The Church Quotes

For me, and maybe for many religious kids of the '60s, the church lost relevance the more it became a surrogate in the movement for social and political change.

The call of the gospel is for the church to implement the victory of God in the world through suffering love.

Without God's Spirit, there is nothing we can do that will count for God's kingdom. Without God's Spirit, the church simply can't be the church.

If the Church were not true, our enemies would be bored rather than threatened, and acquiescent rather than anxious. Hell is moved only when things move heavenward.

Pope Paul III was the greatest thief in the history of the church.

The church of my choice is the free, open world.

All too often the church holds up a mirror reflecting back the society around it, rather than a window revealing a different way.

An authentically eucharistic Church is a missionary Church... Truly, nothing is more beautiful than to know Christ and to make him known to others.

Selfishness and fear are at the root of (pro-abortion) legislation...We in the Church have a great struggle to defend life...life is a gift not a threat.

Too often [the Church] is weighted down and burdened with the sins and failings of her children; too often she appears disfigured and discouraged.

The Church's mission is not political in nature. Her task is to open the world to the religious sense by proclaiming Christ.

Since politics fundamentally should be a moral enterprise, the church in this sense has something to say about politics.

Dear young people, the Church depends on you! She needs your lively faith, your creative charity and the energy of your hope. Your presence renews, rejuvenates and gives new energy to the Church.

Holy Mother Church teaches us to end the year and also our days with an examination of conscience...to be grateful and to ask for forgiveness.

Our Christian identity is belonging to a people: the Church. Without the Church we are not Christians.

The Church is a mother, not an entrepreneur.

The Church must breathe with her two lungs!

The Church must persist in the teaching transmitted to her by Christ.

In the Eucharistic Sacrifice the Church venerates the memory of Mary the ever Virgin Mother of God and the memory of Saint Joseph, because he fed Him whom the faithful must eat as the Bread of Life

Education belongs pre-eminently to the church ... neutral or lay schools from which religion is excluded are contrary to the fundamental principles of education.

Christ's commandment to hear the Church . . . is binding on all men, in every period, and every country.

The Church welcomes technological progress and receives it with love, for it is an indubitable fact that technological progress comes from God and, therefore, can and must lead to Him.

I love what the church offers to us as a culture - black people in particular. We would be nowhere without the black church.

Ever since the civil rights movement, the black church has always encouraged people to utilize their voting right, which is a right that was fought for.

I don't know why Christians keep fighting over which is better-singleness or marriage-when it seems rather obvious, both from Scripture and from Church history, that both can glorify God.

No coffee shops or fog machines required [for church].

As a child, I had lived many years in Southampton and sang in the choir of the Dune Church.

I believe that marriage is a representation of Christ and the church and when Christ and the church are unified, they are the strongest and most attractive to those that don't know Jesus.

Never does sin so reign in the Church or State, as when it has gained reputation,or, at least, is no disgrace to the sinner,nor is a matter od offence to we who behold it.

By dividing the people of God as clergy and laymen, we have made the latter a majority of lame men.

... our reality teaches us that, as Christians, we must create a Church of the poor, that we don't need a Church imposed from outside which knows nothing of hunger.

If there's any place where you would express your deepest doubts, it would be church.

The thought of the word church and the word marketing in the same sentence makes me sick.

I love going to black churches, and I love some of these black preachers. The best preacher I ever saw in my life was a 93-year-old in a black church in Hamilton, Virginia. What a preacher!

The churches have no confidence in each other. Why? Because they are acquainted with each other.

If the property belongs to God he is able to pay the tax.

Worship is at the center of everything that the church believes, practices, and seeks to accomplish

I miss going to church, but I think the Lord understands.

It takes the whole church to know the whole truth.

I've always said the theatre is my church. It's where I feel God the most. It's where I know there's a God.

It is said that there is no salvation outside the Church. Who denies this? And therefore whatever things of the Church are had outside the Church do not avail unto salvation.

Within the Church, sins are forgiven in three ways: by baptism, by prayer, and by the greater humility of penance; yet God does not forgive sins except to the baptized.

Dear Sugar will save your soul. I belong to the Church of Sugar.

Mr. Mum's Rudesheimer And the church of St. Geryon Are the two things alone That deserve to be known In the body-and-soul-stinking town of Cologne.

Churches are like announcement factories that pump toxic levels of noise pollution into the atmosphere.

There are financial bankruptcies in many parts of the church. No question about that. But we see the possibility of reimagining and revitalizing the church.

If you're not remarkable, you're invisible.

Religion stands, the Church blocking the sun.

The city's contradictions and frailties drive me to the church. The church, in turn, binds my wounds and soothes my troubled heart, and sends me right back out into the city again.

The Church tries to fit Christ into it, not the Church into Christ.