The Church Quotes

Like a church bell, a coffin, and a vat of melted chocolate, a supply closet is rarely a comfortable place to hide.

I'm not condemning the Catholic Church - it's too big, it's like condemning a nation and that would be prejudiced.

I was raised Presbyterian, but I'm not really going to church. I think the experience in meditation is pretty much where it's at for me.

If you claim to be a follower of Christ, I encourage you to consider your present commitment to a local church.

I grew up going to church three times a week in my family. It's been a center of my life.

Your momma used to live at the church on Sunday You just go to LIV after church on Sunday

Separation of church and state cannot mean an absolute separation between moral principles and political power.

If I might control the literature of the household, I would guarantee the well-being of Church and State.

Blasphemy and sedition (meaning the truth about Church and State).

[Pope] Francis ought to be taken at his word when he says, as he has often done, that he is a son of the Church who believes and teaches what the Catholic Church believes and teaches.

The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church

The union of church and state put the church under a political control... The church was thoroughly subordinated to the state.

Some people have a fear of rejecting all the security that comes with family, church and state. They become fundamentalists.

Once she has committed sin, there is nothing left for the Protestant woman, whereas the Catholic Church, hope of forgiveness makes a woman sublime.

It is hard to tell where the MCC ends and the Church of England begins.

I can't speak to the differences within the Catholic Church.

The opening of the first grammar school was the opening of the first trench against monopoly in Church and State.

The Catholic Church is still very angry about The Da Vinci Code - they don't like anything that makes more money in a weekend than they do.

Thomas Jefferson declared, stating that he was speaking on behalf of the other founding fathers, ...(that) we should build a wall between the church and state.

Many trees have died so that the Catholic Church can preach against homosexuality.

You don't have to be in the habit of going to church to listen to such a literary minister; you don't have to be a believer to be moved by Mr. Buechner's faith.

I mean I think that's a fact and I think that we had a very peculiar type of Catholic Church here in that it was a fortress Church.

We from every religion feel comfortable in Britain because there is a host. The Church of England is a good host, it has been a major force in shaping England into such a tolerant society.

In her religious role, the Queen is head of the Church of England, but in her civic role she cares for all her subjects, and no one is better at making everyone she meets feel valued.

"The Church of England," I said, seeing that Mr. Inglesant paused, "is no doubt a compromise."

the music was always in the background, like music at a church service; it was something to depend upon.

The changes in the Catholic Church since Vatican II can certainly be scanned in terms of this long retreat from the sacred which has followed the inception of consciousness into the human species.

The Catholic Church sees voluntary vampirism as a kind of suicide. I tend to agree. Though the Pope also excommunicated all animators, unless we ceased raising the dead. Fine; I became Episcopalian.

Apologetics has an important place in the local church as we seek to influence our communities for Christ in an increasingly skeptical culture.

News, by and large, has been the purest of all the television mediums, or at least we've tried to keep it that way, and there constantly is the argument about the separation between church and state.

The attitude of the Catholic Church towards homosexuality is well known - it is treated as something unnatural, even as a disease.

I'm not sure if the shame/guilt distinction resonates for me. I just know that shame is a debilitating emotion that is perpetuated by Church and State.

The most urgent need in the Christian Church today is true preaching; and as it is the greatest and most urgent need in the Church it is obviously the greatest need of the world also.

Place before your eyes two Precepts, and two only. One is, Preach the Gospel; and the other is--Put down enthusiasm!The Church of England in a nutshell.

That's the reality in the Catholic Church today You don't want to build something that will be OK for now, when you know this large population is going to get bigger.

I don't know that the Libertarian Party has an official position on the separation of church and state.

I grew up as a Roman Catholic, and as a very young boy I felt the presence of divinity in my life through the experiences that I had in connection with the Catholic church.

Worshiping the earth is more fun than going to church. It's also closer.

There is nothing in the U.S. Constitution that sanctifies the separation of church and state.

Just in relation to women, it's not that huge an imaginative leap to see the connection between the Taliban and the Catholic Church.

Look out sinners because if you do not go to confession, confession will come to you. The Catholic Church in northern England has launched a mobile confession unit called the Mercy Bus.

The Catholic Church is not dead, it is not even tired!

Religion mustn't interfere with the state - so one of the basic Democratic principles as we know it in America is the separation of church and state.

The separation of church and state is necessary partly because if religion is good then the state shouldn't interfere with the religious vision or with the religious prophet.

Many believe one can be a "good Christian" without joining (or even attending) a local church, but God would strongly disagree.

Hierarchy, as in the Catholic Church, has to do with power, and vertical attention has to do with longing.

I read a lot of G.K. Chesterton. It was a fairly conventional intellectual path to the Catholic church, I would say.

Don't jump down - folks, contraception in the Catholic Church is a thing.

I began with dance, doing ballet at 3, then tap, jazz, modern. Then I sang in church choirs, learned how to play clarinet and drums, sang with rock bands and only then did I get into musical theatre.

[Pope Francis] did something that both his two predecessors had failed to do - John Paul II and Benedict. Francis met with the Russian patriarch of the Orthodox Church.