The Church Quotes

The Philippines bear witness to the youthfulness and vitality of the Church.

I was made to go to church and I heard the gospel songs, and every now then somebody would come through with a guitar and that was a thrill!

Lovers of Norfolk churches can never agree which is the best and I think one is either a Salle or a Cawston man.

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.

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

There would be no need for the women's movement if the church and Bible hadn't abused them

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

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

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.

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.

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.

I believe in eight of the ten commandments. I believe in going to church every Sunday... unless there's a game on.

Got no religion. Tried a bunch of different religions. The churches are divided. Can't make up their minds and neither can I.

I was raised in a Baptist household, went to a Catholic church, lived in a Jewish neighborhood, and had the biggest crush on the Muslim girls from one neighborhood over.

Pass the pub that wrecks your body And the church, all they want is your money

Our whole message is it's easy to just keep preaching to the church and people that already come.

Should the Catholic Church find itself discriminated against by the Obama administration on key delivery of services because of the bias and the bigotry of the administration?

I grew up in the church and had religion in my life for a long time. I'm not really a church goer, but I definitely have a hunger for a spiritual connection to the world and for my soul to be healed.

I don't mind saying, you know, that I don't take a salary from the church, and God has blessed me with more money than I could imagine from my books.

If everything is mission, nothing is mission.

Fellowship is a place of grace, where mistakes aren't rubbed in but rubbed out. Fellowship happens when mercy wins over justice.

The Bible nowhere states that people before the law observed the Sabbath as a day of rest or worship.

History shows that when the church accommodates culture, it weakens it.

The Spirit is the reason we can build a church and have confidence that we will get it at least a little bit right.

And off in the far distance, the gold on the wings of the angel atop the bell tower of San Marco flashed in the sun, bathing the entire city in its glistening benediction.

Church was doing what he often did when dropped - lying on his back with all four legs in the air, pretending to be dead in order to induce guilt in his owners.

It will be one of the tragedies of Christian history if future historians record that at the height of the twentieth century the church was one of the greatest bulwarks of white supremacy.

To regain her lost power the Church must see heaven opened and have a transforming vision of God.

For some people, going to church is going home. In a very profound sense, I would say the same thing. Home is where Christ is.

When I don't have to do out on tour I go to church. Church is a good place to be.

All faithful members of the Lord's Church are equally blessed by priesthood ordinances.

To me, anything that is a church is really just far too close minded.

Who mentioned the Church? On the contrary, I have great respect for religion. My objection is to those who are against so many things and for so little.

To refer to the Church as a building is to call people 2 x 4's.

I think a lot of bad things have happened in the name of the church and in the name of Christ. Therefore I shy away from church...

My body was born into the - baptized in the Methodist church, and it will be buried in the Methodist Church. Meanwhile, I have a soul. And my soul cannot be confined to any human institution.

Far from being disturbed by the presence of the church, the power structure of the average community is consoled by the church's often vocal sanction of things as they are.

If we lose the spirit of 'go,' we have lost the very Christian spirit itself. A disobedient church will become a dead church. It will die of heart failure.

I grew up singing in Kansas. My dad had a band when I was growing up. So I sang in church and school and started singing with his band when I was seven. So I've been singing all my life.

The Church of TED is very optimistic. Bulgarians are some of the most pessimistic in the world. There are the Happy, the Unhappy and the Bulgarians.

If men are wont to play with swearing anywhere, can we expect they should be serious and strict therein at the bar or in the church.

Growing up in Jamaica, the Pentecostal church wasn't that fiery thing you might think. It was very British, very proper. Hymns. No dancing. Very quiet. Very fundamental.

If the world had attended me after World War II, it would have been united within seven years, and there would have been no suffering of the Unification Church and no damage to the democratic world.

Churches should evaluate everything they do to determine how it can be done better.

Only one party sticks out in my mind as a kid. It was the best party ever. I was 5 years old, and my mom dressed me up in a church dress and stockings to go to the party and park.

Spirituality has nothing to do with church, and everything to do with hair.

Remember that the Unification Church rose, not in freedom, but from a prison, the pit of suffering.

I do not speak for my church on public matters; and the church does not speak for me.

What I miss [about church] is being forced to be in community with people that aren't the same as me.

Our biggest problem is that we have an entire culture shaped by a misunderstanding of the gospel. That so-called gospel is deconstructing the church