The Church Quotes

I take my pet lion to church ever Sunday. He has to eat.

Where better than the church for people like me, George Jones and Johnny Cash to go to get ourselves in shape enough to sing a gospel song?

When the church is absolutely different from the world, she invariably attracts it. It is then that the world is made to listen to her message, though it may hate it at first.

I grew up in the church, and I feel very strongly about it.

I'm as true a Protestant, in sooth, as any fine lady that walks into church, but it's not wrong to turn sometimes to the good St. Nicholas.

Government employees are public servants and prohibited by the Constitution from inhibiting religious freedom, that is a far cry from sneaking around and into a church and acting like KGB agents.

The reconciling gospel is always at the forefront of the church’s social action, because a full belly is not better than a reconciled soul.

The first thing Jesus tells the church of Ephesus that He loves about them is they have sound doctrine.

Today's Catholic church seems to reward authoritarian personalities who are clearly ill, violent, sexually obsessed and unable to remember the past.

The Catholic Church with its foreshortened American history and tangled puritanical roots was as inviolate to my mother and father as it was to the last-ditch aristocrats of Evelyn Waugh.

I'm a preacher first and a writer second, although my role is changing a bit at the church. I'm going to bring on a co-teacher, but I'll still be a pastor and a writer.

The influence of the Church does not depend on the Church, it depends on the Holy Spirit. And the Holy Spirit will never lose its influence. He is God and He is influencing society.

I struggle with trying to be a good pastor of a large church.

My co-pastor is Randy Frazee. Randy is the brightest bulb in this box. He really has a feeling for what a church needs in terms of maturity, so I listen to him.

To be active in a church social life or church activities or even a church mission to help the hungry or reach the poor, but really our dedication has to be born out of an infatuation with Jesus.

I think that a church should be setting the pace for social justice.

I have a great staff at the church; they protect me and allow me to focus on more of what I do best.

Kind of the bottom line for me, I don't think people come to the church where I preach to hear my view on politics.

I'm protective of the reputation of Christ and the church.

Christianity is a missionary religion, converting, advancing, aggressive, encompassing the world; a non-missionary church is in the bands of death.

Black women have not historically stood in the pulpit, but that doesn't undermine the fact that they built the churches and maintain the pulpits.

In a long meter hymn, a singer - they call it 'lays out a line.' And then the whole church joins in in repeating that line. And they form a wall of harmony so tight, you can't wedge a pin between it.

If the world is turning, even the church can't stop it; if it isn't turning, nobody can go out and make it turn.

I follow no doctrine. I don't belong to a church or a temple or a synagogue or an ashram.

At age 11, I went to a Jewish school. I speak Yiddish. I'm Church of England Protestant. My father was Catholic, and my mother was Protestant. My wife is a Muslim.

The instructor, Ms. Pease, also taught in the church's religious school, and she had a Sunday school manner at once saccharine and condemnatory.

Galileo was challenged because he declared a theory to be a fact and argued with the Church about the genuine meaning of the Bible.

I think whites are used to being in power, so when whites think we ought to have integrated churches they think, "People ought to come to our church. What can we do to get them to come?"

But what we found in the study is that churches are ten times less diverse than the neighborhoods they sit in. So there's something more going on than just reflecting the neighborhood, yeah.

I grew up in the church and began to recite set pieces at the age of four and five, like many of the other kids.

When I was 12 years old, my pastor came to the church: Dr. Fredrick Samson. And that was revolutionary because he mentored me and I got a chance to see up close the impact of a rhetorical genius.

We played every bar, party, pub, hotel lounge, church hall, mining town - places that made Mad Max territory look like a Japanese garden.

Photographers represented occasions once. You dressed for them as you might for church; they cost money, they recorded important moments.

I grew up in the Midwest and had a lot of exposure to big religion. I went to church every Sunday - my mother even sang in the choir - and most families I knew where practicing Christians.

I'm happiest in an empty church. I love the smell of a church.

I used to always go to church on holidays, but I don't go much any more.

Why do we go through all the nonsense with security at our airport? It's not because the Catholic Church is falling apart.

Forget the state concerns -- we think this is bad for churches. Most churches are small and not ready to handle 500 pages of government red tape.

In a weird way, [hockey] is like church and therapy and exercise all rolled up into one.

We must never forget what government is not. Government is not a philanthropic organization. Government is not the family. And government certainly is not the church.

I already knew, from church, that this place was raped and pillaged by Spaniards and the Pilgrims. "Don't sit here and try to tell me that they broke bread together, brother.

I think the word is counter-productive. Capitalism is counter-productive to art, just as the Catholic Church was counter-productive to art four hundred years ago.

The Supreme Court's 1947 decision which introduced the wall of separation between church and state 'has fueled a movement to sterilize anything in American public life from religion.'

The chiefest sanctity of a temple is that it is a place to which men go to weep in common.

I was influenced by my children's education in Quaker schools in the Philadelphia area. I experienced a spiritual awakening and became a Christian, was baptized, and joined a church.

The church generation in which Jesus returns will actively participate in this revolution. ... My premise: Many people alive today will see this revolution in their lifetime.

I grew up in the Southern Baptist Church, where my father was a minister at music, so I sang in the church all the time.

I'm not religious, but I've always been attracted to the rituals of religion; as a kid, Sunday church was the closest thing I had to an interactive, theatrical experience.

Certainly, no church should be involved in trying to set the affairs of the nation.

This is what heaven's gonna be like. Not just a white church or a black church, but people.