The Church Quotes

I... [am] convinced [man] has no natural right in opposition to his social duties.

Creeds have been the bane of the Christian church ... made of Christendom a slaughter-house.

Those who seek consolation in existing churches often pay for their peace of mind with a tacit agreement to ignore a great deal of what is known about the way the world works.

Evangelical churches are weaker than we realize because we dont teach the confessions and doctrine.

If you would rather pick a fight than solve a problem, do not consider leading the church

The spiritual leader should outpace the rest of the church, above all, in prayer.

An Episcopalian divine once told the Pope that the only difference between their denominations was that "the Church of Rome is infallible and the Church of England is never in the wrong."

When the church takes affairs of the state more seriously than they do Jesus, Pax Romana becomes its gospel and the president becomes the Son of God.

As my friend said that when people say the church is full of hypocrites, he says we always have room for more.

We have to admit that there is an immeasurable distance between all that we read in the Bible and the practice of the Church and of Christians.

The Manifesto was not a divine production but something manufactured to outwit the church's enemies.

The day when efficacy would prevail over truth will never come for the Church, for then the gates of hell would have prevailed against her.

I had said to some pastor that I was having thoughts, and the church turned on me. They went to my mom and said, So sorry about your son.

There was no room in God's army for the coward heart, no crown awaiting him who put mother or father, sister or brother, sweetheart or friend above God's will. Let the church cry amen to this!

In the long, fierce struggle for freedom of opinion, the press, like the Church, counted its martyrs by thousands.

Depend upon it, since Satan could not kill the church by roaring at her like a lion, he is now trying to crush her by hugging her like a bear.

A laboratory of natural history is a sanctuary where nothing profane should be tolerated. I feel less agony at improprieties in churches than in a scientific laboratory.

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

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.

The council now beginning rises in the Church like the daybreak, a forerunner of most splendid light.

I was born in Alabama and my first live music experiences were in church. Every Sunday we watched regional gospel groups on television singing their hearts out

Power is of an encroaching nature.

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

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

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 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.

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.

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

I have confidence that the Unitarian Church will steadily grow and will help to sustain many of my fellow citizens in these important days that lie ahead of us.

In the Church, considered as a social organism, the mysteries inevitably degenerate into beliefs.

The business of the church is to tell and embody a story

The church must provide postmoderns with an alternity of rituals by which they can turn and tune to one another and feel connected to the cosmos.

I am drawn to Christ but I have real problems with the Catholic Church.

It's really important to me to go to church, which is sometimes tough when I get back from road trips late on Saturday night, but I try to make it a priority to go every week.

I think I'm a real good person off the field. I've got good character traits, I go to Church often, and I do community service. I think I'm a really good role model.

[On The Philippines:] ... eighty dialects and languages are spoken; we are a fragmented nation of loyal believers, divided by blood feuds and controlled by the Church.

Church is great, but I found my church here. Hugh Hefner has been nothing but a gentleman.

I am a Congregationalist with Catholic sensibilities. Which probably explains how I ended up in a Episcopal church.

I kept quiet for eight years. I did not want to hurt the church.

The person who had the greatest influence in my life was my dad, who was a wonderful small businessman, devoted to his family, devoted to the local church.

The purpose of my life had always been to free people from concern. I dubbed it, 'The church of freedom from concern,' or 'FFC.

I believe that there are too many practitioners in the church, who are not believers.

Unless you have made a complete surrender and are doing his will it will avail you nothing if you've reformed a thousand times and have your name on fifty church records.

To appear at church every Sunday; to look down upon, and let himself be looked at for an hour by the congregation, is the best means of becoming popular which can be recommended to a young sovereign.

I believe in an America that is officially neither Catholic, Protestant, or Jewish - where religious liberty is so indivisible that an act against one church is treated as an act against all.

I still consider myself a very spiritual person but the structure of the church isn't really for me.

Let us pray that the Church be holier and more humble, loving God by serving the poor, the lonely and the sick.

One of my realizations in such an earthy atmosphere was that many of the burning theological issues in the church were neither burning nor theological.