The Church Quotes

What church I go to on Sunday, what dogma of the Catholic Church I believe in, is my business; and whatever faith any other American has is his business.

The union of Church and State is not to make the Church political, but the State religious.

Songwriting is like going to church. I'm connecting to something, and it's rewarding in really important ways. I don't need to share it with anyone to feel good about it.

Stop going to church everywhere and start belonging to church somewhere.

The Missional church always thinks of the long haul rather than the quick fix

I grew up in a very Catholic family. Up until puberty, I would go to a Catholic church every week.

One of the beauties of working in radio is the way a whole setting can be richly evoked simply by the addition to the track of a little birdsong and a church bell in the distance.

The local church is the outcrop of the church universal.

At 18, I guarded the parking lot at the Catholic Church bingos. Now my dad made sure I could take care of myself. I carried a Smith and Wesson 357 Magnum .

The true Church of England, at this moment, lies in the Editors of the newspapers.

Save me from the error of judging a church by its size, popularity or the amount of its yearly offerings.

That level of expectation that I'm going to be conservative is really disappointing, but it is how many people think about clergy and the church

You don't need organized religion to connect with the universe. Often a church is the only place you can go to find peace and quiet... But it shouldn't be confused with connecting with one's spirit.

The most consistent musical experience I had growing up was church music.

Church reminded me very much of going to shul. It was a bunch of men wearing long robes, speaking in a language I didn't understand.

Search for the perfect church if you will; when you find it, join it, and realize that on that day it becomes something less than perfect.

What breaks my heart is in the United States hundreds of thousands wake up on a Sunday and church never crosses their mind.

If you are a local church or non-profit, you live and die with volunteers.

I donate heavily to the church and various churches in the Detroit community and food banks.

War is a ritual, a deadly ritual, not the result of aggressive self-assertion, but of self-transcending identification. Without loyalty to tribe, church, flag or ideal, there would be no wars.

Some make Conscience of wearing a Hat in the Church, who make none of robbing the Altar.

You will find God in the church of your choice.

If there ever comes a day when the Saints interfere with the rights of others to live as they see fit, you can know with assurance that the Church is no longer led by a Prophet, but a mere man.

Army, Marriage, the Church, and Baking: the Four Horseman of the Apocalypse. Fermin Romero de Torres - The Shadow of the Wind.

The church does not draw people in; it sends them out.

The church's job is to equip the saints for works of service in the world.

I do not believe one can experience conversion or the fullness of the Christian life apart from the church.

Wouldn't you like to contribute to an event that is part of Christ's own prediction, "I will build my church"?

When a church is spending more of its budget on media than shepherding, something is out of whack. We have gotten things twisted around.

The doctrines some now preach could not build a mouse-trap.

The Divine Thing that made itself the foundation of the Church does not seem, to judge by his comments on the religious leadership of his day, to have hoped much from officers of a church.

The most he would do was to promise that the gates of hell should not prevail against it. It is about all that, looking back on the history of the Church, one can feel that they have not done.

No one church has all the answers or the perfect map to the Promised Land, and I prefer to work out my own faith and my own convictions in the seclusion of my own mind.

Hey, I was raised in the church.

I played at my church every once in a while, but that's not a good gauge, because everybody loves you at your church.

That's why I believe in a Constitution which separates church from state. I've seen what happens when they get in cahoots.

It's a disgrace to see my church giving Holy Communion to a man who helped lead a reign of terror. What is the message? You kill, you maim, you commit crime, and you gain sanctuary. It's shameful.

Knowing that there is one Baptism, we who hold the head and root of the One Church know for certain that to him who is outside the Church nothing is lawful.

The Great Commission is still the mission statement of the Church.

Sign at a New England church: Will the last person to leave please see that the perpetual light is extinguished?

But churches always have been the leading cause of the need for churches.

The church and religion has lost tremendous power and positive power.

What the Church should be telling him [the carpenter] is this: that the very first demand that his religion makes upon him is that he should make good tables.

In all my eleven years of itinerant ministry I cannot recall any growing church which does not encourage small groups

Surely the church is a place where one day's truce ought to be allowed to the dissensions and animosities of mankind.

For the spiritual sense of the Word treats everywhere of the spiritual world, that is, of the state of the church in the heavens, as well as in the earth; hence the Word is spiritual and Divine.

When I'm sitting in the church alone, I can hear singing of the old people. I can hear their singing and I can hear their praying, and sometimes I hum one of their songs.

The Mafia has higher standards than the Catholic Church hierachy because if their members were "raping children, they'd off them."

The Ethical Society, therefore, is like a Church in maintaining, and emphasizing the importance of maintaining the custom of public assemblies on Sunday.

the only door into her bedroom led through the church.