Church Quotes

I am also actively involved in my church and its community activities. We have programs to improve the lives of our congregation and programs of outreach in the community.

My mother was the first singer I had contact with. She sang constantly to us around the house, in church.

From you we have learned what we, at least, value, to separate Church and State; and from you we gather inspiration at all times in our devotion to learning, to religious liberty, and to individual and National freedom.

In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to appear better than we really are.

It doesn't really matter how much of the rules or the dogma we accepted and lived by if we're not really living by the fundamental creed of the Catholic Church, which is service to others and finding God in ourselves and then seeing God in everyone - including our enemies.

Hollywood is run by people who sit up in their executive office, who are not connected to Mississippi, Alabama, Chicago, South Carolina. They know nothing about that, they don't go to church, and they make their decisions about what they think is right.

And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.

It would be far better to be of no church than to be bitter of any.

We're not at a point in time to be taking chances with children and young people in the church. The Holy Father himself said... there is no room in the priesthood or religious life for someone who has abused a child. I think he's right.

I don't have to go to church. The church is within me and the experience is my own. It's my life experience.

No one can fail to see that the power of the Church among large numbers in many communities is today diminishing, or has already ceased.

Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and state forever separate.

News, by and large, has been the purest of all the television mediums, or at least we've tried to keep it that way, and there constantly is the argument about the separation between church and state.

See, my hope and dream is that people have a good time watching basketball. It's not church. It's not serious.

I think there's an awful lot of noise about the Church being persecuted but there is a more real issue that the conventional churches face - that the people who are really driving their revival and success believe in an old-time religion which, in my view, is incompatible with a modern, multi-ethnic, multicultural society.

I don't want to just preach to the church. I feel like I have a broader message.

A revival does two things. First, it returns the Church from her backsliding and second, it causes the conversion of men and women; and it always includes the conviction of sin on the part of the Church. What a spell the devil seems to cast over the Church today!

And what I learned in Church's course. He trained us intensively in his new system, which he was just developing. Two papers were presented. I think the second paper wasn't published until well after the course was finished.

My eyes are wide open to the conflicts within the Church, but I don't think you can call it schism.

The medieval Church believed that the resurrection of Christ marked a new time for all of humanity.

My husband is from Hawaii and his father who was also born in Hawaii was a teenager when Pearl Harbor happened, right before church and he ran up and got on the roof of his grandfather's house and watched the planes go over.

A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.

The rosary was said every evening. I always liked that sentence about the medieval Churches, that they were the Bibles of the poor. The Church was my first book and I would think it is still my most important book.

Too many church services start at eleven sharp and end at twelve dull.

She thoroughly understands what no other Church has ever understood, how to deal with enthusiasts.

I believed what my father taught me about the separation of church and state, so when I was President I never invited Billy Graham to have services in the White House because I didn't think that was appropriate. He was injured a little bit, until I explained it to him.

I was unwilling to - without getting too philosophical about it - I was unwilling to structure my spirituality in the way that the church wanted me to structure it.

I went to Catholic school in and out. I'm what you call a recovering Catholic. I have many major issues with the church.

I'm Presbyterian and I don't go to church very much.

I was sent to a nice Church of England girls' school and at that time, after university, a woman was expected to become a teacher, a nurse or a missionary - prior to marriage.