Church Quotes - Page 89

What the Church should be telling him [the carpenter] is this: that the very first demand that his religion makes upon him is that he should make good tables.

The church and religion has lost tremendous power and positive power.

Whenever the Psalter is abandoned, an incomparable treasure is lost to the Christian church. With its recovery will come unexpected power.

People are funny. They want the front of the bus, the middle of the road and the back of the church. —Mrs. Miracle

The real test of any church or religion is the kind of men it makes.

But churches always have been the leading cause of the need for churches.

Catholic Church reasserts its moral authority on contraception: If God believed in birth control, altar boys would have a uterus.

He [Peter after the resurrection] now understood that he and the church were to exercise a transcendent power that did not depend upon having a kingdom or government in any human sense, for it was literally a "God government" in which they were participants (Acts 1:6-8).

It's a disgrace to see my church giving Holy Communion to a man who helped lead a reign of terror. What is the message? You kill, you maim, you commit crime, and you gain sanctuary. It's shameful.

Jonathan Lynn is one of the last actors Orsen Welles used in a production. It was wonderful. He's very sharp, very sharp. It's funny I've been asked how weird it was to have a Brit do a church gospel movie

That's why I believe in a Constitution which separates church from state. I've seen what happens when they get in cahoots.

The wonderful thing about the black church for me is that it forces you to come to terms with the centrality of love in the world.

I played at my church every once in a while, but that's not a good gauge, because everybody loves you at your church.

Hey, I was raised in the church.

The most he would do was to promise that the gates of hell should not prevail against it. It is about all that, looking back on the history of the Church, one can feel that they have not done.

The doctrines some now preach could not build a mouse-trap.

When a church is spending more of its budget on media than shepherding, something is out of whack. We have gotten things twisted around.

Wouldn't you like to contribute to an event that is part of Christ's own prediction, "I will build my church"?

The church does not draw people in; it sends them out.

The church is the only institution supernaturally endowed by God. It is the one institution of which Jesus promised that the gates of hell will not prevail against it.

The Church has been reproached with endeavouring to appropriate to itself all those professorships in our Universities which are connected with science: it is however certain that the larger portion of these ill-remunerated offices have been filled by clergymen.

It is not easy to conceive of anything that would be more unfortunate in a community based upon the ideals of which Americans boast than any considerable development of intolerance as regards religion.

If all experienced God in the same way and returned Him an identical worship, the song of the Church triumphant would have no symphony, it would be played like an orchestra in which all instruments played the same note.

I do not want "Mormonism" to become popular; I would not, if I could, make it as popular as the Roman Catholic Church is in Italy, or as the Church of England is in England, because the wicked and ungodly would crowd into it in their sins.

If there ever comes a day when the Saints interfere with the rights of others to live as they see fit, you can know with assurance that the Church is no longer led by a Prophet, but a mere man.