The Church Quotes

Leaders of the Church have often been Narcissus, flattered and sickeningly excited by their courtiers. The court is the leprosy of the papacy.

The ultimate purpose of every teaching, every activity in the Church is that parents and their children are happy at home, sealed in an eternal marriage, and linked to their generations.

We had a church together. We co-founded and co-pastored the ministry, but Randy [White] was really a strong part.

Churches come and go, but there has ever been but one religion. The only religion is conscience in action.

If you're not looking forward to church this morning perhaps it's time to look for a church.

I want people to help me reanchor the church to undeniable, mind-boggling, culture-shifting demonstration of compassion and generosity. Because, generosity was the hallmark of the early church.

I was a Catholic boy, I went to church every Sunday. A church has a certain magic and mystery for a child. It still shows in how I arrange things. It's always little altars.

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

What is this generation of students worth? It's worth everything.

Being accepted by the world is the worst thing that can happen to the Church.

I'm sick and tired of (only) reading about church history; let's make (some) by the grace of God

Both of them were very good and kind - the one who went to church and the one who didn't. And no doubt from them I learned to like both Christians and sinners equally well.

Life is too short and hell is too hot to just play church.

if the devil can get the church to withdraw from prayer by believing reasonable excuses, the church is under his dominion.

It's obvious throughout secular and church history that significant legislation follows only after dramatic action.

You can't save souls in an empty church.

In many ways, the church seems to hate evil more than it loves good or even God.

Whether you are doing it in the bar, the church, the strip joint, or the Himalayas, the first duty of music is to complement and enhance life.

In too many churches today, people don't see manifestations of God's power in answer to fervent praying. Instead, they hear arguments about theological issues that few people care about.

Where the bishop is present, there is the Catholic Church

The Bible does not say we should aim at numbers but rather urges us faithfully to proclaim God's message in the boldness of the Holy Spirit. This will build God's church God's way.

Why are we mute? Where are our leaders, our legislators? Where is the church?

I get asked a lot why Apple's customers are so loyal. It's not because they belong to the Church of Mac! That's ridiculous.

The bible knows nothing of solitary religion.

It would be far better to be of no church than to be bitter of any.

Take away the Mass, destroy the Church.

I have taken this step because I want the discipline, the fire and the authority of the Church. I am hopelessly unworthy of it, but I hope to become worthy.

Art is History's nostalgia, it prefers a thatched roof to a concrete factory, and the huge church above a bleached village.

Nobody seems to know yet how television is going to affect the radio, movies, love, housekeeping or the church, but it has definitely revived vaudeville.

Bless all useful objects, the spoons made of bone, the mattress I cook my dreams upon, the typewriter that is my church with an altar of keys always waiting.

Certainly, the church is not primarily a moral institution, but the bearer of a hope.

I'm a Christian. I go to church when I can. I was raised Baptist. I went to a Lutheran school. I'm a nondenominational practicing Christian. I have a lot of faith.

The whole history of the Christian Church is a mixture of errors and violence.

Church should be enjoyed, not endured.

I don't go to church much anymore, but Methodist values still wind me up and send me ticking into my daily life.

The great guardian principle of all conduct in the church of God is personal responsibility to the Lord.

If you tell a lie to make a person better, then that is not a sin.

The church was first established and organized with a world-wide mission for a world-wide work.

No wonder the hills and groves were God's first temples, and the more they are cut down and hewn into cathedrals and churches, the farther off and dimmer seems the Lord himself.

True religious movements prosper and flourish under tribulation.

But if at church they would give some ale. And a pleasant fire our souls to regale. We'd sing and we'd pray all the live long day, Nor ever once from the church to stray.

The Church was as concerned with this world as the next: I saw that virtually all of the achievements of Africans seemed to have come about through the missionary work of the Church.

Our Pastoral solicitude induces us to earnestly protect and preserve in everything and especially in the sacred rites of the Church the best and old norm.

The living Lord leads His living church.

I believe in the separation of church and state, absolutely. But I don't believe in the separation of public life from our values, our basic values, and for many of us, our religious values.

When there was a disaster, it used to be that people went to church and all held hands. Now the minute anything happens they run to CNN.

What I thought as a young adult is you act like you have it together whether or not you do because that is what church people do. That is not what God has called us to do.

What if the Church and the State Are the mob that howls at the door! Wine shall run thick to the end, Bread taste sour.

Churches must extend their influence beyond the lives of church members to impact the broader community that they serve.

Try to be all you can be to be the best human being you can be. Try to be that in your church, in your temple. Try to be that in your classroom. Do it because it is right to do.