon

#97. If you go to church, and like the singing better than the preaching, that's not orthodox.

E.W. Howe

#98. My children have absolutely no interest in my fame. They're very sophisticated, and they have a spiritual perspective on material things because we go to church.

Val Kilmer

#99. A lot of the time when I go to church, people want to take pictures. They want you to sign autographs. So I don't go all the time. I go once in a blue moon. Every once in a blue moon.

Floyd Mayweather Jr.

#100. There is power through prayer. For many Christians, prayer is nothing special, just something we're supposed to do - go to church, tithe, read the Bible, pray. But prayer should be so much more than an item on our "to do" lists.

Edward McKendree Bounds