Church Quotes

"I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death"

George Carlin, Comedian

"I sang in the choir for years, even though my family belonged to another church"

Paul Lynde, Comedian

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

H.G. Wells, Author

"Anyone who is to find Christ must first find the church. How could anyone know where Christ is and what faith is in him unless he knew where his believers are?"

Martin Luther, Professor

"For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel"

Martin Luther, Professor

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

Leo Rosten, Novelist

"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

"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

"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

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

Laurence J. Peter, Writer

"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

"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

"What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? are they two and not one? Can they exist separate? Are not religion and politics the same thing? Brotherhood is religion. O demonstrations of reason dividing families in cruelty and pride!"

William Blake, Poet

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

Kurt Vonnegut, Author

"I was brought up as a Catholic and went to church every week and took the sacraments. It never really touched the core of my being"

Sting, Musician

"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

"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

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

Don Marquis, Journalist

"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

"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

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

Michael Servetus, Scientist

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

Allen Ginsberg, Poet

"My family, frankly, they weren't folks who went to church every week. My mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew but she didn't raise me in the church, so I came to my Christian faith later in life and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead"

Barack Obama, President

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

Marquis de Sade, Novelist

"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

"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

"Nobody seems to know yet how television is going to affect the radio, movies, love, housekeeping or the church, but it has definitely revived vaudeville"

Edgar Bergen, Actor

"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

"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

"Truth is the silliest thing under the sun. Try to get a living by the Truth and go to the Soup Societies. Heavens! Let any clergyman try to preach the Truth from its very stronghold, the pulpit, and they would ride him out of his church on his own pulpit bannister"

Herman Melville, Novelist

"The vow of celibacy is a matter of keeping one's word to Christ and the Church. a duty and a proof of the priest's inner maturity; it is the expression of his personal dignity"

Pope John Paul II, Clergyman

"The question confronting the Church today is not any longer whether the man in the street can grasp a religious message, but how to employ the communications media so as to let him have the full impact of the Gospel message"

Pope John Paul II, Clergyman

"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

"Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family - a domestic church"

Pope John Paul II, Clergyman

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

Miley Cyrus, Musician

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

Billy Sunday, Clergyman

"Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not. The church is going to have to become the conscience of the free market if it's to have any meaning in this world - and stop being its apologist"

Bono, Musician

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