The Church Quotes

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.

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

A high church for the true mediocre.

Standards of conduct appropriate to civil society or the workings of a democracy cannot be purely and simply applied to the Church.

I don't think we should focus on what church that person walks into .. I think we need to focus on what they do when they walk out of church.

I joined church by myself in a borrowed suit at 13. I had my neighbor's bible. So my walk and my faith have always been very real.

Although I myself don't go to church or synagogue, I do, whether it's superstition or whatever, pray every time I get on a plane. I just automatically do it. I say the same thing every time.

Are you unselfish? That is the question. If you are, you will be perfect without reading a single religious book, without going into a single church or temple.

My father was a preacher in Maryland and we had crab feasts - with corn on the cob, but no beer, being Methodist - outside on the church lawn.

Consider Ireland.... You have a starving population, an absentee aristocracy, and an alien Church, and in addition the weakest executive in the world. That is the Irish Question.

Yes, though I have nothing but gratitude for my upbringing in the church.

I love the description of Gothic churches before the printed word, that they were the bibles of the poor.

A lighthouse is more useful than a church.

I've tried them all, I really have, and the only church that truly feeds the soul, day in, day out, is the Church of Baseball.

I was put to the grammar-school at eight years of age, my father intending to devote me, as the tithe of his sons, to the service of the Church.

The only place a new hat can be carried into with safety is a church, for there is plenty of room there.

We have to work harder to develop a profound theology of women within the church. The feminine genius is needed wherever we make important decisions.

We must not reduce the bosom of the universal church to a nest protecting our mediocrity.

The parson knows enough who knows a Duke.

In this Year of Faith, we pray to the Lord that the Church may always be a true family that brings God’s love to everyone.

We missed a lot of church, so the music is our confessional.

We have to find a new balance; otherwise even the moral edifice of the church is likely to fall like a house of cards, losing the freshness and fragrance of the Gospel.

I grew up in the Baptist Church, and going to church with my father; I remember being 8 years old, trying to determine whether I was really ready to give up sin, and for days I agonized.

Generally, elders are among the more reverent members of the Church, but there is no law prescribing their age.

The Church needs you, your enthusiasm, your creativity and the joy that is so characteristic of you.

I still love church. My favorite church service is T.D. Jakes at the Potter's House. I don't think there is a better preacher in the country. His ability to interpret scripture is like no other.

Let us never forget that it is the Lord who guides the Church. He is the one who makes our apostolates fruitful.

If it's the last thing I do, I will give every ounce of the rest of my life to helping leaders and churches get better.

I want the Church to go out onto the streets, I want us to resist everything worldly, everything static, everything comfortable...eve rything that might make us closed in on ourselves.

Art in the Church fundamentally exists for evangelization

Dear brothers and sisters, the Church loves you! Be an active presence in the community, as living cells, as living stones.

Power is of an encroaching nature.

My family for several generations have been members of the Unitarian Church.

I had been brought up in a church which decides everything and permits no doubts, so that having rejected one article of faith I was forced to reject the rest.

The Spanish ladies of the New World are madly addicted to chocolate, to such a point that, not content to drink it several times each day, they even have it served to them in church.

It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation.

The irony is I stopped going to church a few weeks later.

Many people are in a rut and a rut is nothing but a grave-with both ends kicked out.

The hungry nations of the world cry out to the peoples blessed with abundance. And the Church, cut to the quick by this cry, asks each and every man to hear his brother's plea and answer it lovingly.

I don't go to church regular. But I pray for answers to my problems.

When I was 5 years old I started singing in church and I hated my voice because I sounded like a grown woman, not a child. I was ashamed of it.

I don't go to church on Sunday, don't get on my knees to pray, or memorize the books of the Bible, I got my own special way