Church Quotes

• If this taxation exemptions for Church were rescinded, our property taxes would be substantially lowered, and those who rent houses and apartments would consequently be able to pass along this savings in the form of lowered rents. It could have a profoundly salubrious effect on the entire economy.

  

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair
  • Church

• Far from being disturbed by the presence of the church, the power structure of the average community is consoled by the church's often vocal sanction of things as they are.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Community
  • Church
  • Vocal Sanction

• Churches can easily bring together, in a short period of time, a substantial number of people, and politicians have to assume that these folks have the potential to vote. Although there's supposed to be a separation of church and state, they want to go to these churches to say hello to the people, and they assume their hello might turn into votes.

  

  Anthony B Pinn
  • Church
  • State
  • Separation

• At last, giving me the boat's sail for a bed, he stretched himself out on the jagged rocks, and slept soundly as the unsanctified in a comfortable pew of a church; --I wish the benches were softer, and the cushions higher, as then more people might be tempted to take a nap; it is my only reason for never going.

  

  Edward John Trelawny
  • Wish
  • Church
  • Reason

• I'm a reverend and a pastor. A pastor of the church. I go by usually pastor.

  

  Joel Osteen
  • Church

• We declare our belief in Jesus Christ and accept Him as our Savior. He will bless us and guide us in all of our efforts. As we labor here in mortality, He will strengthen us and bring us peace in time of trials. Members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints walk by faith in Him whose Church it is.

  

  L. Tom Perry
  • Time
  • Faith
  • Peace

• I poured the wine into the chalice our church had given me. In the one-sixth gravity of the moon the wine curled slowly and gracefully up the side of the cup. It was interesting to think that the very first liquid ever poured on the moon, and the first food eaten there, were communion elements.

  

  Buzz Aldrin
  • Up
  • Interesting
  • Food

• It is imperative to personal peace and family harmony that we recognize that even our service in the Church should never become a means of neglecting our more eternal personal and family responsibilities.

  

  Brent L. Top
  • Family
  • Harmony
  • Responsibilities

• I think that a church should be setting the pace for social justice.

  

  Max Lucado
  • Church
  • Justice

• When the gospel flourishes in the church, everything flourishes with it.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Church
  • Gospel
  • Flourishes

• Last year I was on Pat Robertson's show, and we discussed our basic Christian faith - for instance, separation of church and state. It's contrary to my beliefs to try to exalt Christianity as having some sort of preferential status in the United States. That violates the Constitution. I'm not in favor of mandatory prayer in school or of using public funds to finance religious education.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • State
  • Christian Faith
  • Pat Robertson's show

• The why is plain as way to parish church: He that a fool doth very wisely hit Doth very foolishly, although he smart, Not to seem senseless of the bob; if not, The wise man's folly is anatomiz'd Even by the squand'ring glances of the fool.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Wise
  • Smart
  • Fool

• In the Church, great wonders daily occur, such as the forgiveness of sins, triumph over death . . . the gift of righteousness and eternal life.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Death
  • Sins
  • Wonders

• I thought there was a glitch when they told me that in two or three weeks 'My Church' hit a million streams.

  

  Maren Morris
  • Church

• The Copernican revolution was actually a contribution to the life of the church, the development of our view of ourselves in terms of the Universe, and therefore our view of God, et cetera. But, that took centuries, and struggles, and conflicts before that happened.

  

  George Coyne
  • Universe
  • Struggle
  • Revolution

• Faith cannot be inherited or gained by being baptized into a Church. Faith is a matter between the individual and God.

  

  Martin Luther
  • God
  • Faith
  • Gained

• The lesson is obvious. True missionaries concentrate on doing the work of Mark 16:15 rather than operating social-welfare programs. True missionaries serve the message of Christ, not the institutions of the church.

  

  K. P. Yohannan
  • Work
  • True
  • Missionary

• A friend of ours, the wife of a pastor at a church in Colorado, had once told me about something her daughter, Hannah, said when she was three years old. After the morning service was over one Sunday, Hannah tugged on her mom's skirt and asked. "Mommy, why do some people in church have lights over their heads and some don't?" At the time, I remember thinking two things: First, I would've knelt down and asked Hannah, "Did I have a light over my head? Please say yes!" I also wondered what Hannah had seen, and whether she had seen it because, like my son, she had a childlike faith.

  

  Todd Burpo
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Remember

• I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.

  

  William Saroyan
  • People
  • Literature
  • Should

• A church has no right to make anything a condition of membership, which Christ has not made a condition of salvation.

  

  Archibald Alexander Hodge
  • Church
  • Salvation
  • Condition

• It doesn't really matter how much of the rules or the dogma we accepted and lived by if we're not really living by the fundamental creed of the Catholic Church, which is service to others and finding God in ourselves and then seeing God in everyone - including our enemies.

  

  Martin Sheen
  • God
  • Service
  • Catholic

• There is but one Church in which men find salvation, just as outside the ark of Noah it was not possible for anyone to be saved.

  

  John Calvin
  • Church
  • Possible
  • Salvation

• For years I had been disillusioned by the Church of England's compromising on everything. The Catholic Church doesn't care if something is unpopular.

  

  Ann Widdecombe
  • Church
  • Disillusioned
  • Compromising

• I quickly found that the American church is a difficult place to fit in if you want to live out New Testament Christianity. The goals of American Christianity are often a nice marriage, children who don't swear, and good church attendance. Taking the words of Christ literally, and seriously, is rarely considered. That's for the 'radicals' who are 'unbalanced' and who go 'overboard.' Most of us want a balanced life we can control, that is safe, and that does not involve suffering.

  

  Francis Chan
  • Children
  • Nice
  • Suffering

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