Church Quotes

It is better to go skiing and think of God, than go to church and think of sport.

Clearly a big challenge for Christianity is how to remain in contact with the millions of people who look for God but do not come to Church.

I remember one of the first gigs I played with that amp was at a local church. They wanted someone to fill in with the guitar and my friend say, 'Ah, he can play.' And so I dragged the amplifier down and started playing and everybody started yelling 'turn it down!'

Unfortunately, the Church's position on most contemporary issues makes it hard to take them seriously.

I do feel that federation, loose parallel processes, are less than we've got, less than we could have and, in the very long run, less than what God wants in the Church.

Educational institutes can no longer be prizes in church politics or furnish berths for failure in other walks of life.

Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God.

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

A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.

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

Nationalism - in other words, the dividing of the church into bodies - consisting of such and such a nation, is a novelty, not above three centuries old, although many dear children of God are found dwelling in it.

I was never interested in singing in the church choir or in school. I was more interested in becoming a musician.

When Christians start thinking about Jesus, things start breaking down, they lose their faith. It's perfectly possible to go to church every Sunday and not ask any questions, just because you like it as a way of life. They fear that if they ask questions they'll lose their Christ, the very linchpin of their religion.

Art, that great undogmatized church.

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.

If you read back in the Bible, the letter of the apostle Paul to the church of Thessalonia, he said that in the latter days before the end of the age that the Earth would be caught up in what he called the birth pangs of a new order.

For centuries the leaders of Christian thought spoke of women as a necessary evil, and the greatest saints of the Church are those who despise women the most.

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

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

My wife and I like to go to church if we're in town. On Sundays, I try to be as chill as I can, whether I'm watching golf or barbecuing.

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

The black groups that boycott certain films would do better to get the money together to make the films they want to see, or stay in church and leave us to our work.

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.

If my duty does involve heralding His law in every arena, then the Church in America is failing radically today.

I loved every second of Catholic church. I loved the sickly sweet rotting-pomegranate smells of the incense. I loved the overwrought altar, the birdbath of holy water, the votive candles; I loved that there was a poor box, the stations of the cross rendered in stained glass on the windows.

Men who hold a theory of the Church which excludes from communion those whom they admit to have the Spirit of Christ simply proclaim that their theory is in flat contradiction to the spiritual fact.

The first time I got onstage was when I was about 5 years old. It was at a church social, and I had a poem to recite.

Depressions may bring people closer to the church but so do funerals.

I was raised by the Christian Brothers, who believe in that, fortunately. They were, to me, the most rebellious arm of the Catholic Church - and one of the most liberal and forward thinking.

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