The Church Quotes

For me the hardest struggle in my faith life was the Catholic Church is against the death penalty.

I think it's funny how people get confused when they think about church music, because a lot of times there is a soloist who stands out, but my church wasn't like that at all.

I remember going to church about four times a week. I liked it a lot.

I think that if you can't be loyal to the Church, it's best to get out.

I think by eighth grade I knew I wanted to be an actor. I'd done church plays and stuff, but my first actual acting class was in eighth grade. I was obsessed with it.

I think church and state should remain entirely separate at all costs, and that the decision of religious marriage should be of each faith to debate and decide free of political influence.

The hard struggle which the Pan-Germans fought with the Catholic Church can be accounted for only by their insufficient understanding of the spiritual nature of the people.

If we go to church we are confronted with a system of begging so complicated and so resolute that all other demands sink into insignificance by its side.

After my study of today's church, my conclusion is that the church is politely bored with God.

God wants us to make Jesus Christ the central figure in our church--not just say that we do, but actually do it.

The meetings least attended in our churches today are the ones whose only attraction is God.

I contend that whatever does not raise the moral standard of the church or community has been a revival from God.

The task of the church is twofold: to spread Christianity throughout the world and to make sure that the Christianity she spreads is the pure New Testament kind.

The church can have light only as it is full of the Spirit, and it can be full only as the members that compose it are filled individually.

If the Lord's people were only half as eager to be filled with the Spirit as they are to prove that they cannot be filled, the church would be crowded out.

Theres a lot of churches that hide their dirty laundry under the rug, and I know about that from being in the church 27 years. Oh, yeah.

I went to church and couldn't swallow it. The music was nice but I don't belong there.

But it's a poor church that cares only for what happens to a soul after it leaves this life." -Damien

The [book of the bible] Song Of Songs is an amazing erotic love poem that the church has tried very hard not to notice. It is really beautiful, and musical in its poetry.

I think what we're really bad at doing is recognising that it is possible to have lost of different views within the church.

Currently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries.

Think of mission like the paddles of a defibrillator applied to the chest of a dying church.

Put simply, the church finds itself in a post-Christendom era, and it had better do some serious reflection or face increasing decline and eventual irrelevance.

Most churches don't have the resources for these tricks and inducements but are still bound to the imagination that church happens on a Sunday in a building.

Go among the people. Don't assume you know what church looks like.

Glasgow is still full of churches built in the last century. Half of them have been turned into warehouses.

Empires and churches are born under the sun of death.

Usually, it is not my habit to address religious issues on the floor. I strongly believe in a person's right to religious freedom, as well as the separation of church and state.

The funny thing about being Catholic, and I was raised Catholic, is that you identify with the Church, just as part of your character. Nevermind what you believe, it's just who you are.

In the case of the Catholic Church, it's hard to understand how they so willfully sacrifice the children.

The Church must be all-powerful. You discover these horrors within institutions because predators find ways of hiding in plain sight.

How grateful I am that The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has from its beginnings stood strongly against racism in any of its malignant manifestations.

Who builds a church to God and not to fame, Will never mark the marble with his name.

European Christianity has allowed itself to be intimately united with the powers of this world. Now that these powers are falling, it is as if it were buried under their ruins.

[R]eligion cannot share the material strength of the rulers without being burdened with some of the animosity roused against them.

But the churchmen fain would kill their church, As the churches have kill'd their Christ.

It's not like we did something wrong. We just burned down the church while the choir within sang religious songs.

The definitions of the Church are the rules of true faith.

Rome has seven sacraments, but the Protestant churches, being less prosperous, feel that they can afford only two, and these of inferior sanctity.

PRESBYTERIAN, n. One who holds the conviction that the government authorities of the Church should be called presbyters.

I like the aesthetics of the Church.

People forget that many of the aspects of the Selma campaign were laid out in response to the church bombing in Birmingham.

The thing that makes me really outraged, is the idea that the Mormon Church would presume to get involved in decisions that have little to do with Mormonism.

The Church responds to antiquated social realities, and those realities remain much more current in Utah precisely because of the Church.

It seems particularly ironic that a church that at one stage, a long time ago, fought to redefine marriage should now be so opposed to these attempts to redefine marriage.

If the Mormon Church still supported polygamy, and if it appeared to be a system that was not exploitative of women, I wouldn't feel that it's my place to forbid it.

I have two nexuses of sadness about the Mormon Church. The first is the effect the Church's position on homosexuality has on Mormons.

I grew up Presbyterian, just a basic Protestant upbringing. There were years in my life when I would go to church every Sunday and to Sunday school. Then I just phased out of it.

Leaders are all about what isn't and what-needs-to-be be.

The church must capture and keep the minds and hearts of students.