300 Quotes on Church

• A good man, is a good man, whether in this church, or out of it.

  Author: Brigham Young

• In order to the existence of such a ministry in the Church, there is requisite an authority received from God, and consequently power and knowledge imparted from God for the exercise of such ministry; and where a man possesses these, although the bis.

  Author: John Wycliffe

• What, but the rapacity of the only men who exercised their reason, the priests, secured such vast property to the church, when a man gave his perishable substance to save himself from the dark torments of purgatory.

  Author: Mary Wollstonecraft

• Not every religion has to have St. Augustine's attitude to sex. Why even in our culture marriages are celebrated in a church, everyone present knows what is going to happen that night, but that doesn't prevent it being a religious ceremony.

  Author: Ludwig Wittgenstein

• I am also actively involved in my church and its community activities. We have programs to improve the lives of our congregation and programs of outreach in the community.

  Author: Samuel Wilson

• Nobody sees the obvious, nobody observes the ordinary. There are more miracles in a square yard of earth than in all the fables of the Church.

  Author: Robert Wilson

• We always performed for our church, but we also just performed whenever the family got together.

  Author: Debra Wilson

• I was never interested in singing in the church choir or in school. I was more interested in becoming a musician.

  Author: Cassandra Wilson

• It is my belief that everything you need to know about the world can be learned in a church choir.

  Author: Connie Willis

• The Catholic Church has never really come to terms with women. What I object to is being treated either as Madonnas or Mary Magdalenes.

  Author: Shirley Williams

• I do feel that federation, loose parallel processes, are less than we've got, less than we could have and, in the very long run, less than what God wants in the Church.

  Author: Rowan Williams

• Christians should emphatically be campaigning for justice for the poor - but the Church is not a campaign.

  Author: Rowan Williams

• The Church exists to connect people at the level of their hunger for a new world.

  Author: Rowan Williams

• My training in Science of Mind had begun with my mother. She took me to a different church every Sunday, and she encouraged me to question the minister afterward.

  Author: Esther Williams

• The Divine Thing that made itself the foundation of the Church does not seem, to judge by his comments on the religious leadership of his day, to have hoped much from officers of a church.

  Author: Charles Williams

• The most he would do was to promise that the gates of hell should not prevail against it. It is about all that, looking back on the history of the Church, one can feel that they have not done.

  Author: Charles Williams

• Eighteen years ago, the Holy Spirit led me to establish a church in the heart of Times Square.

  Author: David Wilkerson

• The schools would fail through their silence, the Church through its forgiveness, and the home through the denial and silence of the parents. The new generation has to hear what the older generation refuses to tell it.

  Author: Simon Wiesenthal

• Even at church, people would not shake my hand.

  Author: Ryan White

• In the past, children learned their values at home, reinforced by organizations such as the Boy Scouts and, of course, their church or synagogue, but in all too many families that is no longer the case.

  Author: Paul Weyrich

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

  Author: H. Wells

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

  Author: Simone Weil

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

  Author: Alan Watts

• My grandmother, she say I shouldn't be playing. I should go to church. Fially, I say I'm going do this, I'm going do it. And she got where she didn't bother me about it.

  Author: Muddy Waters

• You get a heck of a sound from the church. Can't you hear it in my voice?

  Author: Muddy Waters

• Martin Luther King Jr. really understood the role of the churches when he said, 'The church is not meant to be the master of the state.' We don't sort of take power and grab the levers of government and impose our agenda down people's throats.

  Author: Jim Wallis

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

  Author: Alice Walker

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

  Author: Kurt Vonnegut

• Is it possible that I am not alone in believing that in the dispute between Galileo and the Church, the Church was right and the centre of man's universe is the earth?

  Author: Stephen Vizinczey

• 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.

  Author: Gerald Vann

• I heard stories from my mother's mother who was an American Indian. She was spiritual, although she did not go to church, but she had the hum. She used to tell me stories of the rivers.

  Author: Tina Turner

• You have the Roman Catholic Church, the Church of England, the Presbyterians, the Wesleyans, represented in each school, and they are each to take alternate days.

  Author: Charles Tupper

• You may invite the entire 35th Division to your wedding if you want to. I guess it's going to be yours as well as mine. We might as well have the church full while we are at it.

  Author: Bess Truman

• In the polls, over 80% support the right to die and have done for the last 25 years. Even 80% of practising Catholics and Protestants support it, plus 76% of Church Times readers.

  Author: Polly Toynbee

• And I ask why am I black, they say I was born in sin, and shamed inequity. One of the main songs we used to sing in church makes me sick, 'love wash me and I shall be whiter than snow.

  Author: Peter Tosh

• I sang in church growing up. Memphis is the blues capital of the world, we like to say.

  Author: Justin Timberlake

• And you know, we'd go to church. We were Baptists. And every now and then there'd be a tent would set up, and it was the Holiness folks. And we liked their music.

  Author: Mel Tillis

• And they turned around and leased it to The Assembly Of God Churches - their headquarters are in Springfield, Missouri. They leased it to them for the first year. Then, after the first year, they will donate it to the church.

  Author: Mel Tillis

• The Catholic Church - it's so difficult because I don't want say anything offensive but it makes me very angry that religious leaders from this faith have tried to respond negatively to sexual education and to the promotion of condom use.

  Author: Emma Thompson

• 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.

  Author: John Tesh

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

  Author: Tertullian

• If my duty does involve heralding His law in every arena, then the Church in America is failing radically today.

  Author: Randall Terry

• 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.

  Author: Randall Terry

• 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.

  Author: John Templeton

• 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.

  Author: Michael Taylor

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

  Author: Lewis Tappan

• One of my good friends is Christian, goes to church every Sunday, very religious. I'm fine with that and I will never judge her.

  Author: Amber Tamblyn

• For the judgment was accomplished not only upon all the men of the Christian church, but also upon all who are called Mohammedans, and, moreover, upon all the Gentiles in the whole world.

  Author: Emanuel Swedenborg

• For the spiritual sense of the Word treats everywhere of the spiritual world, that is, of the state of the church in the heavens, as well as in the earth; hence the Word is spiritual and Divine.

  Author: Emanuel Swedenborg

• The quality of the Lord's church on earth, cannot be seen by any man, so long as he lives in the world, still less how the church in process of time has turned aside from good to evil.

  Author: Emanuel Swedenborg

• Unless you have made a complete surrender and are doing his will it will avail you nothing if you've reformed a thousand times and have your name on fifty church records.

  Author: Billy Sunday

• A revival does two things. First, it returns the Church from her backsliding and second, it causes the conversion of men and women; and it always includes the conviction of sin on the part of the Church. What a spell the devil seems to cast over the Church today!

  Author: Billy Sunday

• Christianity means a lot more than church membership.

  Author: Billy Sunday

• God Almighty never intended that the devil should triumph over the Church. He never intended that the saloons should walk rough-shod over Christianity.

  Author: Billy Sunday

• Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile.

  Author: Billy Sunday

• Hypocrites in the Church? Yes, and in the lodge and at the home. Don't hunt through the Church for a hypocrite. Go home and look in the mirror. Hypocrites? Yes. See that you make the number one less.

  Author: Billy Sunday

• I believe there is no doctrine more dangerous to the Church today than to convey the impression that a revival is something peculiar in itself and cannot be judged by the same rules of causes and effect as other things.

  Author: Billy Sunday

• I challenge you to show me where the saloon has ever helped business, education, church, morals or anything we hold dear.

  Author: Billy Sunday

• Ritual murder is referred to in court files which are located in Rome. There are pictures in it which show that in 23 cases, the Church itself has dealt with the question.

  Author: Julius Streicher

• The Church knew what the psalmist knew: Music praises God. Music is well or better able to praise him than the building of the church and all its decoration; it is the Church's greatest ornament.

  Author: Igor Stravinsky

• St. Peter announced the glad tidings of the Gospel to the people on the day of Pentecost, and converted, by the first Christian sermon, ever preached, three thousand - which formed the primitive Church.

  Author: John Strachan

• At the first general meeting of this Corporation in 1820, his Lordship presided; a circumstance, which may well be considered an era in the history of the Church of Upper Canada.

  Author: John Strachan

• The Legislature of Lower Canada, consisting chiefly of Roman Catholics, could hardly be expected to support a church which they were taught to consider heretical, and in Upper Canada the scanty means at the disposal of the Government, precluded all hope.

  Author: John Strachan

• I was brought up as a Catholic and went to church every week and took the sacraments. It never really touched the core of my being.

  Author: Sting

• The limitless loving devotion to God, and the gift God makes of Himself to you, are the highest elevation of which the heart is capable; it is the highest degree of prayer. The souls that have reached this point are truly the heart of the Church.

  Author: Edith Stein

• Every true prayer is a prayer of the Church; by means of that prayer the Church prays, since it is the Holy Spirit living in the Church, Who in every single soul 'prays in us with unspeakable groanings'.

  Author: Edith Stein

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

  Author: Elizabeth Stanton

• The greatest block today in the way of woman's emancipation is the church, the canon law, the Bible and the priesthood.

  Author: Elizabeth Stanton

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

  Author: Elizabeth Stanton

• People sometimes ask me if it is a sin in the Church of Emacs to use vi. Using a free version of vi is not a sin; it is a penance. So happy hacking.

  Author: Richard Stallman

• Religion stands, the Church blocking the sun.

  Author: Stephen Spender

• I do not use profanity in my novels. My characters all go to church.

  Author: Nicholas Sparks

• At the end of 1795 and beginning of 1796, I was ordered to write to the Church ministers.

  Author: Joanna Southcott

• One of my beliefs is that there are certain institutions within a community which stand for the spirit and heart of that community, there's the church, the local football team, the local pub and the theatre.

  Author: David Soul

• I see no faults in the Church, and therefore let me be resurrected with the Saints, whether I ascend to heaven or descend to hell, or go to any other place. And if we go to hell, we will turn the devils out of doors and make a heaven of it.

  Author: Joseph Smith, Jr.

• I think if the church did what they were supposed to do we wouldn't have anyone sleeping on the streets.

  Author: Michael Smith

• Yet for my part, deeply as I am moved by the religious architecture of the Middle Ages, I cannot honestly say that I ever felt the slightest emotion in any modern Gothic church.

  Author: Goldwin Smith

• The outcome can truly determine whether our homes will be destroyed, whether our children will be torn from their mothers, trained as conspirators and turned against their parents, their home and their church.

  Author: George Smathers

• I have taken this step because I want the discipline, the fire and the authority of the Church. I am hopelessly unworthy of it, but I hope to become worthy.

  Author: Edith Sitwell

• For a house, somewhere near Los Angeles I found an old church. Very old, no longer used. So we moved the church to the land, and I took off the steeple, and I got my hands dirty.

  Author: Douglas Sirk

• As for the depiction of the Catholic church, it's not meant to be a prediction.

  Author: Dan Simmons

• I think the Church is a conduit to God. The Church is not God. And I think that from the very beginning Jesus taught us that.

  Author: Martin Sheen

• Well, I think that Catholicism's basic foundation of faith is personal conscience. I think it's between you and God, not you and the Church.

  Author: Martin Sheen

• It doesn't really matter how much of the rules or the dogma we accepted and lived by if we're not really living by the fundamental creed of the Catholic Church, which is service to others and finding God in ourselves and then seeing God in everyone - including our enemies.

  Author: Martin Sheen

• I was born in Alabama and my first live music experiences were in church. Every Sunday we watched regional gospel groups on television singing their hearts out.

  Author: Tommy Shaw

• Before I had crossed the threshold of my church I was made to realize that I was shepherd of a divided flock.

  Author: Anna Shaw

• My ordination in the Church of God in Christ was at age 9, and I later became a Baptist minister, which I am today.

  Author: Al Sharpton

• May the Lord destroy all the tyrants of the church. Amen.

  Author: Michael Servetus

• As a former Catholic, and as someone who even today is not opposed to being called a Christian, I felt I had every right to use the symbols of the Church and resented being told not to.

  Author: Andres Serrano

• I like going to Church for aesthetic reasons, rather than spiritual ones.

  Author: Andres Serrano

• I like Church furniture.

  Author: Andres Serrano

• I like the aesthetics of the Church.

  Author: Andres Serrano

• I am drawn to Christ but I have real problems with the Catholic Church.

  Author: Andres Serrano

• Unfortunately, the Church's position on most contemporary issues makes it hard to take them seriously.

  Author: Andres Serrano

• Our public schools began as ministries of the church; now it is time to return them to the Lord.

  Author: Jay Sekulow

• Conversion is a very, very important part of what you are doing. We will have a responsibility to report to Heavenly Father regarding those we bring into the Church.

  Author: Richard Scott

• The Church is presided over personally by Jesus Christ.

  Author: Richard Scott

• The key to successful missionary work is a close relationship between the missionaries and the members. Creating an environment in working with members that will bring more into the Church.

  Author: Richard Scott

• The artists who stand out to me have a passion for what they do. There are a lot of people who can sing. It's just like when you go to church and people are singing because it sounds good, not because it feels good. There's a difference.

  Author: Jill Scott

• The artistic taste of the Catholic priests is appalling and I am most anxious to have a Catholic church in which everything is genuine and good, and not tawdry and ostentatious.

  Author: Giles Scott

• I know it is a somewhat delicate matter to refuse a gift, but in this case the statue is so atrocious that every endeavour should be made to keep it out of the church.

  Author: Giles Scott

• It's very difficult to determine whether this is the fault of the world that has abandoned the Church, or the Church that does not know how to relate to the world.

  Author: Angelo Scola

• In early church polemics, Jews are deemed no longer worthy of their own Scriptures because they have failed to accept Christ as the Messiah.

  Author: Jack Schwartz

• The living Church of the redeemed is his book. He founded a religion of the living spirit, not of a written code, like the Mosaic law. Yet his words and deeds are recorded by as honest and reliable witnesses as ever put pen to paper.

  Author: Philip Schaff

• Each generation of the church in each setting has the responsibility of communicating the gospel in understandable terms, considering the language and thought-forms of that setting.

  Author: Francis Schaeffer

• Against the State, against the Church, against the silence of the medical profession, against the whole machinery of dead institutions of the past, the woman of today arises.

  Author: Margaret Sanger

• I attended Sunday School and then church with my father and mother throughout my childhood.

  Author: Leverett Saltonstall

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

  Author: Leverett Saltonstall

• I have confidence that the Unitarian Church will steadily grow and will help to sustain many of my fellow citizens in these important days that lie ahead of us.

  Author: Leverett Saltonstall

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

  Author: Marquis Sade

• The Lord called me to plant a church.

  Author: Bobby Rush

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

  Author: Darius Rucker

• If you were to look back at me as a school kid you'd see a very quiet little church mouse kind of character.

  Author: Johnny Rotten

• An angel is a spiritual creature created by God without a body for the service of Christendom and the church.

  Author: Leo Rosten

• The city's contradictions and frailties drive me to the church. The church, in turn, binds my wounds and soothes my troubled heart, and sends me right back out into the city again.

  Author: Steve Ross

• From education by the Church to education by Germanic value is a step of several generations.

  Author: Alfred Rosenberg

• I had said to some pastor that I was having thoughts, and the church turned on me. They went to my mom and said, So sorry about your son.

  Author: Jai Rodriguez

• When Queer Eye hit, the church told my mom they were praying for me. She said, God loves him too. And I support him 100 percent.

  Author: Jai Rodriguez

• I think my election is one of several indications that gay and lesbian folk are being brought more into the center of things. I'd like to think that my election signals my bringing of gay and lesbian folk into the center of the church.

  Author: Gene Robinson

• There are enormously gifted Episcopal priests around this church who are gay and lesbian, some of whom are partnered, who would make wonderful bishops and they're going to be nominated and they're going to be elected.

  Author: Gene Robinson

• If indeed this is the work of God... then it's a crisis that calls for the church to be its very best self, and not worry about risking itself for the right thing.

  Author: Gene Robinson

• There were theoretical elements in the subjection of women and it is not possible to avoid the conclusion that a large contribution was made to them by the Church. In part this was a matter of its hostile stance towards sexuality.

  Author: J. Roberts

• I think church and state should remain entirely separate at all costs, and that the decision of religious marriage should be of each faith to debate and decide free of political influence.

  Author: Adam Rickitt

• I have a group of people, about 40, in a local church in Surrey in England, who pray for me regularly.

  Author: Cliff Richard

• I teach metaphysics and pastor a church.

  Author: Della Reese

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

  Author: Bernice Reagon

• It is not classified as a pagan religion. The so-called New Age activities and this are not called religions and therefore don't come under the prohibition of mingling church and state that we have in this country.

  Author: Dixie Ray

• Standards of conduct appropriate to civil society or the workings of a democracy cannot be purely and simply applied to the Church.

  Author: Joseph Ratzinger

• 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.

  Author: Robert Rainy

• 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.

  Author: Robert Rainy

• 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.

  Author: Robert Rainy

• 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.

  Author: Robert Rainy

• Clearly a big challenge for Christianity is how to remain in contact with the millions of people who look for God but do not come to Church.

  Author: Timothy Radcliffe

• What can the Church do? If she stands by her moral teaching, then she will be seen as standing in judgement over a vast percentage of Europeans.

  Author: Timothy Radcliffe

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

  Author: Timothy Radcliffe

• The black groups that boycott certain films would do better to get the money together to make the films they want to see, or stay in church and leave us to our work.

  Author: Richard Pryor

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

  Author: Ezra Pound

• It's not enough to attend church and pray every Sunday; you have to act.

  Author: Abbe Pierre

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

  Author: Laurence Peter

• Humanity is not a church made of stone, in which vault after vault lies open.

  Author: Goran Persson

• If you had told me 28 years ago that the largest organization in the world touching the lives of gays and lesbians would be a church, I would not have believed you.

  Author: Troy Perry

• Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.

  Author: Samuel Pepys

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

  Author: William Penn

• Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family - a domestic church.

  Author: Pope Paul II

• The question confronting the Church today is not any longer whether the man in the street can grasp a religious message, but how to employ the communications media so as to let him have the full impact of the Gospel message.

  Author: Pope Paul II

• The vow of celibacy is a matter of keeping one's word to Christ and the Church. a duty and a proof of the priest's inner maturity; it is the expression of his personal dignity.

  Author: Pope Paul II

• I have a friend who lives in the South Side of Chicago. I helped out at a church charity there where they try to give a bit of cohesion to a desperate area. Everyone was very welcoming.

  Author: Sara Paretsky

• My mind is my own church.

  Author: Thomas Paine

• I'm nervous as a whore in church.

  Author: LaWanda Page

• In other words, the Church acknowledges Science as the higher authority.

  Author: Wilhelm Ostwald

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

  Author: Joel Osteen

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

  Author: Joel Osteen

• Most people already know what they're doing wrong. When I get them to church I want to tell them that you can change.

  Author: Joel Osteen

• This also is a part of the Church's teaching, that the world was made and took its beginning at a certain time, and is to be destroyed on account of its wickedness.

  Author: Origen

• This also is a part of the teaching of the Church, that there are certain angels of God, and certain good influences, which are His servants in accomplishing the salvation of men.

  Author: Origen

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

  Author: Carl Olson

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

  Author: Madalyn O'Hair

• The equality that we are all entitled to, as citizens of this democracy, can't be avoided by some religious dogma of a President who's is supposed to believe in the notion of separation of church and state. And he frankly doesn't.

  Author: Rosie O'Donnell

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

  Author: Kate O'Brien

• Many are called but few are chosen. There are sayings of Christ which suggest that the Church he came to establish will always be a minority affair.

  Author: Edward Norman

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

  Author: Friedrich Nietzsche

• My hope that the Church will emerge as a strong leader in society is just that a hope. What I described in The Catholic Moment is not a prophecy but the outline of a possibility. There are no guarantees that my hopes expressed in The Catholic Moment will ever be realised.

  Author: Richard Neuhaus

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

  Author: Richard Neuhaus

• If a church offers no truth that is not available in the general culture - in, for instance, the editorials of the New York Times or, for that matter, of National Review - there is not much reason to pay it attention.

  Author: Richard Neuhaus

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

  Author: Fridtjof Nansen

• Not far from our house, and opposite the old church with the golden cross, stood a large building, even larger than the church, and having many towers.

  Author: Max Muller

• The Church became both more accessible and less imposing. It threw itself open to risk.

  Author: Lance Morrow

• Vatican II was a force that seized the mind of the Roman Catholic Church and carried it across centuries from the 13th to the 20th.

  Author: Lance Morrow

• For two thousand years, the Church has guided the development of music, carefully legislating to fuse artistic talent and aesthetic beauty with the demands of the Faith.

  Author: Richard Morris

• Catholic liturgical music, it would seem, is everywhere but in the Catholic Church itself.

  Author: Richard Morris

• Westminster Abbey, the Tower, a steeple, one church, and then another, presented themselves to our view; and we could now plainly distinguish the high round chimneys on the tops of the houses, which yet seemed to us to form an innumerable number of smaller spires, or steeples.

  Author: Karl Moritz

• The church of St. Peter at Berlin, notwithstanding the total difference between them in the style of building, appears in some respects to have a great resemblance to St. Paul's in London.

  Author: Karl Moritz

• The Roman Catholic church... carries the immense power of very directly affecting women's lives everywhere by its stand against birth control and abortion.

  Author: Robin Morgan

• 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.

  Author: Roy Moore

• The Church's role should be separated from the state's role.

  Author: Roy Moore

• But separation of church and state was never meant to separate God and government.

  Author: Roy Moore

• A member must say that he is a member of the Unification Church and that he is the follower of Sun Myung Moon. If he doesn't have the courage to say it, he is not worthy of me.

  Author: Sun Moon

• So from this time of peak every people or every organization that goes against the Unification Church will gradually come down or drastically come down and die. Many people will die - those who go against our movement.

  Author: Sun Moon

• The day will come, however, when they will truly know the Unification Church and me. The day will come when the truth will be known and the message of love will be taught. On that day, their regret will be deep.

  Author: Sun Moon

• Church attendance is as vital to a disciple as a transfusion of rich, healthy blood to a sick man.

  Author: Dwight Moody

• On the day, therefore, when I went to the church to be confirmed, with a number of others, I suffered extremely from the reproaches of my conscience.

  Author: Maria Monk

• I grew up in the church, and I feel very strongly about it.

  Author: Mary Mobley

• 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.

  Author: Maria Mitchell

• Then one day I read about a book that said that the church is the only army that shoots its wounded.

  Author: Keith Miller

• We need religion as a guide. We need it because we are imperfect. Our government needs the church, because only those humble enough to admit they are sinners can bring to democracy the tolerance it requires in order to survive.

  Author: Jeff Miller

• Think of me as the weathered sheriff coming back into Dodge 'cause the youngsters are shooting up the church and scaring the horses and not doing right by the women.

  Author: Frank Miller

• There is a kind of thinking in the Church that wants to reduce the priest to a mere functionary, a managing director, where administration rather than doctrine and worship are to determine the form of the Church.

  Author: Arthur Middleton

• The Church's note must be a supernatural note which distinguishes incarnation from immanence, redemption from evolution, the Kingdom of God from mere spiritual process.

  Author: Arthur Middleton

• Priesthood is not a convenient, historically conditioned form of Church organisation, but is rooted in the Incarnation, in the priesthood and mission of Christ himself.

  Author: Arthur Middleton

• Both state and church have as their object actions as well as convictions, the former insofar as they are based on the relations between man and nature, the latter insofar as they are based on the relations between nature and God.

  Author: Moses Mendelssohn

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

  Author: H. Mencken

• Truth is the silliest thing under the sun. Try to get a living by the Truth and go to the Soup Societies. Heavens! Let any clergyman try to preach the Truth from its very stronghold, the pulpit, and they would ride him out of his church on his own pulpit bannister.

  Author: Herman Melville

• The rosary was said every evening. I always liked that sentence about the medieval Churches, that they were the Bibles of the poor. The Church was my first book and I would think it is still my most important book.

  Author: John McGahern

• Yes, though I have nothing but gratitude for my upbringing in the church.

  Author: John McGahern

• I belong to the middle class that grew up very influenced by the Catholic church. The people of the novel are from a more pagan and practical world in which the Christianity is just a veneer.

  Author: John McGahern

• I admire certain priests and nuns who go off on their own and do God's work on their own, who help in the ghettos, but as far as the institution of the church is concerned, I think it is despicable.

  Author: Frank McCourt

• We were environmentalists of the Teddy Roosevelt theory. We believed in separation of church and state. We believed in the independence of the Supreme Court not being subject to politicians.

  Author: Pete McCloskey

• For many years, our Messianic Jewish brothers and sisters have paid a great price. Other Jews have rejected them, and the Christian church would require they walk away from their traditions to fit into the Gentile culture. We must face these past wrongs.

  Author: Bill McCartney

• I had a born-again experience at the age of 33. As a result of that I found a church where I felt I was being fed properly. I don't say that as a reflection on Catholicism. But once I was born again, I got an evangelical spirit.

  Author: Bill McCartney

• Under pressure, people admit to murder, setting fire to the village church or robbing a bank, but never to being bores.

  Author: Elsa Maxwell

• And yet, you do not throw out some of the great minds of the Church - and people in Church history - and say they have no credibility because they committed a sin or made a mistake.

  Author: Walter Martin

• In all systems of theology the devil figures as a male person. Yes, it is women who keep the church going.

  Author: Don Marquis

• The Church does not pretend to be scientists. It teaches based upon what science tells it.

  Author: Wellington Mara

• I spent a lot of time in churches. If you go to a synagogue, someone is always asking if you're alone, if you're married. In a church, in a hundred years no one would ask.

  Author: Peter Malkin

• A lot of victims, for example, have become addicted to alcohol and drugs. It seems to me that the church's healing ministry is going to be enhanced through this in much broader strokes. That's good, it's all positive.

  Author: Roger Mahony

• 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.

  Author: Roger Mahony

• I found out that many of our Catholics simply don't know what the church teaches, and why, on a lot of issues, and therefore are saying things that they think are okay. They simply don't know.

  Author: Roger Mahony

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

  Author: Roger Mahony

• I think that together the church has learned a lot, and as we know from our own oversight board, the involvement of our wonderful lay leaders has been a real grace.

  Author: Roger Mahony

• 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.

  Author: Roger Mahony

• The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe with blood for centuries.

  Author: James Madison

• 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.

  Author: James Madison

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

  Author: Thomas Macaulay

• I don't go to church regular. But I pray for answers to my problems.

  Author: Loretta Lynn

• I sang in the choir for years, even though my family belonged to another church.

  Author: Paul Lynde

• Prayer is a strong wall and fortress of the church; it is a goodly Christian weapon.

  Author: Martin Luther

• Anyone who is to find Christ must first find the church. How could anyone know where Christ is and what faith is in him unless he knew where his believers are?

  Author: Martin Luther

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

  Author: Martin Luther

• From you we have learned what we, at least, value, to separate Church and State; and from you we gather inspiration at all times in our devotion to learning, to religious liberty, and to individual and National freedom.

  Author: Seth Low

• I still went to church regularly every Sunday; that is we all went there together. I reverenced the family pew where we had assembled for so many years; and apart from that reason I hold it dear because it is associated in my memory with my mother.

  Author: Pierre Loti

• I did not compose my work as one might put on a church vestment... rather it sprung from the truly fervent faith of my heart, such as I have felt it since my childhood.

  Author: Franz Liszt

• The Church in England is the Church of England.

  Author: Joseph Lightfoot

• I've grown so much since 1996. I think that was the turning point of when I started to go to church every Sunday and not just because you're supposed to. But because you enjoy going and listening to the Word and being excited about it.

  Author: Lisa Leslie

• The mission proper to the Church is that of proclaiming the Gospel.

  Author: Karl Lehmann

• There's always the tendency to transform the Church into an ethical agency, and of measuring the Church by the yardstick of social and cultural utility.

  Author: Karl Lehmann

• The Synod of Bishops has existed for forty years. In that long span of time it has been for all of us a good school for introducing us to the universal dimension of the Church.

  Author: Karl Lehmann

• But when one identifies the Church with a cultural and political bloc, there is the danger of making difficult the Church's contact with all those outside the bloc.

  Author: Karl Lehmann

• You should enter a ballpark the way you enter a church.

  Author: Bill Lee

• When cerebral processes enter into sports, you start screwing up. It's like the Constitution, which says separate church and state. You have to separate mind and body.

  Author: Bill Lee

• BC is not going to replace the hierarchy, and BC is not going to lead some major reform in the Catholic Church - that's got to come out of the whole Catholic community.

  Author: William Leahy

• Clearly there are individuals who don't understand what the church teaches, or they think it's so limiting.

  Author: William Leahy

• You know how the church has been hit so hard by the sexual misconduct by clergy, and what's that's done to Catholics, especially here in Boston but elsewhere as well.

  Author: William Leahy

• The Spirit hasn't deserted the church today.

  Author: William Leahy

• Some of the speakers we bring on campus may not reflect official church teaching, but that's how it is.

  Author: William Leahy

• Others don't want to listen to viewpoints that members of the church have.

  Author: William Leahy

• What I think we can do is help individuals understand the church teaching, but also maybe help the church understand the viewpoint of lay men and women about what they want in regard to priests, or how do they want the hierarchy to deal with them?

  Author: William Leahy

• The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.

  Author: Lynn Lavner

• Some hypocrites and seeming mortified men, that held down their heads, were like the little images that they place in the very bowing of the vaults of churches, that look as if they held up the church, but are but puppets.

  Author: William Laud

• There is a lot of absurdity sometimes, not just in Mormonism but often in other religions that want to pretend that no bad happens in their church, rather than taking care of what bad does happen.

  Author: Neil LaBute

• It is an absolutely unique success of the church community to have introduced such an epoch-making change, in just a few years, without having a serious division.

  Author: Hans Kung

• And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.

  Author: Hans Kung

• The right-to-life movement and the Roman Catholic Church are saying that it is better to destroy these embryos, or preferably have them adopted - which is not going to happen - than to use them for research.

  Author: Mort Kondracke

• The Southern Baptist Church is a specific culture in itself. So, I had to study, talk to people, watch tape and go to performances to see how Gospel artists move compared to secular artists.

  Author: Boris Kodjoe

• Well, I think Barkley and I were the only two who were working with Church for a Ph.D.

  Author: Stephen Kleene

• I think that after Church got his Ph.D. he studied in Europe, maybe in the Netherlands, for a year or two.

  Author: Stephen Kleene

• And what I learned in Church's course. He trained us intensively in his new system, which he was just developing. Two papers were presented. I think the second paper wasn't published until well after the course was finished.

  Author: Stephen Kleene

• I'm sure Church got some of his ideas from this trip to Europe.

  Author: Stephen Kleene

• It wasn't until my second year that I got to actually work with Church.

  Author: Stephen Kleene

• That is simply that Marxism has been tremendously fashionable in our time, so it has infected a very large number of major institutions in many countries of the world. So I suppose that we shouldn't be too surprised that it should infect the church as well.

  Author: Jeane Kirkpatrick

• Our church has been legal since late 1960s. I've been involved since 1972. I was ordained in 1975.

  Author: Sally Kirkland

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

  Author: Klaus Kinski

• It was like going to church, except Ozzy Osbourne was there.

  Author: Sam Kinison

• I think the church and the religion right now have a lot more to be worried about than SLAYER.

  Author: Kerry King

• I always sang in church always was in a gospel choir and directed choirs and always performed, but I never thought of it as a powerful thing.

  Author: Charles King

• I know at my church a lot of the times we sung from hymn books and as we got older we started to change with time. I can honestly say that I was never influenced to write for the church.

  Author: Charles King

• I think in church you're raised like God is God and you are here.

  Author: Charles King

• Art, that great undogmatized church.

  Author: Ellen Key

• And I think my sexuality was heavily repressed by the church, by the, you know, the design of the mortal sins.

  Author: Thomas Keneally

• And I definitely wanted to be a writer, but I felt a duty now, having used up those educational resources, I felt a duty to the church and my parents to become a priest.

  Author: Thomas Keneally

• And I found both literature and the church very dramatic presences in the world of the 1950s.

  Author: Thomas Keneally

• I am, I think the only surviving member of the original Battle Creek church. The church was disbanded, with the exception of thirteen members, in 1870.

  Author: John Kellogg

• I think I am the oldest member and have been in good standing longer than any other member of this church.

  Author: John Kellogg

• My father started me singing in church.

  Author: DeForest Kelley

• I was raised by the Christian Brothers, who believe in that, fortunately. They were, to me, the most rebellious arm of the Catholic Church - and one of the most liberal and forward thinking.

  Author: Paul Kantner

• I have a much wider, freer view about spirituality. I feel that people need to pursue it on their own, personally. You know, let it be theirs - a personal relationship with their soul, or their God, or with their church.

  Author: Peter Jurasik

• I left because I decided it just really wasn't for me, and I got a better understanding of what the Catholic Church needed from its priests and ministers.

  Author: Peter Jurasik

• I was unwilling to - without getting too philosophical about it - I was unwilling to structure my spirituality in the way that the church wanted me to structure it.

  Author: Peter Jurasik

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

  Author: James Joyce

• Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy gets the Catholic Church. America gets Hollywood.

  Author: Erica Jong

• Before my grandpa built his own church, we went to the neighboring town, and it was a white community. You know, up north, mostly middle European people and Indians, Chippewa Indians. We were welcome to that church, but once we got in, they didn't know what to do with us.

  Author: James Jones

• You sang in church, you know, and you didn't act at all. You tried not to act, you tried to tell the truth. The idea of being a troubadour on the road singing for your supper was very disturbing to him.

  Author: James Jones

• In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to appear better than we really are.

  Author: E. Jones

• Mom and Dad would stay in bed on Sunday morning, but the kids would have to go to church.

  Author: Lynn Johnston

• Only a couple of times have I ever been to church and felt enlightened by it.

  Author: Lynn Johnston

• I liked the name of the amendment. I couldn't help feeling uneasy that the church was opposing something with a name as beautiful as the Equal Rights Amendment.

  Author: Sonia Johnson

• The separation of church and state is a source of strength, but the conscience of our nation does not call for separation between men of state and faith in the Supreme Being.

  Author: Lyndon Johnson

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

  Author: Lyndon Johnson

• Through my music teaching and my not absolutely irregular attendance at church, I became acquainted with the best class of colored people in Jacksonville.

  Author: James Johnson

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

  Author: Pope John XXIII

• It is now for the Catholic Church to bend herself to her work with calmness and generosity. It is for you to observe her with renewed and friendly attention.

  Author: Pope John XXIII

• I was aware of it, but I grew up in a very a-religious family. My mother never went to church, she never had any religious training or background. It was never a part of our social interaction.

  Author: Donald Johanson

• When I'm performing for the people, I am me, then. I am that little girl who, when she was five years old, used to sing at church. Or I'm that 15-year-old young lady who wanted to be grown and wanted to sing and couldn't wait to be smokin' a cigarette, you know?

  Author: Etta James

• There is a great difference between Christianity and religion at the south. If a man goes to the communion table, and pays money into the treasury of the church, no matter if it be the price of blood, he is called religious.

  Author: Harriet Jacobs

• I thought it was a really good contrast to have a really sweet, sincere, church girl sitting next to the church lady who seemed kind of, you know, over the top.

  Author: Victoria Jackson

• I remember going to church about four times a week. I liked it a lot.

  Author: Victoria Jackson

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

  Author: Edward Irving

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

  Author: Robert Ingersoll

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

  Author: Ivan Illich

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

  Author: Saint Ignatius

• I look at tens of thousands of church leaders who still do need a bit of an awakening.

  Author: Bill Hybels

• Ten years ago, 15 years ago, I think the church would have been asleep at the switch. This level of activism and engagement with the needs of society by local churches I never thought I'd see it in my lifetime.

  Author: Bill Hybels

• Those churches have closed down or have been merged with a church that has a more positive vision.

  Author: Bill Hybels

• For you see this scripture fulfilled this day and therefore I desire you as you tender the Lord and the church and commonwealth to consider and look what you do.

  Author: Anne Hutchinson

• Until they put that sand and dirt in my face I will not sit in church all day.

  Author: Alberta Hunter

• The only place a new hat can be carried into with safety is a church, for there is plenty of room there.

  Author: Leigh Hunt

• In this context, the church supports and favors every effort today to seek the full development of the personality of all human beings, and to promote their fundamental rights, their dignity and liberty.

  Author: Claudio Hummes

• A servant church must have as its priority solidarity with the poor.

  Author: Claudio Hummes

• The church, inserted and active in human society and in history, does not exist in order to exercise political power or to govern the society.

  Author: Claudio Hummes

• The church must constantly promote dialogue.

  Author: Claudio Hummes

• The Church doesn't censor. It tries to guide its faithful through catechism.

  Author: Claudio Hummes

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