Church Buildings Quotes

• I love church buildings, particularly cathedrals, and I like living in spaces that remind me of music or evoke that creative energy.

  Laura Mvula

  Space, Creative, Church

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• Faith can be stirred within the walls of church buildings, but faith is formed and nourished in the waiting rooms of hospitals, helplessly witnessing a thirty-one-year-old sister suffer, holding kids affected by the AIDS epidemic, and being stretched outside of our own social makeup.

  Josh Ross

  Wall, Kids, Makeup

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• Going to a bar or pool hall doesn’t mean you’re a drunk, just like sitting in a henhouse doesn’t make you a chicken. It’s the same in the opposite setting. Sitting in a church building doesn’t make you a follower of Christ.

  Jase Robertson

  Mean, Opposites, Drunk

  Jase Robertson (2014). “Good Call: Reflections on Faith, Family, and Fowl”, p.130, Simon and Schuster

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• In an urban environment, a church building is a thing of the past.

  Mark Batterson

  Past, Church, Urban

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• Worship in truth is worship that arises out of an actual encounter with God, a response to the experience of knowing God's real presence and activity in our daily lives. This has nothing to do with sentiment, thinking religious thoughts or having aesthetic experiences in church buildings; any religion can give you that sort of thing.

  Graham Kendrick

  Religious, Real, Thinking

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• We go to church buildings that still have a mortgage. Which means the bank owns God's house. Which means that we go and make love to God in a house that Satan owns!

  Eddie Long

  Mean, House, Making Love

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• In China I told pastors about how, in the West, we have these church buildings and how we go to services each week that last an hour or so. I told them how if we don't like the music or the message then we can go to different buildings and services... They all broke out into laughter. They thought I was the funniest guy they had ever seen.

  Francis Chan

  Laughter, Guy, Church

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• We are not engaged in domestic politics, in church building or in social uplift work, but we are engaged in nation building.

  Marcus Garvey

  Uplifting, Justice, Diversity

  1922 Speech to the Principles of the Universal Negro Improvement Association, NewYork, 25 Nov.

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• We all claim to worship the same God, so why don't we fellowship together? ... The only thing that keeps us from fellowshiping together are the church buildings, the organizations.

  Donnie McClurkin

  Organization, Church, Together

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