Quotes About Church

The number, the industry, and the morality of the priesthood, and the devotion of the people have been manifestly increased by the total separation of the church from the state.

Trying to run a church without revivals can be done when you can run a gasoline engine on buttermilk.

I take square aim at an unbiblical churchianity that has resulted in a church-centric religion that fails to reflect the heart of God for people.

A group of politicians deciding to dump a President because his morals are bad is like the Mafia getting together to bump off the Godfather for not going to church on Sunday.

I'm a believer. I don't go to church. I don't belong to any particular religion, but I do believe in God. I couldn't write what I write about and be creative without a certain form of belief.

The Church does not dictate the policies of the nation. The Church proclaims the truth of God to which all these policies must conform.

The Church imposes nothing; she only proposes, she proposes like a lover to the beloved.

No church property is taxed and so the infidel and the atheist and the man without religion are taxed to make up the deficit.

Answering a letter from a church asking what else they should try after having failed to raise enough money on bake sales, bazaars, suppers, etc. Why not try religion?

It [Calvinism] established a religion without a prelate, a government without a king.

We have to assess: Are we making disciples along the way as we draw people to our churches?

He was of the faith chiefly in the sense that the Church he currently did not attend was Catholic.

I give money for church organs in the hope the organ music will distract the congregation's attention from the rest of the service.

The Westboro Baptist Church is no more a church than Church's Fried Chicken is a church.

Church was never intended to be a place where we serve God to the exclusion of meeting with Him.

In church, sacred music would make believers of us all — but preachers can be counted on to restore the balance.

Civil officials have no business meddling in private religious affairs.

We believe in separation of church and state, that there should be no unwarranted influence on the church or religion by the state, and vice versa.

The church of the Lord is spread over all the globe, and is thus universal; and all those are in it who have lived in the good of charity in accordance with their religion.

In the relationship between man and religion, the state is firmly committed to a position of neutrality.

The church has never been asked to explain anything, our speciality, along with ballistics, has always been the neutralisation of the overly curious mind through faith.

I never joined, but I used to go to church now and then. I liked it, because they always passed out plates of money at the end.

Jesus is being lost in a religion bearing his name.

a church is an interesting place once you get the parson and the people out of it. Real music can get in then, and a real God! Nothing flibertigibbet about religion then.