Quotes About Church

The only place I've found peace in my life is in church. I owe my life to God.

The way to preserve the peace of the church is to preserve its purity.

The greatest missionary tool we have is that of demonstrating friendliness, brotherly kindness, harmony, love and peace in our homes and in all our church meetings.

The mission of the church is to make the world a holy place.

I take my pet lion to church ever Sunday. He has to eat.

There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.

Some people can't go into church any longer to feel this longing, but they still have the longing, so what do they do? Well, one thing you can do is what people do in prison; they turn to poetry.

Deb and I were married on a snowy night - wind cross-wove a veil of snow for her then threw confetti at us as we left the lighted church...

We thought the church had withdrawn from interfering in Italian politics... but instead there is a terrible resurgence. These are ugly signs for freedom of expression.

It doesn't say anywhere in the Constitution this idea of the separation of church and state.

When it comes to labor and politics, I am inclined to be sympathetic to the left, but when it comes to the Catholic Church, then I am far to the right.

Educational institutes can no longer be prizes in church politics or furnish berths for failure in other walks of life.

The Church is larger than any one nation or any one political scene.

No church that panders to the zeitgeist deserves respect, and very shortly it will not get respect, except from those who find it politically useful, and that is less respect than disguised contempt.

The Pope doesn't get mixed up in Italian politics.

The conversion of agnostic High Tories to the Anglican church is always rather suspect. It seems too pat and predictable, too clearly a matter of politics rather than faith.

The right way to requite evil, according to Jesus, is not to resist it. This saying of Christ removes the Church from the sphere of politics and law.

I believe that the most important thing...is to revive in the whole Church that positive tension, that yearning to announce Christ again to contemporary man.

I'm not an expert in the sociological realities of all the pastors in the world, but I would say that there are some very, very positive things about the state of integrity in church leaders.

All Christians are in ministry. Sometimes, they're in church work.

The Church should be more concerned about the hearts of the lost rather than the comforts of the saved.

The Church is both organism and organization - Woven together in a beautifully messy dance that stumbles across the stage of a fallen world.

Why does it seem that the church is more interested in people involvement rather than people engagement.

Without vision, a church devolves into a lukewarm, aimless organization characterized by infighting, budget grabbing and a dead heart for the lost.