Church Quotes

"One of my beliefs is that there are certain institutions within a community which stand for the spirit and heart of that community, there's the church, the local football team, the local pub and the theatre"

David Soul, Actor

"We're not at a point in time to be taking chances with children and young people in the church. The Holy Father himself said... there is no room in the priesthood or religious life for someone who has abused a child. I think he's right"

Roger Mahony, Clergyman

"Although I myself don't go to church or synagogue, I do, whether it's superstition or whatever, pray every time I get on a plane. I just automatically do it. I say the same thing every time"

Barbara Walters, Journalist

"Under pressure, people admit to murder, setting fire to the village church or robbing a bank, but never to being bores"

Elsa Maxwell, Writer

"When one is required to preside over the Church, and be entrusted with the care of so many souls, the whole female sex must retire before the magnitude of the task, and the majority of men also"

John Chrysostom, Clergyman

"Only a couple of times have I ever been to church and felt enlightened by it"

Lynn Johnston, Cartoonist

"The Foxy character and Inga Marchand are two different people. My fiance calls me Inga. No one around me calls me Foxy. I go to church every Sunday. I go to Bible study every Friday night. I'm saved"

Foxy Brown, Musician

"For a house, somewhere near Los Angeles I found an old church. Very old, no longer used. So we moved the church to the land, and I took off the steeple, and I got my hands dirty"

Douglas Sirk, Director

"I'm Presbyterian and I don't go to church very much"

Joan Van Ark, Actress

"I have a group of people, about 40, in a local church in Surrey in England, who pray for me regularly"

Cliff Richard, Musician

"I teach metaphysics and pastor a church"

Della Reese, Musician

"The most he would do was to promise that the gates of hell should not prevail against it. It is about all that, looking back on the history of the Church, one can feel that they have not done"

Charles Williams, Editor

"There is a kind of thinking in the Church that wants to reduce the priest to a mere functionary, a managing director, where administration rather than doctrine and worship are to determine the form of the Church"

Arthur Middleton, Politician

"Priesthood is not a convenient, historically conditioned form of Church organisation, but is rooted in the Incarnation, in the priesthood and mission of Christ himself"

Arthur Middleton, Politician

"The Divine Thing that made itself the foundation of the Church does not seem, to judge by his comments on the religious leadership of his day, to have hoped much from officers of a church"

Charles Williams, Editor

"I grew up a Catholic and I don't want to talk badly about the Catholic Church but there's a lot of routine stuff going on. You say the same prayers, you sit, you kneel, whatever"

Bernhard Langer, Athlete

"We are to introduce our people into the life of the Church, which is salvation, that they may grasp its meaning, its contents and purpose, to taste and see how good the Lord is"

Arthur Middleton, Politician

"The church which ceases to be evangelistic will soon cease to be evangelical"

Alexander Duff, Clergyman

"The style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe"

Alan Watts, Philosopher

"For two thousand years, the Church has guided the development of music, carefully legislating to fuse artistic talent and aesthetic beauty with the demands of the Faith"

Richard Morris, Clergyman

"Catholic liturgical music, it would seem, is everywhere but in the Catholic Church itself"

Richard Morris, Clergyman

"Nationalism - in other words, the dividing of the church into bodies - consisting of such and such a nation, is a novelty, not above three centuries old, although many dear children of God are found dwelling in it"

John Nelson Darby, Clergyman

"You may invite the entire 35th Division to your wedding if you want to. I guess it's going to be yours as well as mine. We might as well have the church full while we are at it"

Bess Truman, First Lady

"There can, therefore, be no doubt that Presbyterians do carry out the principle that Church power vests in the Church itself, and that the people have a right to a substantive part in its discipline and government"

Charles Hodge, Theologian

"The right of the people to a substantive part in the government of the Church is recognized and sanctioned by the apostles in almost every conceivable way"

Charles Hodge, Theologian

"The Reformers, therefore, as instruments in the hands of God, in delivering the Church from bondage to prelates, did not make it a tumultuous multitude, in which every man was a law to himself, free to believe, and free to do what he pleased"

Charles Hodge, Theologian

"The Popish theory, which assumes that Christ, the Apostles and believers, constituted the Church while our Saviour was on earth, and this organization was designed to be perpetual"

Charles Hodge, Theologian

"The Independent or Congregational theory includes two principles; first, that the governing and executive power in the Church is in the brotherhood; and secondly, that the Church organization is complete in each worshipping assembly, which is independent of every other"

Charles Hodge, Theologian

"This doctrine of Christ and of the apostles, from which the true faith of the primitive church was received, the apostles at first delivered orally, without writing, but later, not by any human counsel but by the will of God, they handed it on in the Scriptures"

Martin Chemnitz, Theologian

"I do feel that federation, loose parallel processes, are less than we've got, less than we could have and, in the very long run, less than what God wants in the Church"

Rowan Williams, Theologian

"The Church in England is the Church of England"

Joseph Barber Lightfoot, Theologian

"I was sent to a nice Church of England girls' school and at that time, after university, a woman was expected to become a teacher, a nurse or a missionary - prior to marriage"

Kate Adie, Journalist

"When I'm performing for the people, I am me, then. I am that little girl who, when she was five years old, used to sing at church. Or I'm that 15-year-old young lady who wanted to be grown and wanted to sing and couldn't wait to be smokin' a cigarette, you know?"

Etta James, Musician

"The Reformation did not directly touch the question of the true character of God's church"

John Nelson Darby, Clergyman

"In other words, the Church acknowledges Science as the higher authority"

Wilhelm Ostwald, Scientist

"If it came to saving the life of one priest or sacrificing the life of an entire congregation, the church would save the life of the priest. Which is backwards, of course"

Rob Walton, Athlete

"I go farther, and say, that it is plainly our duty to desire pastors and teachers to take the care of such congregations, and that God did raise up such in the church as we see it in the word"

John Nelson Darby, Clergyman

"I add, that those who are bent on restoring the whole church ought to be well instructed in the word, and to abstain from doing anything under the pretext of simplicity"

John Nelson Darby, Clergyman

"God is sufficient in all ages for His church"

John Nelson Darby, Clergyman

"The Church, however, is a self-governing society, distinct from the State, having its officers and laws, and, therefore, an administrative government of its own"

Charles Hodge, Theologian

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