The Church Quotes
Not far from our house, and opposite the old church with the golden cross, stood a large building, even larger than the church, and having many towers.
I grew up a Catholic and I dont want to talk badly about the Catholic Church but theres a lot of routine stuff going on. You say the same prayers, you sit, you kneel, whatever.
The church is challenging such negative cultural elements as superstition, rugged individualism, materialism, hedonism, permissiveness and utilitarianism.
There is no dogma that the organ or harmonium can be used in church, but not the drum.
Sodomy is in the Bible, to be read in churches. I wouldn't rule it out of Mr. Bruce's act if he cares to comment on it
Man is a being born to believe. And if no church comes forward with its title-deeds of truth to guide him, he will find altars and idols in his own heart and his own imagination.
The greatest burden in the world is superstition, not only of ceremonies in the church, but of imaginary and scarecrow sins at home.
I went to a church where you could not sing out loud in the service until you had been saved
Another thing I liked about my Dad at church: he did his sleeping at home. He never used the church as an adult nursery.
I'm very soulful. I grew up singing in church. When I sing a song, I like to feel what I'm singing.
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.
I'm afraid I haven't become a born-again Christian. I'm sort of 'Church of England, lapsed' is about as far as I go.
BC is not going to replace the hierarchy, and BC is not going to lead some major reform in the Catholic Church - that's got to come out of the whole Catholic community.
As for the British churchman, he goes to church as he goes to the bathroom, with the minimum of fuss and no explanation if he can help it.
Men who hold a theory of the Church which excludes from communion those whom they admit to have the Spirit of Christ simply proclaim that their theory is in flat contradiction to the spiritual fact.
I was raised as a Catholic, but I didn't like the Catholic Church at all. I thought the nuns were mean.
In a way that somebody else converts to Judaism or becomes a Hare Krishna, I belong to the church of fried chicken.
New York is to the nation what the white church spire is to the village - the visible symbol of aspiration and faith, the white plume saying the way is up!
Gentlemen, no one objects to the husband being the head of the wife as Christ was the head of the church--to crucify himself; whatwe object to is his crucifying his wife.
All the money needed to send and support an army of self-sacrificing, joy-spreading ambassadors is already in the church.
Every time you walk a mile to church and carry a Bible with you, you preach a sermon a mile long.
Two persons who love each other are in a place more holy than the interior of a church.
While I cannot be regarded as a pillar, I must be regarded as a buttress of the church, because I support it from outside.
The church also does not condone a broken immigration system in the U.S., one that too easily can lead to the exploitation, abuse and even death of immigrants.
The truth is that most mission work is carried out where the church already exists Only small percentages are working where the church is non-existent.
Yet for my part, deeply as I am moved by the religious architecture of the Middle Ages, I cannot honestly say that I ever felt the slightest emotion in any modern Gothic church.
Our church has been legal since late 1960s. I've been involved since 1972. I was ordained in 1975.
It must be said that charity can, in no way, exist along with mortal sin.
We admit that we will never reach our ideal in this life, a distinctive the church claims that most other human institutions try to deny.
Then the singing enveloped me. It was furry and resonant, coming from everyone's very heart. There was no sense of performance or judgment, only that the music was breath and food.
All Church power is, therefore, properly ministerial and administrative. Everything is to be done in the name of Christ, and in accordance with his directions.
I am not the Jesus of the official church tolerated by those in power. I am not your superstar.
The modern state does not comprehend how anyone can be guided by something other than itself. In its eyes pluralism is treason.
I saw a photograph of a wedding conducted by Reverend Moon of the Unification Church. I wanted to understand this event, and the only way to understand it was to write about it.
I started off singing in church as a child. The sound of voices coming together, that was my first moment of touching something outside of myself.
The operation of the Church is entirely set up for the sinner; which creates much misunderstanding among the smug.” (August 9, 1955)
I know of no crime that has not been defended by the church, in one form or other. The church is not a pioneer; it accepts a new truth, last of all, and only when denial has become useless.
That's just my family's mentality. We are a very loving, hugging and kissing kind of family. And we grew up in a church atmosphere and still have that atmosphere. There is no negativity.
In the case Stone v. Graham, the Supreme Court ruled that - under 'separation of church and state' - it was unconstitutional for a student in school to even see a copy of the Ten Commandments.
Too often we treat prayer as the preparation for the work of the church. Do you not see? Prayer IS the work of the church.
A Church that has lost its voice for justice is a Church that has lost its relevance in the world.
Proclaiming the gospel to all mankind is a fundamental part of the mission of the Church.
If the ancient churches, in debating and deciding the greatest mysteries of religion, knew nothing of these two texts, I understand not why we should be so fond of them now the debate is over.
Sunday morning church service is not an enormous priority; spending time with other believers is.
Buddha says: "Do not flatter your benefactor!". Let one repeat this saying in a Christian church : it immediately purifies the air of everything Christian.
