Church Quotes

• It will be one of the tragedies of Christian history if future historians record that at the height of the twentieth century the church was one of the greatest bulwarks of white supremacy.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Church
  • Tragedies
  • Christian History

• The first thing I do when I start my day is, I get down on my hands and knees and give thanks to God. Whenever I go outside of my house, the first thing I do is stop at the church.

  

  Mark Wahlberg
  • God
  • House
  • Stop

• You can call it nostalgia, I don't mind Standing on that windswept hillside Listening to the church bells chime Listen to the church bells chime In that magic time.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Listening

• There is a big difference between an honest mistake made in a moment of spiritual weakness and a willfull decision to disobey persistently the commandments of God. Those who deliberately choose to violate God's commandments or ignore the standards of the Church, even when promising themselves and others that someday they will be strong enough to repent, are stepping into a dangerously slippery slope upon which many have lost their spiritual footing.

  

  M. Russell Ballard
  • God
  • Strong
  • Lost

• One of my favorite activities as a priesthood leader is visiting members of the Church in their homes. I especially enjoy calling upon and talking with members who commonly are described as 'less active.'

  

  David A. Bednar
  • Church

• The passion of the church and every follower of Christ should be that all peoples have an opportunity to hear, understand, and respond to the gospel.

  

  Ed Stetzer
  • Opportunity
  • Passion
  • Gospel

• When you're in a church, and you're singing about the presence of the Lord, it is so hard not to get overjoyed because I know Him.

  

  Deborah Joy Winans
  • Church
  • Singing

• Good hymns are an immense blessing to the Church. They train people for heaven, where praise is one of the principal occupations.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • People
  • Good
  • Heaven

• We went to a very liberal Episcopalian church. It didn't take for me.

  

  David Newman
  • Church

• My friends, nothing in all the world is so much worth thinking of as God, Christ, the Bible, sin and salvation, the divine purposes for humankind, life everlasting. But you cannot challenge the dedicated thinking of this generation to these sublime themes upon any such terms as are laid down by an intolerant church.

  

  Harry Emerson Fosdick
  • God
  • Thinking
  • Bible

• I am not the Jesus of the official church tolerated by those in power. I am not your superstar.

  

  Klaus Kinski
  • Power
  • Church
  • Jesus

• My experiences growing up in both a Chinese American household and the Catholic Church define much of who I am.

  

  Gene Luen Yang
  • Up
  • American
  • Growing

• 'Safe Harbor' is a state of mind... it's the place - in reality or metaphor - to which one goes in times of trouble or worry. It can be a friendship, marriage, church, garden, beach, poem, prayer, or song.

  

  Luanne Rice
  • Mind
  • Song
  • Reality

• But perhaps when you were too obedient, and did not do openly what others did, and were quiet in church and hard-working at school, then some unknown rebellion brewed in you, doing harm to you, though how I do not understand.

  

  Alan Paton
  • School
  • Unknown
  • Rebellion

• I liked the idea of fiasco as failure gone to church, ... How does that become a transcendent thing? And that morphed into the different mini-themes.

  

  Cameron Crowe
  • Different
  • Failure
  • Idea

• If women can organize missionary societies, temperance societies, and every kind of charitable organization... why not permit them to be ordained to preach the Gospel and administer the sacraments of the Church?

  

  Frances E. Willard
  • Kind
  • Missionary
  • Temperance

• I really started to get into reading the Bible and I started to look for a church to go to. Every Sunday I was going to like three or four churches, I was just looking for the right church.

  

  Angus T. Jones
  • Reading
  • Bible
  • Sunday

• I like a church, I like a cowl, I love a prophet of the soul, And on my heart monastic aisles Fall like sweet strains or pensive smiles; Yet not for all his faith can see, Would I that cowled churchman be. Why should the vest on him allure, Which I could not on me endure?

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Heart
  • Why
  • Soul

• Joseph's vision of the Father and the Son opened this dispensation. Then came the Restoration of the fulness of the gospel of Jesus Christ with the same organization that existed in the primitive Church, built upon the foundation of apostles and prophets.

  

  Boyd K. Packer
  • Father And Son
  • Gospel Of Christ
  • Dispensation

• My grandfather was a church organist and would sing in choirs and was a musical genius to a certain extent.

  

  Jack Garratt
  • Church

• During the worst days of apartheid, we turned to the church for hope and courage as we fought a righteous struggle for a democratic, non-racial, non-sexist, just, and prosperous South Africa.

  

  Cyril Ramaphosa
  • Hope
  • Struggle
  • Courage

• PC is low, low church - it is the lowest common denomination.

  

  Martin Amis
  • Church

• In my view, the Catholic Church as a community of faith will be preserved, but only if it abandons the Roman system of rule. We managed to get by without this absolutist system for 1,000 years. The problems began in the 11th century, when the popes asserted their claim to absolute control over the Church.

  

  Hans Kung
  • Faith
  • Community
  • Control

• The holy scriptures as well as the local and General Authorities of the Church provide a safety net of counsel and guidance for the people of the Church.

  

  James E. Faust
  • People
  • Church
  • Safety

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