Quotes About Church

I always start my New Year at church with my family. I see it as a fresh beginning - like a new chance we get to renew our lives, perhaps? Starting it by praying gives me a lot of hope for the future.

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.

The ritual of film-going in some sense replaced that of churchgoing, because you share something communal, sometimes mystical.

Today, Church policy in Ireland is to report allegations of abuse to the civil authorities. It recognises the Gardai and H.S.E. as those with responsibility for investigating such allegations and that any Church investigation should not take place until the investigation by the civil authorities has been completed.

I love the spiritual side of religion, but the church, for me, is a place where I feel very repressed.

There was a beautiful church where I lived in Navan, taught by the Christian brothers: fierce, angry men, repressed.

I'm a conservative Republican, small-business guy, married to same gal - love of my life - for 36 years. Strong family man, deacon at my church; I believe in America. I know government is not the answer; individual liberty and personal responsibility is the answer.

Our state ceremonies have a religious foundation. We have compulsory religious education. And the Church should be a moral guardian. We have in this country a long Christian heritage and Christian culture and we shouldn't be in too much of a hurry to give that up.

The way people come to church every week, know the songs and be hurting on the inside. We miss the moment to really encounter God... bring healing.

I am a Christian. My husband and I belong to the Episcopal Church.

Being part of a community with a church at its centre and singin' hymns is a great thing to do.

I always loved music. I liked to go to church because I liked to sing the hymns.

There's some belting hymns. Brilliant hymns. When I was an altar boy the hymns were great.

I read the Bible, I speak through issues, I see what I think is hypocrisy in the church and things that are wrong, and I speak to these things. But I could be wrong.

I am a Catholic, not so committed to the church, but to the idea of the Virgin, the female face of God.

I think the strength of the Catholic church is that when it does finally identify a problem, it works to resolve it.

I've always loved R&B. That love seemed to start in church. But then I saw Carrie Underwood on American Idol, and I fell in love with country. Heck, I loved the hair bands of the '80s too, so I have always loved country and rock 'n' roll.

People have really strong images of what church is, and it's almost certainly not the same as mine.

The bedrock of this country are immigration and, really, a great separation between church and state.

The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.

In other words, the Church acknowledges Science as the higher authority.

If the Church is a living body united to the same head, governed by the same laws, and pervaded by the same Spirit, it is impossible that one part should be independent of all the rest.

If the Church on earth is the militant Church, the Church in heaven is the triumphant Church.

Among the best traitors Ireland has ever had, Mother Church ranks at the very top, a massive obstacle in the path to equality and freedom. She has been a force for conservatism... to ward off threats to her own security and influence.