Leaving The Church Quotes

#1. It's all so verbal in the Protestant church. You've heard these words a million times before. Maybe people are leaving the church because they find the church has nothing that they're looking for.

Frederick Buechner

#2. People are leaving the church and going back to God.

Lenny Bruce

#3. Those on the verge of leaving the church do not want to be told the answers. They want to be invited into the conversation of seeking what is life-giving, truthful, and consistent with the person and ministry of Jesus.

Wendy Vanderwal-Gritter

#4. Respectable Protestant denominations retreated inside...leaving...unaffiliated madwomen to evangelize alfresco...

Sara Miles

#5. I missed my teenage years. I was never a teenager.

Jonas Mekas

#6. Most people will not be persuaded to become Christians except in their "heart language.

Flavil R. Yeakley Jr.

#7. This world demands the qualities of youth; not a time of life but a state of mind, a temper of the will, a quality of the imagination, a predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the life of ease.

Robert F. Kennedy

#8. The blood of Jesus did not merely "cover" the sins of your wicked heart ... leaving a stain! It completely remove them all wiping them out as if they never existed there in the first place! It's called redemption!

John Paul Warren

#9. The church has gotten it wrong a few times on science, and I think that we probably are better off leaving science to the scientists and focusing on what we do - what we're really good at, which is - which is theology and morality.

Rick Santorum

#10. Most people leaving church still see the need for some kind of community. We shouldn't think most of them as interested in lone-ranger Christianity. Often, these ex-churchgoers meet together for prayer, accountability, and encouragement.

Kevin DeYoung

#11. There is no such thing as paranoia. Your worst fears can come true at any moment.

Hunter S. Thompson

#12. African church is a fusion of half bible truth and abundance of superstition, the latter aspect, leaving nothing remaining for the oracle.

Aihebholo-oria Okonoboh

#13. The mind loves telling stories; in fact, it never stops.

Russ Harris

#14. Music can bring about different vibes on the field, off the field, urban life, going to church, leaving church. Everything the world may bring, there's a song for it to put you in the right frame of mind.

Cam Newton

#15. Tobias said.

I nodded and wiped away my tears. "Yeah," I said. "Until then, we fight.

K.A. Applegate

#16. Little children, love one another.

Richard J. Foster

#17. Through the mad mystic hammering of the wild ripping hail the sky cracked its poems in naked wonder, that the clinging of the church bells blew far into the breeze, leaving only bells of lightning and its thunder

Bob Dylan

#18. My head was a condemned church with a ceiling of bats, but I swung from this dark mood to euphoria when I thought about leaving.

Dave Eggers