Top 100 Quotes About Going To Church
#1. I didn't think at all as a young child that music would be my profession. It was just something that one did along with going to Brownies or going to church or going to school or anything else that one did in sort of one's very young life.
Jessye Norman
#2. To a true believer, death is but going to church: from the church below to the church above.
Augustus Toplady
#3. I used to go to church when I was younger. My parents didn't go to church, but my friends all went to church and I loved going to church - I would go every Sunday with somebody. My parents used to think it was funny.
Lisa Rinna
#4. I grew up in the Baptist Church, and going to church with my father; I remember being 8 years old, trying to determine whether I was really ready to give up sin, and for days I agonized.
Oprah Winfrey
#5. Life is a gift. Going to church is like sending a thank-you card.
Paul Acampora
#6. I was raised Catholic and I went to church until I was 16. I went through a phase when I was 15 of being quite fanatically Catholic. I was going to church a lot, receiving communion, saying the Rosary, praying, all that stuff. But when I started scrutinizing it, it just fell apart so quickly.
Robert Crumb
#7. Imagine having sex with a vampire."
"Imagine going to church and praying to your lord and savior," I offer.
Sara Wolf
#8. What it is coming down to is who runs the country. It's us against them. It's the good guys versus the bad guys. It's the God-fearing people against the pagans, and some of the pagans are going to church.
Randall Terry
#9. I don't mean good like going to church or not breaking laws. If, in your heart, you try to get through the day
without hurting other people, then you are a good person ...
Kaje Harper
#10. It's such a shame. I just believe if you're a good person, God knows it. I don't think going to church every Sunday or saying you accept Christ makes a lick of difference in the end.
Penelope Ward
#11. The blues to me is like being very sad, very sick, going to church, being very happy ... it's sort of a mixed up thing. You just have to feel it.
Billie Holiday
#12. Songwriting is like going to church. I'm connecting to something, and it's rewarding in really important ways. I don't need to share it with anyone to feel good about it.
Juliana Hatfield
#13. When dad says he's going to church, he actually means he's going to a library or a bookstore. - Gabrielle Zevin, Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac.
Gabrielle Zevin
#14. I walked away from going to church when I was 8. I didn't set foot in another church until I was 28.
Billy Corgan
#15. The roughest thing was learning the realities of the world at such a young age. I was 10 or 11, going to church, hearing the adults standing on the podium talking about world affairs, about history, about war, and how America was founded.
Michelle Rodriguez
#16. The difference between listening to a radio sermon and going to church ... is almost like the difference between calling your girl on the phone and spending an evening with her.
Dwight L. Moody
#17. To be spiritual is not by praying and going to church. Spiritualism is the understanding of the universe so that it can be a better place to live in.
Fela Kuti
#18. No, when it came to avoiding going to church, the church he stolidly avoided going to was St. Cecil and All Angels, no-nonsense C. of E., and he wouldn't have dreamed of avoiding going to any other.
Terry Pratchett
#19. Going to church doesn't make you any more a Christian than going to the garage makes you a car.
Laurence J. Peter
#20. I'm definitely not a traditionalist, because a traditionalist would be going to church every Sunday.
Oprah Winfrey
#21. If I'm going to see my mom, I'm going to church!
Antoine Fuqua
#22. Going to church is a beautiful act of humility. You are saying to the world, "I need God and His family.
Carlos A. Rodriguez
#23. This isn't just a shopping mall. It's more like ... "
"A religious experience?"
"Exactly! It's like going to church ...
J.G. Ballard
#24. When I was a kid I had an imaginary friend and I used to think that he went everywhere with me, and that I could talk to him and that he could hear me, and that he could grant me wishes and stuff. And then I grew up, and I stopped going to church.
Jimmy Carr
#25. I like going to Church for aesthetic reasons, rather than spiritual ones.
Andres Serrano
#26. I remember going to church about four times a week. I liked it a lot.
Victoria Jackson
#27. The thing is, dressing up, going to church, dropping a twenty in the offering plate, those things are all well and good, but that doesn't make you a Christian.
Matthew West
#28. I just want you to know you aren't going to church with a crook.
Bernard Ebbers
#29. The irony is I stopped going to church a few weeks later.
Martin Luther
#30. I tell people, you know, going to the club doesn't make me a bad person, going to church doesn't make you a good one.
Miley Cyrus
#31. 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
#32. It's strange, isn't it? The greatest gift you could have given her stemmed from your disgrace. It's enough to make me start going to church.
Jane Steen
#33. I thought being a Christian was about following rules and going to church and being good all the time, but this girl helped me understand that it's about having a relationship with God. That was where things shifted for me.
Kelly Clark
#34. The phrase "after-life" was also vaguely confused with going to church and not wanting to be dead - a perplexity which can be omitted from a narrative in which I am doing my best to confine myself to actual happenings. At the age of twenty-two I believed myself to be unextinguishable.
Siegfried Sassoon
#35. I think there's a ton of things about being Catholic that are hard. Going to Church every week is tough. I'd like to go to church, like, every couple of months. Going to confession is hard. Confessing my sins out loud is a very difficult thing.
Lino Rulli
#37. Spirituality is no different from what we've been doing for two thousand years just by going to church and receiving the sacraments, being baptized, learning to pray, and reading Scriptures rightly. It's just ordinary stuff.
Eugene H. Peterson
#38. Going to church will not get you the black man you seek and it never will. Page 98
Deborrah Cooper
#40. One of the things you'll discover ... as you listen to your own soul is that you spend a great amount of your life trying to bring meaning to your own life. And, by the way, most people are not going to church, so the place they're actually trying to find meaning in their life is at work.
Erwin McManus
#41. But I don't necessarily define my faith by going to church every Sunday.
Miley Cyrus
#42. Your life isn't about doing one perfect 'thing' and then falling down dead. It's more like going to church or writing a book. You do it over and over, always trying to be a little bit better. Then you die.
Chuck Palahniuk
#43. It could be said that going to church will not make one a Christian. But ... refusing to fellowship with believers will not make you one either.
Billy Graham
#44. Worshiping the earth is more fun than going to church. It's also closer.
P. J. O'Rourke
#45. A group of politicians deciding to dump a President because his morals are bad is like the Mafia getting together to bump off the Godfather for not going to church on Sunday.
Russell Baker
#46. I was raised Presbyterian, but I'm not really going to church. I think the experience in meditation is pretty much where it's at for me.
David Lynch
#47. Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile.
Billy Sunday
#48. Going to church is not a sign of going to God, if you think he is omnipresent, he is right there in your soul and bedroom.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#49. 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
#50. Going to church no more making you a Christian than standing in a garage makes you a car.
Garrison Keillor
#51. All over this nation, all over this world there are people going to church today and they say they are believers, but until you can take what you've been taught and bring it to the place you gave up - you will never be the radical believer that you need to be for the times in which we live.
T.D. Jakes
#52. But I like going to church. If you've been brought up in the Church of England, it feels like visiting an elderly relative. And I think it's important that part of the kids' education is knowing about the Bible.
Jack Dee
#53. The Catholic influence just comes from being raised Catholic, going to church every Sunday, being confirmed, going to church on holy days. So it's coming from where I am. It serves the purpose of having people who have a base or foundation where they know what's right.
Craig Finn
#54. I believe in eight of the ten commandments. I believe in going to church every Sunday ... unless there's a game on.
Steve Martin
#55. I'm Catholic and Mum taught me the comfort that you can get from going to church. But I'm an a la carte Catholic. I love all the pomp and ceremony of it.
Patsy Kensit
#56. I had a dream that my dad passed away and that Jesus came into the room and he was basically knocking on my door, saying, 'Hey, you need to find out more about me.' So that Sunday morning I ended up going to church, and that's when I got saved.
Russell Wilson
#57. For some people, going to church is going home. In a very profound sense, I would say the same thing. Home is where Christ is.
Frederick Buechner
#58. My sister having so much to do, was going to church vicariously, that is to say, Joe and I were going.
Charles Dickens
#59. Do you look forward to going to church, or is it something you do out of obligation?
Joyce Meyer
#60. Whenever I meet a real nut job in church, I am always grateful that they are going to church. Imagine how crazy they would be if they didn't have rules to follow.
Jim Gaffigan
#61. I miss going to church, but I think the Lord understands.
Ronald Reagan
#62. You don't have to be in the habit of going to church to listen to such a literary minister; you don't have to be a believer to be moved by Mr. Buechner's faith.
John Irving
#63. 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
#64. Some people think that going to church on Sunday and owning a dust-covered Bible makes a person a Christian. That is not true. A Christian is one in whom Christ dwells, and the person's life will give evidence of this.
Billy Graham
#65. Training is an active, dynamic process lived out daily in all areas of life- not a rote exercise in memorizing verses and going to church every week.
Craig Groeschel
#66. Some keep the Sabbath going to church, I keep it staying at home, with a bobolink for a chorister, and an orchard for a dome.
Emily Dickinson
#67. There's good things about going to church.
Ryan Gosling
#68. Whether I'm running on the beach without my shirt or whether I'm going out with my kids or going to church or going out to dinner - I don't choose to insulate myself in engaging in real life. Hence, the public kind of almost knows me as much through my real life that they see through the rag mags.
Matthew McConaughey
#69. Before the Beatles, America was musically a very conservative country. You can see film footage of people at a baseball game, they all had hats and ties on, and the women were dressed up like they were going to church. That was the America that I started getting interested in musically.
Don McLean
#70. God tries you in certain, certain ways. Some people are rich, and they believe in God. They lose the money, things get hard, they get weak and quit going to church. Quit serving God like they did.
Muhammad Ali
#71. She wasn't really going to church anywhere, but she remained a contemporary evangelical to the back teeth. She had lost her faith while still managing to hang on to all the platitudes.
Douglas Wilson
#72. If you can get a spiritual connection without going to church, why go to church?.
Brian Kenny
#73. Well, I'm going to church. But i've got to tell you that it's full of hypocrites.
My friend, if you keep your eyes on Christians, you will be disappointed every day of your life. Your hope is to keep your eyes on Christ.
Jan Karon
#74. You go to church to respect God, not the priest. By not going to church, you disrespect God, not the priest.
- Don Camillo
Giovannino Guareschi
#75. I think it's been hard for people to understand how Islam can be a good religion, and yet the Islamists are evil. Those of us who have had experience with Islam understand this, just as we understand the difference between snake handlers and people going to church on Sunday morning.
P. J. O'Rourke
#76. Volleyball is like going to church ... many attend, but few understand.
John Kessel
#77. The Warrenite Christian is like a Star Wars geek who dressed up in costume and dearly wishes he lived the Star Wars universe. Sometimes such a fan will even spend as much time as he can in weekend costume conventions. For Warrenites, that's going to church.
Robert M. Price
#78. I grew up going to church three times a week in my family. It's been a center of my life.
Debby Boone
#79. Don't be a spectator in the kingdom of God , find something that you can do , at-least even going to church is one of them
Alinani Joe
#81. It was like going to church, except Ozzy Osbourne was there.
Sam Kinison
#82. Going to church doesn't change anything - Jesus does, and he works through his Word and his people.
J.A. Medders
#83. If you can't get what you want from life, see if you're withholding something from someone else, because you won't get what you want unless you start giving away what you have to those that need it. Selfishness is incompatible with abundance and going to Church won't help you escape this Divine law.
Robin Sacredfire
#84. My earliest memories about music are connected with going to church and listening to organ music. I am not from a musical family, actually, and I remember my first musical fascination to be for organ music. I wanted to become an organist and not a pianist.
Rafal Blechacz
#85. My mother's side of the family is Methodist, which is how I was raised. It was conservative in that I had strong values - sitting down and eating with the family every day, listening to authority and going to church every week and having perfect attendance at Sunday school.
Jonathan Groff
#86. Stop going to church everywhere and start belonging to church somewhere.
Matt Chandler
#87. It's important to preach like there's a broken heart on every pew. That's always been a phrase that stuck with me. Not everybody is having a tough time, but you can bet your buck that there's a good tenth of your church that's going through a hard season. There really is a broken heart on every pew.
Max Lucado
#88. My mother told me once that she and my father agreed that I would not be brought up Jewish in Chicago. She had me going to a Methodist church.
Wesley Clark
#89. Consider the problem of taking showers with Christians. They are, after all, constantly going on about the business of witnessing in the hopes of making converts to their God and church. Would you want to shower with such people? You never know when they might try to baptize you.
Stanley Hauerwas
#90. Having a good definition of spiritual leadership is critical to development
of leadership cultural throughout your church. You need to know what you are
shooting for if you are going to hit the target.
Gary Rohrmayer
#91. I always felt that church is where I'm going to find my community and people to live my life with.
Sara Zarr
#92. Whatever the reason, the fact is that there was no widespread catechetical teaching for Christian children. Things were going to change. The growing awareness of the need for Christian education was one of the chief forces behind the desire in the sixteenth century to reform the rite of baptism.
Hughes Oliphant Old
#93. I believe that a great number of people are going to die and go to hell because they're counting on their religiosity in the church instead of their relationship with Jesus to get them to heaven. They give lip service to repentance and faith, but they've never been born again.
Adrian Rogers
#94. The way we saw things, it didn't matter that God had created the heavens and the earth - he did not want us excited about living here. A good fundamentalist worth his weight in guilt was quick to remind any skeptic that the world was going to hell in a handbasket.
Matthew Paul Turner
#95. A lot of victims, for example, have become addicted to alcohol and drugs. It seems to me that the church's healing ministry is going to be enhanced through this in much broader strokes. That's good, it's all positive.
Roger Mahony
#96. We are not even going to throw the challenge of changing a whole generation before the modern day church. This generation of believers don't even know what that means
Sunday Adelaja
#97. The church is not going to survive if they are going to tell people that they have to twist their minds into 1st century pretzels.
John Shelby Spong
#98. There are about 360,000 churches in America, so we could mentor a million kids within a short period of time if everyone signed on, which, of course, is a pipedream, but we're going to reach toward that.
Donald Miller
#99. When we go to different areas and look at doing period pieces and movies shot in other states and locations, even overseas, it's hard to carry 1700 volunteers from your church with you to do that. And so, we knew that there were going to be growing pains at some point.
Alex Kendrick
#100. Your calling is not an afterthought. God does not save you and then say, "Now what am I going to get him to do? What job can I give her in the church?" God saves you because He has a purpose for you.
Derek Prince
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