Church Quotes - Page 58

I was raised as a Catholic, but I didn't like the Catholic Church at all. I thought the nuns were mean.

If you live today, you breath in nihilism ... it's the gas you breathe. If I hadn't had the Church to fight it with or to tell me the necessity of fighting it, I would be the stinkingest logical positivist you ever saw right now.

I seemed so different from other kids; I grew up in church and felt a connection with God, and a lot of kids my age really didn't understand that.

If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval.

When I was growing up, I'd be in the choir. My mum was the organist in the church, so I'd sing in the church.

My influences are with Irish music, church music and classical music.

For the judgment was accomplished not only upon all the men of the Christian church, but also upon all who are called Mohammedans, and, moreover, upon all the Gentiles in the whole world.

The church of the Lord is spread over all the globe, and is thus universal; and all those are in it who have lived in the good of charity in accordance with their religion.

Ministers should impress upon the people the necessity of individual effort. No church can flourish unless its members are workers. The people must lift where the ministers lift.

It is not a question of religion, or of creed, or of party; it is a question of declaring and maintaining the great American principle of eternal separation between Church and State.

Christians in community must again show the world, not merely family values, but the bond of the love of Christ.

New York is to the nation what the white church spire is to the village - the visible symbol of aspiration and faith, the white plume saying the way is up!

Every time you walk a mile to church and carry a Bible with you, you preach a sermon a mile long.

It is not classified as a pagan religion. The so-called New Age activities and this are not called religions and therefore don't come under the prohibition of mingling church and state that we have in this country.

The early morning belongs to the Church of the risen Christ. At the break of light it remembers the morning on which death and sin lay prostrate in defeat and new life and salvation were given to mankind

The Church is the Church only when it exists for others.

Only 13.7% of churches in America are consider multiethnic. This means that 86.3 % of churches are homogenous.

I'm afraid I haven't become a born-again Christian. I'm sort of 'Church of England, lapsed' is about as far as I go.

We are called to see that the Church does not adapt its thinking to the horizons that modernity prescribes for it but rather that it brings to those horizons the powerful antidote of God's truth. It is not the Word of God but rather modernity that stands in need of being demythologised.

The greatest danger to the Christian church today is that of pitching its message too low.

We cannot handle injustice by finding more ways to impose what is in fact "right" on people. It has to come from the inside. And that's where the church should be working.

Baptism pertains to the Church alone.

I'd argue that people today aren't rejecting Christ so much as they're rejecting the church.

The church must constantly promote dialogue.

The Church doesn't censor. It tries to guide its faithful through catechism.