The Church Quotes

A Martian would think that the English worship at supermarkets, not in churches.

A survey carried out across the U.S. between 2004 and 2006 showed that frequent church- or synagogue-goers are more likely to give money to charity.

I always love to begin a journey on Sundays, because I shall have the prayers of the church to preserve all that travel by land, or water.

People can't stand it when you deal with issues of race and class, and also sometimes the church, and you give a perspective that flushes out hypocrisy.

A temple is a landscape of the soul.

[The notion of separating church and state with such policies as disallowing prayer in public schools] is a deception from Satan.

I don't go to church regularly. I wouldn't say I was religious, but more spiritual.

I've left the Church - for many reasons that I've written about publicly - but it's still a large part of my identity, and I still have my faith, if not my Church.

I may not be as active in it as some people are, but I think that the church has taught me great life lessons.

Oh, there was a wedding all right. Did I mention that my sister didn't show up at the church either, Mr. Clayborne?

A lot of people who are religious, I think they get lost. They go to church just to go to church.

Every Christian in America has some minimal responsibility to get involved in helping the poor brethren in the church in other countries.

The Sisters were Southern Baptist, and they went to church on Saturdays and Sundays, and most other days, too.

The Christian Church does not exist in Heaven, but on earth and in time.

The English Established Church... will more readily pardon an attack on 38 of its 39 articles than on 1/39 of its income.

It wasn't that we were afraid of the Church or the Vatican. The record company thought people might find the title offensive. They asked me if I would change ["A Deal with God"].

If I start going back to church, I'd have to stop the smoking and drinking, and I wouldn't be able to curse any more.

I don't think it has to be one religious structure, one church. I think the issues of faith and redemption are much more universal than any one religion.

I grew up raised in church, my parents are both traveling ministers. They blocked out MTV which was fine, but I'd find myself figuring out who New Kids On The Block were.

whatever devotion to something else there was in him had been made impure by church taken as a weekly, dutiful thing.

I go to church every Sunday. I've always been a believer. I love singing. I don't have the best voice - I just love getting my emotions out.

I think I've done a pretty good job of not compartmentalizing my life. I take my core values and I live them out at home like I would in my snowboarding like I would at church with my friends.

To someone standing in the nave, looking down the length of the church toward the east, the round window would seem like a huge sun exploding into innumerable shards of gorgeous color.

Everybody takes what they life from the teachings of the church, and ignores the parts that don't suit them.

The Enlightenment was an attempt to liberate myth and base truth claims on evidence, not just dogma. But when science threw out the church, they threw out the baby with the bath water.

The great achievement of the Catholic Church lay in harmonizing, civilizing the deepest impulses of ordinary, ignorant people.

I was raised in the church.

We use a lot of creativity and new technology, cutting edge things to use in our church, but really what it comes down to is God changing a life.

Don't try so hard to be hip. When the Church finds out what is cool, it is not cool anymore.

I'm interested in the history of ideas and how these ideas take on flesh and influence culture, and the church.

Did something happen to the sanctity of your church again?" My eye twitched. "Newt broke it so she could look in my closet." Again.

Obviously I don't really go to church any more - no time.

I'm sick of people who've never been to church telling me that church is full of hypocrites, and people who've never read the Bible telling me that it's baloney.

I am an atheist (or at best a Unitarian who winds up in church quite a lot).

The name of the new religion," said Rumfoord, "is The Church of God the Utterly Indifferent.

The absurd and legendary devil is the enigma of the Church.

In this life, such things as service in the Church, including missionary service, all of this is available to anyone who is true to covenants and commandments.

Any opportunity to serve in the Church is a blessing.

I was raised in church by Christian parents and I was baptized when I was 11 years old. But I didn't really have a good understanding of what the Gospel was really all about until college.

The Church became both more accessible and less imposing. It threw itself open to risk.

I love God and I follow Jesus but I just don't have much affinity for the organized folderol of the churches in the Western World.

Start locally and build. Start small and grow. Start in your house, then move to your school, your book club, your gym, your church, your temple, your city.

I hope I've been a good example to the youth of the church.

I know the team, as a whole, has had an impact on the youth of the church, and on the missionary efforts throughout the world.

If you want to put on a suit and come to church, fine. But it's a problem when you make people feel like, if you don't do this, you're not going to be accepted and God doesn't look at that.

I love the church, the church that God is establishing, that Jesus died for, so I'll never have any negative things to say about His church.

There's nothing worse, I guess, than being black in an all-white church or being southern and being a liberal.

The Puritans removed organs and paintings from churches, but bought them for private use in their homes.

I didn't have to do paper routes. I'd sing for 5 bucks a crack at weddings and church functions; I'd have four or five on some Saturdays.

I don't go to church so much, the way my life is, but it's in me every day.