Quotes About Church

In the church we have to deliberately let ourselves be transparent and accountable to others. We're a family.

The state and the church seldom approve of anything I do. I don't need their approval. I don't aspire to the heterosexual nuclear family model

The first thing my family did when we moved was join the local church. The second was to go to the library and get library cards.

Christ didn't leave us a book of instructions; He left us a body, a family - a Church. If it were perfectly clear, there wouldn't be any freedom.

There is no problem in the family, ward, or stake that cannot be solved if we look for solutions in the Lord's way by counseling - really counseling - with one another.

If you are too busy in your church activities to take care of your family, then perhaps we had better find something else for you to do.

I have neither permitted, nor shall I permit, the things which have been settled by the holy fathers to be violated by any innovation.

My father would have been made a bishop much earlier than he was had it not been for me and my image.

The church's final word is not 'church' but the glory of the Father and the Son in the Spirit of liberty

I would beg the wise and learned fathers [of the church] to consider with all diligence the difference which exists between matters of mere opinion and matters of demonstration.

Conversion is a very, very important part of what you are doing. We will have a responsibility to report to Heavenly Father regarding those we bring into the Church.

Creeds have been the bane of the Christian church ... made of Christendom a slaughter-house.

My father was a preacher in Maryland and we had crab feasts - with corn on the cob, but no beer, being Methodist - outside on the church lawn.

The Lord did nothing either of himself or through his apostles without his Father, with whom he is united; so too, you should undertake nothing without the bishop and the presbyters priests.

My father was strict, but he recognised my ability and got a lot of flak from the church for supporting me.

Father Jude Nnorom also criticized his church leaders, saying the simple lifestyle followed by Pope Francis should challenge African bishops to ask themselves.

Last winter when I was coming home from church one Thursday evening, I saw somebody run around the house again. I told my father of that.

When my father died, I had a real experience with Christ, a real conversion with Christ and I had it in a Oneness church.

Some movie stars wear their sunglasses even in church. They're afraid God might recognize them and ask for autographs.

Yes, I see the Church as the body of Christ. But, oh! How we have blemished and scarred that body through social neglect and through fear of being nonconformists.

Religious Cult: The church down the street from yours.

You must mind and not lower the Church in people's eyes by seeming to be frightened about it for such a little thing.

Some people have a fear of rejecting all the security that comes with family, church and state. They become fundamentalists.

Allt detta gjorde kyrkan i mina ögon till någonting helt annorlunda än staden i övrigt: en byggnad som, om man kan uttrycka sig så, var rest i fyra dimensioner - av vilka den fjärde var tiden - genom seklerna sträckande sitt skepp, som från travé till travé, från sidokapell till sidokapell tycktes erövra och överskrida icke endast några meter, utan den ena epoken efter den andra.