Church Quotes

Most of us spend the first six days of each week sowing wild oats; then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure.

I would like it to be known that I have decided not to marry Group Capt. Peter Townsend. Mindful of the church's teaching that Christian marriage is indissoluble, and conscious of my duty to the Commonwealth, I have resolved to put these considerations before any others.

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

There's good things about going to church.

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.

Hold firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this, and you dissolve the unity of the Church.

My mind is my own church.

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.

People do bad things in their lives. And those sort of things are forgivable. That's half the point of having confession in church - you need to be able to fess up to what you've done.

I'm afraid the SS's relationship with the Catholic Church is something the Church still has to deal with and does not deny.

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.

For me, and maybe for many religious kids of the '60s, the church lost relevance the more it became a surrogate in the movement for social and political change.

It is common for those that are farthest from God, to boast themselves most of their being near to the Church.

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?

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.