Church Quotes - Page 124

Unable to do away with love, the Church found a way to decontaminate it by creating marriage.

Sweetheart," Bill said formally, "I have always loved you, and I will be proud to die in your service. When I'm gone, say a prayer for me in a real church.

I love you, Clary," he said without looking at her. He was staring out into the church, at the row of lighted candles, their fold reflected in his eyes. "More than I ever--" He broke off. "God. More than I probably should. You know that, don't you?

Will turned around slowly, wiping blood from his face. "You're glaring at me," he said to Magnus. "You look like Church before he bites someone.

Will-," Tessa began but it was too late, Church made a yowling noise at being woken, and lashed out with his claws. Will began to swear. Tessa left, unable to hide the slightest of smiles as she went.

I grew up in church, and I have a wonderful family that always supported that.

The months of political campaigning have given us vivid reminders that women's rights are under constant assault all over the globe. Tragically even the church has some self-examination to do, where often women are perceived as a threat or viewed as temptresses.

My religion is my whole life. I love sharing it with people and clearing up any misunderstandings people might have about our Church.

Worship is of fundamental significance to the life of the individual and to the corporate life of the church, yet we rarely hear it taught as a discipline or practice in the gathering of believers.

It is the function of the Church to oppose all original experience, because this can only be unorthodox.

A church without a missions or a mission without the church are both contradictions. Such things do exist, but only as pseudostructures

There is a difference between a private devotional life and a corporate one. Solemnity is proper in church, but things that are proper in church are not necessarily proper outside, and vice versa.

A great deal of what is being published by writers in the religious tradition is a scandal and is actually turning people away from the church. The liberal writers who are continually accommodating and whittling down the truth of the Gospel are responsible.

I can say a prayer while washing my teeth, but that does not mean I should wash my teeth in church.

When I was young, it was sort of built to intimidate. Even on this very local level in this very small church in this small town, it still held that sort of - held you in the palm of its darkness.

Because we lived in the presence of the church and the convent and the rectory and the school 24-7. And this was an enormous cornerstone in the lives of my entire family. They were all pretty serious Catholic churchgoers.

It is my province to teach to the church what the doctrine is. It is your province to echo what I say or to remain silent.

You have heard me say, a great many times, that there is not that man or woman in this Church, and there never was and never will be, who turn up their noses at the counsel that is given them from the First Presidency, but who, unless they repent of and refrain from such conduct will eventually go out of the Church and go to hell, every one of them

If you can get a spiritual connection without going to church, why go to church?.

I grew up in church and it's always been important to me. I've always had a sense of calling to do life and faith-affirming media.

No service in the Church or in the community transcends that given in the home.

Devotion to the family and devotion to the Church are not different and separate things.

I think of the church as this bride of Christ, who is incredibly capable of doing amazing things. And so where we see injustice, we come, not with fists clenched but with palms up.

You'll find God in the church of your choice, you'll find Woody Guthrie in the Brooklyn State Hospital.

The Church limits her sacramental services to the faithful. Christ gave Himself upon the cross a ransom for all.