The Church Quotes

My grandmother went to church, but my mother had been inundated with church and decided that when she had children, she would not push church or God on her children.

Stands the Church clock at ten to three? And is there honey still for tea?

A lot of people are using the Church, but not a lot of people are loving the Church.

Separation of church and state is the big club pulled out to beat back the Christians .

The mark of the true church is an expanding witness to the presence of God.

The Church is the Church only when it exists for others.

The church ... is not just to bandage the victims under the wheel, but to put a spoke in the wheel itself.

Church members are either pillars or caterpillars. The pillars hold up the church, and the caterpillars just crawl in and out.

churches, like all the rest of our major institutions, are rooted in capitalism. For a church to attack capitalism is to 'bite the hand that feeds it.

I can't be a Christian on my own. I need a community. I need the church.

In the Church the transformative power of the Eucharist is experienced through the dignified celebration of Holy Mass, and people are empowered for mission because of that.

No God and no religion can survive ridicule. No political church, no nobility, no royalty or other fraud, can face ridicule in a fair field, and live.

I don't see any harm in brining an instrument into the church itself.

Why should we not enter into our inheritance in the church as well as the concert hall?

God builds his temple in the heart on the ruins of churches and religions.

The church that preaches the gospel in all of its fullness, except as it applies to the great social ills of the day, is failing to preach the gospel.

Universities are of course hostile to geniuses, which, seeing and using ways of their own, discredit the routine: as churches and monasteries persecute youthful saints.

Church bells beyond the stars heard, the soul's blood, The land of spices; something understood.

I'm tied of hearing about temperance instead of abstinence, in order to please the cocktail crowd in church congregations.

The divorce between church and state should be absolute.

I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching. How far off, how cool, how chaste the persons look,begirt each one with a precinct or sanctuary!

If your church loves the way you do church more than your children, it loves the wrong thing.

Imagine if every church became a place where everyone is safe, but no one is comfortable. Image if every church became a place where we told one another the truth. We might just create sanctuary.

As I say, it never ceases to amaze me how gullible some of our Church members are.

As to people saying a few idle words about us, we must not mind that, any more than the old church steeple minds the rooks cawing about it.

I coach church planters to look at the ethnic diversity of schools and neighborhoods they are near. This will be an indicator how ethnically diverse their congregation can become.

It is death that goes down to the center of the earth, the great burial church the earth is, and then to the curved ends of the universe, as light is said to do

Each heartfelt prayer, each Church meeting attended, each worthy friend, each righteous decision, each act of service perfomed all precede that goal of eternal life.

What is a church?—Our honest sexton tells, 'Tis a tall building, with a tower and bells.

The early Church had nothing but the Old Testament. The New Testament lies hidden in the Old; the Old Testament lies open in the New.

Jesus Christ rose from the grave.' With this proclamation, the Christian church began. This may be the fundamental element of Christian faith; certainly it is the most radical.

People do bad things in their lives. And those sort of things are forgivable. That's half the point of having confession in church - you need to be able to fess up to what you've done.

It is a long established principle of the Church never to completely drop from her public worship any ceremony, object or prayer which once occupied a place in that worship.

The Roman Catholic Church isn't going to change its theologies.

Art, that great undogmatized church.

And I think my sexuality was heavily repressed by the church, by the, you know, the design of the mortal sins.

Church on time, makes me party.

The Church should go forward along the path of progress and be no longer satisfied only to represent the Conservative Party at prayer.

The church does not simply have a missions department; it should wholly exist to be a mission.

If the church would only be the church- if Christians would only be Christians- nothing could halt our onward march.

In an unconstitutional partnership with the state, the church can impose the most irresistible, if covert, controls conceivable.

When the gospel flourishes in the church, everything flourishes with it.

Everything we see in a Catholic church is there for a single purpose: to tell a love story.

Bell, thou soundest merrily, When the bridal party To the church doth hie! Bell, thou soundest solemnly, When, on Sabbath morning, Fields deserted lie!

The church is so big on law but not on the love.

Only God is the same yesterday, today and tomorrow. The Church has always been changing.

We may go to church once a week, but our Christian life is daily - step-by-step.

Spiritual leadership should remain spiritual leadership and the temporal power should not become too important in any church.

If your songs connect with the fans and they pump their fists in the air and go "Yeah!!" that's when a song really works. That's the electric church of it. The glory hallelujah of it.

Faith cannot be inherited or gained by being baptized into a Church. Faith is a matter between the individual and God.