The Church Quotes
In missional churches, the baby birds have been pushed out of the nest and are learning to fly for themselves.
I would not believe in the Gospel, if the authority of the Catholic Church did not bid me to do so.
In general, the churches, visited by me often on weekdays... bore for me the same relation to God that billboards did to Coca-Cola; they promoted thirst without quenching it.
Nobody worries about Christ as long as he can be kept shut up in churches. He is quite safe inside. But there is always trouble if you try and let him out.
Turn over the pages of history and read the damning record of the church's opposition to every advance in every field of science. . . .
Many people take exception to me and say that I'm doing black magic and things they can't do at church. But I'm doing magic that started their church.
For clothes, I like Dover Street Market and Acne. For vintage, I go to Mint just off Seven Dials. For shoes, it's Church's and Russell & Bromley.
The Church imposes nothing; she only proposes, she proposes like a lover to the beloved.
The true Church preaches REGENERATION; not reformation, not education, not legislation, but regeneration.
It was here in Edinburgh that in the 1980s I joined with many others to protest against Margaret Thatcher as she arrived to address the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.
The one thing that the Catholic Church desires, and that I seek as Bishop of Rome, “the Church which presides in charity”, is communion with the Orthodox Churches.
For a house, somewhere near Los Angeles I found an old church. Very old, no longer used. So we moved the church to the land, and I took off the steeple, and I got my hands dirty.
When the problems in Northern Ireland started, it was not a question of Protestantism or Catholicism, because the Catholic church was the only church at that time-it was a nationalist conflict.
He took the bride about the neck and kissed her lips with such a clamorous smack that at the parting all the church did echo.
I don't trust the church or the government, and anything the church or the government tells me I assume to be a lie or a conspiracy, until proven true.
I'm a believer. I don't go to church. I don't belong to any particular religion, but I do believe in God. I couldn't write what I write about and be creative without a certain form of belief.
God bless the Methodist Church - bless all the churches - and blessed be God, Who, in this our great trial, giveth us the churches.
If you want to get rid of counterfeit money, put it in the collection plate at church.
I wish, in America, (that) we were as concerned about separation from church and sin as we are about separation between church and state. Church and sin-- it's a monstrous problem.
For faithful Catholics, communion is not just a nice ritual: It is the body and blood of Jesus Christ, and the ultimate sign of our willingness to be incorporated into the church.
The life and fellowship of the church is to be a foretaste of life in the Kingdom of God.
I believe in Christianity, Judaism and Islamism, but I stay away from churches, synagogues and mosques.
Down through the centuries, the Church has carefully preserved, protected, and defended its Marian teachings, because to give them up would be to give up the gospel.
To a true believer, death is but going to church: from the church below to the church above.
No church property is taxed and so the infidel and the atheist and the man without religion are taxed to make up the deficit.
I was an altar boy in the Roman Catholic Church and no priest ever laid a hand on me. That's me, always the bridesmaid.
The explanation is that prayer is not primarily God's way of getting things done. It is God's way of giving the church 'on the job training' in overcoming the forces hostile to God.
Good hymns are an immense blessing to the Church. They train people for heaven, where praise is one of the principal occupations.
This much is sure in all churches, forgetting party labels; the smallest meeting numerically is the prayer-meeting. If weak in prayer we are weak everywhere.
The Church is called to draw near to every person, beginning with the poorest and those who suffer.
Go to church once a week and nobody pays attention. Worship God seven days a week and you become strange!
The traitor to Humanity is the traitor most accursed; Man is more than Constitutions; better rot beneath the sod, Than be true to Church and State while we are doubly false to God.
A government cannot be premised on the belief that all persons are created equal when it asserts that god prefers some
And I think it was the outline of that church tower at Belaugh against the sky which gave me a passion for churches so that every church I've past since I've wanted to stop and look in.
The aim of the Church is to help the people to help themselves. Work is to be re-enthroned as the ruling principle of the lives of our Church membership
The truth that makes us free is always ticking away like a time-bomb in the basement of everybody's church.
The real ecumenical crisis today is not between Catholics and Protestants but between traditional and experimental forms of church life.
All of us have weaknesses, but we also have strengths. God’s Spirit has gifted each of us for the good of the church.
As the Church is the aggregate of believers, there is an intimate analogy between the experience of the individual believer, and of the Church as a whole.
It is a thoroughly anti-Christian doctrine that the Spirit of God, and therefore the life and governing power of the Church, resides in the ministry, to the exclusion of the people.