First, I am definitely going to give some money to my mission program at church, and then I have to get my mom a dishwasher.
I consider myself a non-denominational Christian. I grew up in a Bible church and still hold those beliefs very close to me.
We were poor. My mother got our clothes out of the free box at the church, you know? So much of when you’re a kid is about relating about what you watch on TV. And who’s got these cooler shoes, and ‘Let’s trade lunches.’ And I was just like, ‘I don’t have a television. I have a rock and a piece of tofu.’
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.
Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.
Oh, how I would like a poor Church, and for the poor.
I think the Church is a conduit to God. The Church is not God. And I think that from the very beginning Jesus taught us that.
For faithful Catholics, communion is not just a nice ritual: It is the body and blood of Jesus Christ, and the ultimate sign of our willingness to be incorporated into the church.
Church members in too many cases are like deep sea divers, encased in the suits designed for many fathoms deep, marching bravely to pull out plugs in bathtubs.
I left the Church of England because there was a huge bundle of straw. The ordination of women was the last straw, but it was only one of many. 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.
It is a better thing to save souls for the Lord than to save treasures. He who sent forth his apostles without gold had not need of gold to form his Church. The Church possesses gold, not to hoard, but to scatter abroad and come to the aid of the unfortunate.
I went to church with my grandmother every Sunday.
It is now for the Catholic Church to bend herself to her work with calmness and generosity. It is for you to observe her with renewed and friendly attention.
It’s kind of like some kind of church for me, playing live. Each show, good people from different pockets of the world come and open their soul and let their spirits mingle and dance. That energy comes up through me, and all I do is channel it; it’s like a circular motion and very sacred.
I am a believer of all religions. I will happily visit a temple, mosque, church. I do not differentiate between religions.
It is only the forcible propagation of conventional Christianity that makes the agnostic so bitter toward the church. He knows that all the doctrines cannot possibly be true, but he would view them with toleration if he were asked merely to let them alone for the benefit of the masses whom they can help and succour.
The world looks at preachers out of church to know what they mean in it.
I don’t have to go to church. The church is within me and the experience is my own. It’s my life experience.
The first persecution of the Church took place in the year 67, under Nero, the sixth emperor of Rome.
Religions work for their own aggrandizement – strengthen the church and so on – and they use reinforcers of one kind or another to get obedience and so on from their communicants.
My dad would give me $10, which is a lot of money when you’re 9, to sing at church, on tables at restaurants, at family functions, just about anywhere.
Hollywood is finally waking up to the fact that people who go to church also go to the movies. I’m not sure what took them so long to see that or how long they’ll keep it up.
Christians often want to hide behind the walls of the church, where we are comfortable, but sometimes we have to come out of the box.
The style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe.
I have a lot of memories of Falls Church. I went to grade school in Madison Elementary School.
As any Christian would understand, I feel church is sacred. For me, it is the place I worship, where I learn about God and feel closest to Him each week.
I think the church and the religion right now have a lot more to be worried about than SLAYER.
The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.
The history of the Church of Rome is a constant leakage of members into such breakaway cults, which go on splitting.
Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me.
Nobody sees the obvious, nobody observes the ordinary. There are more miracles in a square yard of earth than in all the fables of the Church.
Agriculture is not crop production as popular belief holds – it’s the production of food and fiber from the world’s land and waters. Without agriculture it is not possible to have a city, stock market, banks, university, church or army. Agriculture is the foundation of civilization and any stable economy.
To me, a theater is a kind of a sacred space. It needs a kind of ceremony, like what happens when you consecrate a church.
Church is great, but I found my church here. Hugh Hefner has been nothing but a gentleman.
The church is not a political power; it’s not a party, but it’s a moral power.
There is a lot of absurdity sometimes, not just in Mormonism but often in other religions that want to pretend that no bad happens in their church, rather than taking care of what bad does happen.
If you grow up playing in church, it removes a lot of the boundaries that other musicians might have, growing up with sheet music or whatever.
You don’t need to go to church to be a Christian. If you go to Taco Bell, that doesn’t make you a taco.
Standards of conduct appropriate to civil society or the workings of a democracy cannot be purely and simply applied to the Church.
I auditioned for a solo in church and got it. I was about seven and I sang a song called, ‘Jesus, I Heard You Had a Big House’ and I remember people standing up at the end and me thinking, ‘Oh, I think I’m going to like this.’ That’s how it all began. Sounds funny to say you got your start in church, but I did.
I used to always go to church on holidays, but I don’t go much any more.
The Church is presided over personally by Jesus Christ.
I have devoted my energies to the study of the scriptures, observing monastic discipline, and singing the daily services in church; study, teaching, and writing have always been my delight.
We must not reduce the bosom of the universal church to a nest protecting our mediocrity.
Clearly a big challenge for Christianity is how to remain in contact with the millions of people who look for God but do not come to Church.
Church members in too many cases are like deep sea divers, encased in the suits designed for many fathoms deep, marching bravely to pull out plugs in bathtubs.
The teachings of the Church line up more with the Democratic Party than the Republican Party.
If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their money on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals.
Instead of being just a church that welcomes and receives by keeping the doors open, let us try also to be a church that finds new roads, that is able to step outside itself and go to those who do not attend Mass, to those who have quit or are indifferent.
If you want to get healthy, you just might not want to go to a doctor. You might instead, go to church.
I’m a church boy. I got whuppin’s. So I’m afraid at any moment my grandmother could just swing down from heaven with a switch.
I go to St. Matthews in Pacific Palisades, an Episcopal Church.
The ordinary ministry is that which receives all of its direction from the will of God revealed in the Scriptures and from those means which God has appointed in the church for its continual edification.
‘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.
I don’t go to church regular. But I pray for answers to my problems.
My husband and I have been married for 15 years. He is a priest in the Church of Sweden. I have a faith, but it’s not so formal. We made our peace with that.
The whole tone of Church teaching in regard to women is, to the last degree, contemptuous and degrading.
We went to church every Sunday. When I was a kid, the only time I sang was around my family.
When you think about the Catholic Church, it is a bit flamboyant, in’t it?
I like Church furniture.
Anybody who had come up with a new concept would have been under suspicion for being out of step with the tradition or out of step with the teachings of the church.
Humanity is not a church made of stone, in which vault after vault lies open.
We come to church not to hide our problems but to heal them.
You have the Roman Catholic Church, the Church of England, the Presbyterians, the Wesleyans, represented in each school, and they are each to take alternate days.
