Church Quotes

The world can no longer be left to mere diplomats, politicians, and business leaders. They have done...

Multitudes are now turning to Christ in all parts of the world. How unbearably tragic it would be, t...

He warned that any church that ignored reality would not survive to enjoy the divine.

You mean the day they stop needing the church," Vittoria challenged, moving toward him. "Doubt is yo...

Whenever God erects a house of prayer The devil always builds a chapel there And 'twill be found u...

We went to church every Sunday. When I was a kid, the only time I sang was around my family.

If colleges are going to justify themselves, they are going to have to thrive at those things that r...

I'm a classic Church of England member, but part of its strength is the fact that it doesn't ask us ...

What if the preacher or father’s saying ‘Someone here’s lost and hopeless’ was tantamount to those S...

Luther had passed many a white church in his day, heard them singing their hymns and chanting their ...

Those who love their dream of a Christian community more than they love the Christian community itse...

Freedom for the Church comes from the necessity of the Word of God. Otherwise, it becomes arbitrarin...

The renewal of the Church will come from a new type of monasticism which only has in common with the...

Where a people prays, there is the hurch; and where the church is; there is never loneliness.

The church can only defend its own space by fighting, not for space, but for the salvation of the wo...

The Church is the Church only when it exists for others...not dominating, but helping and serving. I...

Reproof is unavoidable. God’s Word demands it when a brother falls into open sin. The practice of di...

Christian community is like the Christian's sanctification. It is a gift of God which we cannot clai...

And in the Incarnation the whole human race recovers the dignity of the image of God. Henceforth, an...

True prayer is done in secret, but this does not rule out the fellowship of prayer altogether, howev...

The author urges taking the pulse of the church outside our own neighborhood. More church attending ...

I saw a photograph of a wedding conducted by Reverend Moon of the Unification Church. I wanted to un...

The departure of the church-going element had induced a more humanitarian atmosphere.

There is no use trying to do Church work without love. A doctor, a lawyer, may do good work without ...

Some churches, sects, cults or religious movements are basically collective egoic entities, as rigid...

The obvious definition of a monarchy seems to be that of a state, in which a single person, by whats...

The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women's emancipation.

The whole tone of Church teaching in regard to women is, to the last degree, contemptuous and degrad...

False religion may prevail, iniquity may abound, the love of many may wax cold, the cross of Calvary...

I suppose she only wanted what she couldn't have. Well, people were that way. To hell with people. T...

I painlessly came to realize that the reverence I felt for the holiness of life is not ever likely t...

I left that church with rich and royal hatred of the priest as a person, and a loathing for the chur...

I walked down the empty Broad to breakfast, as I often did on Sundays, at a tea-shop opposite Ballio...

If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them ...

All agree that, the first responsibility for the alleviation of poverty and distress and for the car...

Most of us spend the first six days of each week sowing wild oats then we go to church on Sunday and...

The Christian church is an encyclopaedia of prehistoric cults and conceptions of the most diverse or...

The Church today is more likely to alienate than to seduce...

Why are those who are notoriously undisciplined and unmoral also most contemptuous of religion and m...

It takes three to make love, not two: you, your spouse, and God. Without God people only succeed in ...

I say, ‘We believe in a Christ’. If that being existed physically or not, it’s still important, beca...

Don't give your money to the church. They should be giving their money to you.

I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institution...

You must mind and not lower the Church in people's eyes by seeming to be frightened about it for suc...

Division has done more to hide Christ from the view of men than all the infidelity that has ever bee...

When the Holy Father passed away in 2005, Laura, Dad, Bill Clinton, and I flew together to his funer...

Most talk of a catholic spirit but it is only till they have been brought into the pale of their own...

Government should not be involved in marriage at all, I believe. There’s no reason for it. I don’t g...

You alone in Europe are not ancient oh ChristianityThe most modern European is you Pope Pius XAnd yo...

I was brought up Catholic and know the stench of the Catholic Church. I moved away from religion ear...

I think that it [the Church] stands for everything most hostile to the mental emancipation and stimu...

Roman Catholicism is a broken and utterly desperate thing, capable only of malignant mischief in our...

The most evil institution in the world is the Roman Catholic Church.

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.