The Church Quotes

One faith, one law and one standard of justice did not mean democracy. The heresy of democracy has since then worked havoc in church and state . . . Christianity and democracy are inevitably enemies.

A church must grow larger and smaller at the same time. Larger through worship and smaller through small groups.

You measure a church's strength, not by its seating capacity but by its sending capacity.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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 doc­trine of the Church should be proven, not announced. There­fore show that the Scrip­tures teach these things.

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

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.

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!

Why not admit that the words separation and church do not even appear in the US Constitution, he added. Instead, they do appear in Article 52 of the Constitution of the Soviet Union.

The church is not a museum for pristine saints, but a hospital ward for broken sinners.

The National Catholic Register's coverage of the Church universal, and the Church in our own country, is splendid.

Well you say that it's gospel, But I know that it's only church.

In America, evangelical churches have often been bastions of conservatism, providing support for the status quo.

When we reduce the notion of “calling” to work inside the church, we fail to equip our people to apply their Christian faith to everything they do, everywhere they are.

Jesus was a friend of women, the first and practically the last friend women had in the church.

Most church members live so far below the standard, you would have to backslide to be in fellowship with them.

Any man who takes Jesus Christ seriously becomes the target of the devil. Most church members do not give Satan enough trouble to arouse his opposition

We can find loopholes in a lot of things if we want to bend the rules of the church.

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

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

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.

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

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

Is any man skillful enough to have fashioned himself?

I remind you that there are churches so completely out of the hands of God that if the Holy Spirit withdrew from them, they wouldn't find it out for many months

[As a young man ] I came to the conclusion that the church was just a bunch of fascists that supported Franco. I stopped going on Sunday mornings and watched the birds with my father instead.

Division has done more to hide Christ from the view of men than all the infidelity that has ever been spoken.

My heart is in the Church of England but not my mind.

I talk about a Christianity that is enlightened enough to separate spirituality from the rest of life. Not just church and state, but knowledge and church.

Sunday is the best day of the week because we celebrate the risen Christ of the cross in the local church, the dearest place on earth.

Catholic Church reasserts its moral authority on contraception: If God believed in birth control, altar boys would have a uterus.

I fully understand it's important to maintain the separation of church and state. We don't want the state to become the church, nor do we want the church to become the state.

The English Puritans pulled down church and state to rebuild Zion on the ruins, and all the while it was not Zion, but America, they were building.