37 Inspirational Church Quotes

In moments of reflection and spiritual growth, the right words have the power to inspire and uplift our spirits. Whether you are seeking solace in challenging times or a renewed sense of purpose, the wisdom found in inspirational church quotes can guide and motivate. This carefully curated collection of 37 quotes is designed to offer insights that resonate deeply within us, affirming our faith and invigorating our daily lives. Each quote, whether drawn from scripture or spoken by influential spiritual leaders, has the potential to connect us more closely with our beliefs and inspire action rooted in love, compassion, and understanding. Join us on this journey of faith as we explore timeless words that continue to light our paths and strengthen our resolve.

1. “I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church.All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian, or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.” - Thomas Paine

2. “God doesn't act like the Church. No, instead, the Church must act like God.” - Kim Clement

3. “God has always been about the business of shattering expectations, and in our culture, the standards of leadership are extroverted. It perfectly follows the biblical trend that God would choose the unexpected and the culturally "unfit" - like introverts - to lead his church for the sake of greater glory.” - Adam S. McHugh

4. “Fat Charlie wondered what Rosie's mother would usually hear in a church. Probably just cries of "Back! Foul best of Hell!" followed by gasps of "Is it alive?" and a nervous inquiry as to whether anybody had remembered to bring the stakes and hammers.” - Neil Gaiman

5. “It was a strange feeling going into a church I did not know for a service that I did not really believe in, but once inside I couldn't help a feeling of warmth and security. Outside there were wars and road accidents and murders, striptease clubs and battered babies and frayed tempers and unhappy marriages and people contemplating suicide and bad jokes, but once in St. Martin's there was peace. Surely people go to church not to involve themselves in the world's problems but to escape from them.” - Michael Palin

6. “In post-Christendom, the church is that community of people who look to discover what God is actively doing in the world around them and then join themselves to that work. The church is that community of people gathered around Jesus Christ in order to participate in his life and incarnate it into the context where he has placed them.” - Tim Keel

7. “Living life ONCE is enough...if you live life RIGHT.” - John Paul warren

8. “Leaders in OVER their heads is the mere result of getting ahead of their intended SEASON.” - John Paul warren

9. “Your circumstances do NOT define you. Expect a GRAND finale.” - John Paul warren

10. “For centuries after Christ, the church and other religions that use cruciform symbols have misrepresented the physical nature of Christ's death with a satanic symbol (cross), and a pagan idol (corpus). This secret has been concealed by the church for centuries after Christ.” - Nwaocha Ogechukwu

11. “Again, as I had often met it in my own church, I was confronted with the Impurity of Women doctrine that seemed to preoccupy all clergymen.” - Harper Lee

12. “It's tucked away in a quiet corner, shadowed and obscured, no part of the Nightside's usual bright gaudy neon noir. It doesn't advertise and it doesn't care if you habitually pass by on the other side. It's just there for when you need it. Dedicated to the patron saint of lost causes, St. Jude's is an old old place... St. Jude's isn't a place for comfort for frills and fancies and the trappings of religion. just a place where you can talk to your god and sometimes get an answer.” - Simon R. Green

13. “Since Jimmy Carter, religious fundamentalists play a major role in elections. He was the first president who made a point of exhibiting himself as a born again Christian. That sparked a little light in the minds of political campaign managers: Pretend to be a religious fanatic and you can pick up a third of the vote right away. Nobody asked whether Lyndon Johnson went to church every day. Bill Clinton is probably about as religious as I am, meaning zero, but his managers made a point of making sure that every Sunday morning he was in the Baptist church singing hymns.” - Noam Chomsky

14. “Why are those who are notoriously undisciplined and unmoral also most contemptuous of religion and morality? They are trying to solace their own unhappy lives by pulling the happy down to their own abysmal depths.” - Fulton J. Sheen

15. “Church has believed that parents probably wont' assume responsibility for their own children's growth, so they have tried to become a parent substitute. This in turn ha s fostered parents to adopt a "drop-off" mentality. Maybe the greatest gift a church can give parents is the confidence and courage to do what God has wired them to do.” - Reggie Joiner

16. “She gives me the finger and turns back around. "Did you see that?" I flinch at the gesture. "That is completely illegal in here.” - Addison Moore

17. “In a church of my own we're perfect togetherI recognize you in the stained glass” - Heather Nova

18. “My sister having so much to do, was going to church vicariously, that is to say, Joe and I were going.” - Charles Dickens

19. “The Lord doesn't want anybody in His house who has to be dragged there.” - Frank D. Gilroy

20. “Plantie is a very strong Protestant, that is to say, he's against all churches, especially the Protestant: and he thinks a lot of Buddha, Karma and Confucius. He is also a bit of an anarchist and three or four years ago he took up Einstein and vitamins.” - Joyce Cary

21. “If Christianity was only about finding a group of people to live life with who shared openly their search for God and allowed anyone regardless of behavior to seek too and who collectively lived by faith to make the world a little more like Heaven would you be interested ’ ‘Hell yes ’ was his reply. He continued ‘Are there churches like that” - Hugh Halter & Matt Smay

22. “For a Christian to be a Christian, he must first be a sinner. Being a sinner is a prerequisite for being a church member. The Christian church is one of the few organizations in the world that requires a public acknowledgement of sin as a condition for membership.” - R.C. Sproul

23. “I don't like bullshit and pretense.I can't enjoy the joy at church...without some cash in my wallet.” - Toba Beta

24. “Our government needs the church, because only those humble enough to admit they're sinners can bring democracy the tolerance it requires to survive” - Ronald Reagan

25. “My point is, however, that churches do promote beliefs that would more appropriately find a place in a context of intellectual debate. They wind up cheerleading for highly dubious opinions on historical, scientific, and metaphysical matters, simply on the bases of emotional preference and the inertia of tradition. They demand conformity to these beliefs, and if you cannot swim with the current, then, well partner, maybe you'd be happier in another pool, another lake in fact, the one ablaze with burning sulfur.” - Robert M. Price

26. “He was in awe of the thirst that people had for someone to tell them that everything was going to be all right. He marveled at the gullibility and vulnerability of his fellow humans. No wonder the churches called them sheep. They were woolly-headed pack animals being herded around for the benefit of whoever knew how to control the dogs.” - Craig Ferguson

27. “I remind you that there are churches so completely out of the hands of God that if the Holy Spirit withdrew from them, they wouldn't find it out for many months” - A. W. Tozer

28. “The filling of the Holy Spirit brings a sharp separation between the believer and the world.Actually, after Pentecost, they were looking at another world. They really saw another world.Nowadays, we perceive that even a large part of evangelical Christianity is trying to convert this world to the church. We are bringing the world in head over heels--unregenerated, uncleansed, unshriven, unbaptized, unsanctified. we are bringing the world right into the church. If we can get some big shot to say something nice about the church, we rush into print and tell about this fellow and what nice things he said. I don't care at all about big shots because I serve a living Saviour, and Jesus Christ is Lord of lords and King of kings. I believe every man ought to know this ability to see another world.” - A.W. Tozer

29. “Dysfunction comes when we intertwine the church and God and view them as one.” - Randy Elrod

30. “In a society where rationality has ruled so long, the church frequently fails to see that in forsaking the weekly pursuit of the transcendent, we have given up the only ground that was uniquely ours in this world. In attempting to make the church something that can attract and add value to secular mind-sets, we have turned our backs on our one true proposition - transcendence.” - James MacDonald

31. “Church always seemed the same. Jess could tune it out the same way he tuned out school, with his body standing up and sitting down in unison with the rest of the congregation but his mind numb and floating, not really thinking or dreaming but at least free.” - Katherine Paterson

32. “The Christian church is an encyclopaedia of prehistoric cults and conceptions of the most diverse orgiin and that is why it is so capable of proselytising: it always could and it can still go wherever it pleases and it always found and it always finds something similar to itself to which it can adapt itself and gradually impose upon it a Christian meaning.” - Friedrich Nietzsche

33. “Where a people prays, there is the hurch; and where the church is; there is never loneliness.” - Dietrich Bonhoeffer

34. “To instill the values for the culture was and is the responsibility of the leadership, and staff alignment was critical to its success. It started with both board and staff. They realized that they needed to share the same value system that says, “I am the equipper, not the doer.” If not, there were going to be immense roadblocks to effectively mobilizing people for ministry.” - Sue Mallory

35. “I don't like to hear cut and dried sermons. No—when I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.” - Abraham Lincoln

36. “Authentic leaders are often accused of being "controlling" by those who idly sit by and do nothing” - John Paul warren

37. “Your religion is not what you do on Sunday. It is how you live Monday through Saturday.” - Shannon L. Alder