The Church Quotes

Nowhere nor in anything, except in the assertion of the Church, can we find that God or Christ founded anything like what churchmen understand by the Church.

The doctrines which the Jews had been spreading throughout the land for years could not but have helped to undermine the Church's power.

I never heard a Christian sermon preached in a church.

Praying privately in churches, I began to discover that heaven was my true home and also that it was here and now, woven into this life.

Just like I believe God is everywhere, I believe that whether it's nature, whether it's sitting on a bike in spin class, that can be church, too, for me.

People in the church should not accept the notion that the public square is off limits to religious values.

In Europe I have been accused of taking my scientific ideas from the Church. In America I have been called a heretic, because I will not let my church-going friends pat me on the head.

You know the worst: your wills are fickle, Your values blurred, your hearts impure And your past life a ruined church-- But let your poison be your cure.

I don't pray. When I was young, I vowed I never would be caught begging God. If I want something I get it for myself. I go to church only to show the old hens they don't get me down.

Coming from the cotton plantation, the southern regions, I was brought up with real nice kids, mannered kids, who would go to church on Sunday.

Ah, my friend, that is the only true church organization, when heads and hearts unite in working for the welfare of the human race!

I went every Sunday to church when I was growing up, and I think that music had an affect on me before my memory can recall.

There are good, humanitarian people everywhere - occasionally even in the Church.

I don't think the Church has ever contributed anything to anybody, anyplace, at any time.

Destruction of the churches and the like is not the way to Swaraj as defined by the Congress.

Today, as it was 2,000 years ago, the Kingdom of God is within each of us. It is not within a church, a temple, a mosque or synagogue.

I grew up in church. My mom's a minister, and my grandmother was an ordained minister. I was always very mindful of the presence of a greater being I call God.

I did not grow up in the church. I'm not a church-goer now. I'm a very spiritual person.

I believe when a negro church is bombed, that a white church should be bombed.

Any time a negro community lives under fear that its churches are going to be bombed, then they have to realize they're living in a war zone.

Eastern churches simply often try to please Muslims. Why doesn't the New York Times report this?

And as we [ the Church] move towards setting new (United Nations') sustainable development goals, we also understand that one of our key priorities is improving social inclusion.

I think if somebody does something stupid, it's okay to make fun of them, but [celebrities] have also gotten very conscious about social media, kind of like the Catholic Church in the 1500s.

I love the Lord Jesus Christ and His Church, which has been restored to the earth in our day. I treasure the teachings of His holy life from newborn infant to resurrected man, Son of God.

You see how wide the gulf that separates me from the Christian church.

On the day, therefore, when I went to the church to be confirmed, with a number of others, I suffered extremely from the reproaches of my conscience.

In an urban environment, a church building is a thing of the past.

I am a pastor so I eat and breathe the Church.

It's hard for me to imagine why a church that has younger members wouldn't have a blog component.

Jesus, could you please rapture the charismaniac lady who brings her tambourine to church?

The Church needs more people willing to wash feet, not just point out they're dirty or complain that they smell.

A parent asked me today, "How do you get your children to pray in church?" My response? "Pray at home."

If you want to get healthy, you just might not want to go to a doctor. You might instead, go to church.

That was an interesting aspect: to go to war with the Church to fight for the very thing that the Church was meant to give to people.

The reason most people don't go to church is because they've already been.

The choir always tittered and whispered all through the service. There was once a church choir that was not ill-bred, but I have forgotten where it was.

I never made a success of a lecture delivered in a church yet. People are afraid to laugh in a church. They can't be made to do it in any possible way.

The world has corrected the Bible. The church never corrects it; and also never fails to drop in at the tail of the procession-and take the credit of the correction.

If I don't go to mass, necessarily, every day, but I definitely go to the church every day. That's how I start my day. I like to get in there for about 15 to 20 minutes and say my prayers.

Cujus region, ejus rligio (Whoever's reign, his religion) ... He who owns the country owns the Church, and he that makes your laws for you has the right to make your religion for you.

Marriage is a civic matter. It is really not, together with all its circumstances, the business of the church.

No man should be alone when he opposes Satan. The Church and the ministry of the Word were instituted for this purpose, that hands may be joined together and one may help another.

[Our] plan is to follow the example of the prophets and the ancient fathers of the church, and to compose psalms...so that the Word of God may be among the people also in the form of music.

In the Church, great wonders daily occur, such as the forgiveness of sins, triumph over death . . . the gift of righteousness and eternal life.

What would it matter if, for the sake of the Christian Church, one were to tell a big lie?

Isaiah calls the Church barren because her children are born without effort by the Word of faith through the Spirit of God. It is a matter of birth, not of exertion.

I'm grateful to God that, through the Negro church, the dimension of nonviolence entered our struggle.

Why is the church always a taillight rather than a headlight?

The contemporary church is so often a weak, ineffectual voice with an uncertain sound. It is so often the arch supporter of the status quo.

I think the Church is a conduit to God. The Church is not God. And I think that from the very beginning Jesus taught us that.