Go To Church Quotes

I was raised in the Baptist church... but I didn't really have a real committed experience with Christ until my father died.

From the time I can remember my mother kept me in church. I think my first recollection of any place, being anywhere was in a church.

Jesus never heard of Beethoven and Bach. Why aren't we playing more country music in church ?

Each individual Christian and each new age of the Church has to make this rediscovery, this return to the source of Christian life.

Economics is like a church, and it fulfills the same function the church had fulfilled for centuries: the justification of the status quo.

The church is often like a football stadium where 22 people need a rest and thousands of people need exercise.

A new poll showed that 66% of Americans think President Bush is doing a poor job handling the war in Iraq and the remaining 34% think that Adam and Eve rode dinosaurs to church.

If I ever found a church that didn't believe in knocking all the other churches, I might consider joining it.

The church that is married to the spirit of this age, becomes a widow in the next.

My politics is my religion, my religion is my politics.

You must mind and not lower the Church in people's eyes by seeming to be frightened about it for such a little thing.

I prayed for all his dreams to come true. I prayed that I would always be able to connect with him--even if I was no longer on earth.

He'd gone to church for forty years and was only getting worse. It seemed like this should tell God something.

The Lord doesn't want anybody in His house who has to be dragged there.

If a man cannot serve two masters, neither can Christianity, or several thousand of them as the case may be.

There is no one true church, no one chosen people.

Our government needs the church, because only those humble enough to admit they're sinners can bring democracy the tolerance it requires to survive

Everyone agrees the celibacy rule is just a Church law dating from the 11th century, not a divine command.

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.

If God gave Dad Alzheimer’s, He’s got to understand when Dad forgets what church he belongs to.

I still believe that many Americans have a deep longing for that glorious moment when a sermon is more Biblical than American.

One of the Christian's biggest fears is appearing 'too Christian'. God forbid, because that's often characterized as god-awful! We want to be one, but without being 'one of them'.

Unless we learn how to humbly tell each other our giving stories, our churches will not learn to give.

The humble were the elect of God. Did not the priests teach so, in their gemmed, kingly robes, from their towering pulpits?

A church begins to die when it says, ‘They were just children.

What seems to me white, I will believe black if the hierarchical Church so defines.

My mother was a not-too-devoted atheist. She went to Episcopal church on Christmas Eve every year, and that was mostly it.

My family took me to church when I was like 4 years old, and I had to be in a pageant, and I was playing Jesus.

I'm afraid the SS's relationship with the Catholic Church is something the Church still has to deal with and does not deny.

I have an awesome church home and an awesome Pastor down in L.A., and I couldn't be happier.

I want a big church wedding.

A local church will only be as great as its conception of God.

As a parish priest of the Church Of England I promise to look after everyone in the community, not just those who come to church, not just white people, not just the Christians.

A missional church is a church that must live the dialectic. It must stay in the journey.

Every local church has a leader but it seems so few local churches are being led.

the separation of church and state grew out of a desire, not so much to protect government from religion, but to protect religion from government.

If there is anyone who's living the work of the New Testament, it's the nuns of the Catholic church and not the Catholic hierarchy.

If I'm going to see my mom, I'm going to church!

When Pat Robertson says there is no constitutional doctrine of separation of church and state, I say he is wrong.

They say the Catholic church played a big role in the genocide... and now they have me, a bishop, as proof, a prize to say there, that's what they did.

Alongside my own deep personal faith, I am a follower, as well, of our civic religion. I am a big believer in the separation of church and state.

The desire for legitimate offspring is, in fact, according to the Catholic Church, the only motive which can justify sexual intercourse.

I don't understand why the police are infallible. They remind me a lot of the Catholic Church.

If you can get a spiritual connection without going to church, why go to church?.

Sir Richard Steele has observed, that there is this difference between the Church of Rome and the Church of England: the one professes to be infallible, the other to be never in the wrong.

The Catholic Church [with Pope John Paul II] has lost its shepherd. The world has lost a champion of human freedom.

You're telling me that the separation of church and state is found in the First Amendment?

Turn in your guns at your local church

I was raised a good little Catholic. What's more theatrical than the ritual of the Catholic church?

Alas the Church of England! What with Popery on one hand, and schismatics on the other, how has she been crucified between two thieves!