The Church Quotes

The black church often has reinforced certain self images that are damaging to black peoples' beauty, black peoples' confidence.

My plan is to not be leading (worship) at any church until I really feel like I'm supposed to be somewhere else.

Religion is a set of social and political institutions and spirituality is a private pursuit which may or may not take place in a church setting.

Service is an imperative for those who worship Jesus Christ and a covenant obligation of those who belong to his Church.

Church of painful love - unfulfilled,unrequited & unattained

These guys [the Catholic church] make Enron look like altar boys.

Where do you learn how to act? Not at church. America is a lot more like pagan Rome than we think. We still sacrifice to objects to gain our social goals.

Martha Stewart contributes more to our civility than the Baptist Church.

See, that why I ain’t go to church. Figger I got me a church wherever I be. Want’a talk to God, well I say, ‘howdy-howdy, God,’ and we jaw fer a bit.’ - Jimmy ‘Diamond’ Skinner

That is the job of the Catholic Church, to be a balance to the materialistic drives of our culture and of economy.

I encounter many Christians who've been raised in the church but never realized that there's a cohesive storyline from Genesis to Revelation.

I still go to church occasionally. I went the other day and found peace.

The real test of any church or religion is the kind of men it makes.

It's not easy to follow Jesus' example, and if you go to church it doesn't mean you're automatically doing it.

Saturate your preaching with the gospel in the church, so that you people speak gospel in the world.

God has clearly called and gifted some people in the church to teach his Word formally.

In the Netherlands now, I imagine it's legal to marry your own children. Get them pregnant, and you can abort your unborn grandbabies in a free clinic that used to be a church.

The church expect too much from the pastors and there's barely anytime left for prayer.

I was brought up Methodist, christened as a little baby and went to church every Sunday.

Modern church music is so constructed that the congregation cannot hear one distinct word.

The opinion formulated by the Church has more value in my eyes than human reasons, whatever they may be.

Beware when you take on the Church of God. Others have tried and have bitten the dust.

I mean in the South African case, many of those who were part of death squads would have been respectable members of their white community, people who went to church on Sunday, every Sunday.

It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

I was raised in a working class family of Baptist faith, and I went to college on a church scholarship where early teachings were reinforced. Abortion was wrong, I was taught.

The church must share in the secular problems of ordinary human life, not dominating, but helping and serving.

The right way to requite evil, according to Jesus, is not to resist it. This saying of Christ removes the Church from the sphere of politics and law.

The future and the hope for the middle class church lies in the renewal of its lifeblood, which is only possible if the church succeeds in winning the working class.

Whenever the Psalter is abandoned, an incomparable treasure is lost to the Christian church. With its recovery will come unexpected power.

The Church knows nothing of a sacredness of war. The Church which prays'Our Father'asks God only for peace.

On Church: Church wasn't designed by an architect (Technically, Jesus was a carpenter.). So why do we think of churches as buildings instead of groups of people who love Jesus?

I really learned to sing in church, I think, really with emotion.

As I look back now, I really feel like God has called me not just to speak into the lives of believers but, even broader than that, to speak into the lives of people that are outside of the Church.

I stay away from churches in which I feel like I have to pretend I'm a better person than I am. That sort of thing moves my faith backwards.

I'm not a pastor; I've never been on staff at a church.

Religion's voice has been taken away. It was taken away by Lyndon Johnson in the 1970s because of a dispute he had, I think, with the church. And this was his way of silencing the church.

What the church is really concerned about is what endures.

Donald Trump has not held an event in the black community. He has not gone to a black church, as Hillary Clinton has done.

...I have come to make distinctions between what I call the academy and literature, the moral equivalents of church and God. The academy may lie, but literature tries to tell the truth.

I think anarchy is natural to the Catholic. The Church is pretty anarchistic, you know. Who pays attention to the Pope or the Cardinals?

the Church will go on being a Royal Academy of Males.

And let me tell you 'Kingdom of God' language is really big in the emerging church.

I sound like a church nut, but look at the role of the churches in the civil rights movement in the States. People are brought together in other ways that can become drivers of change.

Why should an atheist pay more taxes so that a church which he despises should pay no taxes? That's a fair question. How can the apologists for the church exemption answer it?

If you go to church, and like the singing better than the preaching, that's not orthodox.

The twentieth century saw the emergence of a Churchless Mission and a Missionless Church

The Typical American? He is sent to school Little or much, where he imbibes the rule Of safety first and comfort; in his youth He joins the church and ends the quest of truth.

The Church has its problems, but the older I get, the more comfort I find there.

The minister's brain is often the "poor-box" of the church.

I do not want church groups controlling the schools of our country. They must remain free.