Church Quotes

• The minority, the ruling class at present, has the schools and press, usually the Church as well, under its thumb. This enables it to organize and sway the emotions of the masses, and make its tool of them.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Emotions
  • Minority
  • Organize

• The basic question 'will I obey Christ 's teaching?' is rarely taken as a serious issue. For example, to take one of Jesus' commands, that is relevant to contemporary life, I don't know of any church that actually teaches a church how to bless people who curse them, yet this is a clear command.

  

  Dallas Willard
  • People
  • Life
  • Know

• Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and state forever separate.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • Family
  • School
  • Forever

• Wherever the bishop appears, there let the people be, even as wheresoever Christ Jesus is, there is the catholic church.

  

  Ignatius of Antioch
  • People
  • Jesus
  • Catholic

• I was raised in the Catholic Church, and for me, the thought in the Bible and Christianity, and the spirit within that, is one of the guiding principles in my life.

  

  Jon Batiste
  • Life
  • Bible
  • Catholic

• In church, they have the music where you jump and you shout, you know, and then you have the quiet music where you're sitting, you're meditating.

  

  Darlene Love
  • Music
  • Church
  • Jump

• For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel.

  

  Martin Luther
  • God
  • Church
  • Devil

• Far out in the ocean, where the water is as blue as the prettiest cornflower, and as clear as crystal, it is very, very deep; so deep, indeed, that no cable could fathom it: many church steeples, piled one upon another, would not reach from the ground beneath to the surface of the water above. There dwell the Sea King and his subjects.

  

  Hans Christian Andersen
  • Water
  • Deep
  • King

• I lost my faith in God when I lost my daughter to Cancer, the beast. I begged, I cried, I offered my life for hers, and day by day, I watched that beautiful little Angel slip off. So, excuse me for not taking my seat next to you on Sunday in Church, I feel too cheated to worship.

  

  Vince Neil Mötley Crüe
  • Life
  • God
  • Beautiful

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

  

  Al Green
  • World
  • Church

• Eventually, I joined a church. I didn't go there to find a boyfriend; I truly wasn't looking for anyone other than the person I wanted to be.

  

  Ashley Graham
  • Church
  • Boyfriend

• The Roman Catholic Church is for saints and sinners alone - for respectable people, the Anglican Church will do.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Saints
  • Sinners

• I use both the 'I' and the 'we.' For on many, many matters, I am not simply expressing ideas that have happened to occur to Joseph Ratzinger, but I am speaking out of the common life of the Church's communion.

  

  Pope Benedict XVI
  • Life
  • Church

• Loving the church also means having the courage to make difficult, trying choices, having ever before oneself the good of the church and not one's own.

  

  Pope Benedict XVI
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Choices

• In a jazz atmosphere, the audience members were so quiet and respectful of the musicians that you felt you were almost part of a meeting at a church or a temple, where everyone was completely in tune with the sermon and what the whole event was about.

  

  David Amram
  • Church

• To me, anything that is a church is really just far too close minded.

  

  Brian Hugh Warner
  • Church

• 'Reformation theology' … pretends to prefer to Pharasaic ostentation a modest invisibility, which in practice means conformity to the world. When that happens, the hallmark of the Church becomes justitia civilis instead of extraordinary visibility. The very failure of the light to shine becomes the touchstone of our Christianity.

  

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer
  • World
  • Light
  • Practice

• I used to sing in the church choir. People would say it was unusual for such a small girl to have such a big voice. They would say, 'She sounds like she's grown.'

  

  Jennifer Hudson
  • People
  • She
  • Girl

• The pope is an intelligent man and realizes that time marches on. He says the Church has a long way to go in developing a real strategy that integrates women - but clearly he is baffled as to how to do it.

  

  Janine di Giovanni
  • Time
  • Long
  • Women

• People are so shocked when they find... out I am Protestant. I am Presbyterian. And I go to church, and I love God, and I love my church.

  

  Donald Trump
  • People
  • God
  • Church

• I no longer wield the power of the office for the government of the church, but in the service of prayer I remain, so to speak, within St. Peter's bounds. St. Benedict, whose name I bear as pope, shall be a great example in this for me. He showed us the way to a life which, active or passive, belongs wholly to the work of God.

  

  Pope Benedict XVI
  • Life
  • Work
  • Great

• When I was young, I had an 'aha' moment in church. There was a thing called testimony service, and somebody would sing a song, and everyone else would join in, finding a note where they fit. During one of those, a light went on in my head. In that moment, I heard everything - Parliament, the Staple Singers, Curtis Mayfield, Prince - in there.

  

  D'Angelo
  • Song
  • Light
  • Service

• I kept quiet for eight years. I did not want to hurt the church.

  

  Jessica Hahn
  • Church
  • Hurt

• Most of the characters I write with don't think an awful lot about their faith. They're not always questioning the church or feeling confined by the church or rebelling against the church.

  

  Alice McDermott
  • Feeling
  • Faith
  • Church

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