Church Quotes

Where do you learn how to act? Not at church. America is a lot more like pagan Rome than we think. We still sacrifice to objects to gain our social goals.

Dave Hickey
- America
- Goals
- Sacrifice
It is sufficient to say, what everybody knows to be true, that the Irish population is Catholic, and that the Protestants, whether of the Episcopalian or Presbyterian Church, or of both united, are a small minority of the Irish people.

John Bright
- People
- True
- Small

The prevailing mentality was that the Church must not be a Church of laws but, rather, a Church of love; she must not punish. Thus, the awareness that punishment can be an act of love ceased to exist. This led to an odd darkening of the mind, even in very good people.

Pope Benedict XVI
- People
- Good
- Mind
Every true prayer is a prayer of the Church; by means of that prayer the Church prays, since it is the Holy Spirit living in the Church, Who in every single soul 'prays in us with unspeakable groanings'.

Edith Stein
- True
- Soul
- Single
Religious people are simply following major core practices of happy people. For example, one benefits from the guaranteed social support that can be found in a church, synagogue, or mosque.

Karen Salmansohn
- People
- Happy
- Support
The mission proper to the Church is that of proclaiming the Gospel.

Karl Lehmann
- Church
- Mission
- Gospel
I hope not in works. I hope not in ethics. I hope not in baptisms or church membership. I hope in Christ alone.

Paul Washer
- Hope
- Alone
- Ethics
Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.

Marquis de Sade
- Nature
- Church