Church Quotes

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.

The Foxy character and Inga Marchand are two different people. My fiance calls me Inga. No one around me calls me Foxy. I go to church every Sunday. I go to Bible study every Friday night. I'm saved.

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

We are to introduce our people into the life of the Church, which is salvation, that they may grasp its meaning, its contents and purpose, to taste and see how good the Lord is.

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.

The ordinary ministry is that which receives all of its direction from the will of God revealed in the Scriptures and from those means which God has appointed in the church for its continual edification.

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.

The bishops will govern the Church, the priests will do all the work and the deacons will have all the fun.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.

Let's start with the church. As you know, it's my background, it's a natural setting for me and it's definitely my roots.

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.

For millions of men and women, the church has been the hospital for the soul, the school for the mind and the safe depository for moral ideas.

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

The Church is everywhere represented as one. It is one body, one family, one fold, one kingdom. It is one because pervaded by one Spirit. We are all baptized into one Spirit so as to become, says the apostle, on body.

It's perfectly fair that you can't be a Roman Catholic priest unless you're a man. It seems right that the reach of anti-discriminatory law should stop at the door of the church or mosque.

The thing that brings people to wail at a wall, or face Mecca, or to go to church, is a search for that feeling of purity.

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.

Growing up doing those Kiwanis Clubs, doing those Cub Scout banquets, doing those church shows, I learned to find that sensibility that most people could laugh at - that all ages and demographics could laugh at.

I believe the collapse of the House of Windsor is tied in with the collapse of the Church of England.