The Church Quotes

I know the established Christian theology... I know the enemy, but the enemy doesn't know me. Thus the enemy has already lost the war.

Before children, even the most cynical people throw down their usual masks and become capable of feeling the purity and love which all human beings seek.

The Roman Catholic church... carries the immense power of very directly affecting women's lives everywhere by its stand against birth control and abortion

For the judgment was accomplished not only upon all the men of the Christian church, but also upon all who are called Mohammedans, and, moreover, upon all the Gentiles in the whole world.

The church of the Lord is spread over all the globe, and is thus universal; and all those are in it who have lived in the good of charity in accordance with their religion.

I don't belong to any club or group. I don't fish, cook, dance, endorse books, sign books, co-sign declarations, eat oysters, get drunk, go to church, go to analysts, or take part in demonstrations.

The church is precisely that against which Jesus preached -- and against which he taught his disciples to fight.

Ministers should impress upon the people the necessity of individual effort. No church can flourish unless its members are workers. The people must lift where the ministers lift.

Life treads on life, and heart on heart; We press too close in church and mart To keep a dream or grave apart.

We as a church don't have a mission. The mission has a Church.

God wants every local church to be the first place people think to go when they've really messed up...not the last.

My influences are with Irish music, church music and classical music.

The church should be a place where people can be free to say that they are sinners.

I started doing the nursery and then prepared 89 hours to teach 2 to 4-year- olds.nd during this time working in this church and going to a little country church, I met Randy [White].

Who influenced you? When did they influence you? How have they influenced you? What have you done with their influence?

There are no small churches, just small people.

As some to Church repair, not for the doctrine, but the music there.

We sing in a church, why can we not dance there?

It is not a question of religion, or of creed, or of party; it is a question of declaring and maintaining the great American principle of eternal separation between Church and State.

You have suffered grievously and I am truly sorry. I know that nothing can undo the wrong you have endured. Your trust has been betrayed and your dignity has been violated.

The Church must be forever building, for it is forever decaying within and attacked from without.

If there was acceptance of the mentally ill in the Catholic Church, the entire Curia would resign!

Declare church and state forever separate and distinct; but each free within their proper spheres.

What I think is that we in the church - and especially I as an Archbishop - I'm responsible for maintaining our rules, and making sure we hold to unity in the Body of Christ.

Its very difficult to determine whether this is the fault of the world that has abandoned the Church, or the Church that does not know how to relate to the world.

I believe in one Gnostic and Catholic Church of Light, Life, Love and Liberty, the Word of whose Law is THELEMA .

It wasn’t in books. It wasn’t in a church. What I needed to know was out there in the world.

Overheard in a Washington D.C. church confessional: "Bless me Father, for sins have been committed."

The more I do bookstores, the more people come up to me from church groups. I spoke at Pittsburg State College and had 2 or 3 ministers and book groups from a couple of churches.

When I was growing up, I'd be in the choir. My mum was the organist in the church, so I'd sing in the church.

The same church members who yell like Comanche Indians at a ball game on Saturday sit like wooden Indians in church on Sunday.

I was lucky enough as a kid to spend most of my weekends at the Fillmore East. On a great night, that was like a Holy Roller evangelical church.

But I do like churches. The way it feels inside. It feels good when you just sit there, like you're in a forest and everything's really quiet, expect there's still this sound you can't hear.

The church is only a secular institution in which the half-educated speak to the half-converted.

I love church buildings, particularly cathedrals, and I like living in spaces that remind me of music or evoke that creative energy.

Christians in community must again show the world, not merely family values, but the bond of the love of Christ.

No church that panders to the zeitgeist deserves respect, and very shortly it will not get respect, except from those who find it politically useful, and that is less respect than disguised contempt.

I go to church every Sunday, which is like going to the gas station once a week and really, really filling up.

So that Sunday morning I ended up going to church and that’s when I got saved.

Easter celebrations are evidence of the increased benign influence of the Russian Orthodox Church and other traditional churches in our country on society.

The greatest missionary tool we have is that of demonstrating friendliness, brotherly kindness, harmony, love and peace in our homes and in all our church meetings.

I would suggest the taxation of all property equally whether church or corporation.

I visualize the day that tridents and pentagrams are thrust into the sky from church roofs instead of crosses.

The church lies at the very center of the eternal purpose of God. It is not a divine afterthought.

Montefiore's impression of Jesus was wrong. Jesus loved the Pharisees, although He denounced them publicly. And I love the Communists, as well as their tools in the Church, although I denounce them.

The separation of Church and State in everything relating to taxation should be absolute.

The church may hold whatever it holds with regard to clerical celibacy.

The Church is not a political power, nor a political party, but rather a moral reality, a moral force.

I think that the church has to develop its own agenda, and not allow itself to be consumed by either party to the chagrin of the people that we seek to serve.

I think it is going to be very difficult for any church that still calls itself a church, never to try and convince someone that their religion is the best one.