Church Quotes

"I get asked a lot why Apple's customers are so loyal. It's not because they belong to the Church of Mac! That's ridiculous"

Steve Jobs, Businessman

"He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all"

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Poet

"There is but one Church in which men find salvation, just as outside the ark of Noah it was not possible for anyone to be saved"

Thomas Aquinas, Theologian

"Hold firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this, and you dissolve the unity of the Church"

Thomas Aquinas, Theologian

"Clearly the person who accepts the Church as an infallible guide will believe whatever the Church teaches"

Thomas Aquinas, Theologian

"And I ask why am I black, they say I was born in sin, and shamed inequity. One of the main songs we used to sing in church makes me sick, 'love wash me and I shall be whiter than snow"

Peter Tosh, Musician

"Hollywood is finally waking up to the fact that people who go to church also go to the movies. I'm not sure what took them so long to see that or how long they'll keep it up"

Tyler Perry, Actor

"For faithful Catholics, communion is not just a nice ritual: It is the body and blood of Jesus Christ, and the ultimate sign of our willingness to be incorporated into the church"

Maggie Gallagher, Writer

"May the Lord destroy all the tyrants of the church. Amen"

Michael Servetus, Scientist

"What, but the rapacity of the only men who exercised their reason, the priests, secured such vast property to the church, when a man gave his perishable substance to save himself from the dark torments of purgatory"

Mary Wollstonecraft, Writer

"People don't come to church for preachments, of course, but to daydream about God"

Kurt Vonnegut, Author

"At the first general meeting of this Corporation in 1820, his Lordship presided; a circumstance, which may well be considered an era in the history of the Church of Upper Canada"

John Strachan, Clergyman

"An angel is a spiritual creature created by God without a body for the service of Christendom and the church"

Leo Rosten, Novelist

"St. Peter announced the glad tidings of the Gospel to the people on the day of Pentecost, and converted, by the first Christian sermon, ever preached, three thousand - which formed the primitive Church"

John Strachan, Clergyman

"I think if the church did what they were supposed to do we wouldn't have anyone sleeping on the streets"

Michael W. Smith, Musician

"Ultimately Warhol's private moral reference was to the supreme kitsch of the Catholic church"

Allen Ginsberg, Poet

"Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced"

Marquis de Sade, Novelist

"But I don't necessarily define my faith by going to church every Sunday"

Miley Cyrus, Musician

"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"

Russell Baker, Journalist

"In all systems of theology the devil figures as a male person. Yes, it is women who keep the church going"

Don Marquis, Journalist

"The quality of the Lord's church on earth, cannot be seen by any man, so long as he lives in the world, still less how the church in process of time has turned aside from good to evil"

Emanuel Swedenborg, Scientist

"With reference to other religions, the Church sees a great difference between them and herself. The other religions are expressions of the human soul seeking God, with some beautiful spiritual insights, but also not without errors. Christianity is rather God seeking humanity"

Francis Arinze, Clergyman

"There is no dogma that the organ or harmonium can be used in church, but not the drum"

Francis Arinze, Clergyman

"Remarkable is the greater openness of the Catholic Church towards people of other religious traditions and persuasions. The development has not been without problems, since some people have resisted it and others have pushed openness beyond the desirable point"

Francis Arinze, Clergyman

"Nobody sees the obvious, nobody observes the ordinary. There are more miracles in a square yard of earth than in all the fables of the Church"

Robert Anton Wilson, Writer

"Going to church doesn't make you any more a Christian than going to the garage makes you a car"

Laurence J. Peter, Writer

"For the judgment was accomplished not only upon all the men of the Christian church, but also upon all who are called Mohammedans, and, moreover, upon all the Gentiles in the whole world"

Emanuel Swedenborg, Scientist

"Not every religion has to have St. Augustine's attitude to sex. Why even in our culture marriages are celebrated in a church, everyone present knows what is going to happen that night, but that doesn't prevent it being a religious ceremony"

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosopher

"I heard stories from my mother's mother who was an American Indian. She was spiritual, although she did not go to church, but she had the hum. She used to tell me stories of the rivers"

Tina Turner, Musician

"If my duty does involve heralding His law in every arena, then the Church in America is failing radically today"

Randall Terry, Celebrity

"I've grown so much since 1996. I think that was the turning point of when I started to go to church every Sunday and not just because you're supposed to. But because you enjoy going and listening to the Word and being excited about it"

Lisa Leslie, Athlete

"If you love god, burn a church"

Jello Biafra, Musician

"There is a lot of absurdity sometimes, not just in Mormonism but often in other religions that want to pretend that no bad happens in their church, rather than taking care of what bad does happen"

Neil LaBute, Director

"If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval"

Ezra Pound, Poet

"I challenge you to show me where the saloon has ever helped business, education, church, morals or anything we hold dear"

Billy Sunday, Clergyman

"You should enter a ballpark the way you enter a church"

Bill Lee, Athlete

"The early Church had nothing but the Old Testament. The New Testament lies hidden in the Old; the Old Testament lies open in the New"

Randall Terry, Celebrity

"I am not the Jesus of the official church tolerated by those in power. I am not your superstar"

Klaus Kinski, Actor

"The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church"

Tertullian, Author

"I believe there is no doctrine more dangerous to the Church today than to convey the impression that a revival is something peculiar in itself and cannot be judged by the same rules of causes and effect as other things"

Billy Sunday, Clergyman

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