Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pat Robertson

...There is no such thing as ... separation of state and church ... in the Constitution. It's a lie of the left.

Harper Lee

Again, as I had often met it in my own church, I was confronted with the Impurity of Women doctrine that seemed to preoccupy all clergymen.

Dick Vitale

I went to church and Jim and his wife, Liz, went to see the home.

Karl Lehmann

The mission proper to the Church is that of proclaiming the Gospel.

Karl Marx

The English Established Church... will more readily pardon an attack on 38 of its 39 articles than on 1/39 of its income.

Pat Robertson

There is nothing in the U.S. Constitution that sanctifies the separation of church and state.

Joseph Smith, Jr.

If you will stay with the majority of the Twelve Apostles, and the records of the Church, you will never be led astray.

Nancy Pearcey

In many churches, the message of justification- how to get right with God- is preached over and over again. But much less is said about sanctification- how to live after you're converted.

Ken Ham

It's time for a new Reformation in the Church--to call the Church back to the authority of the Word of God, beginning in Genesis.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

The one pleasure that never palls is the pleasure of not going to church.

For politicians truth and falsehood are unimportant. So I never could become a politician not even a church politician.

Nicki Minaj

Overseas, church, Vatican You at a stand still mannequin

Mark Twain

The world has corrected the Bible. The church never corrects it; and also never fails to drop in at the tail of the procession-and take the credit of the correction.

Nicholas Sparks

Even when we were standing in church and I was getting ready to take my vow I can remember wishing that you were standing there instead of him.

Muhammad Ali

I'm proud, and Islam did it. And after these things that I heard in church, a preacher and watching this and that, I knew something was wrong but I couldn't pinpoint it.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Why is the church always a taillight rather than a headlight?

Mark Batterson

It's hard for me to imagine why a church that has younger members wouldn't have a blog component.

Mark Batterson

I am a pastor so I eat and breathe the Church.

Nadine Gordimer

Mumbling obeisance to abhorrence of apartheid is like those lapsed believers who cross themselves when entering a church.

Mitt Romney

Certainly, no church should be involved in trying to set the affairs of the nation.

Pope Francis

We must not reduce the bosom of the universal church to a nest protecting our mediocrity.

Pope Francis

I want the Church to go out onto the streets, I want us to resist everything worldly, everything static, everything comfortable...eve rything that might make us closed in on ourselves.

Pope Francis

Let us never forget that it is the Lord who guides the Church. He is the one who makes our apostolates fruitful.

Peter Slipper

Pope Benedict is an amazingly visionary person. What he has done is establish an evolutionary process that will help undo the Reformation. The Anglican Church has been hijacked by modernism, with synods trying to amend the faith and this process will allow traditional Anglicans to be themselves.

Philip Yancey

We admit that we will never reach our ideal in this life, a distinctive the church claims that most other human institutions try to deny.

Pope Francis

You can't have Christ without the Church,

Pope Francis

Let the Church always be a place of mercy and hope, where everyone is welcomed, loved and forgiven.

Peter Thiel

Higher education holds itself out as a kind of universal church, outside of which there is no salvation.

Ted Haggard

I've never known anyone who has fallen into sin and been successfully restored by the formal church structure. Nor have I ever seen a formal church structure wisely deal with sin, enabling ministry to continue without interruption.

Lewis Tappan

There is too much theology in the Church now, and too little of the Gospel.

Len Cariou

I didn't have to do paper routes. I'd sing for 5 bucks a crack at weddings and church functions; I'd have four or five on some Saturdays.

Lactantius

Let it be known that this is the true Church, in which there is confession and penance and which takes a health-promoting care of the sins and wounds to which the weak flesh is subject.