Churchy Quotes & Sayings

Purpose, meaning, significance - these are what make a successful life. Seek them and you will most certainly live your life out of balance, criss-crossing an invisible middle line as you pursue your priorities. The act of living a full life by giving time to what matters is a balancing act. — Gary Keller

A drowning man will clutch at a straw. — Thomas More

Anyway, you don't have to be terribly intelligent to complete a PhD," Karim grumps. "You just need to be stupidly persistent. If anything, being too smart gets in the way - — Charles Stross

Until we have a natural, that is, a conscientious world, it cannot be known by experience what natural law will do for the gratification of a supreme affection; but, if you will give me that world, there will be in it very few not called to marriage, provided society allows proper opportunities for acquaintance between marriageable persons. — Joseph Cook

We're finding each other out here, and it's beautiful and crazy and churchy and holy. We are simply getting on with it, with the work of justice and mercy, the glorious labor of reconciliation and redemption, the mess of friendship and community, the guts of walking on the water, and the big-sky dreaming of the Kingdom of God. — Sarah Bessey

The man in the tan jacket?' Josie's voice took on a new tone, one filled with interest and perhaps panic. Erika was back. Both of the Erikas. They sat on either side of Josie on the couch. Their faces were similar to the ones that a human uses to express fear. No, not fear. Concern. They looked concerned. — Joseph Fink

My faith isn't very churchy, it's a pretty personal, intimate thing and has been a huge source of strength in moments of life and death. — Bear Grylls

I know why men lose sight of the face of God: because it is so close. — Parke Godwin

Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet. — Frederick Douglass

The more I follow grace, the more I'm drawn to him (God), the more I'm willing to stand up for people being persecuted.. This sounds so churchy, but I felt like God spoke to my heart and said '(homosexuality) is not a sin'. — Jay Bakker

No job is a good job if it isn't good for you. — Barbara De Angelis

Make no mistake about it - Jesus extended his holy invitation for rest to you. You are not the grand exception in history that God cannot or will not love. You have not gone so far that he can't or won't forgive you. When Jesus spoke this invitation, he didn't aim it just at the really good people or the really pretty people or the really churchy people. He aimed it at the spiritually broken. — Will Davis Jr.

(The one thing I suspected about Jim Jeffreys was that he must be Christian, churchy - he had the patience and optimism of someone who thought Jesus was watching.) — Gillian Flynn

I'm not really a churchy person, although I do think Jesus was a good bloke. — Jo Brand

Ambition begat simony; simony begat the pope and his brethren, about the time of the Babylonish captivity — Martin Luther

I have always had severe problems with Austrians ... Musical, churchy, uptight ... nice legs ... hypocritical ... authoritarian ... always insist their dustbins are very clean. — Peter Greenaway

Crisis. Attempts were made to organize a captive breeding population, but the natural objections of the population in question to being so manipulated - combined with our own innate reflexive obedience - foiled all such programs. We are conditioned to adore and obey our Creators on a personal basis, and while it is easy enough to understand the abstract need to preserve their kind as a whole, the conflict between their specific desires and the needs of the species imposed an impossible burden upon their would-be conservators. We — Charles Stross

Oskar showed that virtue emerged where it would, and the sort of churchy observance bishops called for was not a guarantee of genuine humanity in a person. — Thomas Keneally

When I started to sing like myself - as opposed to imitating Nat Cole, which I had done for a while - when I started singing like Ray Charles, it had this spiritual and churchy, this religious or gospel sound. It had this holiness and preachy tone to it. It was very controversial. I got a lot of criticism for it. — Ray Charles

about Jim Jeffreys was that he must be Christian, churchy - he had the patience and optimism of someone who thought Jesus was — Gillian Flynn

Peeta crouches down on the other side of her and strokes her hair. When he begins to speak in a soft voice, it seems almost nonsensical, but the words aren't for me. With my paint box at home, I can make every color imaginable. Pink. As pale as a baby's skin. Or as deep as rhubarb. Green like spring grass. Blue that shimmers like ice on water. — Suzanne Collins

Mothers and schools plant the seeds of nearly all the good and evil which exists in the world. — Benjamin Rush

But the standard churchy spirituality doesn't require any real action, courage, or sacrifice from its attendees. — Alan Hirsch