Church Quotes

Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.

In all systems of theology the devil figures as a male person. Yes, it is women who keep the church going.

It can have a secular purpose and have a relationship to God because God was presumed to be both over the state and the church, and separation of church and state was never meant to separate God from government.

I know at my church a lot of the times we sung from hymn books and as we got older we started to change with time. I can honestly say that I was never influenced to write for the church.

I am not the Jesus of the official church tolerated by those in power. I am not your superstar.

I certainly respect other people's opinions, but I would not vote for a woman to be the pastor of a church.

I look at tens of thousands of church leaders who still do need a bit of an awakening.

I used to always go to church on holidays, but I don't go much any more.

If you want to get healthy, you just might not want to go to a doctor. You might instead, go to church.

The Legislature of Lower Canada, consisting chiefly of Roman Catholics, could hardly be expected to support a church which they were taught to consider heretical, and in Upper Canada the scanty means at the disposal of the Government, precluded all hope.

The church must constantly promote dialogue.

The question confronting the Church today is not any longer whether the man in the street can grasp a religious message, but how to employ the communications media so as to let him have the full impact of the Gospel message.

My mom always says I cut my teeth on the church pew.

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 fact that the church is convinced of not having the right to confer priestly ordination on women is now considered by some as irreconcilable with the European Constitution.

As God as my witness, they said, We're above the law. There's nothing you can do to us. You're just a church secretary.

I spent a lot of time in churches. If you go to a synagogue, someone is always asking if you're alone, if you're married. In a church, in a hundred years no one would ask.

Mom and Dad would stay in bed on Sunday morning, but the kids would have to go to church.

Although I myself don't go to church or synagogue, I do, whether it's superstition or whatever, pray every time I get on a plane. I just automatically do it. I say the same thing every time.

At the end of 1795 and beginning of 1796, I was ordered to write to the Church ministers.

Before my grandpa built his own church, we went to the neighboring town, and it was a white community. You know, up north, mostly middle European people and Indians, Chippewa Indians. We were welcome to that church, but once we got in, they didn't know what to do with us.

I love going to black churches, and I love some of these black preachers. The best preacher I ever saw in my life was a 93-year-old in a black church in Hamilton, Virginia. What a preacher!