Church Quotes
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I was not in the church, but we claim, like so many people, 'Yeah, I grew up in the church.' Well yeah, I grew up in the church and went to church, but I knew nothing about the Lord. I had no idea what it meant about walking in faith.
Lou Brock
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The mission proper to the Church is that of proclaiming the Gospel.
Karl Lehmann
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The Church is the merciless heart of the State.
Pier Paolo Pasolini
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I hear people say all the time, "I'm not really religious, but I consider myself spiritual." I definitely have always been spiritual, being raised by my grandmother on that little acre in Mississippi, indoctrinated, born into the church and the ways of the church.
Oprah Winfrey
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I think theater and church are so relatable because it's traditional call-and-response in the way that an audience interacts with the actors.
Danielle Brooks
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I buy very little of what's sold to me in the church. Very, very little.
Paloma Ayana Stoecker
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Your church is a whore: she sells her favors to the rich.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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My family took me to church when I was like 4 years old, and I had to be in a pageant, and I was playing Jesus.
David Walton
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This doctrine of Christ and of the apostles, from which the true faith of the primitive church was received, the apostles at first delivered orally, without writing, but later, not by any human counsel but by the will of God, they handed it on in the Scriptures.
Martin Chemnitz
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Men of prayer, before anything else, are indispensable to the furtherance of the kingdom of God on earth. No other sort will fit in the scheme or do the deed. Men, great and influential in other things but small in prayer, cannot do the work Almighty God has set out for His Church to do in this, His world.
Edward McKendree Bounds
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I actually grew up playing the piano in the church and was deeply involved in music ministry.
T. D. Jakes
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Profound questions regarding the purpose of life have led many individuals and families throughout the world to search for truth. Often that search has led them to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and to the restored gospel.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
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The Church has little idea how unorthodox it is at any given moment. If a church can't yet be perfectly orthodox, it can, with the Holy Spirit's help and by the grace of God, be perpetually reformable.
Brian D. McLaren
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The leadership lost its nerve. Instead of taking the lead in the reform movement... they pulled the plug on it. They tried and are still trying to return the church to the dry ice of the previous century and a half.
Andrew Greeley
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I definitely have a relationship with God for myself, and yes I grew up that way, and I choose to keep the relationship that way. It's real; that's my balance. Sundays, I was in church, and Monday through Friday, I was with the knuckleheads having a little fun.
BJ the Chicago Kid
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I think of the church often. Not because religion was closing in on me, but because for a long time my ass was sore from that hard, unupholstered pew.
W. C. Fields
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We realize there is no political party or politician who fully takes into consideration the issues the church is about. This is nothing new to us.
Blase J. Cupich
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Too often we treat prayer as the preparation for the work of the church. Do you not see? Prayer IS the work of the church.
Oswald Chambers
