Church Quotes

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.

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

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.

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.

If fishing is a religion, fly fishing is high church.

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

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.

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.

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.

When I came to CBS it was the mother church. I mean that was - everybody wanted to go to work for CBS News.

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.

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.

I like Church furniture.

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

He was of the faith chiefly in the sense that the church he currently did not attend was Catholic.

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

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.

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

Playing football and rugby is the Samoan sport. It's part of the conversation at church. It's part of the conversation in their barbershops, in the grocery stores. It's what everyone is aware of and familiar with. They take a lot of pride in the beating you can take in the course of that sport.

We went to church every Sunday. I do think it's my duty to give back. That's why I'm involved with St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital and the Make-a-Wish Foundation.

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

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.

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

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

I was a virgin. People find that hard to believe, but when you're raised in a church, that was just the way it is.

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.

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

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.

The Church has never changed its teaching on the sanctity of human life - it didn't make up a rule for the convenience of a particular time like a rule at a country club as the Governor would have us believe.

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