Quotes About Empty Churches

#1. Young and old will sit and judge unfeeling, while the empty churches' bells are pealing. And the green hills lay ignored, untended, lonely watchers remain unbefriended.

Pete Townshend

#2. Wherever you've got a state church, you have empty churches.

Rodney Stark

#3. In revival, God is not concerned about filling empty churches, He is concerned about filling empty hearts.

Leonard Ravenhill

#4. He was looking forward to this about as much as one would look forward to a tooth extraction, or perhaps a vasectomy. A colonoscopy? He pondered a list of horrific things that could possibly be less painful than a week-long royal wedding.

Jessica Clare

#5. I usually spend Valentines Day with my friends. But if I did have a girlfriend, I'd bring her flowers and candy.

Zac Efron

#6. [On Christianity:] Its lip-service and its empty rites have made it the easiest of all tasks for the usurer to cloak his cruelties, the miser to hide his avarice, the lawyer to condone his lies, the sinner of all social sins to purchase the social immunity from them by outward deference to churches.

Ouida

#7. God fixed my heart, so I could bless yours.

Brian Littrell

#8. It's essential that we learn how to defend the Bible and the Christian faith for our sake and our children's. If we don't, the empty and obsolete churches in England will foreshadow the future in America.

Ken Ham

#9. But how odd that in this heathen nation of empty pews, where churches' bare, ruined choirs are converted into luxury loft living, a Labour government - yes, a Labour government - is deliberately creating a huge expansion of faith schools.

Polly Toynbee

#10. No churches are empty, where the doctrines of the reformation are duly urged, with purity and energy, upon the people's minds.(Rowland Hill)

Edwin Sidney

#11. The problem is not that the churches are filled with empty pews, but that the pews are filled with empty people.

Charlie W Shedd

#12. Thats what her cars do," Lula said. "They explode. But I gotta tell you this was the best. This here's the first time she exploded a garbage truck. One time her truck got hit with an antitank missile. That wasn't bad either, but it couldn't compare to this.

Janet Evanovich

#13. Everyone feels sad occasionally. A full range of emotions is part of what makes us human.

Michael Greger

#14. I like church. It's empty when I go. I walk around. There are so many beautiful Catholic churches in New York.

Andy Warhol

#15. It was a spectral Manhattan, a double-exposed landscape where the past folded back over on itself in overlapping decades.

Joe Schreiber

#16. The Eucharist is everything, because from the Eucharist, everything is

Peter Julian Eymard

#17. People say churches are half empty, they're not, they're too big

Sean Lock

#18. I may play the fool at times, but I'm more than just a pretty blond boy with an ass that won't quit.

Charles Macaulay