Church Quotes - Page 54

But I do like churches. The way it feels inside. It feels good when you just sit there, like you're in a forest and everything's really quiet, expect there's still this sound you can't hear.

My mind is my own church.

Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.

The greatest missionary tool we have is that of demonstrating friendliness, brotherly kindness, harmony, love and peace in our homes and in all our church meetings.

I've never known anyone who has fallen into sin and been successfully restored by the formal church structure. Nor have I ever seen a formal church structure wisely deal with sin, enabling ministry to continue without interruption.

Before children, even the most cynical people throw down their usual masks and become capable of feeling the purity and love which all human beings seek.

I know the established Christian theology... I know the enemy, but the enemy doesn't know me. Thus the enemy has already lost the war.

Yes, the kingdom of Christianity and the Church has been one of the most destructive forces in history, and there are levels of bastardization of religious beliefs. But the unique thing about Christianity is that it is so amorphous and not reductive to culture or place or anything. It's extremely malleable.

I was brought up as a Catholic and went to church every week and took the sacraments. It never really touched the core of my being.

The church has no power over our lives any more, which is something of a blessing for those who do not enjoy red-hot pokers or iron thumb-screws.

The Catholic Church has never really come to terms with women. What I object to is being treated either as Madonnas or Mary Magdalenes.

The church is like Noah's ark. It stinks, but if you get out of it, you'll drown.

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.

Wherever Koreans are, they set up a church.

To be of no Church is dangerous.

Brethren, the crying sin of the church is her laziness after God.

Spiritual gifts, to put it as simply as I know how, are the more or less concrete and tangible ways in which the Holy Spirit manifests his presence in and through the individual members of the church.

There is no salvation outside the church.

The church also does not condone a broken immigration system in the U.S., one that too easily can lead to the exploitation, abuse and even death of immigrants.

The Roman Catholic church... carries the immense power of very directly affecting women's lives everywhere by its stand against birth control and abortion

It wasn’t in books. It wasn’t in a church. What I needed to know was out there in the world.

Overheard in a Washington D.C. church confessional: "Bless me Father, for sins have been committed."

Mystics are all a bit funny in the head anyway," the priest added cynically, "which is why the church locks them all up in mental hospitals and euphemistically calls these institutions monasteries.

A great commitment to the Great Commandment and the Great Commission will grow a great church.

We as a church don't have a mission. The mission has a Church.