Church Quotes - Page 73

The poets began drifting away from churches as the jurists grew louder and more insistent.

There are ten church-members by inheritance for one by conviction.

When socialism comes into power, the Roman Church will advocate socialism with the same vigor [with which] it is now favoring feudalism and slavery.

The Church's note must be a supernatural note which distinguishes incarnation from immanence, redemption from evolution, the Kingdom of God from mere spiritual process.

There is a kind of thinking in the Church that wants to reduce the priest to a mere functionary, a managing director, where administration rather than doctrine and worship are to determine the form of the Church.

I went to church with my grandparents sometimes and I loved it.

For you see this scripture fulfilled this day and therefore I desire you as you tender the Lord and the church and commonwealth to consider and look what you do.

One misconception is that if we follow God in the life of faith, and that means obedience - that we read His Word, we're obedient, we pray, we go to church, we do the right things - that somehow His blessing means we're going to be okay.

I am drawn to Christ but I have real problems with the Catholic Church.

As a former Catholic, and as someone who even today is not opposed to being called a Christian, I felt I had every right to use the symbols of the Church and resented being told not to.

The saddest thing one meets is a nominal Christian. I had not seen it in Japan where missions is younger. The church here is a “field full of wheat and tares.

Prelate, n. A church officer having a superior degree of holiness and a fat preferment. One of Heaven's aristocracy. A gentleman of God.

The Psalms are the voices of the church.

Ultimately Warhol's private moral reference was to the supreme kitsch of the Catholic church.

We have taken the latter course as a culture. So there is mass confusion today--even in the evangelical church--over whether the Bible is true and over how far we should go in obeying it.

The [president] has no particle of spiritual jurisdiction. . . .

The body becomes stronger as its members become healthier. The whole church of God gains when the members that compose it begin to seek a better and a higher life.

God expects us to measure the church not against tradition but against the standards & promises of His Word.

Wherever we turn in the church of God, there is Jesus. He is the beginning, middle and end of everything to us.

I'm actually the fourth generation in my family to have no practical use for the church, or God, or religion. My children continue this trend.

The seminaries must be like the churches' poor relations, prolonging their existence with austerity.

I never joined, but I used to go to church now and then. I liked it, because they always passed out plates of money at the end.

My family's still loves my music. Every time they hear me on the radio they call my phone - my grandma even called me: "I hear you on the radio!" I'm like, "Grandma, you listen to that and you be in church?"

It is often said that the Church is a crutch. Of course it's a crutch. What makes you think you don't limp?

The First Amendment, however, does not say that in every and all respects there shall be a separation of Church and State. Rathe, it studiously defines the manner, the specific ways, in which there shall be no concert or union or dependency one on the other. That is the common sense of the matter. Otherwise the state and religion would be aliens to each other.