Church Quotes - Page 82

Jesus never heard of Beethoven and Bach. Why aren't we playing more country music in church ?

From the time I can remember my mother kept me in church. I think my first recollection of any place, being anywhere was in a church.

That solo on "Lord, I'm Discouraged" in terms of notes it isn't anything like it, but in terms of aesthetic, it's direct rip-off from the "November Rain" solo. In fact, when I did it, I imagined myself walking out of a church, walking out onto a cliff and doing a guitar solo. Slash has always been one of my favorites because the guy uses a lot of melody in his solos.

I was raised in the Baptist church... but I didn't really have a real committed experience with Christ until my father died.

You cannot train yourself. I feel the same way about Christianity and about what the church is: The church is the gym of the soul.

The Church tries to fit Christ into it, not the Church into Christ.

At 18, I guarded the parking lot at the Catholic Church bingos. Now my dad made sure I could take care of myself. I carried a Smith and Wesson 357 Magnum .

Religion stands, the Church blocking the sun.

Speaking the Lord’s name with reverence must simply be part of our lives as members of the Church... we do not use foul language. We do not curse or defame. We do not use the Lord’s name in vain. It is not difficult to become perfect in avoiding a swearing habit, for if one locks his mouth against all words of cursing,... he is en route to perfection in that matter.

I've never been to rehab, I've never been to psychotherapy or the doctor or anything like that. I went to a church and I was prayed for, and I've always had a great relationship with God.

If you're not remarkable, you're invisible.

There are financial bankruptcies in many parts of the church. No question about that. But we see the possibility of reimagining and revitalizing the church.

Churches are like announcement factories that pump toxic levels of noise pollution into the atmosphere.

After Hiram Bingham built the first church on Oahu the student recalls, "When it was completed some of the natives said among themselves, 'That house of worship built by the haoles is a place in which they will pray us all to death. It is meant to kill us."

Mr. Mum's Rudesheimer And the church of St. Geryon Are the two things alone That deserve to be known In the body-and-soul-stinking town of Cologne.

Dear Sugar will save your soul. I belong to the Church of Sugar.

It is better to be cured in the Church than to be cut off from this Body as incurable ... for, as long as the member is still attached to the Body, his cure is not beyond hope, but when he has been cut off, he can neither be treated nor cured.

It is said that there is no salvation outside the Church. Who denies this? And therefore whatever things of the Church are had outside the Church do not avail unto salvation.

The mere change of custom, even though it may be of advantage in some respects, unsettles men by reason of the novelty: therefore, if it brings no advantage, it does much harm by unprofitably disturbing the Church.

I've always said the theatre is my church. It's where I feel God the most. It's where I know there's a God.

I sang on Church Street, every place that had a stage.

It takes the whole church to know the whole truth.

I'm not religious, but I am spiritual. I have my own relationship with a being that I consider to be everywhere. All and everything. I don't need a church or a synagogue or a mosque. I don't need to kneel down, I don't need to stand up, I don't need to be hanging from a thread.

Worship is at the center of everything that the church believes, practices, and seeks to accomplish

If the property belongs to God he is able to pay the tax.