The Church Quotes

The church is something beautiful

People in Northern Ireland vote for their church, they don't vote with their heads; it is ridiculous.

It's all so verbal in the Protestant church. You've heard these words a million times before. Maybe people are leaving the church because they find the church has nothing that they're looking for.

The Christian church is an encyclopedia of prehistoric cults.

Spending time in a church does not make you religious, any more than spending time in a garage makes you a car.

The Church offers the medicine of the divine mercy so that healed souls can grasp the truth that will liberate them in the fullest meaning of human freedom.

Each of us has to face the matter — either the Church is true, or it is a fraud. There is no middle ground. It is the Church and kingdom of God, or it is nothing.

When there throbs in the heart of an individual Latter-day Saint a great and vital testimony of the truth of this work, he will be found doing is duty in the Church.

I believe that the work of the Holy Spirit, through the church, will continue on.

Christendom is not primarily a mental construct. It is above all a fact, indeed the longest historical experience the Church has had. Hence the deep impact it has made on its life and thought.

The new American, like the new European, was the servant of the powerhouse, as the European of the twelfth century was the servant of the Church.

I'm not an expert in the sociological realities of all the pastors in the world, but I would say that there are some very, very positive things about the state of integrity in church leaders.

The tavern will compare favorably with the church.

Look not to legislatures and churches for your guidance, nor to any soulless incorporated bodies, but to inspirited or inspired ones.

The Church of the Apostles was a Church of the poor; of silver and gold it had none.

Woodrow Kroll is dead-on in his assessment of the church's lack of engagement with the Word.

If anyone feels his sins, let him come at once, straight, direct, not merely to church, or to the sacrament, or to repentance, or to prayer, but to Christ Himself.

I urge the husbands and fathers of this church to be the kind of a man your wife would not want to be without.

The black church will accept anybody.

The only way a church is going to be relevant is to get out of its comfort zone and connect with unchurched people.

The key word in the church community is relationships, you know brother and sister in Christ.

Avoid kneeling in unheated stone churches. Ecclesiastical dampness causes prematurely grey hair.

I grew up in a family where, through my teenage years, I was expected to go to church on Sunday. It wasn't terribly painful.

Are we to have a church in which everyone's judgment is equal to everyone else's? That's not a church, it's chaos. Common sense dictates that you keep the fox out of the chicken coop.

Bad theology dishonors God and hurts people. Churches that sever the root of truth may flourish for a season, but they will wither eventually or turn into something besides a Christian church.

Marriage is not mainly about prospering economically. It is mainly about displaying the covenant keeping love between Christ and his Church

Human speculation is no match for divine revelation.

All the good you've ever done does not make it permissible to sin now.

You must emulate the truth you exhort.

A woman never wrote, "Thou shalt not commit adultery." God wrote that. You sin first and foremost against God.

If you will stay with the majority of the Twelve Apostles, and the records of the Church, you will never be led astray.

...[T]oday's Washington is about as attentive to the Tenth Amendment as the Unitarian Church is to the Book of Revelation.

The Church desperately needs people of joy and zeal. Show me a church that is consistently obedient to this single command, and I will show you a church that is turning its world upside down.

I got kicked out of my church and lost all of my friends, but I realized that I had to obey God and not man.

The more I know about business, the more I'm convinced that it is conducted in homes and churches far more than in office buildings.

Dogmatics is the testing of Church doctrine and proclamation.

The next time someone tells you, "The Church is full of a bunch of hypocrites." You can respond, "You don't even know the half of it."

My grandparents knew it was important that I understood Christianity and the Bible. But they never took me to church; they sent me to church.

We just could not have the Church of Jesus Christ without the spirit of missionary work.

I attended Sunday School and then church with my father and mother throughout my childhood.

Everybody is called to become a saint. Not everybody's gonna be canonized by the Church...The only thing about being canonized is you're already dead so you don't even get to go to the party.

When a leader in the Church inspires council members with vision, he helps them focus on their real mission so that they are ministering to people rather than merely administering programs.

Many council leaders and members will be surprised to discover how much more focused their work will become when they examine it through the lens of saving souls through the mission of the Church.

Hate is a grand, a strong quality! It makes nations, it builds up creeds! If men loved one another what should they need of a Church?

I don't have to go to church. The church is within me and the experience is my own. It's my life experience.

This doctrine (justification) is the head and the cornerstone. It alone begets, nourishes, builds, preserves, and defends the church of God and without it the church of God cannot exist for one hour.

The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.

I was not fortunate enough to run into Obama. We were at the same church per se, but I would never be there when he was there.

Our tendency is to be converted to church and not to Christ.

There's a lot of us who do not accept the culture of the bubbles.