Church Quotes

• You are not indispensable to your church, but you are indispensable to your family.

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • Family
  • You
  • Church

• I just wanted to sing, in church or wherever.

  

  George Jones Mr. President (band)
  • Church

• The fact that the church is convinced of not having the right to confer priestly ordination on women is now considered by some as irreconcilable with the European Constitution.

  

  Pope Benedict XVI
  • Women
  • Church

• Forgiveness is a big part of - especially post-civil rights movement - is a big part of African-American Christianity, and I wasn't raised within the Christian church; I wasn't raised within any church.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • American
  • Christian
  • Forgiveness

• If men are wont to play with swearing anywhere, can we expect they should be serious and strict therein at the bar or in the church.

  

  Isaac Barrow
  • Men
  • Play
  • Serious

• This is criterion by which the Church is to be judged, not by the forms of its doctrine or ritual, but by the reality of the reality of the love which it manifests.

  

  Bede Griffiths
  • Reality
  • Spiritual
  • Ritual

• We need revelation for the calling of officers in the Church. Men should not be called merely through impression.

  

  J. Golden Kimball
  • Men
  • Church

• I grew up in a very Catholic family. Up until puberty, I would go to a Catholic church every week.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Up
  • Family
  • Catholic

• All this crap the church puts on you about divorce is just crap. You do the best that you can do, and when you can't do it, you can't do it.

  

  Paloma Ayana Stoecker
  • Church
  • Divorce

• I hope the Church will examine what is good and what is ill, and what good could be achieved by getting the suicidal, self-destructive, possibly carnal, or celibate to move toward this experience of love.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • Good
  • Experience
  • Hope

• 'The Grail is like God. It is everywhere, all around us, obvious, but we refuse to see it. Men think they can only see God when they build a great church and fill it with gold and silver statues, but all they need do is look. The Grail exists, Thomas, you just need to open your eyes.'

  

  Bernard Cornwell
  • Great
  • God
  • Men

• I fly myself everywhere. I like all kinds of flying, including practical flying for search and rescue. And I also like to fly into the backcountry, usually the Frank Church Wilderness in Idaho. I go with a group of friends, and we set up camp for about five days and explore little dirt strips and canyons.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Myself

• Not a word was spoken. The church bells all were broken.

  

  Don McLean
  • Reality
  • Broken
  • Bells

• We always performed for our church, but we also just performed whenever the family got together.

  

  Debra Wilson
  • Family
  • Together
  • Church

• The problem in the church today is not the profession of faith, but it's possession.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Today
  • Faith
  • Problem

• Every time the Catholic Church takes one step forward, it seems to take one giant step back.

  

  Janine di Giovanni
  • Time
  • Church
  • Catholic

• When Juan Antonio Samaranch said the Olympics are more important than the Catholic Church, I just couldn't believe it. I said to myself, 'Don't let your expression show that he has just made a total ass of himself. Be cool, and just keep right on talking.'

  

  Frank Deford
  • Believe
  • Important
  • Cool

• The guy who kind of broke the story in 'Spotlight' was a priest, the guy who had sort of done all the research. One of the things he said when one of the 'Spotlight' reporters asked him how he could still remain a Catholic, he said that, 'My faith is in the eternal, and the church is an organization.'

  

  Liev Schreiber
  • Done
  • Guy
  • Faith

• If I'm in a city I haven't been in before, I believe if I go into a church and ask a favor, it will be granted. It's part of my belief, and that's what I do.

  

  Engelbert Humperdinck
  • Church
  • Belief

• The Christian Church should not be a secret society of specialists, but a public manifestation of believers in Jesus.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Society
  • Christian
  • Jesus

• My little brother can play the guitar; he can sing. He was a worship leader at his church. Me, no talent.

  

  Paloma Ayana Stoecker
  • Church
  • Brother

• Our church has been legal since late 1960s. I've been involved since 1972. I was ordained in 1975.

  

  Sally Kirkland
  • Church
  • Late
  • Legal

• What I'd say about that is that we must respect homosexuals in the church. I've got many homosexual friends, the issue is not in any way a homophobic reaction on my part.

  

  George Carey
  • Friends
  • Respect
  • Church

• The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the Church. (Terullian) When she ceases to bleed, she ceases to bless. She can thrive through persecution, but never through peace and plenty.

  

  Leslie Earl Maxwell
  • She
  • Peace
  • Church

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