Quotes About Church

America has become so tense and nervous it has been years since I have seen anyone sleep in church - and that is a sad situation.

I think it's funny how people get confused when they think about church music, because a lot of times there is a soloist who stands out, but my church wasn't like that at all.

It's funny to hear priests and nuns argue with each other.

You're sure? I thought I heard someone.""Nope, not a soul, " Blake said. "Get it. Soul. Because we're in a church.

Because we believe that somewhere in the nest of paradigms contained in the phrase "missional church" lies nothing less that the future viability of Western Christianity.

The tithe is a wonderful goal but a terrible place to stop.

We want a crowd to make us feel important and liked. But why is getting a crowd our focus? Jesus never suggested that crowds were the goal. He never addresses getting your church to grow. Never.

Despite the slowness, the infidelity, the errors and sins it committed and might still commit against its members, the Church, trust me, has no other meaning and goal but to live and witness Jesus.

And as we [ the Church] move towards setting new (United Nations') sustainable development goals, we also understand that one of our key priorities is improving social inclusion.

When God is about to do a mighty new thing He always sets His people praying.

The less Holy Spirit we have, the more cake and coffee we need to keep the church going.

If the presence of God is in the church, the church will draw the world in. If the presence of God is not in the church, the world will draw the church out.

It is better to go skiing and think of God, than go to church and think of sport.

I'd rather be in the mountains thinking of God, than in church thinking about the mountains.

I sang in the choir for years, even though my family belonged to another church.

For centuries the leaders of Christian thought spoke of women as a necessary evil, and the greatest saints of the Church are those who despise women the most.

People ask me what I think about that woman priest thing. What, a woman priest? Women priests. Great, great. Now there's priests of both sexes I don't listen to.

The first thing I do when I start my day is, I get down on my hands and knees and give thanks to God. Whenever I go outside of my house, the first thing I do is stop at the church.

I don't go to Mass every day. But I go to church every day. Just sitting there, thinking - it's a great way to start the morning, you know? You feel so good coming out, and your approach to everything is suddenly really clear.

Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.

The theater is a communal event, like church. The playwright constructs a mass to be performed for a lot of people. She writes a prayer, which is really just the longings of one heart.

Neither the Church of Christ, nor a Christian Commonwealth, ought to tolerate such as prefer private gain to the public weal, or seek it to the hurt of their neighbors.

In the Enlightenment-type movements, leaders saw human reason progressively replacing the earlier appeal to the Bible or churchly authority.

Of course, the Catholics also believed in grace and faith. But they disagreed on how grace and faith were effected and experienced and what part the church to which they all belonged was to play.