The Church Quotes
When anyone has the power to destroy the whole human race in a matter of hours, it becomes a moral issue. The church must speak out.
Some of the stuff I'm writing is almost like hymns, some of my first singing and choral experiences were in church, the Church of Christ in Hicksville.
The Church limits her sacramental services to the faithful. Christ gave Himself upon the cross a ransom for all.
You'll find God in the church of your choice, you'll find Woody Guthrie in the Brooklyn State Hospital.
I think of the church as this bride of Christ, who is incredibly capable of doing amazing things. And so where we see injustice, we come, not with fists clenched but with palms up.
I felt like I was at that breaking point. I just prayed and took my mind off of dreams - I went to church. I felt like a lot of things came together. I'm not perfect but I strive to be.
Devotion to the family and devotion to the Church are not different and separate things.
In all that we do in the Church, we need to provide the way, as leaders, for parents and children to have time together as families.
The end of all activity in the church is to see that a man and a woman with their children are happy at home, sealed for eternity.
I grew up in church and it's always been important to me. I've always had a sense of calling to do life and faith-affirming media.
What we have seen in recent years in the United States is the church's rights to express itself, and to conduct its own affairs, being insidiously eroded.
It is my province to teach to the church what the doctrine is. It is your province to echo what I say or to remain silent.
When I was young, it was sort of built to intimidate. Even on this very local level in this very small church in this small town, it still held that sort of - held you in the palm of its darkness.
Non-mainstream people seem to balk at the idea of 12-step. A lot of us think 12-step recovery means sitting in a church basement full of Republicans and Christians who drink to much.
There is a difference between a private devotional life and a corporate one. Solemnity is proper in church, but things that are proper in church are not necessarily proper outside, and vice versa.
I can say a prayer while washing my teeth, but that does not mean I should wash my teeth in church.
A church without a missions or a mission without the church are both contradictions. Such things do exist, but only as pseudostructures
It is the function of the Church to oppose all original experience, because this can only be unorthodox.
Worship is of fundamental significance to the life of the individual and to the corporate life of the church, yet we rarely hear it taught as a discipline or practice in the gathering of believers.
My religion is my whole life. I love sharing it with people and clearing up any misunderstandings people might have about our Church.
Will turned around slowly, wiping blood from his face. "You're glaring at me," he said to Magnus. "You look like Church before he bites someone.
Sweetheart," Bill said formally, "I have always loved you, and I will be proud to die in your service. When I'm gone, say a prayer for me in a real church.
See, my hope and dream is that people have a good time watching basketball. It's not church. It's not serious.
Unable to do away with love, the Church found a way to decontaminate it by creating marriage.
It was like a church in there as only the truly lost sit in bars on Tuesday mornings at 8:00 a.m.
The church is the only institution supernaturally endowed by God. It is the one institution of which Jesus promised that the gates of hell will not prevail against it.
"Peggotty!" repeated Miss Betsey, with some indignation. "Do you mean to say, child, that any human being has gone into a Christian church, and got herself named Peggotty?"
The health of a church depends not merely on the creed which it professes, not even on the wisdom and holiness of a few great ecclesiastics, but on the faith and virtue of its individual members.
I was born swinging and clapped my hands in church as a little boy, but I've grown up and I like to do things other than just swing. But blues can do more than just swing.
The skeptic may deny your doctrine or attack your church but he cannot honestly ignore the fact that your life has been changed.
The church may go through her dark ages, but Christ is with her in the midnight; she may pass through her fiery furnace, but Christ is in the midst of the flame with her.
The Bible, the whole Bible, and nothing but the Bible is the religion of Christ's church.
I believe a very large majority of church goers are merely unthinking, slumbering worshipers of an unknown God.
If I had never joined a church till I had found one that was perfect, I should never have joined one at all.
Christians often want to hide behind the walls of the church, where we are comfortable, but sometimes we have to come out of the box.
In the corporate world you get a report card every quarter and have to talk about it, whereas the church can drip, drip through bad trends for decades and decades.
We need to become a more welcoming church, one that reaches out more to those who have walked away or who aren't very interested to begin with.
Those who saw Pope John Paul II either in person or through the mass media glimpsed a man who millions of Catholics believe may be one of the greatest popes in the history of the church.
Growing up, in church we had the homily; at home it's what I call the 'momily' - the inspirational and instructive mom-isms that every family has.
How do we help the church get their respect back? I have a plan: pedophile crucifixions.
you're a product just as much. a product of a product. the people who design cars, they're products, your teachers, products. the minister in your church, another product.
My theory is that church used to be that place. Instead of being a place where you went to look good, it was a place where you could risk going every week to look your worst.
Because we employ no professional preachers, it means that every sermon or lesson in church is given by a regular member - women and men, children and grandparents.
By the power invested in me by the state of New York and the Universal Life Church, I now pronounce you husband and husband. You can kiss the groom.
The wonderful thing about the black church for me is that it forces you to come to terms with the centrality of love in the world.