The Church Quotes

The custom of the Church has very great authority and ought to be jealously observed in all things.

The Church is the handmaid of tyranny and the steady enemy of liberty.

A beggarly people, A church and no steeple.

If a man cannot see a church, it is preposterous to take his opinion about its altar-piece or painted window.

Truth is great and will prevail if left to herself.

And I definitely wanted to be a writer, but I felt a duty now, having used up those educational resources, I felt a duty to the church and my parents to become a priest.

As like a church and an ale-house, God and the devell, they manie times dwell neere to ether.

As to religion, I hold it to be the indispensable duty of all government to protect all conscientious professors thereof, and I know of no other business which government hath to do therewith.

The all-important and crowning blessings of membership in the Church are those blessings which we receive in the temples of God

"President Monson, I may never see the Prophet. I may never hear the Prophet. But President, far better, now that I am a member of this Church, I can obey the Prophet."

For years, I just did not like this idea of God, church.

You don't need to apologize for an opinion, but in terms of respect for the church and people's faith lives, Hillary Clinton has that respect, because it's what motivates her.

All Christians have opportunities to serve those who might never come to church or listen to a sermon.

In a smaller church your pastoring sets up your preaching. In a larger church your preaching sets up your pastoring.

All I know is, if I don't care about the poor, if my church doesn't care about the poor, that's evil.

It takes more than a great church to reach a city, it takes a great movement of churches.

What can the Church do? If she stands by her moral teaching, then she will be seen as standing in judgement over a vast percentage of Europeans.

Life is improvisation. All of those [improv] classes were like church to me. The training had seeped into me and changed who I am.

America is not just 'a nation with the soul of a church,' as G.K. Chesterton wrote in 1992: it is a nation with the mind of a crusade

In the periods of my life when I've had least contact with the Church, I've always assumed a belief in God is a solid thing, but clearly it's a relationship; it has good days and bad days.

Well I wasn't really attacking the religious beliefs [in the song 'The Vatican Rag'], I was attacking the formality of the rituals of the Catholic church; however, people took it wrongly.

It felt good, the whole family together on a sunny morning in a wholesome environment. If it hadn't been for the warshiping God part, he would have happily attended church on a regular basis.

There is good and bad in all of us and the Church uses the idea of original sin to control us by saying that, if we do not obey the bishops, we will rot in Hell.

As we consider the causes of depression, those of us in the church must face the ways we might be responsible for creating it.

Certain things happened in the early church. Women who had never had any freedom suddenly have the ability to stand up and speak and be treated as equals within the life of the church.

Other men look to him as someone to emulate. His church calls on him for strength and leadership. He is a preserver of culture and a champion of society to keep out evil and usher in good.

My father was strict, but he recognised my ability and got a lot of flak from the church for supporting me.

I was raised in the church by my grandmother who made sure we went to Sunday School, read the Bible and went to church every Sunday. Every night we read Bible stories before we went to bed.

It's perfectly fair that you can't be a Roman Catholic priest unless you're a man. It seems right that the reach of anti-discriminatory law should stop at the door of the church or mosque.

The church is the cross that Christ was crucified on.

I think it's super important for the church itself to rediscover the gospel.

I actually think one of most profoundly and deep pastoral moments between a pastor and his church is what happens between them before God in the context of preaching.

Burnin' churches, fearin' God, Who can be so cruel, We all ignorant to AIDS, Till it happens to you.

I grew up in the church, singing in choirs, and I went to a performing arts school, and I had a gospel group, so music has always been in my blood.

I don't go to church so much, but I do believe in God and I understand the consequences of faith.

After the phone call from The New Yorker, I walked more than a mile to church to thank God. But then I told God I would talk to Him another time and darted home.

Even from when I was in grade school or church or wherever, I was always like: we're one, and we should respect each other and grow as one. And respect each other's diversity, of course.

Plenty of church members are shaky about what they believe, while not many are shaken by what they believe.

The devil's not fighting churches today, he's joining churches.

The first step towards the evangelizing of the world is the christianizing of the church.

Is there a place in a church where you leave your brains when you enter?

I thought it was a really good contrast to have a really sweet, sincere, church girl sitting next to the church lady who seemed kind of, you know, over the top.

Being part of a community with a church at its centre and singin' hymns is a great thing to do.

Let Catholics build their own churches and works.

Whenever an important event, a revolution, or a calamity turns to the profit of the church, such is always signalised as the Finger of God.

The Almighty can hardly be such a fool as the churches make out.

An old argument with me is that the true religious force in the world is not the church, but the world itself: the mysterious callings of Nature and our responses.

Re-examine all you have been told in school or church or in any book, and dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and your very flesh shall be a great poem.

When Holy Church occasionally hinted that she still considered her authority to be supreme over all nations and superior to the authority of states, men in these times tended to snicker.

The Christian church does not need more popular preaching, but more unpopular preaching.