The Church Quotes

Historically speaking, institutions are slow to change and usually resistant to any sudden moves - churches especially so.

Donald Trump would never belong to a church that required a ten percent hit. He's too smart.

I am highly susceptible to the force of all truly religious music, especially to the music of my own church, the church of Shelley, Michelangelo, and Beethoven.

That older and greater church to which I belong: the church where the oftener you laugh the better, because by laughter only can you destroy evil without malice

There's a coffin in the back of the church as the wedding is going on ... Look, I'm a romantic. I like marriage...In the movies.

What is a church? Let Truth and reason speak, They would reply, "The faithful, pure and meek, From Christian folds, the one selected race, Of all professions, and in every place.

Some make a conscience of spitting in the Church, yet robbe the Altar.

Though you see a Church-man ill, yet continue in the Church still.

When once thy foot enters the church, be bare. God is more there than thou: for thou art there Only by his permission. Then beware, That leads from earth to heaven.

No Church-yard is so handsom, that a man would desire straight to bee buried there. [No churchyard is so handsome that a man would desire straight to be buried there.]

Nothing lasts but the Church.

If both Church and fairy-tale belong to humanity, they may occasionally cross circles, without injury to either.

Don't aim to plant churches. Aim to plant a church that will plant many other churches.

The older we get and the longer we labor in the Church the more there is that we can do. There is no need for any person in this Church to have an empty hand or an empty heart.

The danger comes in, in my opinion, when you believe someone because they're the leader of your church and supposedly they have an ear to God without examining what they're doing.

The main thing a childhood in the Church did for me, I think, was set up the universe as a moral system. Once you've seen it that way, it always seems that way.

To accept with unquestioning faith, or to refuse to reconsider any particular view held by the Church in the past, is as unreasonable as it is unsafe. The faith of the Church is a progressive affair.

I think it's very important for people who are serving (in office) to make sure there's a separation of church and state.

There's a way to accomplish the separation of church and state and at the same time accomplish the social objective of having America become a hopeful place and loving place.

I appreciate that question because I, in the state of Texas, had heard a lot of discussion about a faith-based initiative eroding the important bridge between church and state.

Went to church and fasted all day.

I hope ["reanimated the papacy"] means that the new interest in the pope evokes a new interest in the Church's teaching, of which the pope is the custodian.

[Pope] Francis communicates the pastoral embrace of the Church, the breadth and inclusiveness of Catholicism symbolized by the Bernini colonnade around St. Peter's Square, in a powerful way.

My answer would be definite yes! Destructive atheism, in my view and the view of the Church, is part of a much larger picture - cosmic warfare, that is, between God and Evil, between God and Satan.

The Catholic Church is the only thing that saves man from the degrading slavery of being a child of his age.

The Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle

If the world grows to worldly, it can be rebuked by the Church; but if the Church grows to worldly, it cannot be adequately rebuked for worldlyness by the world.

Every heresy has been an effort to narrow the Church.

The Catholic Church is like a thick steak, a glass of red wine, and a good cigar.

In truth the Church is too unique to prove herself unique. For most popular and easy proof is by parallel; and here there is no parallel.

We do not want, as the newspapers say, a church that will move with the world. We want a church that will move the world.

So we went on what we now call "The Beck Family Church Tour" and man did we see some churches.

I beg you, look for the words 'social justice' or 'economic justice' on your church Web site. If you find it, run as fast as you can. Social justice and economic justice, they are code words.

In all we do we must cultivate faith. Increased faith is the touchstone to improved church performance.

Church - Come here to learn, go forth to serve.

Of course we're Christian. The very name of the church declares that.

If you are too busy in your church activities to take care of your family, then perhaps we had better find something else for you to do.

I believe without any doubt that you are the finest generation this Church has ever had.

Christians think a long record of church attendence and Bible reading is equivalent to an advanced degree in science.

The Lord will remove the church but the Holy Spirit will still be working on planet Earth, bringing people into the kingdom.

Everyone is busy, but I believe it depends on what you prioritize. My husband and I teach Sunday School together at our church and are very involved.

In general, religious people seem to be happier than non-religious people - under various definitions of "religiosity," such as church attendance or professed spiritual beliefs.

Expand within your church. Expand within the people you have contact. Bring them up to speed in knowledge on what’s going on.

Either I'm listening to rap music, getting hyped up to go out and do something, or I'm listening to church music.

The church lives on the fact that modern research about Jesus is not known amongst the public.

The church lives because it witholds the results of the historical Jesus-research from you

The state authorities have no place in the church of God, no right to control and persecute the conscience.

Missionary work is but home teaching to those who are not now members of the Church, and home teaching is nothing more or less than missionary work to Church members

The laws of God given to mankind are embodied in the gospel plan, and the Church of Jesus Christ is made responsible for teaching these laws to the world.

Great as the planning were for the dinner, the lot was so contrived that not a soul in the house be supposed to be kept from the break of day ceremony of Blessing in the church.