The Church Quotes

Music truely has to all other arts the same relation as religion to the church.

The church that doesn't want to grow is saying to the world, "go to hell."

People forget that the church is bigger than China. It speaks more languages than the United Nations. It has more volunteers than all the NGOs in the world put together.

A church will never grow beyond its capacity to meet needs.

The church must always show compassion, always.

Every church is flawed. Still, you'd better learn to love it since it's the only group Jesus said he's taking to Heaven.

Jesus has not promised to build your ministry; he has promised to build his church.

Small churches become more effective when they specialize in what they do best.

I added up all the money the church paid me for the first 25 years and gave it all back.

I think the church needs – I think this is the world we are living in and we need to affirm people wherever they are.

My mother was very, very Protestant. I grew up Presbyterian, and I went to church every Sunday until I was 18. I was forced to.

Next to an old-fashioned church social, or possibly a monster bridge party, there is no buzz which can equal the sibilant buzz ofa matinée.

Some people can't go into church any longer to feel this longing, but they still have the longing, so what do they do? Well, one thing you can do is what people do in prison; they turn to poetry.

Every church that has a standard higher than human welfare is dangerous.

We all know that a church is not a building.

My family and I would never receive royalties on the revenue that my materials brought into the church; materials that were created on our own personal time.

The message has to go to the streets, it's imperative that we reach those who may not get to a church. We receive their questions, it's important that the world asks questions.

That Britain today is a liberal society is largely because of the philosophy and outlook of the Anglican Church, which did so much to shape our core values in the past few centuries.

In too many modern churches there is no emphasis on theology at all. There is a kind of justification by works or by keeping up with modern trends anything that will drag in a few more people.

If you miss someone too much you turn into them... though it doesn't seem to work for the Christian Church.

I found out that many of our Catholics simply don't know what the church teaches, and why, on a lot of issues, and therefore are saying things that they think are okay. They simply don't know.

By the time I was about ten, I had started to lose faith with church ways. I was educated in some ways by my high school government and history teachers.

Churches are wonderful and beautiful, and they are vehicles for religion, but no Church can have more than a very little of the truth.

My husband is almost as heavy as I am. We were married in adjoining churches.

The words of musicals were the moral codes that I lived by. I found meaning and messages in musicals that I didn't find in churches or school books and it really made me come alive in a way.

Church can’t be a place where we feel like a visitor, or somewhere we’re afraid to allow others to see our messes. It’s got to feel like home.

You are more committed to things that you give money to - whether it is a church or a politician.

There is this church that I go to a lot in New York. I'm not religious but I love lighting candles and stuff. I find it useful.

The communists have tried to corrupt our education system. They've tried to corrupt any number of institutions. Why wouldn't they try to corrupt the Catholic Church? It is a big enemy.

All Church activities, advancements, quorums, and classes are means to the end of an exalted family.

I sang on Church Street, every place that had a stage.

I hope you will be benefitted by your churchgoing. Where the habit does not Christianize, it generally civilizes. That is reason enough for supporting churches, if there were no higher.

Anybody who cannot learn to hear by feeling will not go very far in church.

People have really strong images of what church is, and it's almost certainly not the same as mine.

The Europeans have fallen away from religion and the church while the rest of the world is seemingly more religious. I don't know how to explain it.

I think the Catholic and Protestant churches have become very stagnant.

The writers of the French enlightenment had deliberately used blasphemy as a weapon, refusing to accept the power of the Church to set limiting points on thought.

Respect for the dignity of the human person is the foundational principle of any just society. From a Catholic perspective, it also forms the foundation of all of our Church's social teachings.

It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed (Aquinas).

Sir, if a man has a mind to prance, he must study at Christ Church and All Souls.

Clergymen who publish pious frauds in the interest of the church are the orthodox liars of God.

To doubt has more of faith ... than that blank negation of all such thoughts and feelings which is the lot of the herd of church-and-meeting trotters.

I am a Christian. My husband and I belong to the Episcopal Church.

I grew up in San Francisco in the 1970s. We were part of a church that belonged to the California Jesus movement.

God's will has to be done in unifying people and companies to get that gas line built, so pray for that.

Over to my left is the big grey wall in front of the church. Are we the Thoughts of God? a poster asks. No, I realise. It's the reverse.

I would love to see the Church on the right side of history.

I have this certain reluctance when it comes to this idea that we are spiritual but not religious and we want Jesus but not the church. Why can't we have both?

We know the Church wasn't born 200 years ago. It's encouraging to see some of the post-denominational churches actually wanting to reconnect with the story and the prayer life of the larger Church.

This common prayer project has taken years of energy, but we see it not as a way to leave our individual churches, but as a movement we hope to see permeate the larger Church.