The Church Quotes

Proclaiming the gospel to all mankind is a fundamental part of the mission of the Church.

By our form of government, the Christian religion is the established religion... .

Singing is really where I got my start in church.

I walked away from going to church when I was 8. I didn't set foot in another church until I was 28.

We attended stables, as we attended church, in our best clothes, thereby no doubt showing the degree of respect due to horses.

Yes, He is ris'n who is the First and Last; Who was and is; who liveth and was dead; Beyond the reach of death He now has pass 'd, Of the one glorious Church the glorious Head.

This merriment of parsons is mighty offensive.

Too soon did the doctors of the church forget that the heart--the moral nature--was the beginning and the end, and that truth, knowledge, and insight were comprehended in its expansion.

I encourage you to seek the help of the Savior to resist temptation and to refrain from behavior that would cause you to have to repent or to have your Church membership called into question.

Churches are not the kingdom of God, but are primary and inevitable expressions, outposts, and instrumentalities of presence of the kingdom among us. They are 'societies' of Jesus.

The greatest danger to the Christian church today is that of pitching its message too low.

Indeed, in the present climate of mistrust of institutions, many people who yearn for a more meaningful and fulfilling life would regard the church as an unlikely place to go for guidance.

The great end of being is to harmonize man with the order of things, and the church has been a good pitch-pipe, and may be so still.

A Gothic church is a petrified religion.

The disconnection of Church and State was a master stroke for freedom and harmony.

You give Italy Jesus Christ and you get the Roman Catholic Church.

When cerebral processes enter into sports, you start screwing up. It's like the Constitution, which says separate church and state. You have to separate mind and body.

The Seventh Day Adventist Church believes that it was specially chosen by God to prepare the world for the Second Coming of His Son Jesus.

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.

History makes the point time and time again No greater mischief can be created than to merge the power of religion with the power of government.

And I say to you, you are Kepha, and on this kepha I will build my church.

I believe that the most important thing...is to revive in the whole Church that positive tension, that yearning to announce Christ again to contemporary man.

The Catholic Church has never really come to terms with women. What I object to is being treated either as Madonnas or Mary Magdalenes.

I like church. It's empty when I go. I walk around. There are so many beautiful Catholic churches in New York.

O father, father Gone from us, lost to us, The church lies bereft, Alone, Desecrated, desolated. And the heathen shall build On the ruins Their world without God. I see it. I see it.

For you see this scripture fulfilled this day and therefore I desire you as you tender the Lord and the church and commonwealth to consider and look what you do.

Some of the speakers we bring on campus may not reflect official church teaching, but that's how it is.

I went to church with my grandparents sometimes and I loved it.

My mother started taking us to church when I was in seventh or eight grade. That was always a question, Do you believe in God?

Really, at a time when theyre debating when and where a nativity scene can be used, this is the kind of stuff we need to have out there - outside of the church.

I've been stuck on John Eldredge lately. He's all about being a warrior outside of the church. I hate to think about this kind of stuff - I just like to do it.

I would suggest the taxation of all property equally, whether church or corporation, exempting only the last resting place of the dead and possibly, with proper restrictions, church edifices.

A deaf church is a dead church: that is an unalterable principle.

As a body without breath is a corpse, so the church without the Spirit is dead.

Oh the Christian church has encouraged enormous immaturity among the peoples who are its primary adherence.

Every European goes on the streets and sees medieval churches. Not if you live in Indianapolis. The most exciting letters I received were from people in places like that.

The church didn't know what to do with Ray Charles or Al Green. And so they were kind of ostracized.

Child abuse is a heinous and personally damaging crime; it is therefore incumbent on the Church to treat such matters with the utmost seriousness.

The Church's note must be a supernatural note which distinguishes incarnation from immanence, redemption from evolution, the Kingdom of God from mere spiritual process.

It is not the church we want, but the sacrifice; not the emotion of admiration, but the act of adoration; not the gift, but the giving.

I'd like to do my first record I ever made, A Church, a Courtroom, and Then Goodbye.

When socialism comes into power, the Roman Church will advocate socialism with the same vigor [with which] it is now favoring feudalism and slavery.

There are ten church-members by inheritance for one by conviction.

The church is in the hope business.

Well, to take me from where I was, and the life I was leading, to the life I lead now with the church and with the Lord and with Jesus Christ, it's a total, total turn-around.

You do not have to be in a church to be saved, but to continue in the things of God, you must be in some type of fellowship with other Christian people.

Churches and mosques you shall not heed / The religion of Albanians is Albanism

I think the church needs to be much more countercultural than that and invite people into slowing down, into a "Be-still-and-know-that-I-am-God" mindset.

Man's principle trait is a readiness to believe anything. Otherwise, how could the Church have survived for almost two thousand years in the absense of universal gullibility?

The poets began drifting away from churches as the jurists grew louder and more insistent.