Church Quotes

"Conversion is a very, very important part of what you are doing. We will have a responsibility to report to Heavenly Father regarding those we bring into the Church"

Richard G. Scott, Clergyman

"I don't have to go to church. The church is within me and the experience is my own. It's my life experience"

Mariel Hemingway, Actress

"Many are called but few are chosen. There are sayings of Christ which suggest that the Church he came to establish will always be a minority affair"

Edward Norman, Historian

"The city's contradictions and frailties drive me to the church. The church, in turn, binds my wounds and soothes my troubled heart, and sends me right back out into the city again"

Steve Ross, Businessman

"You have the Roman Catholic Church, the Church of England, the Presbyterians, the Wesleyans, represented in each school, and they are each to take alternate days"

Charles Tupper, Statesman

"Before I had crossed the threshold of my church I was made to realize that I was shepherd of a divided flock"

Anna H. Shaw

"I remember going to church about four times a week. I liked it a lot"

Victoria Jackson, Comedian

"Clearly a big challenge for Christianity is how to remain in contact with the millions of people who look for God but do not come to Church"

Timothy Radcliffe, Clergyman

"The medieval Church believed that the resurrection of Christ marked a new time for all of humanity"

Timothy Radcliffe, Clergyman

"And yet, you do not throw out some of the great minds of the Church - and people in Church history - and say they have no credibility because they committed a sin or made a mistake"

Walter Martin, Clergyman

"In the West there has always been the attempt to try make the religious building, whether it's a Medieval or Renaissance church, an eternal object for the celebration of God. The material chosen, such as stone, brick, or concrete, is meant to eternally preserve what is inside"

Tadao Ando, Architect

"I go to St. Matthews in Pacific Palisades, an Episcopal Church"

Stephen Collins, Actor

"Jonathan Lynn is one of the last actors Orsen Welles used in a production. It was wonderful. He's very sharp, very sharp. It's funny I've been asked how weird it was to have a Brit do a church gospel movie"

Cuba Gooding, Jr., Actor

"The key to successful missionary work is a close relationship between the missionaries and the members. Creating an environment in working with members that will bring more into the Church"

Richard G. Scott, Clergyman

"A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints"

Abigail Van Buren, Journalist

"It is my belief that everything you need to know about the world can be learned in a church choir"

Connie Willis, Writer

"It doesn't say anywhere in the Constitution this idea of the separation of church and state"

Sean Hannity, Writer

"If you had told me 28 years ago that the largest organization in the world touching the lives of gays and lesbians would be a church, I would not have believed you"

Troy Perry, Clergyman

"I don't believe there is a separation of church and state. I think the Constitution is very clear. The only separation is that there will not be a government church"

Tom DeLay, Politician

"There's always the tendency to transform the Church into an ethical agency, and of measuring the Church by the yardstick of social and cultural utility"

Karl Lehmann, Clergyman

"Christians who have influence in political life must feel as individuals responsibility in front of their own faith. And the duty of encouraging laws that are not in contradiction with the Commandments comes within the mission of the Church"

Karl Lehmann, Clergyman

"But when one identifies the Church with a cultural and political bloc, there is the danger of making difficult the Church's contact with all those outside the bloc"

Karl Lehmann, Clergyman

"I believe with all my heart that the Church of Jesus Christ should be a Church of blurred edges"

George Carey, Clergyman

"The equality that we are all entitled to, as citizens of this democracy, can't be avoided by some religious dogma of a President who's is supposed to believe in the notion of separation of church and state. And he frankly doesn't"

Rosie O'Donnell, Comedian

"What I'd say about that is that we must respect homosexuals in the church. I've got many homosexual friends, the issue is not in any way a homophobic reaction on my part"

George Carey, Clergyman

"The Church is presided over personally by Jesus Christ"

Richard G. Scott, Clergyman

"I thought it was a really good contrast to have a really sweet, sincere, church girl sitting next to the church lady who seemed kind of, you know, over the top"

Victoria Jackson, Comedian

"An Atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a church. An atheist believes that deed must be done instead of prayer said. An atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death. He wants disease conquered, poverty vanished, war eliminated"

Madalyn Murray O'Hair, Writer

"Through my music teaching and my not absolutely irregular attendance at church, I became acquainted with the best class of colored people in Jacksonville"

James Weldon Johnson, Poet

"I would think, to me, growing up in the south, growing up with all the gospel music, singing in the church and having that rhythm and blues - the blues background was my big inspiration"

Jackie DeShannon, Musician

"If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their money on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals"

Susan B. Anthony, Activist

"I was born in Alabama and my first live music experiences were in church. Every Sunday we watched regional gospel groups on television singing their hearts out"

Tommy Shaw, Musician

"Think of me as the weathered sheriff coming back into Dodge 'cause the youngsters are shooting up the church and scaring the horses and not doing right by the women"

Frank Miller, Artist

"Which prophecy of Christ we see wonderfully to be verified, insomuch that the whole course of the Church to this day may seem nothing else but a verifying of the said prophecy"

John Foxe, Writer

"This also is a part of the teaching of the Church, that there are certain angels of God, and certain good influences, which are His servants in accomplishing the salvation of men"

Origen, Theologian

"For me Christianity is about the Kingdom, not about the Church: it has to do with human growth and development nor church growth and development"

Michael Taylor, Criminal

"From you we have learned what we, at least, value, to separate Church and State; and from you we gather inspiration at all times in our devotion to learning, to religious liberty, and to individual and National freedom"

Seth Low, Educator

"I had explained that a woman's asking for equality in the church would be comparable to a black person's demanding equality in the Ku Klux Klan"

Mary Daly, Theologian

"The Evangelical party in the Church of Scotland will lay all flat if they be not prevented"

Edward Irving, Clergyman

"I was unwilling to - without getting too philosophical about it - I was unwilling to structure my spirituality in the way that the church wanted me to structure it"

Peter Jurasik, Actor

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