Church Quotes
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I don't go to Mass every day. But I go to church every day. Just sitting there, thinking - it's a great way to start the morning, you know? You feel so good coming out, and your approach to everything is suddenly really clear.
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That I am not a member of any Christian church is true; but I have never denied the truth of the Scriptures, and I have never spoken with intentional disrespect of religion in general, or of any denomination of Christians in particular.
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160 million-plus people call themselves Christians. They go to church once a month at least. That's a lot of people.
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"I die a Christian, according to the profession of the Church of England, as I found it left me by my father."
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The Sisters were Southern Baptist, and they went to church on Saturdays and Sundays, and most other days, too.
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I was raised Presbyterian, but I'm not really going to church. I think the experience in meditation is pretty much where it's at for me.
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Sundays are for Dim Sum. While the rest of America goes to church, Sunday School, or NFL games, you can find Chinese people eating Cantonese food.
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In an urban environment, a church building is a thing of the past.
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The history of the Church of Rome is a constant leakage of members into such breakaway cults, which go on splitting.
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The Church has never changed its teaching on the sanctity of human life - it didn't make up a rule for the convenience of a particular time like a rule at a country club as the Governor would have us believe.
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The way to preserve the peace of the church is to preserve its purity.
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Pope Paul III was the greatest thief in the history of the church.
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There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.
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Sunday, I go to church; I take the day off. I rest.
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I was a Presbyterian minister at a small church in Omaha, Nebraska.
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People take sides on political things, such as the Vietnam War. War is immoral and war is wrong, but I don't think the clergy ought to bring it before the Church.
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The Lord called me to plant a church.
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And yet, you do not throw out some of the great minds of the Church - and people in Church history - and say they have no credibility because they committed a sin or made a mistake.
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The church is not made up of one person but a whole congregation, and they should be able to interact with art without being told what to think.
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Even when we were standing in church and I was getting ready to take my vow I can remember wishing that you were standing there instead of him.
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The church has no power over our lives any more, which is something of a blessing for those who do not enjoy red-hot pokers or iron thumb-screws.
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Each of us has the choice to attend the church we want to, or none at all. Separation of church and state allows for religions to have their own set of rules as to whom they will accept and who they won't, and the practices they support and the ones they don't. They will continue to be able to do so.
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A church without women would be like the apostolic college without Mary. The Madonna is more important than the apostles, and the church herself is feminine, the spouse of Christ and a mother.
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I am a Catholic, not so committed to the church, but to the idea of the Virgin, the female face of God.
