Quotes About Church

Callings in the church, as important as they are, by their very nature are only for a period of time, and then an appropriate release takes place.

My entrance to music was singing gospel in church, and to hear that gospel language in a hip-hop song was cool.

We are not the Westboro Baptist Church. We are a church that embraces the tenants of historic Christianity - there's nothing hateful about our members at all.

I'm not very religious at all - I was raised Catholic, but probably haven't gone to church since my Holy Communion when I was about 6 or 7.

Even in my own church I heard the words, 'Francis Chan' more than I heard the words, 'Holy Spirit.'

My dad plays guitar in the church band, so it's like music as a service. He plays at old-people homes, so that's like music as a gift.

I grew up in the Baptist church and, honey, they baptized me about 14 times. It never did take.

I grew up in a very religious household. My mom was a church organist. I was a religious kid.

The church should lead on issues of housing and affordability.

My grandmother is a huge part of my life. She's just a great woman: a woman of the church.

Church is great, but I found my church here. Hugh Hefner has been nothing but a gentleman.

One of the challenges of the church is to accept humanity for all it is.

The church can challenge society, but society also challenges the church. That's good. We should be humble enough to be able to accept that.

The most important criterion is this: hire someone whose character and humility and attitude you would like to have reproduced in your church and in yourself.

We had church and sports, and that's how we stuck together. We were so hungry sometimes, but if somebody's playing football, you can completely forget about eating until later on that night.

Philosophy does not serve the State or the Church, who have other concerns. It serves no established power. The use of philosophy is to sadden. A philosophy that saddens no one, that annoys no one, is not a philosophy. It is useful for harming stupidity, for turning stupidity into something shameful.

Psychoanalysis was from the start, still is, and perhaps always will be a well-constituted church and a form of treatment based on a set of beliefs that only the very faithful could adhere to, i.e., those who believe in a security that amounts to being lost in the herd and defined in terms of common and external goals

The transition from being a persecuted minority religion to being the favored faith of the emperor inevitably forged ties between church and state that have been a driving force in Western political life ever since.

Building the church with human wisdom or eloquent speech that circumvents the Cross is building with wood, hay, and stubble.

Historically the church has understood the nature of Scripture much the same as it has understood the person of Christ—the Bible is at the same time both human and divine.

There is either one Christ or there is none. If Jesus was not the eternal Son of God, equal in power and glory with the Father, then let's have done with all talk about Christianity. Let us admit honestly that we are Unitarians, Jews, Buddhists, or humanists. But not Christians. For the historical Jesus said, Upon this rock, of the deity of Christ, I will build my Church. Some other organization may call itself a church, but it is not his.

The conversion of Russia was a huge geopolitical prize for Orthodoxy: to this day, Russia remains the single largest Orthodox communion in the world. Russia is also the only religious link the Orthodox Church possesses to a major world power.

Suddenly I realized she was asleep. Exhausted by her flight she had fallen asleep against my shoulder as so many times, in taxis, in buses, on a park-seat. I sat still and let her be. There was nothing to disturb her in the dark church. The candles napped around the virgin, and there was nobody else there. The slowly growing pain in my upper arm where her weight lay was the greatest pleasure I had ever known.

The Church is in the world, it is part of the suffering in the world, and though Christ condemned the disciple who struck off the ear of the high priest's servant, our hearts go out in sympathy to all who are moved to violence by the suffering of others. The Church condemns violence, but it condemns indifference more harshly. Violence can be the expression of love, indifference never. One is an imperfection of charity, the other the perfection of egoism.