Quotes About Church Buildings

#1. Surely God loves to get out of church buildings and go visit people where they hunger for reality.

Dylan Morrison

#2. 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

#3. We go to church buildings that still have a mortgage. Which means the bank owns God's house. Which means that we go and make love to God in a house that Satan owns!

Eddie Long

#4. Papa said that the parish priest in Abba was not spiritual enough. That was the problem with our people, Papa told us, our priorities were wrong; we cared too much about huge church buildings and mighty statues. You would never see white people doing that.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#5. For church buildings not to be enough is to build and equip church members to send them out

Sunday Adelaja

#6. We all claim to worship the same God, so why don't we fellowship together? ... The only thing that keeps us from fellowshiping together are the church buildings, the organizations.

Donnie McClurkin

#7. I love church buildings, particularly cathedrals, and I like living in spaces that remind me of music or evoke that creative energy.

Laura Mvula

#8. Hope is not some abstract, softheaded concept. It is an idea with an engine.

Don Maruska

#9. Oh God, friend breakups are the worst. The worst! And I've been through it. Basically, if you're over the age of 5, you've been through friend breakups.

Melissa Rivers

#10. Church wasn't designed by an architect (Technically, Jesus was a carpenter.). So why do we think of churches as buildings instead of groups of people who love Jesus?

Dillon Burroughs

#11. We are seeing lots of young people with melanoma. It's actually scared me quite a bit.

Michael Todd

#12. Siemens had to go to every deployment of their software worldwide and change the password. Getting

Ted Koppel

#13. About this time two new propositions entered Fat's mind, due to this particular conversation. 1) Some of those in power are insane. 2) And they are right.

Anonymous

#14. So many today are worshiping in the mountains, big churches, stone and frame buildings. But Jesus teaches that salvation is not in these stone structures-not in the mountains-not in the hills, but in God.

William J. Seymour

#15. The mathematicians know a great deal about very little and the physicists very little about a great deal.

Stanislaw Ulam

#16. Soap opera seems to be a dirty word, but actually they are the most popular shows we have. People want to know what happens next, people hate the villains and love the lovers. It's good, fun TV. But I wouldn't call 'Downton' a soap opera as such.

Dan Stevens

#17. For so many years, I've been an actor acting in other people's movies, and in 'Unstoppable,' I'm producing it, and I have an opportunity to create some of that excitement with style and form and different color templates and things like that. So, as an artist, it's really exciting.

Kirk Cameron

#18. Hark ye,'said the father, 'a bad-tempered man will never make a good-tempered horse. You've not learned your trade yet, Samson.

Anna Sewell

#19. I never realised that the Edinburgh skyline was so interesting - it's gothic and very urban and there's a lot of church spires and old brownstone buildings.

Jamie Bell

#20. The more I know about business, the more I'm convinced that it is conducted in homes and churches far more than in office buildings.

Jurgen E. Schrempp

#21. If you are in the country, you should notice landmarks - that is, objects which help you to find your way or prevent you getting lost, such as distant hills, church towers, and nearer objects, such as peculiar buildings, trees, gates, rocks, etc.

Robert Baden-Powell

#22. We don't have a lot of churches in America; we have a lot of really nice brick buildings on finely manicured lawns! Just because someone says they are of the Church or they are Christian, doesn't make it so.

Paul David Washer

#23. I don't believe God wants our church life to be centered on buildings and services. Instead, God wants our churches - whatever specific forms our gatherings take - to be focused on active discipleship, mission, and the pursuit of unity.

Francis Chan

#24. In short, the fragilista (medical, economic, social planning) is one who makes you engage in policies and actions, all artificial, in which the benefits are small and visible, and the side effects potentially severe and invisible.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#25. I shook my head. Maddie, it's more than a glass ball.

Embee

#26. He's sitting in the catbird seat.

Red Barber

#27. Being in Loyola College exposed me to other options and gave me confidence, apart from the freedom to bunk classes. I became a merchandiser and then a garment manufacturer, and interacting with foreign buyers and manufacturing foreign brands in India gave me a high.

Suriya

#28. Who had persuaded me that God preferred four walls and a roof to wide-open spaces? When had I made the subtle switch myself, becoming convinced that church bodies and buildings were the safest and most reliable places to encounter the living God?

Barbara Brown Taylor