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In an urban environment, a church building is a thing of the past. -- Mark Batterson
The Church must be forever building, for it is forever decaying within and attacked from without. -- T. S. Eliot
One of the major failures of the church is not a focus on building disciples but a focus on building members. -- Tony Evans
Not far from our house, and opposite the old church with the golden cross, stood a large building, even larger than the church, and having many towers. -- Max Muller
The church of St. Peter at Berlin, notwithstanding the total difference between them in the style of building, appears in some respects to have a great resemblance to St. Paul's in London. -- Karl Philipp Moritz
The Church knew what the psalmist knew: Music praises God. Music is well or better able to praise him than the building of the church and all its decoration; it is the Church's greatest ornament. -- Igor Stravinsky
In the West there has always been the attempt to try make the religious building, whether it's a Medieval or Renaissance church, an eternal object for the celebration of God. The material chosen, such as stone, brick, or concrete, is meant to eternally preserve what is inside. -- Tadao Ando
You tell me: Can you live crushed under the weight of the present? Without a memory of the past and without the desire to look ahead to the future by building something, a future, a family? Can you go on like this? This, to me, is the most urgent problem that the Church is facing. -- Pope Francis
We all know that a church is not a building. -- Robert H. Schuller
The only thing God is building in this world is his church. -- Bakht Singh
To refer to the Church as a building is to call people 2 x 4's. -- Shane Claiborne
What is a church?Â?Our honest sexton tells, 'Tis a tall building, with a tower and bells. -- George Crabbe
The Church is not the building, its the people, its not just the gathering, its also the scattering... -- John Wimber
So our building of the visible Church becomes much like any natural business function, using natural means and natural motives. -- Francis Schaeffer
We are not engaged in domestic politics, in church building or in social uplift work, but we are engaged in nation building. -- Marcus Garvey
... together we can build the people's Church, a true Church. Not just a hierarchy, or a building, but a real change inside people. -- Rigoberta Menchu
God literally moves his throne from heaven. When this happens the church is building a chair, a seat, a place for God to come. -- Tommy Tenney
The goal of a church is not to have a bigger building or budget but to see the word of God increase and disciples multiply -- Kevin DeYoung
The English Puritans pulled down church and state to rebuild Zion on the ruins, and all the while it was not Zion, but America, they were building. -- James Russell Lowell
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. -- Alan Hirsch
Jesus is not directing the angelic choir, taking long naps, or doing crossword puzzles. He is completely focused on building his church, the hope of the world. -- Bill Hybels
Music praises God. Music is well or better able to praise him than the building of the church and all its decoration; it is the Church's greatest ornament. -- Igor Stravinsky
Food history is as important as a baroque church. Governments should recognize cultural heritage and protect traditional foods. A cheese is as worthy of preserving as a sixteenth-century building. -- Carlo Petrini

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