Church Quotes

Everyone agrees the celibacy rule is just a Church law dating from the 11th century, not a divine co...

The Pope would have an easier job than the President of the United States in adopting a change of co...

If you cannot see that divinity includes male and female characteristics and at the same time transc...

The full Christian experience, however, is not an individual experience which may be isolated from a...

Again, as I had often met it in my own church, I was confronted with the Impurity of Women doctrine ...

It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the sa...

Your church is a baby-house made of blocks.

The preachers and lecturers deal with men of straw, as they are men of straw themselves. Why, a free...

The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education...

But pity there was none. For all his old age, and his one arm, and his blind eyes, he must die the d...

It is wrong to say that schoolmasters lack heart and are dried-up, soulless pedants! No, by no means...

You can't have a church town without belief and you can't have belief without intolerance.

If our church is not marked by caring for the poor, the oppressed, the hungry, we are guilty of here...

The public school has become the established church of secular society.

[As a young man ] I came to the conclusion that the church was just a bunch of fascists that support...

You have asked me what I would do and what I would not do. I will tell you what I will do and what I...

Most of the church landscape in my lifetime has been heavily invested in trying to do something for ...

In a society where rationality has ruled so long, the church frequently fails to see that in forsaki...

Church leaders raised on rationalism lead ministries where the supernatural, the Vertical, is suppre...

Let God Himself be the main attraction at church again, and let us be tireless in our insistence tha...

The entity God created to traffic His transcendence has fallen far from its mission when it chooses ...

Shall I ask you how the church is to be filled, if a man is neither to take orders with a living, no...

The Church has an excellent appetite. She has swallowed whole countries and the questionHas never ri...

Prayer will make a man cease from sin, or sin will entice a man to cease from prayer.

Is it faith to understand nothing, and merely submit your convictions implicitly to the Church?

It is a promise which eminently deserves our observation that all who are united to Christ and ackno...

The whole world is a theatre for the display of the divine goodness, wisdom, justice, and power, but...

A person's faith goes at its own pace. The trouble with church is the service. A service is conducte...

Husbands and wives, recognize that in marriage you have become one flesh. If you live for your priva...

Husbands and wives, recognize that in marriage you have become one flesh. If you live for your priva...

Husbands and wives, recognize that in marriage you have become one flesh. If you live for your priva...

Husbands and wives, recognize that in marriage you have become one flesh. If you live for your priva...

The church and the whorehouse arrived in the Far West simultaneously. And each would have been horri...

A man can do a lot of damage in the church. When someone comes here, he's got his guard up. But in c...

The voice welling up out of this little man is terrific, Harry had noticed it at the house, but here...

I have no objection to instruments of music in our worship, provided they are neither seen nor heard...

We don’t ask any people to throw away any good they have got; we only ask them to come and get more....

Theology is not a private subject for theologians only. Nor is it a private subject for professors. ...

Church always seemed the same. Jess could tune it out the same way he tuned out school, with his bod...

When you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the chur...

I am not the Jesus of the official church tolerated by those in power. I am not your superstar.

Going to church doesn't make you any more a Christian than going to the garage makes you a car.

Spring came late. For the children, shut in the dark, cold parsonage, adjusting to Aunt and getting ...

My politics is my religion, my religion is my politics.

To conquer your biology, stop seeing people sexually and start seeing them as family. In our day, we...

Adam is fading out. It is on account of Darwin and that crowd. I can see that he is not going to las...

Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.

Anyone who is to find Christ must first find the church. How could anyone know where Christ is and w...

For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel.

The church must be reminded that it is not the master or the servant of the state, but rather the co...

All too many others have been more cautious than courageous and have remained silent behind the anes...

What, but the rapacity of the only men who exercised their reason, the priests, secured such vast pr...

The way to preserve the peace of the church is to preserve its purity.

The most important part of religion isn't in any church. It's down in your own heart. Religion is in...

It was a strange feeling going into a church I did not know for a service that I did not really beli...

Look at yourself! You're a priest. You know damn well that if I were setting out to make a girl at t...

As a newborn baby breathes and cries, so the signs of life in a newborn Christian are faith and repe...

Unless a person can give reasons, there is, literally, no reason why anyone else should take that pe...

The church exists primarily for two closely correlated purposes: to worship God and to work for his ...

[re: I Corinthians 15:34,58] "The present life of the church, in other words, is not about "soul-mak...

Many in the church have turned their back on serious study, and have embraced an anti-intellectualis...

Ninety-nine percent of everything that goes on in most Christian churches has nothing whatsoever to ...

So, yeah, my people figured that maybe there's something at the back of it all, a creator, a great s...

Fat Charlie wondered what Rosie's mother would usually hear in a church. Probably just cries of "Bac...

I thought I was looking at a building at first: that it was some kind of tent, as high as a country ...

God's voice is usually nothing more than a whisper, and you have to listen very carefully to hear it...

Since Jimmy Carter, religious fundamentalists play a major role in elections. He was the first presi...

At its root, the logic is that of the Grand Inquisitor, who bitterly assailed Christ for offering pe...

It is very difficult sometimes to keep awake, especially at church, but there is no difficulty at al...

the Twelve Apostles are the most evident sign of Jesus' will regarding the existence and mission of ...

Vanity, showing off, is an attitude that reduces spirituality to a worldly thing, which is the worst...

The light of love proper to faith can illumine the question of our own time-concerning truth. Truth,...

We cannot become starched Christians, those overeducated Christians who speak of theological matters...

For the Church, the option for the poor is primarily a theological category rather than a cultural, ...

Mary was able to turn a stable into a home for Jesus, with poor swaddling clothes and an abundance o...

Will we let ourselves become a Church that calls and welcomes sinners with open arms, that gives cou...

There is a Marian "style" to the Church's work of evangelization. Whenever we look to Mary, we come ...

As religious leaders, we are called to be true "people of dialogue," to cooperate in building peace ...

We need to let ourselves be evangelized by the poor. They have much to teach us.

The word miracle, as pronounced by Christian churches, gives a false impression; it is a monster. It...

I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.

Because sometimes the Church seems like those posed circus tableaus where the curtain lifts and men,...

Finally, the work of the minister tended to be judged by his success in a single area - the saving o...

The only group large enough to handle," the world's biggest, "problems is the network of millions of...

History shows that when the church accommodates culture, it weakens it.

The fact is, it is selfish for a church to not want to grow. A church that says, “We’ve got enough p...

I never weary of great churches. It is my favourite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so h...

My point is, however, that churches do promote beliefs that would more appropriately find a place in...

But in every church there are people who, for reasons which seem sufficient to them, do not approve ...

Our government needs the church, because only those humble enough to admit they're sinners can bring...

Let me speak plainly: The United States of America is and must remain a nation of openness to people...

I long for the Church to be more truly itself, and for me this involves changing its stance on war, ...

Over the road there was a church: a modern gray building, which constantly played a recording of chu...

When we consider that so few generations had passed since thechurch left off disemboweling innocent ...

Those who would renegotiate the boundaries between church and state must therefore answer a difficul...

the church was an international institution long before globalization.

What if evangelical mega churches became known around the world for things like providing water acce...

There are congregations on nearly every corner. I'm not sure we need more churches. What we need is ...

The church is like Noah's ark. It stinks, but if you get out of it, you'll drown.

Perhaps one of the most powerful things the contemporary church could do is to confess our sins to t...