In Christian doctrine, a Church refers to a spiritual community or organization of believers who confess Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior. The English word "church," as used in the Bible, originated from the Greek word "ekklesia," which means an assembly of faithful people. May these famous church quotes and sayings help you gain a deeper understanding of the various meanings of churches from different perspectives. Everyone has different beliefs, and what you want to believe is your own choice.
1. “There is no one true church, no one chosen people.” – Terry Tempest Williams
2. “The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.” – Henry Ward Beecher
3. “The True Church can never fail. For it is based upon a rock.” – T.S. Eliot
4. “Church attendance is as vital to a disciple as a transfusion of rich, healthy blood to a sick man.” – Dwight L. Moody
5. “The church is precisely that against which Jesus preached, and against which he taught his disciples to fight.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
6. “The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.” – Thomas Carlyle
7. “The perfect church service, would be one we were almost unaware of. Our attention would have been on God.” – C.S. Lewis
8. “There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.” – James Joyce
9. “The nearer the Church the further from God.” – Lancelot Andrewes
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10. “Many come to bring their clothes to church rather than themselves.” – Thomas Fuller
11. “My own mind is my own church.” – Thomas Paine
12. “Wherever we see the Word of God purely preached and heard, there a church of God exists, even if it swarms with many faults.” – John Calvin
13. “Yes, I see the Church as the body of Christ. But, oh! How we have blemished and scarred that body through social neglect and through fear of being nonconformists.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
14. “In the Church, considered as a social organism, the mysteries inevitably degenerate into beliefs.” – Simone Weil
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15. “I believe there are too many practitioners in the church who are not believers.” – C.S. Lewis
16. “It would be far better to be of no church than to be bitter of any.” – William Penn
17. “I like the silence of a church, before the service begins better than any preaching.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
18. “Where God builds a church the devil builds a chapel.” – Martin Luther
19. “I think the church and the religion right now have a lot more to be worried about than slayer.” – Kerry King
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20. “Nearly all the evils in the Church have arisen from bishops desiring power more than light. They want authority, not outlook.” – John Ruskin
21. “There is one grand, all-comprehending church; and if I am a Christian, I belong to it, and no man can shut me out of it.” – William E. Channing
22. “The root of almost every schism and heresy from which the Christian Church has suffered, has been because of the effort of men to earn, rather than receive their salvation; and the reason preaching is so commonly ineffective is, that it often calls on people to work for God rather than letting God work through them.” – John Ruskin
23. “Church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back.” – Charles de Gaulle
24. “We need to avoid the spiritual sickness of a church that is wrapped up in its own world: when a church becomes like this, it grows sick.” – Pope Francis
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25. “A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.” – H. L. Mencken
26. “The style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe.” – Alan Watts
27. “We sing in a church, why can we not dance there?” – George Bernard Shaw
28. “Nothing doth so much keep men out of the Church, and drive men out of the Church, as breach of unity.” – Francis Bacon
29. “It is one of the ironies of the ministry that the very man who works in God's name is often hardest put to find time for God. The parents of Jesus lost Him at church, and they were not the last ones to lose Him there.” – Vance Havner
30. “You can be committed to Church but not committed to Christ, but you cannot be committed to Christ and not committed to church.” – Joel Osteen
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31. “Though the church has many critics, it has no rivals.” – Anonymous
32. “In a church of my own we're perfect together I recognize you in the stained glass.” – Heather Nova
33. “He who is near the Church is often far from God.” – French Proverb
34. “The church is so subnormal that if it ever got back to the New Testament normal it would seem to people to be abnormal.” – Vance Havner
35. “The Church has always been willing to swap off treasures in heaven for cash down.” – Robert G. Ingersoll
36. “The Reformation did not directly touch the question of the true character of God's church.” – John Nelson Darby
37. “The operation of the Church is entirely set up for the sinner; which creates much misunderstanding among the smug.” – Flannery O'Connor
38. “Those who would renegotiate the boundaries between church and state must therefore answer a difficult question: why would we trade a system that has served us so well for one that has served others so poorly?” – Sandra Day O'Connor
39. “He who does not have the church as his mother, does not have God as his father.” – Augustine of Hippo
40. “The Church must be intelligible to the simple as well as to the shrewd.” – Robert Hugh Benson
41. “A good church is a Bible-centered church. Nothing is as important as this--not a large congregation, a witty pastor, or tangible experiences of the Holy Spirit.” – Alistair Begg
42. “I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
43. “Teenagers who do not go to church are adored by God, but they don't get to meet some of the people who love God back.” – Anne Lamott
44. “The Church is the one institution that exists for those outside it.” – William Tyndale
45. “The Church must be forever building, for it is forever decaying within and attacked from without.” – T.S. Eliot
46. “A glorious Church is like a magnificent feast; there is all the variety that may be, but every one chooses out a dish or two that he likes, and lets the rest alone: how glorious soever the Church is, every one chooses out of it his own religion, by which he governs himself, and lets the rest alone.” – John Selden
47. “The day we find the perfect church, it becomes imperfect the moment we join it.” – Charles H. Spurgeon
48. “I want get across to not just the church world. I want to get outside those walls to everyday people.” – Joel Osteen
49. “Christians are not limited to any church.” – Billy Graham
50. “Clearly the person who accepts the Church as an infallible guide will believe whatever the Church teaches.” – Thomas Aquinas
51. “The Church is the only society that exists for the benefit of those who are not its members.” – William Temple
52. “The most useful members of a church are usually those who would be doing harm if they were not doing good.” – Charles Spurgeon
53. “The glory of the gospel is that when the church is absolutely different from the world, she invariably attracts it.” – Martyn Lloyd Jones
54. “Churches become poor if they become rich and care not for the poor.” – Lester Roloff
55. “The church is not a select circle of the immaculate, but a home where the outcast may come in. It is not a palace with gate attendants and challenging sentinels along the entrance-ways holding off at arm's-length the stranger, but rather a hospital where the broken-hearted may be healed, and where all the weary and troubled may find rest and take counsel together.” – James H. Aughey
56. “A man who covers up the cross though he may be an intellectual man, and draw large crowds will have no ilk there, and his church will be but a gilded sepulcher.” – Dwight L. Moody
57. “Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile.” – Billy Sunday
58. “This much is sure in all churches, forgetting party labels; the smallest meeting numerically is the prayer-meeting. If weak in prayer we are weak everywhere.” – Leonard Ravenhill
59. “You never have to advertise a fire. Everyone comes running when there's a fire. Likewise, if your church is on fire, you will not have to advertise it. The community will already know it.” – Leonard Ravenhill
60. “The Kingdom of God is not going to be advanced by our churches becoming filled with men, but by men in our churches becoming filled with God.” – Duncan Campbell
61. “The Church exists for nothing else but to draw men into Christ.” – C. S. Lewis
62. “The job of the church is to make people holy, not to make people happy.” – Chuck Colson
63. “The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.” – Tertullian
64. “We are commanded to have only one enemy, the devil.” – John Chrysostom
65. “The mark of a great church is not its seating capacity, but its sending capacity.” – Mike Stachura
66. “Be united with other Christians. A wall with loose bricks is not good. The bricks must be cemented together.” – Corrie Ten Boom
67. “A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.” – Pauline Phillips
68. “Some go to church to see and be seen, Some go there to say they have been, Some go there to sleep and nod, But few go there to worship God.” – Anonymous
69. “Go to church because you are a part of the body of Christ. To shun the church is to shun the very body of Christ that you are a part of.” – Anonymous
70. “Some go to church to take a walk; Some go there to laugh and talk.” – Charles Spurgeon
71. “Baseball is like church. Many attend few understand.” – Leo Durocher
72. “Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.” – Romans 12:2
73. “The church is beautiful because it is united to Christ. It is his body, it is the temple of the Holy Spirit, it is the bride of Christ.” – Imperfect Pastor
74. “Church is not something you go to, it's a family you belong to.” – Rick Warren
75. “Jesus is the hope of the world and the local church is the vehicle of expressing that hope to the world.” – Andy Stanley
76. “Your church is your family. In our Christian brothers and sisters, we can see something the world cannot. We can see Christ himself.” – The Gospel Coalition
77. “The Church is the Church only when it exists for others.” – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
78. “The Bible teaches that the church is a family, God's family and ours.” – Tim Keller
79. “I grew up Mormon, but after my parents divorced, we stopped going to church.” – Rubi Rose
80. “I'm not a religious person. I have a one-on-one relationship with God, but I don't go to church like I should.” – John Daly
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2. “The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.” – Henry Ward Beecher
3. “The True Church can never fail. For it is based upon a rock.” – T.S. Eliot
4. “Church attendance is as vital to a disciple as a transfusion of rich, healthy blood to a sick man.” – Dwight L. Moody
5. “The church is precisely that against which Jesus preached, and against which he taught his disciples to fight.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
6. “The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.” – Thomas Carlyle
7. “The perfect church service, would be one we were almost unaware of. Our attention would have been on God.” – C.S. Lewis
8. “There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.” – James Joyce
9. “The nearer the Church the further from God.” – Lancelot Andrewes
11. “My own mind is my own church.” – Thomas Paine
12. “Wherever we see the Word of God purely preached and heard, there a church of God exists, even if it swarms with many faults.” – John Calvin
13. “Yes, I see the Church as the body of Christ. But, oh! How we have blemished and scarred that body through social neglect and through fear of being nonconformists.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
14. “In the Church, considered as a social organism, the mysteries inevitably degenerate into beliefs.” – Simone Weil
16. “It would be far better to be of no church than to be bitter of any.” – William Penn
17. “I like the silence of a church, before the service begins better than any preaching.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
18. “Where God builds a church the devil builds a chapel.” – Martin Luther
19. “I think the church and the religion right now have a lot more to be worried about than slayer.” – Kerry King
21. “There is one grand, all-comprehending church; and if I am a Christian, I belong to it, and no man can shut me out of it.” – William E. Channing
22. “The root of almost every schism and heresy from which the Christian Church has suffered, has been because of the effort of men to earn, rather than receive their salvation; and the reason preaching is so commonly ineffective is, that it often calls on people to work for God rather than letting God work through them.” – John Ruskin
23. “Church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back.” – Charles de Gaulle
24. “We need to avoid the spiritual sickness of a church that is wrapped up in its own world: when a church becomes like this, it grows sick.” – Pope Francis
26. “The style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe.” – Alan Watts
27. “We sing in a church, why can we not dance there?” – George Bernard Shaw
28. “Nothing doth so much keep men out of the Church, and drive men out of the Church, as breach of unity.” – Francis Bacon
29. “It is one of the ironies of the ministry that the very man who works in God's name is often hardest put to find time for God. The parents of Jesus lost Him at church, and they were not the last ones to lose Him there.” – Vance Havner
30. “You can be committed to Church but not committed to Christ, but you cannot be committed to Christ and not committed to church.” – Joel Osteen
More Best Quotes about Churches
31. “Though the church has many critics, it has no rivals.” – Anonymous
32. “In a church of my own we're perfect together I recognize you in the stained glass.” – Heather Nova
33. “He who is near the Church is often far from God.” – French Proverb
34. “The church is so subnormal that if it ever got back to the New Testament normal it would seem to people to be abnormal.” – Vance Havner
35. “The Church has always been willing to swap off treasures in heaven for cash down.” – Robert G. Ingersoll
36. “The Reformation did not directly touch the question of the true character of God's church.” – John Nelson Darby
37. “The operation of the Church is entirely set up for the sinner; which creates much misunderstanding among the smug.” – Flannery O'Connor
38. “Those who would renegotiate the boundaries between church and state must therefore answer a difficult question: why would we trade a system that has served us so well for one that has served others so poorly?” – Sandra Day O'Connor
39. “He who does not have the church as his mother, does not have God as his father.” – Augustine of Hippo
40. “The Church must be intelligible to the simple as well as to the shrewd.” – Robert Hugh Benson
41. “A good church is a Bible-centered church. Nothing is as important as this--not a large congregation, a witty pastor, or tangible experiences of the Holy Spirit.” – Alistair Begg
42. “I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
43. “Teenagers who do not go to church are adored by God, but they don't get to meet some of the people who love God back.” – Anne Lamott
44. “The Church is the one institution that exists for those outside it.” – William Tyndale
45. “The Church must be forever building, for it is forever decaying within and attacked from without.” – T.S. Eliot
46. “A glorious Church is like a magnificent feast; there is all the variety that may be, but every one chooses out a dish or two that he likes, and lets the rest alone: how glorious soever the Church is, every one chooses out of it his own religion, by which he governs himself, and lets the rest alone.” – John Selden
47. “The day we find the perfect church, it becomes imperfect the moment we join it.” – Charles H. Spurgeon
48. “I want get across to not just the church world. I want to get outside those walls to everyday people.” – Joel Osteen
49. “Christians are not limited to any church.” – Billy Graham
50. “Clearly the person who accepts the Church as an infallible guide will believe whatever the Church teaches.” – Thomas Aquinas
51. “The Church is the only society that exists for the benefit of those who are not its members.” – William Temple
52. “The most useful members of a church are usually those who would be doing harm if they were not doing good.” – Charles Spurgeon
53. “The glory of the gospel is that when the church is absolutely different from the world, she invariably attracts it.” – Martyn Lloyd Jones
54. “Churches become poor if they become rich and care not for the poor.” – Lester Roloff
55. “The church is not a select circle of the immaculate, but a home where the outcast may come in. It is not a palace with gate attendants and challenging sentinels along the entrance-ways holding off at arm's-length the stranger, but rather a hospital where the broken-hearted may be healed, and where all the weary and troubled may find rest and take counsel together.” – James H. Aughey
56. “A man who covers up the cross though he may be an intellectual man, and draw large crowds will have no ilk there, and his church will be but a gilded sepulcher.” – Dwight L. Moody
57. “Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile.” – Billy Sunday
58. “This much is sure in all churches, forgetting party labels; the smallest meeting numerically is the prayer-meeting. If weak in prayer we are weak everywhere.” – Leonard Ravenhill
59. “You never have to advertise a fire. Everyone comes running when there's a fire. Likewise, if your church is on fire, you will not have to advertise it. The community will already know it.” – Leonard Ravenhill
60. “The Kingdom of God is not going to be advanced by our churches becoming filled with men, but by men in our churches becoming filled with God.” – Duncan Campbell
61. “The Church exists for nothing else but to draw men into Christ.” – C. S. Lewis
62. “The job of the church is to make people holy, not to make people happy.” – Chuck Colson
63. “The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.” – Tertullian
64. “We are commanded to have only one enemy, the devil.” – John Chrysostom
65. “The mark of a great church is not its seating capacity, but its sending capacity.” – Mike Stachura
66. “Be united with other Christians. A wall with loose bricks is not good. The bricks must be cemented together.” – Corrie Ten Boom
67. “A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.” – Pauline Phillips
68. “Some go to church to see and be seen, Some go there to say they have been, Some go there to sleep and nod, But few go there to worship God.” – Anonymous
69. “Go to church because you are a part of the body of Christ. To shun the church is to shun the very body of Christ that you are a part of.” – Anonymous
70. “Some go to church to take a walk; Some go there to laugh and talk.” – Charles Spurgeon
71. “Baseball is like church. Many attend few understand.” – Leo Durocher
72. “Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.” – Romans 12:2
73. “The church is beautiful because it is united to Christ. It is his body, it is the temple of the Holy Spirit, it is the bride of Christ.” – Imperfect Pastor
74. “Church is not something you go to, it's a family you belong to.” – Rick Warren
75. “Jesus is the hope of the world and the local church is the vehicle of expressing that hope to the world.” – Andy Stanley
76. “Your church is your family. In our Christian brothers and sisters, we can see something the world cannot. We can see Christ himself.” – The Gospel Coalition
77. “The Church is the Church only when it exists for others.” – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
78. “The Bible teaches that the church is a family, God's family and ours.” – Tim Keller
79. “I grew up Mormon, but after my parents divorced, we stopped going to church.” – Rubi Rose
80. “I'm not a religious person. I have a one-on-one relationship with God, but I don't go to church like I should.” – John Daly
Share these Inspirational Church Quotes with your friends, family, and loved ones to inspire them as well.