The Church Quotes

It is the church's responsibility, the government's responsibility, and the personal responsibility of every one of us to love.

There is real value in these local congregations. For me, a lot of it is the value of the sacraments we share. In neighborhoods like ours, the churches provide stability.

We're not church planters. We are community planters and, as we work in our communities, we join local churches.

When it comes to the big issues like immigration, everyone has a role. The government has a role. The church has a role. Every Christian has a role.

There is an innocence or purity that we see in renewals and in the Mennonite church and a new an invigorated civil rights movement.

With the early Christians you couldn't have God as your father unless you have the church as your mother. This isn't accepting the church as a perfect thing.

That is the power of the Eucharist. At the communion table you have rich and poor together in the early church and they were being challenged.

It is a dangerous day when we can take the cross out of the church more easily than the flag. No wonder it is hard for seekers to find God nowadays.

I never took any kind of vocal lessons or teachings of how to - I never even took piano lessons. And a voice just came to me and said, go play the piano in the church.

My sisters have been baptized and my dad is a deacon at his church now. Sadly my mother passed away but what I can say is that the Jehovah Witnesses took very good care of her up until she died.

I've worn it to church before. Camouflage and the other clothes.

Unhappy women are given to protecting their sensitiveness by cynical gossip, by whining, by high-church and new-thought religions, or by a fog of vagueness.

You can't have a church run by people who don't believe in God.

As long as the house of The Holy Spirit remains a haven for criminals the reputation of the church will remain in ruins.

I've never been to rehab, I've never been to psychotherapy or the doctor or anything like that. I went to a church and I was prayed for, and I've always had a great relationship with God.

The church belongs to its hierarchy, which is men in power. Those outside the hierarchy, and especially women, are at best only renters and at worst squatters in religious territory.

Young men do not usually become inactive in the Church because they are given too many significant things to do.

It wasn't until my second year that I got to actually work with Church.

I'm sure Church got some of his ideas from this trip to Europe.

The only people who are obsessed with food are anorexics and the morbidly obese. That, in erotic terms, is the Catholic church, in a nutshell.

Debt robs a man of much of the energy and support which he is otherwise able to give to the church and to other good causes.

It becomes part of a person's second nature; he belongs to the church, like he belongs to his family, and he does not quit his family because someone in it turns out to be a rascal.

I'm not turned away from the church through anger, although I have criticisms of it. It's through finding affirmation of life and illumination of life through creativity and art.

I am very grateful for the Catholic Church and its unwavering stance on life. They have been a consistent, uncompromising voice defending life.

To pastors and leaders who serve faithfully, who work to teach and shepherd those who are in your church or religious institution: thank you for all you do.

When they bury me in a church and chuck earth on my grave, I'd like the words 'Well, at least he tried' engraved on my tombstone.

Rock music had become my religion. Radio my church. And these DJs my priests, rabbis and gurus.

Christianity in the suburb is cheerful. The church is a centre of social activity and those who go to church need never be lonely.

Mama gives you money for Sunday school, you trade yours for candy after church is through.

Once the Roman Catholic Church in the West became the church most closely connected with the state, the Roman Catholic Church did not recognize the validity of any religion other than its own.

I always had a problem with original sin; I always had a problem with the exclusivity of the church and a lot of the things that the nuns taught me.

My first solo was in church when I was five.

The church is the gym of the soul.

The more I go to church and the more I turn myself over to the process of believing in Jesus and listening to His Word and having Him guide my hand, I feel as though the pressure is off me now.

You cannot train yourself. I feel the same way about Christianity and about what the church is: The church is the gym of the soul.

Nigerian nun Bernadette Duru says the African church hierarchy is indifferent to people in rural areas.

Father Jude Nnorom also criticized his church leaders, saying the simple lifestyle followed by Pope Francis should challenge African bishops to ask themselves.

We have a pope [Francis] who's very popular among the Catholic faithful and non-Catholics, but there's no doubt he's going to continue to face resistance from conservatives inside the church.

The Church has lost a great religious poet in me; but I have lost an infinity of fun in the church, so the loss is even.

I actually grew up playing the piano in the church and was deeply involved in music ministry.

My church is fifty percent millennials. There's a connectivity between millennials and I.

A church that focuses on the external has lost its passion for souls.

The hippopotamus's day Is passed in sleep; at night he hunts; God works in a mysterious way- The Church can sleep and feed at once.

I'm not religious, so theres no church on Sunday.

The importance of the Bible to a church is to keep the church on track. The role of the Constitution in government is to keep the government on track.

I want a church I can stay in for years. I don't want surprises, scandals, or secrets from my church leaders.

The conversion of agnostic High Tories to the Anglican church is always rather suspect. It seems too pat and predictable, too clearly a matter of politics rather than faith.

I was just a kid then. But I won't forget. Nor will others. There's lots of people with reason to hate the Church.

I come from a culture that embodies the need to convert others to "the truth." The Mormon Church has one of the largest missionary programs in the world. That does not interest me.

In the early days of the Mormon Church, stewardship toward the land was a priority. It was a matter of survival in the desert.