Quotes About Church

The nearer the church, the further from God.

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it.

Truth is the silliest thing under the sun. Try to get a living by the Truth and go to the Soup Societies. Heavens! Let any clergyman try to preach the Truth from its very stronghold, the pulpit, and they would ride him out of his church on his own pulpit bannister.

The Reformers, therefore, as instruments in the hands of God, in delivering the Church from bondage to prelates, did not make it a tumultuous multitude, in which every man was a law to himself, free to believe, and free to do what he pleased.

In a jazz atmosphere, the audience members were so quiet and respectful of the musicians that you felt you were almost part of a meeting at a church or a temple, where everyone was completely in tune with the sermon and what the whole event was about.

Spiritually, we have marginalized the Bible. We've trivialized marriage, and we've neutralized the church. America today is in great turmoil. It feels like the soul of our nation has been taken from us.

The outcome can truly determine whether our homes will be destroyed, whether our children will be torn from their mothers, trained as conspirators and turned against their parents, their home and their church.

I've grown so much since 1996. I think that was the turning point of when I started to go to church every Sunday and not just because you're supposed to. But because you enjoy going and listening to the Word and being excited about it.

If you will stay with the majority of the Twelve Apostles, and the records of the Church, you will never be led astray.

Too many church services start at eleven sharp and end at twelve dull.

Every time I could escape from Sunday church, I did, from the age of twelve until about thirty.

The Bible is big in my teaching. It's a wonder the ACLU didn't get after me pretty good. I really kept thinking they would. I took my boys to church. I took my football team to church. I only did it two times a year. Before I signed a kid, I'd write the parents and I'd tell that parent we were gong to take your son to church twice.

Much of my experience with language was formed in the church, which has an oral tradition. There are lots of repetitions in prayers and song refrains. There's a sense of incantation, that if you call not once and not twice but for a third time, the spirit appears.

I have this certain reluctance when it comes to this idea that we are spiritual but not religious and we want Jesus but not the church. Why can't we have both?

If I could play any character from the book though it'd be Church. Who wouldn't want to be a cat?!

I don't pray. When I was young, I vowed I never would be caught begging God. If I want something I get it for myself. I go to church only to show the old hens they don't get me down.

That's the reality in the Catholic Church today You don't want to build something that will be OK for now, when you know this large population is going to get bigger.

The church is the last place we want to be sold another product, the last place we want to be entertained.

Where there is real love one wants to go to church first.

The church that doesn't want to grow is saying to the world, "go to hell."

Lord, there's danger in this land, you get witch hunts and wars when church and state hold hands.

By maintaining the separation of church and state, the United States has avoided the intolerance which has so divided the rest of the world with religious wars.

The American Indian was an individualist in religion as in war. He had neither a national army nor an organized church.

Most people do not realize that there was a paid chaplain in Congress even before the Revolutionary War ended.