The Church Quotes

I find churches limit me.

You have not really learned a commandment until you have obeyed it. The Church suffers today from Christians who know volumes more than they practice.

We cannot handle injustice by finding more ways to impose what is in fact "right" on people. It has to come from the inside. And that's where the church should be working.

Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.

Teaching Authority of the Church does not forbid ... research and discussions ... with regard to the doctrine of evolution.

It's just stunning to watch churches struggle to get mission statements when there it is, the Great Commission, and they should simply do what it says.

The devotion which God sends to the succor of His Church and of the nations at the present time is the devotion to the Most Holy Eucharist. It is the highest of all devotions.

I think one of the things the church service means is hope.

The Christian church is a society of sinners. It is the only society in the world membership in which is based upon the single qualification that the candidate shall be unworthy of membership.

I know of no religion or sect that has done or is doing without a house of God, variously described as a temple, a mosque, a church, a synagogue or agiary.

Christmas is a time when God showed His love for us, and we're ready to show God's love in the communities where we live and serve. That's the purpose of the church.

He strode over to the ruined church. This, Blue had discovered, was how Gansey got places - striding. Walking was for ordinary people.

The jewels of spiritual service are always quarried in the depths of spiritual experience. Never is this more true than in revival. Bend the church and save the people.

The first thing my family did when we moved was join the local church. The second was to go to the library and get library cards.

You can call us rednecks if you want. We're not offended, 'cause we know what we're all about. We get up and go to work, we get up and go to church, and we get up and go to war when necessary.

True motherhood is the noblest call of the world, and we look with sorrow upon the practice here in our own United States of limiting families, a tendency creeping into our own Church.

I like going to Church for aesthetic reasons, rather than spiritual ones.

The state and the church seldom approve of anything I do. I don't need their approval. I don't aspire to the heterosexual nuclear family model

Life and the Universe show spontaneity;Down with ridiculous notions of Deity!Churches and creeds are lost in the mists;Truth must be sought with the Positivists.

Becoming Catholic involves entering into a relationship with the Catholic Church.

I was never interested in singing in the church or school. I was more interested in becoming a musician.

I never realised that the Edinburgh skyline was so interesting - it's gothic and very urban and there's a lot of church spires and old brownstone buildings.

The church has no power over our lives any more, which is something of a blessing for those who do not enjoy red-hot pokers or iron thumb-screws.

There is no salvation outside the church.

My father started me singing in church.

At the end of 1795 and beginning of 1796, I was ordered to write to the Church ministers.

A just government has no need for the clergy or the church.

I believe the collapse of the House of Windsor is tied in with the collapse of the Church of England.

Let God Himself be the main attraction at church again.

It bums me out tremendously what the church has become, and if it's got me bummed, imagine what Jesus Christ must be feeling.

My every action is to liberate God from his sorrow.

I was brought up as a Catholic and went to church every week and took the sacraments. It never really touched the core of my being.

We have become so accustomed to the religious lie that surrounds us that we do not notice the atrocity, stupidity and cruelty with which the teaching of the Christian church is permeated.

This also is a part of the Church's teaching, that the world was made and took its beginning at a certain time, and is to be destroyed on account of its wickedness.

It's not how high we jump off our feet in church, it's what we do with them when we hit the ground!

A dull, dark, depressing day in Winter: the whole world looks like a Methodist church at Wednesday night prayer meeting.

The Institutional Church (ecclesia) has killed only two kinds of people: Those who do not believe in the teachings of Jesus Christ, and those who do.

God is not a taker. God is a giver.

In proportion as a church is holy, in that proportion will its testimony for Christ be powerful.

No one goes to heaven by parroting a prayer, being baptized, or joining a church, but by believing in Jesus Christ with humble submission.

Persecution is the heirloom of the church, and the ensign of the elect.

Your God is too Small

I do not know all of the providences of the Lord, but I do know that he permits false doctrine to be taught in and out of the Church and that such teaching is part of the sifting process of mortality

Only 13.7% of churches in America are consider multiethnic. This means that 86.3 % of churches are homogenous.

A Christian's authenticity is show in difficult hours it is in difficult hours that the church grows in authenticity. Blest be God for this difficult hour in our archdiocese. Let us be worthy of it.

I was always laughing in church.

The Church ever operates in full light. There is no secrecy about its doctrine, aim, or work.

Church is a moment in time when the kingdom of God draws near, when a meal, a story, a song, an apology, and even a failure id made holy by the presence of Jesus among us and within us.

I always say that as church falls into demise, we still have the inclination to congregate whether by a night of music or a festival, or just sitting down to listen to some vinyl.

My mother was the first singer I had contact with. She sang constantly to us around the house, in church.