The Church Quotes
I had explained that a woman's asking for equality in the church would be comparable to a black person's demanding equality in the Ku Klux Klan
The Sunday morning service shows how popular your church is. The evening services show how popular your pastor is. Your private prayer time shows you how popular God is!
Before everything else, fidelity to the Church: One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic. Jesus did not found several churches, but one single Church.
The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.
The church is not a religious community of worshippers of Christ but is Christ himself who has taken form among people.
The whole tone of Church teaching in regard to women is, to the last degree, contemptuous and degrading.
Old-fashioned, Spirit-filled, Christ-honoring, sin-hating, soul-winning, Bible-preaching. It is the hope of the church. It is the hope of the nation. It is the hope of the world.
The Southern Baptist Church is a specific culture in itself. So, I had to study, talk to people, watch tape and go to performances to see how Gospel artists move compared to secular artists.
My mother was a wonderful, wonderful woman with a lovely voice who hated housework, hated cooking even more and loved her children. She was always arranging church activities such as a bazaar.
I think that after Church got his Ph.D. he studied in Europe, maybe in the Netherlands, for a year or two.
I am also actively involved in my church and its community activities. We have programs to improve the lives of our congregation and programs of outreach in the community.
My ordination in the Church of God in Christ was at age 9, and I later became a Baptist minister, which I am today.
When I go to Rome, I fast on Saturday, but in Milan I do not. Do you also follow the custom of whatever church you attend, if you do not want to give or receive scandal.
The faith of the Church is this: That one and identical is the Word of God and the Son of Mary Who suffered on the Cross, Who is present in the Eucharist, and Who rules in Heaven
Great churches aren't built on the gifts or talents of a few, but on the sacrifice of many.
The spirit of Christ is the spirit of missions. The nearer we get to Him, the more intensely missionary we become.
Catholicism is more than a religion, it is a political power. Therefore I'm led to believe there will be no peace in Ireland until the Catholic Church is crushed
When there's something in the Bible that churches don't like, they call it 'legalism.'
Among all the devotions approved by the Church none has been so favored by so many miracles as the devotion of the Most Holy Rosary
The Church alone, being the Bride of Christ and having all things in common with her Divine Spouse, is the depository of the truth.
If you limit worship to where you are, the minute you leave that place of worship you will leave your attitude of worship behind like a crumpled-up church bulletin.
You don't make up for your sins in church. You do it in the streets. You do it at home. The rest is bullshit and you know it.
When church is over and there's no one there to listen except the only One who matters, do you still have that same passionate joy in your spirit, just to be alone with the Living God?
The greatest weakness in the church today is that the servants of God keep looking over their shoulder for the approval of men.
Christians don't tell lies, they just go to church and sing them. How many times have you stood and sang, “Take my life and let it be” when you haven't given Him one ounce?
The glory of the gospel is that when the church is absolutely different from the world, she invariably attracts it.
I prefer a church which is bruised, hurting and dirty because it has been out on the streets, rather than a church which is unhealthy from being confined and from clinging to its own security.
The early church didn’t say, ‘Look what the world is coming to!’ They said, ‘Look what has come into the world’!
God was executed by people painfully like us, in a society very similar to our own ... by a corrupt church, a timid politician, and a fickle proletariat led by professional agitators.
The Church is the Ship outside which it is impossible to understand the Divine Word, for Jesus spoke from the boat to the people gathered on the shore.
Church and state should be separate, not only in form, but fact - religion and politics should not be mingled.
Religion should be about your relationship with God, not what the church says you can and can't do.
Vatican II was a force that seized the mind of the Roman Catholic Church and carried it across centuries from the 13th to the 20th.
The Church says: the body is a sin. Science says: the body is a machine. Advertising says: The body is a business. The Body says: I am a fiesta.
Food history is as important as a baroque church. Governments should recognize cultural heritage and protect traditional foods. A cheese is as worthy of preserving as a sixteenth-century building.
If you have to give a carnival to get people to come to church, then you will have to keep giving carnivals to keep them coming back.
The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe with blood for centuries.
There is but one Church in which men find salvation, just as outside the ark of Noah it was not possible for anyone to be saved.
