Quotes About Church

I may not be as active in it as some people are, but I think that the church has taught me great life lessons.

But it's a poor church that cares only for what happens to a soul after it leaves this life." -Damien

I grew up Presbyterian, just a basic Protestant upbringing. There were years in my life when I would go to church every Sunday and to Sunday school. Then I just phased out of it.

We are to introduce our people into the life of the Church, which is salvation, that they may grasp its meaning, its contents and purpose, to taste and see how good the Lord is.

My religion is life, and my church is the universe.

I grew up in church and it's always been important to me. I've always had a sense of calling to do life and faith-affirming media.

There is a difference between a private devotional life and a corporate one. Solemnity is proper in church, but things that are proper in church are not necessarily proper outside, and vice versa.

Worship is of fundamental significance to the life of the individual and to the corporate life of the church, yet we rarely hear it taught as a discipline or practice in the gathering of believers.

The skeptic may deny your doctrine or attack your church but he cannot honestly ignore the fact that your life has been changed.

Perhaps the most influential is the family myth of dire consequences, in which we feel that we are absolutely indispensable for everything in the church to work; if we don't do our job, everything will fall

As a counselor, I have spoken with many people who want to know their spiritual gifts. They come hoping for some sort of diagnostic test that will precisely locate them. My impression is that this perspective represents a breakdown in the church. It reflects a church where we are running around as self-actualizing individuals rather than uniting as a God-glorifying community.

A Christian has as much choice to be related to the church as a child has to be related to her mother.

On New Year's Eve 1777, after performing in a play entitled The Devil to Pay in the West Indies, a party of drunken officers—one dressed up like Old Nick himself, complete with horns and tail—disrupted services at the John Street Methodist Church. Nor was that the worst of it. "I could narrate many and very frightful occurrences of theft, fraud, robbery, and murder by the English soldiers which their love of drink excited," said one dismayed German officer.

It was weird to me to go to school all week and experience racial diversity, but then on Sunday be faced with the option of having to choose between black and white. This didn't seem right to me. The whole world outside of the church seemed to be in full color, but the church looked like the black and white television of the old days.

The church saves sinners, but science seeks to stop their manufacture.

Over time, these writings of the early church fathers and the decrees of popes and church councils became accepted truth in the same way the Bible was.

The separation of church and state is extremely important to any of us who hold to the original traditions of our nation. To change these traditions by changing our traditional attitude toward public education would be harmful, I think, to our whole attitude of tolerance in the religious area.

El mundo no está sin gobernante. El programa de los acontecimientos venideros está en las manos del Señor. La Majestad del cielo tiene a su cargo el destino de las naciones, como también lo que concierne a su iglesia. 2JT 352 (1889).

We are dealing here not with the dogmas of a church, but rather with events that for thousands of years have exercised the most powerful influence in the history of a living people. Jewish children were not taught: 'These are the things we Jews believe in', but 'These are the things that happened to us and made us what we are

We can consider our church attendance a failure if we do not experience this emotion.

When you think of the number of men in the world who hate each other, why, when two men love each other, does the church split?

Elizabeth squirmed on the hard wooden bench, and tried to ignore both her sore backside and her rumbling stomach. Why did the minister's sermons last so long? And why did the talk of sin always give her such a hearty appetite?

Mum was a high-jumper and qualified to go to the Olympics, but it got into the newspapers that she was married to my father, and the church put pressure on her to pull out of the Olympic team, saying, 'You can't be exposing all your legs.' That's how strong the influence of the church was on us all.

In our local Baptist church, I sang in the choir and formed a gospel quartet. When our minister caught me messing with his guitar, he taught me three positions - one, four and five. After that, I taught myself to play.