Church Quotes

My heart is in the Church of England but not my mind.

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.

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

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

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

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

I consider myself spiritual and I'm married to a man who is both an atheist and a humanist, and my kids have been raised with the traditions of different religions, but they do not go to church or temple. My feeling is that everyone should be able to believe what they want or need to believe.

You are more committed to things that you give money to - whether it is a church or a politician.

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

I think it's been hard for people to understand how Islam can be a good religion, and yet the Islamists are evil. Those of us who have had experience with Islam understand this, just as we understand the difference between snake handlers and people going to church on Sunday morning.

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.

I think by eighth grade I knew I wanted to be an actor. I'd done church plays and stuff, but my first actual acting class was in eighth grade. I was obsessed with it.

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.

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

A lot of people who are religious, I think they get lost. They go to church just to go to church.

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.

I sang in church choir all my life, through elementary school, junior high and high school.

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.

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

There is but one Church in which men find salvation, just as outside the ark of Noah it was not possible for anyone to be saved.

When one is required to preside over the Church, and be entrusted with the care of so many souls, the whole female sex must retire before the magnitude of the task, and the majority of men also.

I am a vicar's daughter and still a practising member of the Church of England.

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

Defend the church. Defend the family. Defend the non-profit community. Defend them against a government that wants to weaken them.

But, actually, so many of the clerics that I've met, particularly the Church of England clerics, are people of such extraordinary smugness and arrogance and conceitedness who are extraordinarily presumptuous about the significance of their position in society.

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

The Reformation did not directly touch the question of the true character of God's church.

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

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

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.