Church Quotes

I was green. All I knew was to walk my dog and go to church.

I don't think we should focus on what church that person walks into .. I think we need to focus on what they do when they walk out of church.

It is common for those that are farthest from God, to boast themselves most of their being near to the Church.

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

The church saves sinners, but science seeks to stop their manufacture.

We should always be disposed to believe that that which appears white is really black, if the hierarchy of the Church so decides.

The Church has always been willing to swap off treasures in heaven for cash down.

The Evangelical party in the Church of Scotland will lay all flat if they be not prevented.

Christians often want to hide behind the walls of the church, where we are comfortable, but sometimes we have to come out of the box.

I get asked a lot why Apple's customers are so loyal. It's not because they belong to the Church of Mac! That's ridiculous.

The council now beginning rises in the Church like the daybreak, a forerunner of most splendid light.

Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.

I went to Catholic school in and out. I'm what you call a recovering Catholic. I have many major issues with the church.

There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.

My mom always says I cut my teeth on the church pew.

I went to church with my grandparents sometimes and I loved it.

I have an awesome church home and an awesome Pastor down in L.A., and I couldn't be happier.

I grew up a Catholic and I don't want to talk badly about the Catholic Church but there's a lot of routine stuff going on. You say the same prayers, you sit, you kneel, whatever.

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

She thoroughly understands what no other Church has ever understood, how to deal with enthusiasts.

Indeed, in the present climate of mistrust of institutions, many people who yearn for a more meaningful and fulfilling life would regard the church as an unlikely place to go for guidance.

The number, the industry, and the morality of the priesthood, and the devotion of the people have been manifestly increased by the total separation of the church from the state.

I personally believe, as church law sets out, that sanctions are an absolute last resort, particularly penal sanctions of depriving people of the sacraments.

The church also does not condone a broken immigration system in the U.S., one that too easily can lead to the exploitation, abuse and even death of immigrants.

A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.

It is better to go skiing and think of God, than go to church and think of sport.

My eyes are wide open to the conflicts within the Church, but I don't think you can call it schism.

I need to find a church on Sunday. I need to say 'please' and 'thank you,' 'yes sir' and 'no ma'am.' Do the little things because that's part of being an adult.

Every church is a stone on the grave of a god-man: it does not want him to rise up again under any circumstances.

My mom always said that if the Protestants catch a Catholic in their church, they feed them to the Jews.

As long as the house of The Holy Spirit remains a haven for criminals the reputation of the church will remain in ruins.

In an unconstitutional partnership with the state, the church can impose the most irresistible, if covert, controls conceivable.

Wherever Koreans are, they set up a church.

Becoming Catholic involves entering into a relationship with the Catholic Church.

I don't want to just preach to the church. I feel like I have a broader message.

I'm a reverend and a pastor. A pastor of the church. I go by usually pastor.

My dad had a church of 90 people when I was born. It was just, over the years it continued to grow.

You can be committed to Church but not committed to Christ, but you cannot be committed to Christ and not committed to church.

My mind is my own church.

It would be far better to be of no church than to be bitter of any.

I sang in church, but growing up in the neighborhood, music was more of an expression of relief or entertainment.

The medieval Church believed that the resurrection of Christ marked a new time for all of humanity.

Meanwhile the Church more and more provided for the doctrine of the Holy Spirit, by practically chaining His influence to the hierarchy and the sacraments.

Of course the case of the Christian Church planted among the nations must differ, in various ways, from that of any sect forming in connection with religious awakening in a territory of professing Christianity.

The earlier practice of the Church had been more or less to employ in worship under the presidency of the pastor or pastors, the gifts of the congregation.

The principle that certain sins should not receive the Church's testimony of forgiveness was probably no novelty at all, but had been applied in various churches; perhaps, however, with no strict consistency.

The fact that the church is convinced of not having the right to confer priestly ordination on women is now considered by some as irreconcilable with the European Constitution.

I went to a church where you could not sing out loud in the service until you had been saved.

I was in a church choir early on and that really helped me musically in terms of chops, learning how to sing harmonies.

My family for several generations have been members of the Unitarian Church.

We all know that a church is not a building.

I was called to start a mission, not a church. There is a difference.

The Roman Catholic Church isn't going to change its theologies.

I was raised in a Baptist household, went to a Catholic church, lived in a Jewish neighborhood, and had the biggest crush on the Muslim girls from one neighborhood over.

My life goal is to see the world's one billion people with disabilities embraced and encouraged by the church.

There is too much theology in the Church now, and too little of the Gospel.

For me Christianity is about the Kingdom, not about the Church: it has to do with human growth and development nor church growth and development.

Anybody who had come up with a new concept would have been under suspicion for being out of step with the tradition or out of step with the teachings of the church.

The early Church had nothing but the Old Testament. The New Testament lies hidden in the Old; the Old Testament lies open in the New.

The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.

I've been stuck on John Eldredge lately. He's all about being a warrior outside of the church. I hate to think about this kind of stuff - I just like to do it.

Really, at a time when they're debating when and where a nativity scene can be used, this is the kind of stuff we need to have out there - outside of the church.

If you say that the history of the Church is a long succession of scandals, you are telling the truth, though if that is all you say, you are distorting the truth.

I grew up in the Holiness Church, where prayer was an event.

People don't come to church for preachments, of course, but to daydream about God.

There is this church that I go to a lot in New York. I'm not religious but I love lighting candles and stuff. I find it useful.

Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me.

My bike is my gym, my wheelchair and my church all in one. I'd like to ride my bike all day long but I've got this thing called a job that keeps getting in the way.

If it came to saving the life of one priest or sacrificing the life of an entire congregation, the church would save the life of the priest. Which is backwards, of course.

The church must always show compassion, always.

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

Being no bigot myself, I am disposed to indulge the professors of Christianity in the church that road to heaven which to them shall seem the most direct, plainest, easiest and least liable to exception.

The style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe.

In the Church, considered as a social organism, the mysteries inevitably degenerate into beliefs.

Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.