The Church Quotes

The husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the Head of the Church. And the wife is there to bless and support and help him.

The voice of woman has been silenced in the state, the church, and the home, but man cannot fulfill his destiny alone, he cannot redeem his race unaided.

I think I never passed so sad an hour, Dear friend, as that one at the church to-night. The edifice from basement to the tower Was one resplendent blaze of coloured light.

Faith in the atonement and intercession of Christ will keep us steadfast and immovable amid the temptations that press upon us in the church militant.

Ask me, it's a sin to pervert faith with religion. Despite every church, mosque, & synagogue in it, this is not the world any God worth his salt would have created.

I became an altar boy because of the solemn face, but I got thrown out at fourteen for laughing. Because the priest used to mumble everything except the church plate takings.

I was in a church choir early on and that really helped me musically in terms of chops, learning how to sing harmonies.

Religion is a superstition that originated in man's mental inability to solve natural phenomena. The Church is an orgainized institution that has always been stumbling to block progress.

I kind of knew that there were a lot of people that didn't go to church and normally wouldn't listen to people, but they would come and listen to me talk.

To hell with the Church when it becomes a State and the hell with the State when it becomes a Church.

There was a lot of music in our home. Mom played piano in church and gave piano lessons.

The future belongs to those who have the courage to create it. We need a new humanity. We need a new expression of community. We need the Church to bring the world together. This makes me excited.

I am convinced the Church is the greatest hope for humanity and for creating a new world where everyone is valued and embraced regardless of differences.

You can plant a church and grow a church. That's not that hard to do, but it's harder to be a viable source of transformation in a city or your time or space.

Though I was a Catholic, I recognized that Protestant churches had something.

I have a vision of the whole Church getting nearer to God by abiding by the precepts of the Book of Mormon.

The Lord is letting the wheat and the tares mature before he fully purges the Church. He is also testing you to see if you will be misled. The devil is trying to deceive the very elect.

The Church has no double standard of morality. The moral code of heaven for both men and women is complete chastity before marriage and full fidelity after marriage.

I hate churches, all of them. But they used to know something about the importance of silence.

I'm a member and preacher to that church where the blind don't see and the lame don't walk and what's dead stays that way.

Episcopalians have always preferred the flying buttress to the pillar of the church.

Can the "word" be pinned down to either one period or one church? All churches are, of course, only more or less unsuccessful attempts to represent the unseen to the mind.

Nothing doth so much keep men out of the Church, and drive men out of the Church, as breach of unity.

Multi-tasking is keeping me from whole-hearted worship.

I don't want to lose the awe we get to help another human being.

It's easy to write for God and about God, because what a thrill to remind the church that the Holy Spirit of God is in you. What a rush! What an amazing blessing!

Your problems are not just your problems. Ultimately, they belong to the church body that God has placed you in.

Due to our consumer mindset, people are prone to jump from church to church, which weakens the church overall.

...I don't think my church's teachings were incorrect, just incomplete.

You have access to the Tent Of Meeting.

Even in my own church I heard the words, 'Francis Chan' more than I heard the words, 'Holy Spirit.'

What is amazing is how we treat a meeting with God as ordinary or burdensome.

Churches we build only by our own efforts and not in the strength of the Spirit will quickly collapse when we don't push and prod people along.

I had come out of a church that was filled with petty arguments and hatred. I just wanted to meet with some friends and worship with them.

So they grew, and they grew, to the church steeple tops And they couldn't grow up any higher; So they twin'd themselves into a true lover's knot, For all lovers true to admire.

I was born or raised in the church, so I guess the first songs I would have played would have been church songs.

The architect Borromini's Quattro Fontane, a little church in Rome, is one of the most beautiful rooms in history.

I admire certain priests and nuns who go off on their own and do God's work on their own, who help in the ghettos, but as far as the institution of the church is concerned, I think it is despicable.

Since people no longer attend church, theater remains as the only public service, and literature as the only private devotion.

The old harlot, German philosophy, has finally turned into a church lady.

I don't attend [church] regularly.

The preaching is part of the reason I don't go to church. Plus, I don't know, it was never part of my tradition.

Buddhism is not just going to temple, being at a ceremony and dressing up. That is the church of Buddhism. Esoteric Buddhism is to move beyond this world.

The most knowledgeable person is not necessarily the person who runs the government, nor the church, nor the business.

Even if I know I'm going to go to a church, I don't know what the minister's going to say.

Every church is a stone on the grave of a god-man: it does not want him to rise up again under any circumstances.

The Christian church has left nothing untouched by its depravity; it has turned every value into worthlessness, and every truth into a lie

Among twelve apostles there must always be one who is as hard as stone, so that the new church may be built upon him.

Twenty-four years ago I went through a profound conversion of heart and God led me to the Catholic Church. A few years later I felt Him calling me to start a Bible study program.

Wanderers, Dublin's oldest rugby club, has been described more than once as the club of the Church and the Army: the wags added "...unfortunately the wrong Church and the wrong Army."