Quotes About Belonging To A Church

#1. I think I won't do for your business at all, but personally I have no fight with you. You can go on and save all the critics you can, but don't send them to me.

Frank Richard Stockton

#2. We are nature. Our every tinkering is nature, our every biological striving. We are what we are, and the world is ours. We are its gods. Your only difficulty is your unwillingness to unleash your potential fully upon it.

Paolo Bacigalupi

#3. A pastor can teach you on TV, but he can't pastor you on TV. There's so much to gain by belonging to a church.

Chris Oyakhilome

#4. I'm not practising, I don't go to church, but what I got from it was a sense of belonging to something bigger. What I really miss is being forced to be in a community with people that aren't the same as you. Then, you really have to work through the ways that you're different.

Win Butler

#5. Our Christian identity is belonging to a people: the Church. Without the Church we are not Christians.

Pope Francis

#6. You broke me out of the grasp of a living horror when I thought all hope was gone. You gave me the opportunity to crawl back to life when no one else could."
She glances over at me, her eyes shining in the dark. "You're a hero, Penryn, whether you like it or not.

Susan Ee

#7. Marriage, by its very nature, requires complementarity. The mystical union of Christ and the church - each "part" belonging to the other but neither interchangeable - cannot be pictured in marital union without the differentiation of male and female.

Kevin DeYoung

#8. I think one of the things you and I have to learn is that we have to live without the consolation of belonging to a Church ...
Of one thing I am certain. The religion of the future will have to be extremely ascetic, and by that I don't mean just going without food and drink.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#9. [The Albanians] seem to be rather backward and primitive people ... they can be as faithful as a dog; that is one of the traits of the primitive. Our Chuvash were the same. The Russian tsars always used them for their bodyguards.

Joseph Stalin

#10. Whenever a wide range of variant theories can account equally well for the phenomenon they are trying to explain, there is no reason to prefer one of them over the others, so advocating a particular one in preference to the others is irrational.

David Deutsch

#11. I realized that my truest passion was for helping people change through faith in a higher power. That meant, for me, belonging to the church. Using my abilities to bring Christian doctrine to a postmodern world.

James McGreevey

#12. I saw a lot of working class men and women - myself included - living a deeper, more thoughtful life than would have been possible without the church... The sense of belonging to something big, something important, lent unity and meaning.

Jeanette Winterson

#13. Skeptical of strangers, lobstermen are keepers of secrets, working in the howling wind and hot sun, the icy snows, and bewildering fog. When I was growing up, the lore was that they had the right to shoot anyone who messed with their traps.

Isabel Gillies

#14. The fact that I haven't been married might qualify me as belonging in the nutty category to a lot of women.

Thomas Haden Church

#15. I hate to be categorized.

Martin Cruz Smith

#16. [B]eing the member of the church means belonging to a messed-up group, an untidy gathering of people like you or me who continually fail to live up to the ideal. But we keep coming just for that reason; we need the help and forgiveness that flow from the offering of Christ.

Don Talafous

#17. 18 Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting for those who belong to the Lord. 19 Husbands, love your wives and never treat them harshly.

Gary Chapman

#18. Who keeps the tavern and serves up the drinks? The peasant. Who squanders and drinks up money belonging to the peasant commune, the school, the church? The peasant. Who would steal from his neighbor, commit arson, and falsely denounce another for a bottle of vodka? The peasant.

Anton Chekhov

#19. Life had taught him about something far more complicated than justice. Its name was balance.

Carsten Jensen

#20. Vitality! That's the pursuit of life, isn't it?

Katharine Hepburn

#21. She who passes by rosemary and doesn't pick it neither had love nor dreams of it.

Isabella Dusi

#22. All the best of the monsters played for sympathy. That goes for my father, Karloff, myself and all the others. They all won the audience's sympathy. The Wolf Man didn't want to do all those bad things. He was forced into them.

Lon Chaney Jr.

#23. Art is about the moment we haven't experienced yet.

Sharon Pomerantz

#24. School reform is not enough. The notion of schooling itself must be challenged.

John Taylor Gatto

#25. Stop going to church everywhere and start belonging to church somewhere.

Matt Chandler