Church Quotes - Page 60

Its very difficult to determine whether this is the fault of the world that has abandoned the Church, or the Church that does not know how to relate to the world.

Blame is a change-avoidance strategy.

The way that Russian Orthodox services work generally, and certainly the way that this worked, is that it goes on for hours and hours, and people wander in and wander out, and people talk the whole way through. One of the American women said to the other, "This is so beautiful. I can actually imagine maybe even becoming Orthodox." She went on and on, and finally a Russian seated just in front of her turned and said, "You are not member of church because it is beautiful; you are member of church because it is the single truth of God!"

I like going to Church for aesthetic reasons, rather than spiritual ones.

I have always felt that my work is religious, not sacrilegious. I would say that there are many individuals in the Church who appreciate it and who do not have a problem with it. The best place for Piss Christ is in a church.

...have you ever found God in church? I never did. I just found a bunch of folks hoping for him to show. Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me. And I think all the other folks did too. They come to church to share God, not find God.

Full knee-deep lies the winter snow, And the winter winds are wearily sighing: Toll ye the church bell sad and slow, And tread softly and speak low, For the old year lies a-dying. Old year you must not die; You came to us so readily, You lived with us so steadily, Old year you shall not die.

In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution.

I learned more stuff in church than I did in the world.

For me, the Church is the enemy.

Christ calls us to carry the Cross; churches call us to have fun in His name.

What has the church gained if it is popular but there is no conviction, no repentance, no power?

I think it is not well known in the Church that payment of tithing has very little to do with money. Tithing has to do with faith.

I believe the collapse of the House of Windsor is tied in with the collapse of the Church of England.

I hadn't been exposed to music except in church. They used to have me singing a solo when I was five years old.

If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottage princes' palaces.

Some of the speakers we bring on campus may not reflect official church teaching, but that's how it is.

And I say to you, you are Kepha, and on this kepha I will build my church.

The parson knows enough who knows a Duke.

Generally, elders are among the more reverent members of the Church, but there is no law prescribing their age.

I still consider myself a very spiritual person but the structure of the church isn't really for me.

If...we do not think that a local church is worthy of joining, why should we be considered worthy of serving in it?

If I ever found a church that didn't believe in knocking all the other churches, I might consider joining it.

We can find loopholes in a lot of things if we want to bend the rules of the church.

Between being praised and persecuted condoned and condemned I might understandably have become bewildered particularly at the brand of ethics sometimes displayed by the staunch defenders of Christianity. But of one thing I am sure: I am sure that I fought not only for what I earnestly believed to be right but for the truest kind of religious freedom intended by the First Amendment the complete separation of church and state.