Famous Quotes & Sayings

N. T. Wright

It's very easy for a church just to slide along from week to week, taking it for granted that we do our services like this and that, and we celebrate the sacraments like this and that.

N. T. Wright

Without God's Spirit, there is nothing we can do that will count for God's kingdom. Without God's Spirit, the church simply can't be the church.

N. T. Wright

The imminent demise of the church has been predicted since the middle of the 18th century. This is the regular secular mantra if churchgoing declines. I could take you to plenty of churches that are full to bursting and new churches being built.

Millard Fillmore

Church and state should be separate, not only in form, but fact - religion and politics should not be mingled.

John Polkinghorne

However, as the Eastern churches have always maintained, through Christ creation is intended eventually to share in the life of God, the life of divine nature.

Marilyn Manson

To me, anything that is a church is really just far too close minded.

Marilyn Manson

If Satan wasn't around, churches would go out of business.

Mary Ann Mobley

I grew up in the church, and I feel very strongly about it.

Michelle Williams

I don't want to do anything to embarrass my family or my church because the town that I come from is so small. There are certain things that I just can't be part of because of my foundation.

Louis L'Amour

Who mentioned the Church? On the contrary, I have great respect for religion. My objection is to those who are against so many things and for so little.

Michael Ramsey

The duty of the church is to comfort the disturbed and to disturb the comfortable.

Last year we met with our church leaders. They said there's going to be a point in life when you need to turn things back to God, and you have to decide when that is.

Many people say, 'I don't have to go to church to be a Christian,' without considering fellowship in relation to their continued spiritual growth. In the New Testament coming together is emphasized. Over and over we find the passages saying to love one another, encourage one another and comfort each other.

She was a good woman. She was honest, she went to church regular. She always taught us right from wrong. I miss her already.

She was a church lady -- very intelligent lady.

She was part of her church choir, step team and usher board. She loved McDonald's, mashed potatoes ? but most of all she loved the Lord.

Albert Schweitzer

If you are called upon to play a church service, it is a greater honor than if you were to play a concert on the finest organ in the world... Thank God each time when you are privileged to sit before the organ console and assist in the worship of the Almighty.

Obviously, the church deals with private matters and keeps the details of such disciplinary counsel confidential.

On such questions, the church has clearly defined positions,

No one knows what Falls Church retail is today.

Bill Bradley

must maintain strict protection for civil rights and a clear separation of church and state.

My hope for this declaration is that through the Holy Spirit, our church leaders will recognize that all people, gifts of God's creation, deserve the dignity of being who they were created to be.

Doug Jones

Maybe it's unfair but it's a separation of church and state issue.

Now the more we live and speak - this week and every week - as Church in this sense, the more we shall have to say to the real world.

Arthur Middleton

Gladstone, at the end of the 19th century, said that the task of the priest had become much more difficult than it had ever been. Today it has worsened rather than improved, in a Church that is divided and in a culture where God has been pushed out of many lives and is not given the opportunity to influence scores of others.

I get very impatient with church people who say there's something wrong with having doubts, because let's be honest: There's every reason to have doubts.

If the Church is right, then people have some serious questions to answer,

He was a simple man. He liked simple things. He loved to deer hunt when he was able. He went to church on Sundays.

Anton Chekhov

He was a rationalist, but he had to confess that he liked the ringing of church bells.

Cory Booker

I was raised in a very religious home with two parents who were deeply involved in the black church. When I was young, I went to a small black AME church in New Jersey.

E. B. White

If we had one person from every church and every business, we would have a good volunteer base.

I got up and told everyone thanks for their support. I was a little nervous at first. But I speak at my church sometimes, so it wasn't too bad.

Win Butler

I grew up in a somewhat religious family. My dad's family isn't religious at all, but my mom's side of the family is, so I was exposed to church a bit.