Church Quotes

"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

"Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy gets the Catholic Church. America gets Hollywood"

Erica Jong, Novelist

"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

"Christianity means a lot more than church membership"

Billy Sunday, Clergyman

"A revival does two things. First, it returns the Church from her backsliding and second, it causes the conversion of men and women; and it always includes the conviction of sin on the part of the Church. What a spell the devil seems to cast over the Church today!"

Billy Sunday, Clergyman

"Hypocrites in the Church? Yes, and in the lodge and at the home. Don't hunt through the Church for a hypocrite. Go home and look in the mirror. Hypocrites? Yes. See that you make the number one less"

Billy Sunday, Clergyman

"Unless you have made a complete surrender and are doing his will it will avail you nothing if you've reformed a thousand times and have your name on fifty church records"

Billy Sunday, Clergyman

"God Almighty never intended that the devil should triumph over the Church. He never intended that the saloons should walk rough-shod over Christianity"

Billy Sunday, Clergyman

"In the Church, considered as a social organism, the mysteries inevitably degenerate into beliefs"

Simone Weil, Philosopher

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

Randall Terry, Celebrity

"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

"And I definitely wanted to be a writer, but I felt a duty now, having used up those educational resources, I felt a duty to the church and my parents to become a priest"

Thomas Keneally, Novelist

"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

"And I think my sexuality was heavily repressed by the church, by the, you know, the design of the mortal sins"

Thomas Keneally, Novelist

"And I found both literature and the church very dramatic presences in the world of the 1950s"

Thomas Keneally, Novelist

"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

"The state and the church seldom approve of anything I do. I don't need their approval. I don't aspire to the heterosexual nuclear family model"

Jasmine Guy, Actress

"Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and state forever separate"

Ulysses S. Grant, President

"If you were to look back at me as a school kid you'd see a very quiet little church mouse kind of character"

Johnny Rotten, Musician

"The president of the branch in Atlanta was a pastor of a church, the Reverend Sam Williams, a wonderful guy. He was middle-class and fairly militant for the time and place"

Julian Bond, Activist

"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

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

Bill Lee, Athlete

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

Klaus Kinski, Actor

"I did not compose my work as one might put on a church vestment... rather it sprung from the truly fervent faith of my heart, such as I have felt it since my childhood"

Franz Liszt, Composer

"Depressions may bring people closer to the church but so do funerals"

Clarence Darrow, Lawyer

"When cerebral processes enter into sports, you start screwing up. It's like the Constitution, which says separate church and state. You have to separate mind and body"

Bill Lee, Athlete

"Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me"

Alice Walker, Author

"I take the kids to church and Sunday school. They love it. I really think it's important for a child to feel that there are things that are bigger than your life out there"

Reese Witherspoon, Actress

"The schools would fail through their silence, the Church through its forgiveness, and the home through the denial and silence of the parents. The new generation has to hear what the older generation refuses to tell it"

Simon Wiesenthal, Activist

"The teachings of the Church line up more with the Democratic Party than the Republican Party"

James Carville, Lawyer

"We thought the church had withdrawn from interfering in Italian politics... but instead there is a terrible resurgence. These are ugly signs for freedom of expression"

Dario Fo, Playwright

"You can't seperate modern jazz from rock or from rhythm and blues - you can't seperate it. Because that's where it all started, and that's where it all come from - that's where I learned to keep rhythm - in church"

Art Blakey, Musician

"My grandmother, she say I shouldn't be playing. I should go to church. Fially, I say I'm going do this, I'm going do it. And she got where she didn't bother me about it"

Muddy Waters, Musician

"You get a heck of a sound from the church. Can't you hear it in my voice?"

Muddy Waters, Musician

"Yet for my part, deeply as I am moved by the religious architecture of the Middle Ages, I cannot honestly say that I ever felt the slightest emotion in any modern Gothic church"

Goldwin Smith, Historian

"Before my grandpa built his own church, we went to the neighboring town, and it was a white community. You know, up north, mostly middle European people and Indians, Chippewa Indians. We were welcome to that church, but once we got in, they didn't know what to do with us"

James Earl Jones, Actor

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