The Church Quotes

I believe that you understand a church only when you kneel in it.

The old church tower and garden wall Are black with autumn rain And dreary winds foreboding call The darkness down again

No person can be punished for entertaining or professing religious beliefs or disbeliefs, for church attendance or non-attendance.

The church saves sinners, but science seeks to stop their manufacture.

Jesus tells you exactly how to get it. Put your money in missions-and in your church and the poor-and your heart will follow.

Now who can hear Christ declare, that his kingdom is, not of this world, and yet believe that this blending of church and state together can be pleasing to him?

We need to be skilled into knowing God and His Word, then act as excellent translators of these things to the people in our churches.

The Church is the place where the incompetent, the unfinished, and even the unhealthy are welcome. I believe Jesus agrees.

How many people would like to get up in a social prayer-meeting to say a few words for Christ, but there is such a cold spirit of criticism in the church that they dare not do it.

Satan is willing to have us worship anything, however sacred - the Bible, the crucifix, the church - if only we do not worship God Himself.

I'm definitely not a traditionalist, because a traditionalist would be going to church every Sunday.

It is the task of youth not to reshape the church, but rather to listen to the word of God.

Churches are having a limited impact on society because they fail to understand that the goal of the church is not the church itself but the kingdom.

The saints have always been the source and origin of renewal in the most difficult moments in the Church's history.

I had actually gone to a church-related college, but I went on a football scholarship, not because of any interest in the church.

Theology, not morality, is the first business on the church's agenda of reform, and the church, not society, is the first target of divine criticism.

We want a crowd to make us feel important and liked. But why is getting a crowd our focus? Jesus never suggested that crowds were the goal. He never addresses getting your church to grow. Never.

The family was ordained of God that children might be trained up for himself; it was before the church, or rather the first form of the church on earth.

The thing that brings people to wail at a wall, or face Mecca, or to go to church, is a search for that feeling of purity.

If you can explain what is happening in a church, apart from the sovereign act of God, it is not revival.

Would your city weep if your church did not exist?

A mother defends herself with a heart filled with love before doing so with words. I wonder whether there is any love for the church in the hearts of those who pay so much attention to the scandals.

Not for yourself, O church, do you exist, any more than Christ existed for himself.

It is necessary to broaden the opportunities for a stronger presence of women in the church.

Unable to suppress love, the Church wanted at least to disinfect it, and it created marriage.

The problem is not that the churches are filled with empty pews, but that the pews are filled with empty people.

Oh, how I would like a poor Church, and for the poor.

The hands are churches that worship the world.

You get a heck of a sound from the church. Can't you hear it in my voice?

Love the church because Jesus loves it.

However, it must always remain a dialogue, and never an imposition of the church's own convictions and methods. Propose, not impose. To serve, and not to dominate.

I'm proud, and Islam did it. And after these things that I heard in church, a preacher and watching this and that, I knew something was wrong but I couldn't pinpoint it.

With everything that I design, from a church to a plate to skyscraper to a spoon. I am always thinking about voluptuous volumes and spaces.

The nearer to the church, the further from God.

You ain't gotta go to church to find your God.

A church determined to hold only those doctrines that a secular world finds adequately comprehensible is a church that will hold to no central vital Christian teaching whatsoever.

Too many church services start at eleven sharp and end at twelve dull.

Hearing Mass is the ceremony I most favor during my travels. Church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back.

The Cinderella of the church of today is the prayer meeting.

In our secular society, school has become the replacement for church, and like church it requires that its teachings must be taken on faith.

Weak leaders of churches blame people and circumstances. Breakout church leaders accept responsibility and see God's possibilities in even difficult situations.

Advances in science help to delegitimize the rule of kings and the power of the Church.

The average Christian pays more in interest than he gives to the Lord's work. In a church of 100 families 37 will give nothing.

There is a lot of absurdity sometimes, not just in Mormonism but often in other religions that want to pretend that no bad happens in their church, rather than taking care of what bad does happen.

The best-run churches and organizations are masters of the midcourse correction. They plan in pencil.

God has been preparing me for what God had prepared for me.

You cannot control sin. Sin will control you. Do not try to manage sin.

The church is the gathering of God's children, where they can be helped and fed like babies and then guided by her motherly care, grow up to manhood in maturity of faith.

Why don't church leaders forbid Catholics from joining the military with the same fervor they tell Catholics to stay away from abortion clinics?

Jesus proclaimed the Kingdom of God and what came was the Church.