The Church Quotes

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...

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

I was going to go to church, but I decided to get doughnuts instead.

Primary (the LDS Church's Sunday school for children) is where you go to do with somebody else's mother the things you would do with your own mother if she weren't so busy teaching Primary.

Being a member of the Church has never placed any roadblocks in my personal and professional life.

Wicked sons do not have the Holy Ghost in the same way as do beloved sons, and yet they do have Baptism. So, too, heretics do not have the Church as Catholics have, even though they have Baptism.

What is held by the whole Church, and that not as instituted by Councils, but as a matter of invariable custom, is rightly held to have been handed down by authority.

Praying for revival equates to blaming God for the condition of your local church.

It's a frightening thing. To go to France, the elder daughter of the church, it's always called, and you get the feeling the church has gone away.

Religious Cult: The church down the street from yours.

We should think of the church as an orchestra in which the different churches play on different instruments while a Divine Conductor calls the tune.

Mormonism is not simply a commitment to a theology or a church practice, but a social-cultural order.

There are three traps that strangle philosophy: The church, the marriage bed, and the professor's chair.

Why should men love the Church? Why should they love her laws? She tells them of Life and Death, and of all that they would forget.

The church should train the Ritz Carlton on how to serve people.

Will you ask God to bring you to the place where you're willing to be willing?

For years I had been disillusioned by the Church of England's compromising on everything. The Catholic Church doesn't care if something is unpopular.

The missional church is not a new trend or the latest new technique for reaching postmodern people.

Religion! Is what you hear at church religion? Is that which can bend and turn, and descend and ascend, to fit every crooked phase of selfish, worldly society, religion?

I don't really believe in anything special, but I respect God. I go to church sometimes, but not often.

As a matter of fact my, my very first time singing when I was two and a half, three, was in church. So, ahm, church is very, very much a part of who I am.

The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the Church. (Terullian) When she ceases to bleed, she ceases to bless. She can thrive through persecution, but never through peace and plenty.

The Church must be intelligible to the simple as well as to the shrewd.

We believe that this time of transition will make for a more dynamic Revolution Church, and will help us focus and expand our scope and mission.

How can a bishop marry? How can he flirt? The most he can say is "I will see you in the vestry after service."

The Christian church has set up a religion of pomp and revenue in pretended imitation of a person (Jesus) who lived a life of poverty.

The Church of Christ is an anvil which has worn out many hammers. Our opponents may boast of their strength, but they do not realize what they have challenged.

In the Church, when we talk about 'the world', we often create an us and them situation and end up planting the seeds of all that we feel wrong with the world in the soil of our own backyard.

Just because you go to church doesn't mean you're a Christian. I can go sit in the garage all day and it doesn't make me a car

I think on the things - the issues that Pope Francis cares about - not just remaking the Church and in just sort of a more compassionate visage, but really on trying to move real policy.

We are not saved by nations or by churches or by families, but as individuals, through a personal interest in a personal Saviour.

The church alone beyond all question Has for ill-gotten goods the right digestion.

If you say that the history of the Church is a long succession of scandals, you are telling the truth, though if that is all you say, you are distorting the truth.

Certainly the institutional church is ill. It's hemorrhaging young people at an astronomical rate.

The best critique of what is wrong is the practice of something better. So let's stop complaining about the church we've experienced and work on becoming the church we dream of.

Oh, honey, God don't care which church you go, long as you show up!

Yet this is trash that the Church imposes upon the world as the Word of God; this is the collection of lies and contradictions called the Holy Bible! This is the rubbish called Revealed Religion!

It's a very common belief [among Mormons] that the Constitution will hang by a thread and the Church will save it.

A Hank Cochran song in the studio is spiritual. It's like singing a hymn in a church.

We can't renew America unless more of us, I mean all of us, are willing to join churches.

It is often said that the Church is a crutch. Of course it's a crutch. What makes you think you don't limp?

The clerical system of church management is exceedingly popular, but the whole thought is foreign to Scripture.

My life goal is to see the world's one billion people with disabilities embraced and encouraged by the church.

The church doesn’t have a mission; there is a mission, and it has the church.