Top 100 Quotes About Church
#1. It's a very common belief [among Mormons] that the Constitution will hang by a thread and the Church will save it.
Jan Shipps
#2. Let those who think that the Church pays too much attention to Mary give heed to the fact that Our Blessed Lord Himself gave ten times as much of His life to her as He gave to His Apostles.
Fulton J. Sheen
#3. My mother's side of the family is Methodist, which is how I was raised. It was conservative in that I had strong values - sitting down and eating with the family every day, listening to authority and going to church every week and having perfect attendance at Sunday school.
Jonathan Groff
#4. In the Church, when we talk about 'the world', we often create an us and them situation and end up planting the seeds of all that we feel wrong with the world in the soil of our own backyard.
Steve Scott
#5. People are leaving the church and going back to God.
Lenny Bruce
#6. various people at her church kept saying that she could be happy because she was going home to be with Jesus. This is the sort of thing that gives Christians a bad name. This, and the Inquisition. Sue wanted to open fire on them all. I think I encouraged this.
Anne Lamott
#7. I'm getting old, don't wear underwear, and I don't go to church.
Jimmy Buffett
#8. The moral strength of the Church depends upon purity of doctrine and not upon the mass of individuals.
Anonymous
#9. You don't need organized religion to connect with the universe. Often a church is the only place you can go to find peace and quiet ... But it shouldn't be confused with connecting with one's spirit.
Alice Walker
#10. In dealing with Islamic countries, insist on reciprocation or no deal. If they want to build a mosque or Islamic school in our country, we should be able to build a church and a Christian school in theirs
Brigitte Gabriel
#11. Write on my gravestone: 'Infidel, Traitor.', infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor to every government that oppresses the people.
Wendell Phillips
#12. I take the kids to church and Sunday school. They love it. I really think it's important for a child to feel that there are things that are bigger than your life out there.
Reese Witherspoon
#13. When I was a small boy, my father told me never to recommend a church or a woman to anyone. And I have found it wise never to recommend a restaurant either. Something always goes wrong with the cheese souffle.
Edmund G. Love
#14. And I say to you, you are Kepha, and on this kepha I will build my church.
William Hendriksen
#15. Within a few weeks, she was a full-blown hippie Christian, living at the House of Zaccheus and attending St. Luke's Episcopal Church, which struck her as "so cool" because they could be "dressed like hippies" and yet "come to church."30
Larry Eskridge
#16. It wasn't Luther or Calvin that reformed the church. It was the Word of God that reformed the church.
Robert Godfrey
#17. The hard struggle which the Pan-Germans fought with the Catholic Church can be accounted for only by their insufficient understanding of the spiritual nature of the people.
Adolf Hitler
#18. Demanding a separation between church and state isn't enough; the churches' basic doctrines must be changed, with homophobia written out forever.
Michelangelo Signorile
#19. Many people who no longer go to church end up falling prey to superstition.
Umberto Eco
#20. I may not be as active in it as some people are, but I think that the church has taught me great life lessons.
Julianne Hough
#21. General amnesty, weekly carnival with masked licence, bonuses for all, esperanto the universal language with universal brotherhood. No more patriotism of barspongers and dropsical impostors. Free money, free rent, free sex and a free lay church in a free lay state.
James Joyce
#22. People learn to shop for churches; there is no loyalty to the church. They're consumers being attracted to one product or another. I think it's sacrilege, to tell you the truth, it really is.
Eugene H. Peterson
#23. The men who were running the church in the late '60s and '70s panicked when they saw the chaos, which developed after the council. The relatively modest changes of those years thawed the ice in which Catholicism had been frozen since the French Revolution.
Andrew Greeley
#24. Only the Catholic Church protested against the Hitlerian onslaught on liberty. Up till then I had not been interested in the Church, but today I feel a great admiration for the Church, which alone has had the courage to struggle for spiritual truth and moral liberty
Albert Einstein
#25. The legendary missionary journey of St. Paul, which led to the foundation of the British church, presupposes the existence of a Jewish community - always the initial object of his propaganda - even before the capture of Jerusalem by Titus in the year 70.
Cecil Roth
#26. I dream of a church that is a mother and shepherdess.
Pope Francis
#27. For politicians truth and falsehood are unimportant. So I never could become a politician not even a church politician.
Martin Niemoller
#28. Does any sane man imagine that the church could cease to be missionary and remain the church?
Arthur Judson
#29. The apostles were scattered, and even the leaders of the Church in Jerusalem had neither the power nor the means to impose uniformity.In these circumstances, we must imagine the literature of Christianity as spreading gradually, irregularly, and in a manner which variations inevitable.
Frederic G. Kenyon
#30. I started singing in church and I was probably around seven and I started singing anywhere that I could. I used to sing at my school. I was in musicals and then it kind of got to a point where I started to - wanted to do my own songs.
Avril Lavigne
#31. The big deal is we think the power is in us individuallythe power is in us collectively. It is in the church.
John M. Perkins
#32. What do I consider myself now? A man attempting to be good. In this endeavor I have no use for church and steeple. If another man does, I only wish he finds what he needs.
David Ebershoff
#33. Hotel Waldhaus
We had no luck with the weather and the guests at our table were repellent in every respect. They even ruined Nietzsche for us. Even after they had had a fatal car accident and had been laid out in the church in Sils, we still hated them.
Thomas Bernhard
#34. I want to be able to open up the really good treasures of the Church and Christianity to people, and that's not going to be achieved by shouting at them to convert or they'll go to hell. It's about giving them an opportunity to reimagine Christianity.
Alan Green
#35. Membership is the church's corporate endorsement of a person's salvation.
Mark Dever
#36. I don't go to church so much, but I do believe in God and I understand the consequences of faith.
Usain Bolt
#37. I'm fully and completely convinced that the 'Hour of Power' is a step in leading people to a fuller understanding of who Jesus is. I can't tell you how many people have watched the 'Hour of Power' and say, 'Now I feel confident to be able to go to a church' ... That's what the 'Hour of Power' does.
Robert A. Schuller
#38. I am a politically motivated person, and that will come through in the music. I'm not sure if every song will be Take Me to Church, but I can only hope that people enjoy the body of work that I have ahead of me.
Hozier
#39. The Church counters the culture of death with the culture of love.
Pope John Paul II
#40. But, actually, so many of the clerics that I've met, particularly the Church of England clerics, are people of such extraordinary smugness and arrogance and conceitedness who are extraordinarily presumptuous about the significance of their position in society.
Rowan Atkinson
#41. A man can do a lot of damage in the church. When someone comes here, he's got his guard up. But in church a man's wide open.
John Steinbeck
#42. Jesus is the hope of the world and the local church is the vehicle of expressing that hope to the world.
Andy Stanley
#43. I told her how frustrating it is to be a Christian in America, and how frustrated I am with not only the church's failures concerning human rights, but also my personal failure to contribute to the solution.
Donald Miller
#44. I was baptized as an infant. I was confirmed as an adolescent; I was active in my church's youth group and in my university student group. I was married before the church's altar; trained at the church's seminaries, ordained deacon and priest at age 24.
John Shelby Spong
#45. Hate is a grand, a strong quality! It makes nations, it builds up creeds! If men loved one another what should they need of a Church?
Marie Corelli
#46. Priesthood quorums teach and assist their members to attain good health, financial stability, and a year's supply of food and clothing. They also teach their members to be self-reliant and to give their time, talents, and means in behalf of the Church, community, and needy.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
#47. If God gave Dad Alzheimer's, He's got to understand when Dad forgets what church he belongs to.
Joanne Fluke
#48. Too many church leaders have bought into the myth that to clarify the win means establishing attendance goals and raising a lot of money.
Andy Stanley
#49. I rejected the church for a time because I found so little grace there. I returned because I found grace nowhere else.
Philip Yancey
#50. In our manner of speech, our plans of living, our dealings with others, our conduct and walk in the church and out of it-all should be done as becomes the gospel (Phil. 1:27).
Albert C. Barnes
#51. The priesthood of all believers did not make everyone into church workers; rather, it turned every kind of work into a sacred calling.
Gene Edward Veith Jr.
#52. For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel.
Martin Luther
#53. It can have a secular purpose and have a relationship to God because God was presumed to be both over the state and the church, and separation of church and state was never meant to separate God from government.
Roy Moore
#55. Yesterday I had a Shaker visitor, and today a Catholic; and the more I see and hear, the less do I care about church doctrines.
Maria Mitchell
#56. Well, to take me from where I was, and the life I was leading, to the life I lead now with the church and with the Lord and with Jesus Christ, it's a total, total turn-around.
Pat Summerall
#57. The Roman Catholic Church, had it captured me, as it nearly did, would have sent me on some mission of danger and sacrifice and utilised me as a martyr; the Church established by law transformed me into an unbeliever and an antagonist.
Annie Besant
#58. I find it inconceivable that we're meeting for five and a half days, and there isn't one moment on the agenda to deal with the greatest crisis we've ever had in the church since 1789.
Roger Mahony
#59. After a show over the summer, a girl came up to me who was a pastor at her church, which was not accepting of same-sex relationships. She said that 'Same Love' allowed her to come out regardless of the consequences.
Mary Lambert
#60. Take my heart and squeeze it out over the face of Your Bride, the Church.
Catherine Of Siena
#61. The family was ordained of God that children might be trained up for himself; it was before the church, or rather the first form of the church on earth.
Pope Leo XIII
#62. My mother started taking us to church when I was in seventh or eight grade. That was always a question, Do you believe in God?
Anne Waldman
#63. I abjure with a sincere heart and unfeigned faith, I curse and detest the said errors and heresies, and generally all and every error and sect contrary to the Holy Catholic Church.
Galileo Galilei
#64. If the average church should suddenly take seriously the notion that every lay member man or woman is really a minister of Christ, we could have something like a revolution in a very short time.
D. Elton Trueblood
#65. Coming from the cotton plantation, the southern regions, I was brought up with real nice kids, mannered kids, who would go to church on Sunday.
Luther Allison
#66. When you go to church, if the pastor at some point doesn't make you laugh, he probably ain't gonna make you join.
R. Kelly
#67. The first effect of emancipation from the Church was not to make men think rationally, but to open their minds to every sort of antique nonsense
Bertrand Russell
#68. If we in the church want a cause to fight, let's fight sin. Let's reveal its hideousness. Let's show that Jeremiah was correct when e said: "The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked" [Jeremiah 17:9 NKJV].
Billy Graham
#69. Speak out for those who cannot speak - who in the church today realizes that this is the very least that the Bible requires of us?
Eric Metaxas
#70. Galileo was challenged because he declared a theory to be a fact and argued with the Church about the genuine meaning of the Bible.
Michael Coren
#71. In church, they have the music where you jump and you shout, you know, and then you have the quiet music where you're sitting, you're meditating.
Darlene Love
#72. Well, I think Barkley and I were the only two who were working with Church for a Ph.D.
Stephen Cole Kleene
#73. A time will come when instead of shepherds feeding the sheep, the church will have clowns entertaining the goats
Charles Spurgeon
#74. In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to appear better than we really are.
E. Stanley Jones
#76. Only a couple of times have I ever been to church and felt enlightened by it.
Lynn Johnston
#77. Whether you are doing it in the bar, the church, the strip joint, or the Himalayas, the first duty of music is to complement and enhance life.
Carlos Santana
#78. The first time I sang in church, when I was ten, the applause was so overwhelming that I started to weep. My mum had to rescue me from the stage.
Laura Mvula
#79. God has a church upon the earth, who are His chosen people, who keep His commandments. He is leading, not stray offshoots, not one here and one there, but a people. The truth is a sanctifying power, but the church militant is not yet the church triumphant ...
Ellen G. White
#81. The priest is not and must not be a civil servant of the Church. Above all the priest is a man who lives for the spirit for God. This being the case the Seminary is the place where he learns 'to be with Him.'
Pope John Paul II
#82. The Church must take right ground in regard to politics ... Politics are a part of a religion in such a country as this, and Christians must do their duty to the country as part of their duty to God ... God will bless or curse this nation, according to the course Christians take in politics.
Charles Grandison Finney
#83. For some of my friends who raise personal objections to marriage equality, they still recognize the importance of being accepting. And many of them also recognize that regardless of what they choose to believe or practice at home or at their church, that doesn't give them the right to discriminate.
Scott Fujita
#84. We don't care if you're wearing a suit or a T-shirt and jeans. What we care about is the condition of the heart." Gary Davis, Church in the Wind
David Putman
#85. Separation of church and state cannot mean an absolute separation between moral principles and political power.
Edward Kennedy
#86. Many council leaders and members will be surprised to discover how much more focused their work will become when they examine it through the lens of saving souls through the mission of the Church.
M. Russell Ballard
#87. Some crazy man came up to me and started screaming at me about how he hated Allah, and before I could tell him that my family was part of the Catholic Church in India, he knifed me.
Eric Jerome Dickey
#88. is also time for a final break with our theologically grounded reserve about whatever is being done by the state-which really only comes down to fear. "Speak out for those who cannot in the church today still remembers that this is the very least the Bible asks of us in such times as these?
Keith Clements
#89. It is true that the church must be in many places and with many people, but it is the poor who will reveal to the church - dramatically and poignantly - the nature of its heart and mission.
Gary Smith
#90. My mother always used to say, 'Well, if you had been born a little girl growing up in Egypt, you would go to church or go to worship Allah, but surely if those people are worshipping a God, it must be the same God' - that's what she always said. The same God with different names.
Jane Goodall
#91. With the Synod Assembly, therefore, I heartily recommend to the Church's pastors and to the People of God the practice of Eucharistic Adoration, both individually and in community
Pope Benedict XVI
#92. There is no dogma that the organ or harmonium can be used in church, but not the drum.
Francis Arinze
#93. The government makes use of the clergy as of one arm more, which, however, is now almost powerless through corruption. The Oriental church has no conception of the noble devotion which has honored Catholicism in the lives of Saint Thomas of Canterbury and Cardinal Cisneros. The
Emilia Pardo Bazan
#94. Each heartfelt prayer, each Church meeting attended, each worthy friend, each righteous decision, each act of service perfomed all precede that goal of eternal life.
Thomas S. Monson
#95. 'Down on Me' can't showcase my true talent. 'Birthday Sex' was robotic. When I perform it, I can't give you this church feeling I know I can give.
Jeremih
#96. In the wicked outside world, my brother told me, there were sins the church didn't know enough to forbid. I couldn't wait.
Chuck Palahniuk
#97. Kate had attended a Presbyterian church with her family in Norfolk; she'd heard how the God of Moses could flip out and go pretty damn nuts when things didn't turn out His way.
Chet Williamson
#98. You know what I do on Sundays? I sing in a choir. I sing in a Greek Orthodox choir, and I'm the only hillbilly tenor in the Orthodox Church.
Chris Hillman
#99. You became the sum total of where you lived, where you shopped, which church you went to, how many kids you had and which taxi company you used, and you only associated with people who had the same responses on their list.
Sara Sheridan
#100. I grew up in the church not being able to listen to anything but gospel. So, while [other] people grew up with their parents listening to Marvin Gaye and Aretha Franklin, I never knew they existed until I was able to listen to what I wanted to.
Rahki
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