The Church Quotes

For bells are the voice of the church; They have tones that touch and search The hearts of young and old.

If I believe in anything, it is in the dark night of the soul. Awe is my religion, and mystery is its church.

Most of us come to the church by a means the church does not allow.

The church's or Christian group's methods are as important as its message.

I was called to start a mission, not a church. There is a difference.

Churches that make an impact are more focused on putting boots on the streets than butts in the seats

I tell people, you know, going to the club doesn’t make me a bad person, going to church doesn’t make you a good one.

More people have been brought into the church by the kindness of real Christian love than by all the theological arguments in the world.

The teaching of the church, theoretically astute, is a lie in practice and a compound of vulgar superstitions and sorcery.

We cannot survive spiritually with one foot in the Church and the other in the world.

Two orders of mankind are the enemies of church and state; the king without clemency, and the holy man without learning.

From education by the Church to education by Germanic value is a step of several generations.

The concept of an inactive church member is an oxymoron. Biblically, no such church member really exists.

A good church is a Bible-centered church. Nothing is as important as this--not a large congregation, a witty pastor, or tangible experiences of the Holy Spirit.

Truly embracing the fragility and tensions of life...brings with it the possibility of true joy.

The church hates a thinker precisely for the same reason a robber dislikes a sheriff, or a thief despises the prosecuting witness.

As men of the priesthood, we have an essential role to play in society, at home, and in the Church. But we must be men that women can trust, that children can trust, and that God can trust.

The supreme task of the Church is the evangelization of the world.

You don't have to be rich to be generous. You have to be generous to be generous.

We do not want churches. They will teach us to quarrel about God.

The question is: until reinforced, can we learn the ways of church mice.

The church that can't worship must be entertained. And leaders who can't lead a church to worship must provide the entertainment.

The Reformation did not directly touch the question of the true character of God's church.

Fly to the Catholic Church! Adhere to the only faith which continues to exist from the beginning, that faith which was preached by Paul and is upheld by the Chair of Peter.

Some keep the Sabbath going to church, I keep it staying at home, with a bobolink for a chorister, and an orchard for a dome.

It is an act of virtue to deceive and lie, when by such means the interest of the church might be promoted.

When you stroll through Munich it can happen that you suddenly stand in front of an old house, an idyllically-dreaming church that smiles like a friendly anachronism into our modern time.

To the young members of the Church, I promise that if you will listen, you will feel the Spirit well up within you. The Lord will tell you what He wants you to do with your life.

If these hands, used to fighting, would be acceptable to His Holiness, we most thankfully dedicate them to the service of him who deserves so well of the Church and of the fatherland.

The Church at its worst is still better than the world at its best!

Vanity, showing off, is an attitude that reduces spirituality to a worldly thing, which is the worst sin that could be committed in the church.

If the church is to impress the world with the deathless hope of the everlasting Gospel, she must be animated by that hope herself.

It's like church over here. It's like church in here. First of all, give an honor to God and our Lord and Savior Barack Obama.

This is very much becoming a reality in churches across the country.

For a man to argue, 'I don't go to church; I pray alone,' is no wiser than if he should say, 'I have no use for symphonies; I believe only in solo music.'

I believe in God... but I don't believe in religion. Religion is used to manipulate and punish. Used in a thousand ways for profit for even in the church, money is still the 'real' God.

We must cease to think of the church as a gathering of institutions and organizations, and we must get back to the notion that we are the people of God.

He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.

If the first mark of a true and living church is love, the second is suffering. The one is naturally consequent on the other. A willingness to suffer proves the genuineness of love.

It's interesting to speculate how it developed that in two of the most anti-feminist institutions, the church and the law court, the men are wearing the dresses.

Wherever we find the Word of God surely preached and heard, and the sacraments administered according to the institution of Christ, there, it is not to be doubted, is a church of God.

If you want to get rich with a tax free enterprise that sells nothing, start a church.

A pastor can teach you on TV, but he can't pastor you on TV. There's so much to gain by belonging to a church.

I did not compose my work as one might put on a church vestment... rather it sprung from the truly fervent faith of my heart, such as I have felt it since my childhood.

Each holy temple stands as a symbol of our membership in the Church, as a sign of our faith in life after death, and as a sacred step toward eternal glory for us and our families.

Is the Church fulfilling a purely religious role when by its silence or friendly relationships it lends legitimacy to dictatorial and oppressive government?

The reason "other churches" don't grow: "Jim, the truth is, I couldn't have a real prayer meeting in my church. I'd be embarrassed at the smallness of the crowd..."

God promised by the mouth of Isaiah that queens should be the nursing mothers of the church.

Ambition that centers on the glory of God and welfare of the church is a mighty force for good.

We are not some casual and meaningless product of evolution. Each of us is the result of a thought of God.