Quotes on Church

In a jazz atmosphere, the audience members were so quiet and respectful of the musicians that you felt you were almost part of a meeting at a church or a temple, where everyone was completely in tune with the sermon and what the whole event was about.

Author: David Amram

Vatican II declares the Church... as necessary for salvation.

Author: Francis Arinze

There is no dogma that the organ or harmonium can be used in church, but not the drum.

Author: Francis Arinze

I'm Presbyterian and I don't go to church very much.

Author: Joan Ark

Running is my church.

Author: Joan Ark

There is no salvation outside the church.

Author: Aurelius August

A group of politicians deciding to dump a President because his morals are bad is like the Mafia getting together to bump off the Godfather for not going to church on Sunday.

Author: Russell Baker

Without a common loyalty to either a state or a church they have nevertheless a vast deal in common.

Author: Emily Balch

I'm very soulful. I grew up singing in church. When I sing a song, I like to feel what I'm singing.

Author: Fantasia Barrino

In the Church of Jesus Christ there can and should be no non-theologians.

Author: Karl Barth

Some will have to cease thinking of the Church as a memorial association for a deceased clergyman called Christ.

Author: Stephen Bayne

A church debt is the devil's salary.

Author: Henry Beecher

You can't seperate modern jazz from rock or from rhythm and blues - you can't seperate it. Because that's where it all started, and that's where it all come from - that's where I learned to keep rhythm - in church.

Author: Art Blakey

As for the British churchman, he goes to church as he goes to the bathroom, with the minimum of fuss and no explanation if he can help it.

Author: Ronald Blythe

My first solo was in church when I was five.

Author: Suzy Bogguss

It was not just the Church that resisted the heliocentrism of Copernicus.

Author: Tycho Brahe

We follow the rules laid out in the Bible for running our church.

Author: William Brewster

The Church cannot be content to live in its stained-glass house and throw stones through the picture window of modern culture.

Author: Robert Brown

I sang on Church Street, every place that had a stage.

Author: Ruth Brown

There is no one true church.

Author: Pat Buckley

A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.

Author: Abigail Buren

I loved getting to do Promised Land with him. I mean, he's really there for you. We did one very emotional scene in the church. He's just a wonderful acting partner. You feel very safe with him.

Author: Delta Burke

I support non-discrimination for homosexuals, but I think, or at least I have the right to think - without saying whether I think it or not - I have the right to think, along with the catechism of the Catholic Church, that homosexuality is morally wrong.

Author: Rocco Buttiglione

That's what they do in Europe. You go down to the city hall and you become legally connected. You have a civil union there. Then, if you're religious, you go down to the church, and the church blesses the union. That gets the problem solved.

Author: Tony Campolo

What I'd say about that is that we must respect homosexuals in the church. I've got many homosexual friends, the issue is not in any way a homophobic reaction on my part.

Author: George Carey

What I think is that we in the church - and especially I as an Archbishop - I'm responsible for maintaining our rules, and making sure we hold to unity in the Body of Christ.

Author: George Carey

I have never met a happy atheist. I believe in separation of church and state, but I think we have gone so far over in the other direction of separating church and state.

Author: Dixie Carter

Every day Catholics prove that you can be a good Catholic and a good Democrat and have a different position from the Church on abortion.

Author: James Carville

The teachings of the Church line up more with the Democratic Party than the Republican Party.

Author: James Carville

The world looks at preachers out of church to know what they mean in it.

Author: Richard Cecil

A Church which has lost its memory is in a sad state of senility.

Author: Henry Chadwick

Really I feel less keen about the Army every day. I think the Church would suit me better.

Author: Winston Churchill

I'd like to do my first record I ever made, A Church, a Courtroom, and Then Goodbye.

Author: Patsy Cline

I go to St. Matthews in Pacific Palisades, an Episcopal Church.

Author: Stephen Collins

I walked away from going to church when I was 8. I didn't set foot in another church until I was 28.

Author: Billy Corgan

There are fully forty towers, which are lofty and well built, the largest of which has fifty steps leading to its main body, and is higher than the tower of the principal tower of the church at Seville.

Author: Hernando Cortes

I add, that those who are bent on restoring the whole church ought to be well instructed in the word, and to abstain from doing anything under the pretext of simplicity.

Author: John Darby

It is impossible for us to understand the Church if we regard her as subject to the limitations of human culture. For she is essentially a supernatural organism which transcends human cultures and transforms them to her own ends.

Author: Christopher Dawson

I speak for a lot of church groups, youth groups, schools, colleges and do personal appearances. I've done conventions and trade shows. A lot of different little hats.

Author: Donna Douglas

The church which ceases to be evangelistic will soon cease to be evangelical.

Author: Alexander Duff

Baseball is like church. Many attend few understand.

Author: Leo Durocher

I just want you to know you aren't going to church with a crook.

Author: Bernard Ebbers

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

Author: Ralph Emerson

When I was growing up, I'd be in the choir. My mum was the organist in the church, so I'd sing in the church.

Author: Enya

But I'll tell you what, there was a lot of farmland between Falls Church and Washington.

Author: Jim Fowler

I have a lot of memories of Falls Church. I went to grade school in Madison Elementary School.

Author: Jim Fowler

The first persecution of the Church took place in the year 67, under Nero, the sixth emperor of Rome.

Author: John Foxe

Which prophecy of Christ we see wonderfully to be verified, insomuch that the whole course of the Church to this day may seem nothing else but a verifying of the said prophecy.

Author: John Foxe

Many come to bring their clothes to church rather than themselves.

Author: Thomas Fuller

For faithful Catholics, communion is not just a nice ritual: It is the body and blood of Jesus Christ, and the ultimate sign of our willingness to be incorporated into the church.

Author: Maggie Gallagher

If these hands, used to fighting, would be acceptable to His Holiness, we most thankfully dedicate them to the service of him who deserves so well of the Church and of the fatherland.

Author: Giuseppe Garibaldi

I wouldn't want to criticise someone like Charlotte Church because she has done fantastically well, but personally I've always cared about the long term.

Author: Lesley Garrett

Church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back.

Author: Charles Gaulle

Hearing Mass is the ceremony I most favor during my travels. Church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back.

Author: Charles Gaulle

Ultimately Warhol's private moral reference was to the supreme kitsch of the Catholic church.

Author: Allen Ginsberg

I learned more stuff in church than I did in the world.

Author: Al Green

I am atheist in a very religious mould. I'm always asking myself the big questions. Where did we come from? Is there a meaning to all of this? When I find myself in church, I edit the hymns as I sing them.

Author: Mark Haddon

I kept quiet for eight years. I did not want to hurt the church.

Author: Jessica Hahn

Church is great, but I found my church here. Hugh Hefner has been nothing but a gentleman.

Author: Jessica Hahn

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

Author: Jessica Hahn

Too many church services start at eleven sharp and end at twelve dull.

Author: Vance Havner

There's nothing worse, I guess, than being black in an all-white church or being southern and being a liberal.

Author: Lee Hazlewood

Christ has not only ordained that there shall be such officers in his Church - he has not only specified their duties and prerogatives - but he gives the requisite qualifications, and calls those thus qualified, and by that call gives them their official authority.

Author: Charles Hodge

If the Church is a living body united to the same head, governed by the same laws, and pervaded by the same Spirit, it is impossible that one part should be independent of all the rest.

Author: Charles Hodge

Romanists tell us that the Pope is the vicar of Christ; that he is his successor as the universal head and ruler of the Church on earth. If this is so, he must be a Christ.

Author: Charles Hodge

All the reasons which require the subjection of a believer to the brethren of a particular church, require his subjection to all his brethren in the Lord.

Author: Charles Hodge

The Popish theory, which assumes that Christ, the Apostles and believers, constituted the Church while our Saviour was on earth, and this organization was designed to be perpetual.

Author: Charles Hodge

How the early priests came into possession of these secrets does not appear, and if there were ever any records of this kind the Church would hardly allow them to become public.

Author: Harry Houdini

However, it must always remain a dialogue, and never an imposition of the church's own convictions and methods. Propose, not impose. To serve, and not to dominate.

Author: Claudio Hummes

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

Author: Claudio Hummes

The church must constantly promote dialogue.

Author: Claudio Hummes

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

Author: Claudio Hummes

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

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

Author: Alberta Hunter

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

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

Author: Bill Hybels

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

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

Author: Robert Ingersoll

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

Author: Edward Irving

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

Author: Victoria Jackson

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

Author: Pope John XXIII

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

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

Author: Lynn Johnston

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

Author: E. Jones

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

Author: Erica Jong

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

Author: James Joyce

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

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

Author: John Kellogg

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

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

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

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

Author: Sam Kinison

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

Author: Stephen Kleene

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

Author: Stephen Kleene

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

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

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

Author: Lynn Lavner

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

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

The Spirit hasn't deserted the church today.

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

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

Author: William Leahy

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

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

Author: Bill Lee

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

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

Author: Karl Lehmann

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 Church in England is the Church of England.

Author: Joseph Lightfoot

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

Author: Loretta Lynn

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

Author: Thomas Macaulay

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Author: Keith Miller

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

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

Author: Mary Mobley

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

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

Author: Dwight Moody

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

Author: Roy Moore

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

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

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

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

Author: Lance Morrow

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

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

Author: Richard Neuhaus

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

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

Author: Madalyn O'Hair

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

Author: Carl Olson

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

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

Author: Joel Osteen

I'm nervous as a whore in church.

Author: LaWanda Page

My mind is my own church.

Author: Thomas Paine

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

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

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

Author: William Penn

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

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

Author: Goran Persson

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

Author: Abbe Pierre

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

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

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

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

Author: Bernice Reagon