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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
I went to a great church here in L.A., gave my heart to the Lord and felt freedom from things I've carried throughout my life that I just thought, 'I don't have to carry them any more.' -- Sheila E.
Growing up, I was blessed to be part of a great church. This is where I met many friends who have encouraged me in my life to live strong for Christ. My church is a place where I can develop friendships with others that will encourage me in my walk with Christ. -- Bethany Hamilton
A great commitment to the Great Commandment and the Great Commission will grow a great church. -- Rick Warren
It takes more than a great church to reach a city, it takes a great movement of churches. -- Timothy Keller
Church is great, but I found my church here. Hugh Hefner has been nothing but a gentleman. -- Jessica Hahn
Being part of a community with a church at its centre and singin' hymns is a great thing to do. -- Vivienne Westwood
I used to tell people when I preached at a church, 'If you want a great sermon, be a great audience.' -- Michael Eric Dyson
Hallelujah' is going to be a standard that our grandkids, our great-great grandkids will learn to sing in church. It's one of those really, really special songs. -- Brandi Carlile
I was lucky enough as a kid to spend most of my weekends at the Fillmore East. On a great night, that was like a Holy Roller evangelical church. -- Paul Stanley
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
I grew up in a little Methodist church that was very rural, very community support-oriented, made up of great people who talked about love and grace and the spiritual experience, but only in rhetorical terms. -- James Redfield
I was in New York for a little while, doing some really bad theater. I did some great stuff, too, but there were Saturday morning theater performances in one-third-filled church basements. So, I paid my dues. -- Silas Weir Mitchell
And yet, you do not throw out some of the great minds of the Church - and people in Church history - and say they have no credibility because they committed a sin or made a mistake. -- Walter Martin
I feel comfortable singing in the great cathedrals of the world because I spent so much time as a child singing in church. And it isn't very different. Of course, nothing looks quite like Notre Dame de Paris. -- Jessye Norman
There is a great difference between Christianity and religion at the south. If a man goes to the communion table, and pays money into the treasury of the church, no matter if it be the price of blood, he is called religious. -- Harriet Ann Jacobs
Napoleon the Third was not much. He died in England, and was buried in a country church-yard much the same as Kiltartan. But Napoleon the First was a great man; it was given out of him there never would be so great a man again. -- Lady Gregory
It's a great responsibility before God, the judge who guides us, who draws us to truth and good, and in this sense the church must unmask evil, rendering present the goodness of God, rendering present his truth, the truly infinite for which we are thirsty. -- Pope Benedict XVI
It was a real surprise to me to come across the evidence that Christianity might once have been a danced religion. Certainly, some of the early church leaders thought this was great and spoke of what seems to have been circle dancing, perhaps around an altar. -- Barbara Ehrenreich
I'm not a big fan of religion for that reason. But I am a true believer in God, and I have great faith, and I think that a spiritual connection with something is a really important part of our experience. That doesn't necessarily have anything to do with the church. -- Shaun Cassidy
If somebody wants to go to church because they like the ritual of it and want to sit in silence for a while one time a week, then that's great. If someone wants to go because they believe that God them and Jesus rose after three days, then that's great, too. -- Patrick Wilson
On the rare occasions when I spend a night in Oxford, the keeping of the hours by the clock towers in New College, and Merton, and the great booming of Tom tolling 101 times at 9 pm at Christ Church are inextricably interwoven with memories and regrets and lost joys. The sound almost sends me mad, so intense are the feelings it evokes. -- A. N. Wilson
Art, that great undogmatized church. -- Ellen Key
The Great Commission is still the mission statement of the Church. -- Dallas Willard
Don't let your church be a cul-de-sac on the Great Commission highway. -- Ed Stetzer
A local church will only be as great as its conception of God. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
That is the great contribution of Reformed thinking to the Christian church: theology for a life well-lived. -- Oliver D. Crisp
The great achievement of the Catholic Church lay in harmonizing, civilizing the deepest impulses of ordinary, ignorant people. -- Kenneth Clark
The custom of the Church has very great authority and ought to be jealously observed in all things. -- Thomas Aquinas
The great guardian principle of all conduct in the church of God is personal responsibility to the Lord. -- John Nelson Darby
Dear young people, the Church expects great things of you and your generosity. Don't be afraid to aim high. -- Pope Francis
Any church that is not seriously involved in helping fulfill the Great Commission has forfeited its biblical right to exist. -- Oswald J. Smith
Remember: Christ is calling you; the Church needs you; the Pope believes in you and he expects great things of you. -- Pope John Paul I
I have to move away from organized religion. The toxic confusion and anger I was feeling in church had become too great. -- Anne Rice
What makes a church great in the eyes of God? Participation, proclamation, preservation, and propagation. Every church ought to exhibit all four. -- O. S. Hawkins
I have a great staff at the church; they protect me and allow me to focus on more of what I do best. -- Max Lucado
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In the Church, great wonders daily occur, such as the forgiveness of sins, triumph over death ... the gift of righteousness and eternal life. -- Martin Luther
I may not be as active in it as some people are, but I think that the church has taught me great life lessons. -- Julianne Hough
This great American institution [Boy Scouts of America] has come under attack from homosexual activists-who may well set their sights on your church next. -- Jay Sekulow
The promise to the Church is a promise of persecution, if faithful in this world, but a promise of a great inheritance and reward hereafter. -- C. I. Scofield
Scientists were rated as great heretics by the church, but they were truly religious men because of their faith in the orderliness of the universe. -- Albert Einstein
God bless the Methodist Church - bless all the churches - and blessed be God, Who, in this our great trial, giveth us the churches. -- Abraham Lincoln
Saints of the early church reaped great harvests in the field of prayer and found the mercy seat to be a mine of untold treasures. -- Charles Spurgeon
How many times go we to comedies, to masques, to places of great and noble resort, nay even to church only to see the company. -- John Donne
The Church has lost a great religious poet in me; but I have lost an infinity of fun in the church, so the loss is even. -- Sylvia Townsend Warner
The great end of being is to harmonize man with the order of things, and the church has been a good pitch-pipe, and may be so still. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
There is a great need to rally the women of the Church to stand with and for the Brethren in stemming the tide of evil that surrounds us. -- Howard W. Hunter
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Selfishness and fear are at the root of (pro-abortion) legislation...We in the Church have a great struggle to defend life...life is a gift not a threat. -- Pope Benedict XVI
The church-bells of innumerable sects are all chime-bells to-day, ringing in sweet accordance throughout many lands, and awaking a great joy in the heart of our common humanity. -- Edwin Hubbel Chapin
The church that preaches the gospel in all of its fullness, except as it applies to the great social ills of the day, is failing to preach the gospel. -- Martin Luther

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