The Church Quotes

The Black church is extremely important in Black America. I think most Americans themselves believe in a divine power, in a god, and I'm sure that that number increases with Black people.

The great call for the Church is to not just be concerned about right or wrong behavior, which is moral life, but about communion with God, which is mystical life.

The Church is the body of Christ fashioned by baptism & the Eucharist.

Artists... disappeared long ago as social forces. So did the church.

Church and State, Soul and Body, God and Man, are all one at Mont Saint Michel, and the business of all is to fight, each in his own way, or to stand guard for each other.

The family unit is fundamental not only to society and to the Church, but to our hope for eternal life.

The words of confirmation into the Church are an invitation: Receive the Holy Ghost. And that choice must be made not once, but every day, every hour, every minute.

We will become mightier and more powerful in our own right in direct proportion to the service and contribution we make to strengthen the Church.

The church is a sort of hospital for men's souls and as full of quackery as the hospital for their bodies.

I trust that some may be as near and dear to Buddha, or Christ, or Swedenborg, who are without the pale of their churches.

When I mention religion I mean the Christian religion; and not only the Christian religion, but the Protestant religion; and not only the Protestant religion, but the Church of England.

Again and again the Church of Christ has been all but engulfed, as men might have deemed, in the billows; again and again the storm has been calmed by the Master, Who had seemed for awhile to sleep.

The history of the Church of Christ from the days of the Apostles has been a history of spiritual movements.

Liberalism itself, is, on all matters connected with Church and Education, only a kind of corporate and "respectable" ungodliness.

Time, like a preacher in the days of the Puritans, turned the hour-glass on his high pulpit, the church belfry.

No church can be prospered in which all the ministration comes from the pulpit.

Human life is God's outer church. Its needs and urgencies are priests and pastors.

When a church is faithless to its duties, the real church is outside its walls, in the community.

Take heed of thinking. The farther you go from the church of Rome, the nearer you are to God.

The itch of disputation will prove the scab of the Church.

He who tears down the cross, what is there left to lift him to heaven? The church claiming to be a Christian church is false to the title, if she make the cross of Christ of none effect.

Some people think they are too good to walk the same earth as the rest of us, let alone attend the same church.

I grew up in the United Methodist Church, and church was always a very big part of my growing up.

Take what the old-church found in Mithra's tomb, candle and script and bell, take what the new-church spat upon and broke and shattered.

As a Christian, part of my obligation is to alleviate suffering. Explicit recognition of that in the Methodist tradition is one reason I'm comfortable in this church.

Every art is a church without communicants, presided over by a parish of the respectable. An artist is born kneeling; he fights to stand. A critic, by nature of the judgment seat, is born sitting.

I actually spoke in an African-American church yesterday.

There is a great need to rally the women of the Church to stand with and for the Brethren in stemming the tide of evil that surrounds us.

I have a body and I have a soul. And my body belongs to the faith - in fact, the church - into which it was born, the Methodist Church.

Classical music only really came into my life in 1969. I wish I had heard classical music and church music when I was a teenager or even as a child.

The first exception [to the First Amendment] will not be the last.

They are universal places, like churches, hallowed meeting places of all mankind.

The problem is efforts by liberals to establish a wall between religion and society, in the guise of maintaining the wall between church and state.

My son, the Holy Church is on the right, but Jesus Christ was always on the left.

Becoming a junior usher at a black church was my entry into the wonder of worship.

I'm all for teaching creation and allowing prayers in schools, as soon as scholars begin teaching Darwinism and geometry in church.

To be a leader in the Church has always required strength and faith beyond the merely human.

Every American has the right to feel safe in their schools, in their churches, in their movie theaters, and in their nightclubs.

Listening to radio was like group meditation or a moment of silence in church. You can't get the same effect with TV unless you're very drunk.

organizations like the church or General Motors promote a man up and up until he reaches a spot which he is obviously incapable of filling, and there they lay him to rest.

[The church's] job is to provide permanent solace and spiritual leadership to the people as a whole, whatever their government at the moment, so long as it stays within the bounds of moral decency.

As all who come into the country must obey the King, so all who come into an university must be of the Church.

The saving principles and doctrines of the Church are established, fixed, and unchangeable.

There is only one Church, and the responsibility for missionary work is universal. 'Every member a missionary.'

I will not say nothing. I will defend my church and my religion when it is insulted and spit on.

Where Church and State are habitually associated, it is natural that minds, even of a high order, should unconsciously come to regard religion as only a subtler mode of police.

If I could play any character from the book though it’d be Church. Who wouldn’t want to be a cat?!

You'd tell me if we were getting married, wouldn't you? I mean, you wouldn't just appear on my doorstep one day and say we were due at the church in an hour.

I never went to church a day in my life. The dominant religion (influence) in my family was my grandfather who was a Scientologist.

This great American institution [Boy Scouts of America] has come under attack from homosexual activists-who may well set their sights on your church next.