Billy Sunday Quotes

Churches need to figure out how they will address the spiritual lives of their staffs and leadership teams.

My first serious girlfriend, when I was 16, was Mormon. I went to her house for 'family home evening,' and I was like, 'Why aren't you people ignoring each other and watching television?'

I go to a great church.

I was the second-youngest child in a family that took up the better part of an entire pew at our Baptist church.

I think people see faith as a section of their life, like, 'I go to church on Sunday...' but for me, my faith runs through the entirety of my life.

Home Run portrays the church in its beauty--true life transformation through real and honest relationships with one another and with Jesus.

I was raised Catholic and I have a lot of respect for the good in the Catholic Church. But I don't go to church.

If I had never joined a church till I had found one that was perfect, I should never have joined one at all.

Just as the superstar pastor model can have its problems once the superstar pastor gets old or has a scandal or something, the house church model... there's a reason that the house churches of the New Testament era grew up into a more institutional faith down the road.

I have a vision of the whole Church getting nearer to God by abiding by the precepts of the Book of Mormon.

Some go to church to take a walk; some go there to laugh and talk. Some go there to meet a friend; some go there their time to spend. Some go there to meet a lover; some go there a fault to cover. Some go there for speculation; some go there for observation. Some go there to doze and nod; the wise go there to worship God.

It's funny - people think analysis or psychiatry is mad, and THEY go to CHURCH.

I don't go to church. Kneeling bags my nylons.

I've tried them all, I really have, and the only church that truly feeds the soul, day in, day out, is the Church of Baseball.

I did not grow up in the church. I'm not a church-goer now. I'm a very spiritual person.

I do not believe one can experience conversion or the fullness of the Christian life apart from the church.

You don't need to apologize for an opinion, but in terms of respect for the church and people's faith lives, Hillary Clinton has that respect, because it's what motivates her.

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

Motivation is the fuel, necessary to keep the human engine running.

If I am asked to explain why I learned the bicycle I should say I did it as an act of grace, if not of actual religion.

The purpose of the church is to make bad men good and good men better.

Life without emotions is like an engine without fuel.

Religion is defined as social systems whose participants avow a supernatural agent or agents whose approval is to be sought.

The church can have light only as it is full of the Spirit, and it can be full only as the members that compose it are filled individually.

I'm a preacher first and a writer second, although my role is changing a bit at the church. I'm going to bring on a co-teacher, but I'll still be a pastor and a writer.