Top 1200 Old Churches Quotes & Sayings - Page 6

I started my teenage years singing in churches across America, and finally wound up on a big stage.

I spend a lot of time thinking about this business of letting go - letting go of the children God gives to us for such a brief time before they go off on their own; letting go of old homes, old friends, old places and old dreams.

Compassion in evangelical churches is out of balance. When I talk about it, I get a lot of glazed expressions.

When will we realize that one of the greatest mission fields in the West is the pews of our churches every Sunday morning?

An old market had stood there until I'd been about six years old, when the authorities had renamed it the Olde Market, destroyed it, and built a new market devoted to selling T-shirts and other objects with pictures of the old market. Meanwhile, the people who had operated the little stalls in the old market had gone elsewhere and set up a thing on the edge of town that was now called the New Market even though it was actually the old market.

I personally agree with the rights of homosexuals. But the Protestant churches are very powerful in Korea. It isn't easy for politicians.

But I have been in some very beautiful churches, then I've looked outside and seen people starving to death.

Churches are wonderful and beautiful, and they are vehicles for religion, but no Church can have more than a very little of the truth.

Praying privately in churches, I began to discover that heaven was my true home and also that it was here and now, woven into this life.

Glasgow is still full of churches built in the last century. Half of them have been turned into warehouses.

Lovers of Norfolk churches can never agree which is the best and I think one is either a Salle or a Cawston man.

Why do we people in churches seem like cheerful, brainless tourists on a packaged tour of the Absolute?

I suppose movie theaters are the churches of the modern age, where we gather reverently to worship the tinsel gods of Hollywood.

I constantly work with material that could be two years old, five years old, ten years old, as well as new things.

In the United States, if one family out of every four churches adopted a child, there would be no orphans in the country

When one loses the deep intimate relationship with nature, then temples, mosques and churches become important.

Prior to the Civil War, most libraries were either privately owned or housed in universities or churches.

Most churches don't have the resources for these tricks and inducements but are still bound to the imagination that church happens on a Sunday in a building.

The reason "other churches" don't grow: "Jim, the truth is, I couldn't have a real prayer meeting in my church. I'd be embarrassed at the smallness of the crowd..."

These days - with the decline of the traditional churches - I'm concerned about where we obtain some form of moral direction.

Every one who has a heart, however ignorant of architecture he may be, feels the transcendent beauty and poetry of the mediaeval churches.

Despite much talk in this land about religious freedom, churches and their schools now confront grave difficulties.

The trouble is that neutrality is confused with hostility. We're not disrupting churches, or interrupting people's prayers. We're not fighting religion.

When I see Tiffany windows in churches across the United States, I get a sense of spiritual upliftment from that.

Sodomy is in the Bible, to be read in churches. I wouldn't rule it out of Mr. Bruce's act if he cares to comment on it.

In 1054, the patriarch of Constantinople and the pope excommunicated each other. That was the end of holiness for both churches.

I like churches and Catholic symbolism, and although the art at the Vatican is overwhelming to see, I appreciated it even as an atheist.

Sodomy is in the Bible, to be read in churches. I wouldn't rule it out of Mr. Bruce's act if he cares to comment on it

I still believe in getting married in churches and baptizing children. I go through those motions.

It's just stunning to watch churches struggle to get mission statements when there it is, the Great Commission, and they should simply do what it says.

Many new churches, I regret to say, can be described from the design point of view only as holy terrors.

Old is authentic. Old is genuine. Old is valuable.

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

Got no religion. Tried a bunch of different religions. The churches are divided. Can't make up their minds and neither can I.

The thing is, when you see your old friends, you come face to face with yourself. I run into someone I've known for 40 or 50 years, and they're old. And I suddenly realize I'm old. It comes as an enormous shock to me.

In academia, I discovered that issues and insights, commonplace among the scholars, are viewed as highly controversial and even as 'heresy' in the churches.

Eastern churches simply often try to please Muslims. Why doesn't the New York Times report this?

Churches need to figure out how they will address the spiritual lives of their staffs and leadership teams.

In the New Testament church it says they were all amazed - And now in our churches everybody wants to be amused.

Look not to legislatures and churches for your guidance, nor to any soulless incorporated bodies, but to inspirited or inspired ones.

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.

A poor believer [monetarily] certainly is looked down upon in certain churches, and yet he may be the richest man spiritually in that church.

I could go old-school; I listen to a lot of old-school music, like Teddy Pendergrass, the Temptations, people like that. I'm an old-school dude, and I'm vibin' with stuff like that to clear my mind. I like listening to that old-school music.

Christianity is permitted under China's constitution, and the government has long supported a network of official Christian churches.

Most problems in contemporary churches can be explained by the fact that members have never decided to follow Christ.

Black women have not historically stood in the pulpit, but that doesn't undermine the fact that they built the churches and maintain the pulpits.

There should be no mosque near Ground Zero in New York so long as there are no churches or synagogues in Saudi Arabia.

We as [churches] may be lampstands, but all of the light is Christ Himself. We exist in order that He might shine through us.

I don't think there are any churches that have "Thou shalt not believe in climate change" written in their actual statement of faith.

In missional churches, the baby birds have been pushed out of the nest and are learning to fly for themselves.

I love God and I follow Jesus but I just don't have much affinity for the organized folderol of the churches in the Western World.

Saudi Arabia inflames the Sunni-Shiite divide and sets a pernicious example of intolerance by banning churches.

Churches must extend their influence beyond the lives of church members to impact the broader community that they serve.

Churches are not museums that display perfect people. They are hospitals where the wounded, hurt, injured and broken find healing.

All these people talk so eloquently about getting back to good old-fashioned values. Well, as an old poop I can remember back to when we had those old-fashioned values, and I say let's get back to the good old-fashioned First Amendment of the good old-fashioned Constitution of the United States - and to hell with the censors! Give me knowledge or give me death!

Churches that make an impact are more focused on putting boots on the streets than butts in the seats

If churches want to play the game of politics, let them pay admission like everyone else.

One thing they don't tell you about growing old - you don't feel old, you just feel like yourself. And it's true. I don't feel eighty-nine years old. I simply am eighty-nine years old.

I will never joke about old soldiers who try to get to reunions to talk over the war again. To talk of old times with old friends is the greatest thing in the world.

I do not think the devil cares how many churches you build, if only you have lukewarm preachers and people in them.