Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joanna Lumley

I think I'm a spiritual person. I don't really go to church often when services are on, but I like going in when they are empty and quiet, and just sitting there and thinking for a little while.

I thought I wouldn't like church as much as I did.

We realized pretty soon after we started that we didn't have a church choir, we had a community choir.

Jay-Z

You ain't gotta go to church to find your God.

James E. Faust

The saving principles and doctrines of the Church are established, fixed, and unchangeable.

Janet Evanovich

I was going to go to church, but I decided to get doughnuts instead.

Christopher Dawson

The Church as a divine society possess an internal principle of life which is capable of assimilating the most diverse materials and imprinting her own image upon them.

Christopher Dawson

It is impossible for us to understand the Church if we regard her as subject to the limitations of human culture. For she is essentially a supernatural organism which transcends human cultures and transforms them to her own ends.

Christine O'Donnell

Where in the Constitution is the separation of church and state?

Christine O'Donnell

When a married person uses pornography, or is unfaithful, it compromises not just his (or her) purity, but also compromises the spouse's purity. As a church, we need to teach a higher standard than abstinence. We need to preach a righteous lifestyle.

Hans Kung

A Church which abandons the truth abandons itself.

Church members are either pillars or caterpillars. The pillars hold up the church, and the caterpillars just crawl in and out.

Gordon B. Hinckley

If you are too busy in your church activities to take care of your family, then perhaps we had better find something else for you to do.

Gordon B. Hinckley

In all we do we must cultivate faith. Increased faith is the touchstone to improved church performance.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Church - Come here to learn, go forth to serve.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Polygamists have no connection with us whatsoever. They don't belong to the church. There are actually no Mormon fundamentalists.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Each of us has to face the matter—either the Church is true, or it is a fraud. There is no middle ground. It is the Church and kingdom of God, or it is nothing.

Henry David Thoreau

The tavern will compare favorably with the church.

Henry David Thoreau

I trust that some may be as near and dear to Buddha, or Christ, or Swedenborg, who are without the pale of their churches.

Giulio Andreotti

In church I feel very close to the publican of the parable.

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.

Jim DeMint

Partner with churches to assist the poor.

Frank Herbert

In 1054, the patriarch of Constantinople and the pope excommunicated each other. That was the end of holiness for both churches.

Harold B. Lee

Remember that, brethren. You cannot destroy the appointments of the prophets of God. The Lord knows whom He wants to preside in His Church, and sometimes it takes a lot of practicing, guiding, testing, before He may know whether or not one of us is prepared for the present assignment.

Howard Carter

Let me ever love Thyself more than Thy service.

Iris Murdoch

They are universal places, like churches, hallowed meeting places of all mankind.

Igor Stravinsky

The Church knew what the psalmist knew: Music praises God. Music is well or better able to praise him than the building of the church and all its decoration; it is the Church's greatest ornament.

H. G. Wells

Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.

George Herbert

Some make a conscience of spitting in the Church, yet robbe the Altar.

George Herbert

Nothing lasts but the Church.

Nancy Gibbs

The 1950s felt so safe and smug, the '60s so raw and raucous, the revolutions stacked one on top of another, in race relations, gender roles, generational conflict, the clash of church and state - so many values and vanities tossed on the bonfire, and no one had a concordance to explain why it was all happening at once.

The world looks at preachers out of church to know what they mean in it.

Rick Pitino

Football is only once a week. NASCAR is once a week. Those sports are insanely popular. Horse racing is oversaturated. Unless tracks cut back to three days a week of full fields, a lot of people will really hurt down the road. Horse racing, to survive, has to go to that. Let's face it: Churchill Downs only does well on Derby Week.