Quotes About Church

I put up with this church, in the hope that one day it will become better, just as it is constrained to put up with me in the hope that I will become better.

The local church is the hope of the world.

If the church is to impress the world with the deathless hope of the everlasting Gospel, she must be animated by that hope herself.

Jesus is not directing the angelic choir, taking long naps, or doing crossword puzzles. He is completely focused on building his church, the hope of the world.

The church is in the hope business.

Let's pray for whole world that there be brotherhood. I hope this journey of the church we begin today is fruitful for evangelization.

This common prayer project has taken years of energy, but we see it not as a way to leave our individual churches, but as a movement we hope to see permeate the larger Church.

I am convinced the Church is the greatest hope for humanity and for creating a new world where everyone is valued and embraced regardless of differences.

I hope ["reanimated the papacy"] means that the new interest in the pope evokes a new interest in the Church's teaching, of which the pope is the custodian.

The future and the hope for the middle class church lies in the renewal of its lifeblood, which is only possible if the church succeeds in winning the working class.

I hope you will be benefitted by your churchgoing. Where the habit does not Christianize, it generally civilizes. That is reason enough for supporting churches, if there were no higher.

Humanity is not a church made of stone, in which vault after vault lies open.

The church is her true self only when she exists for humanity.

If both Church and fairy-tale belong to humanity, they may occasionally cross circles, without injury to either.

Most of us spend the first six days of each week sowing wild oats; then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure.

A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to Heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.

Y'know, if those pews reclined, and the priests gave the Raiders scores I'd go to church every Sunday.

Hearing Mass is the ceremony I most favor during my travels. Church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back.

I believe in eight of the ten commandments. I believe in going to church every Sunday... unless there's a game on.

I appreciate that question because I, in the state of Texas, had heard a lot of discussion about a faith-based initiative eroding the important bridge between church and state.

The Church being what she is cannot have the instincts of a gentleman.

There is no such thing as separation of church and state. It is merely a figment of the imagination of infidels.

I believe this notion of separation of church and state was the figment of some infidel's imagination.

The epicenter of creativity and imagination should be the Church, reflecting the character and glory of God.