The Church Quotes

The church is like a swimming pool. Most of the noise comes from the shallow end.

The Gates of Hell shall not prevail against it.

The church doesn’t have a social strategy, the church is a social strategy.

Remember: Christ is calling you; the Church needs you; the Pope believes in you and he expects great things of you.

Vatican II declares the Church... as necessary for salvation.

We indeed did and do own our own minds and bodies, and anything from church or state that limits that is inappropriate and inconsistent with the ... society that America is supposed to be.

Churches are good for prayer, but so are garages and cars and mountains and showers and dance floors.

We millennials have been advertised to our entire lives, and we can tell when somebody is just trying to sell us something. I think church is the last place I want to go to be sold another product.

Jesus never says to the poor: ‘come find the church’, but he says to those of us in the church: ‘go into the world and find the poor, hungry, homeless, imprisoned.

The Church exists by mission, just as a fire exists by burning. Where there is no mission there is no Church; and where there is neither Church nor mission, there is no faith.

It is better to think of church in the ale-house than to think of the ale-house in church.

For centuries the leaders of Christian thought spoke of women as a necessary evil, and the greatest saints of the Church are those who despise women the most.

The Church cannot be content to live in its stained-glass house and throw stones through the picture window of modern culture.

The church is never a place to show off. Do your good deeds quietly. Serve; don't seek to be seen

The goal of a church is not to have a bigger building or budget but to see the word of God increase and disciples multiply

In such a fearful world, we need a fearless church

It is not a church’s job to spiritually develop your children. Scripturally, it is the job of the parents. The church body is supposed to support parents in raising children, not replace them.

My friends, it is one thing to go to church or chapel; it is quite another thing to go to God.

I am, I think the only surviving member of the original Battle Creek church. The church was disbanded, with the exception of thirteen members, in 1870.

The duty of the church is to comfort the disturbed and to disturb the comfortable.

The world has lost the power to blush over its vice; the Church has lost her power to weep over it.

It's not about the church meeting your needs; it's about joining the mission of God's people to meet the world's needs.

Bells call others, but themselves enter not into the Church.

The true church lives and moves and has its being in prayer.

I believe in an America where religious intolerance will someday end... where every man has the same right to attend or not attend the church of his choice.

Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and state forever separate.

I'm free of an abusive cult, based on money and power that worships a fictional deity and safely back with the Catholic Church.

We would be 1,500 years ahead if it hadn't been for the church dragging science back by its coattails and burning our best minds at the stake.

Loving the Second Amendment while opposing the NRA is every bit as natural as loving Jesus while opposing Westboro Baptist Church.

According to Christian belief, man exists for the sake of God; according to the liberal church, in practice if not in theory, God exists for the sake of man.

Much of today’s church relies more on a book the early church didn't have, than the Holy Spirit they did.

That very church which the world likes best is sure to be that which God abhors.

We thought the church had withdrawn from interfering in Italian politics... but instead there is a terrible resurgence. These are ugly signs for freedom of expression.

I thought lacrosse was what you find in la church.

The president of the branch in Atlanta was a pastor of a church, the Reverend Sam Williams, a wonderful guy. He was middle-class and fairly militant for the time and place.

Organized Christianity that fails to make a disturbance is dead.

The Labour party has never been a socialist party, although there have always been socialists in it - a bit like Christians in the Church of England.

Politics and church are the same. They keep the people in ignorance.

It must not content us to take our bodies to church if we leave our hearts at home.

The only church that illuminates is a burning church.

Don't ever come to church without coming as though it were the first time, as though it could be the best time, and as though it could be the last time.

A church is not a church when the passion for souls is gone.

I carry my own church about under my own hat," said I. "Bricks and mortar won't make a staircase to heaven. I believe with your Master that the human heart is the best temple.

I would think, to me, growing up in the south, growing up with all the gospel music, singing in the church and having that rhythm and blues - the blues background was my big inspiration.

Church should be a place where love is evident, God delivers, lives are changed, hearts are healed, and families restored.

The Church in the colonies is the white people's Church, the foreigner's Church. She does not call the native to God's ways but to the ways of the white man, of the master, of the oppressor.

The first time I sang in the church choir; two hundred people changed their religion.

The preaching of the Church truly continues without change and is everywhere the same. It has the testimony of the Prophets and Apostles and all their disciples.

If someone is truly converted, they will publicly confess Christ in word and deed. That does not mean presenting them in front of the church on the night of their supposed conversion.

I have devoted my energies to the study of the scriptures, observing monastic discipline, and singing the daily services in church; study, teaching, and writing have always been my delight.