Sean Lock Quotes

It's all so verbal in the Protestant church. You've heard these words a million times before. Maybe people are leaving the church because they find the church has nothing that they're looking for.

Many people who no longer go to church end up falling prey to superstition.

Those who belong to megachurches display as high a level of personal commitment as do those who attend small congregations.

A Church that has lost its voice for justice is a Church that has lost its relevance in the world.

There are good, humanitarian people everywhere - occasionally even in the Church.

I don't attend [church] regularly.

I hate churches, all of them. But they used to know something about the importance of silence.

I think of the church often. Not because religion was closing in on me, but because for a long time my ass was sore from that hard, unupholstered pew.

Organized religions in general, in my opinion, are dying forms.

The only way a church is going to be relevant is to get out of its comfort zone and connect with unchurched people.

Why create churches for 50-year-olds and let culture have the students?

You can't save souls in an empty church.

If you're not looking forward to church this morning perhaps it's time to look for a church.

To refer to the Church as a building is to call people 2 x 4's.

The Europeans have fallen away from religion and the church while the rest of the world is seemingly more religious. I don't know how to explain it.

Many people get what they need from church attendance because the Word is preached, and the rituals are carried on, and God works, but it's drift more than anything else. And that's why the churches keep reaching for some programmatic formula that will make people come and give money. It's just really very sad.

The bells they sound on Bredon, And still the steeples hum. "Come all to church, good people"- Oh, noisy bells, be dumb; I hear you, I will come.

I prefer a church which is bruised, hurting and dirty because it has been out on the streets, rather than a church which is unhealthy from being confined and from clinging to its own security.

When the church becomes an institution, people are nothing more than volunteers to be recruited. When the church is a movement, our stewardship becomes the unleashing of our God-given gifts, talents, and passions.

The next time someone tells you, "The Church is full of a bunch of hypocrites." You can respond, "You don't even know the half of it."

The reason most people don't go to church is because they've already been.

Moreover, most people, assuming they had not altogether abandoned religious observances, or did not combine them naively with a thoroughly immoral way of living, had replace normal religious practice by more or less extravagant superstitions.

Kind of the bottom line for me, I don't think people come to the church where I preach to hear my view on politics.

We need to stop giving people excuses not to believe in God. You've probably heard the expression 'I believe in God, just not organized religion'. I don't think people would say that if the church truly lived like we are called to live.

The thought of the word church and the word marketing in the same sentence makes me sick.