Church Quotes

"There were theoretical elements in the subjection of women and it is not possible to avoid the conclusion that a large contribution was made to them by the Church. In part this was a matter of its hostile stance towards sexuality"

J. M. Roberts

"Those churches have closed down or have been merged with a church that has a more positive vision"

Bill Hybels, Clergyman

"I walked away from going to church when I was 8. I didn't set foot in another church until I was 28"

Billy Corgan, Musician

"One of my good friends is Christian, goes to church every Sunday, very religious. I'm fine with that and I will never judge her"

Amber Tamblyn, Actress

"Church is great, but I found my church here. Hugh Hefner has been nothing but a gentleman"

Jessica Hahn, Celebrity

"When I'm on stage, I'm trying to do one thing: bring people joy. Just like church does. People don't go to church to find trouble, they go there to lose it"

James Brown, Musician

"Among our own people also the church sorely needs clergy in close touch with the ordinary life of the laity, living the life of ordinary men, sharing their difficulties and understanding their trials by close personal experience"

Roland Allen, Clergyman

"The church of St. Peter at Berlin, notwithstanding the total difference between them in the style of building, appears in some respects to have a great resemblance to St. Paul's in London"

Karl Philipp Moritz, Author

"Some will have to cease thinking of the Church as a memorial association for a deceased clergyman called Christ"

Stephen Bayne

"It was like going to church, except Ozzy Osbourne was there"

Sam Kinison, Comedian

"As long as the house of The Holy Spirit remains a haven for criminals the reputation of the church will remain in ruins"

Sinead O'Connor, Musician

"If a church offers no truth that is not available in the general culture - in, for instance, the editorials of the New York Times or, for that matter, of National Review - there is not much reason to pay it attention"

Richard John Neuhaus, Writer

"I was raised by the Christian Brothers, who believe in that, fortunately. They were, to me, the most rebellious arm of the Catholic Church - and one of the most liberal and forward thinking"

Paul Kantner, Musician

"In the past, children learned their values at home, reinforced by organizations such as the Boy Scouts and, of course, their church or synagogue, but in all too many families that is no longer the case"

Paul Weyrich, Critic

"I'm sure Church got some of his ideas from this trip to Europe"

Stephen Cole Kleene, Mathematician

"In the Church of Jesus Christ there can and should be no non-theologians"

Karl Barth, Theologian

"I am also actively involved in my church and its community activities. We have programs to improve the lives of our congregation and programs of outreach in the community"

Samuel Wilson, Public Servant

"I wouldn't want to criticise someone like Charlotte Church because she has done fantastically well, but personally I've always cared about the long term"

Lesley Garrett, Musician

"Usually, it is not my habit to address religious issues on the floor. I strongly believe in a person's right to religious freedom, as well as the separation of church and state"

Alcee Hastings, Politician

"When the problems in Northern Ireland started, it was not a question of Protestantism or Catholicism, because the Catholic church was the only church at that time-it was a nationalist conflict"

Harri Holkeri, Politician

"There is too much theology in the Church now, and too little of the Gospel"

Lewis Tappan, Businessman

"Too many church services start at eleven sharp and end at twelve dull"

Vance Havner

"Last winter when I was coming home from church one Thursday evening, I saw somebody run around the house again. I told my father of that"

Lizzie Andrew Borden, Celebrity

"I've been stuck on John Eldredge lately. He's all about being a warrior outside of the church. I hate to think about this kind of stuff - I just like to do it"

John Tesh, Musician

"It wasn't until my second year that I got to actually work with Church"

Stephen Cole Kleene, Mathematician

"Our own theological Church, as we know, has scorned and vilified the body till it has seemed almost a reproach and a shame to have one, yet at the same time has credited it with power to drag the soul to perdition"

Eliza Farnham, Activist

"There is no one true church"

Pat Buckley, Clergyman

"That's what they do in Europe. You go down to the city hall and you become legally connected. You have a civil union there. Then, if you're religious, you go down to the church, and the church blesses the union. That gets the problem solved"

Tony Campolo, Clergyman

"In the polls, over 80% support the right to die and have done for the last 25 years. Even 80% of practising Catholics and Protestants support it, plus 76% of Church Times readers"

Polly Toynbee, Journalist

"As God as my witness, they said, We're above the law. There's nothing you can do to us. You're just a church secretary"

Jessica Hahn, Celebrity

"My hope that the Church will emerge as a strong leader in society is just that a hope. What I described in The Catholic Moment is not a prophecy but the outline of a possibility. There are no guarantees that my hopes expressed in The Catholic Moment will ever be realised"

Richard John Neuhaus, Writer

"My eyes are wide open to the conflicts within the Church, but I don't think you can call it schism"

Richard John Neuhaus, Writer

"The right-to-life movement and the Roman Catholic Church are saying that it is better to destroy these embryos, or preferably have them adopted - which is not going to happen - than to use them for research"

Mort Kondracke, Journalist

"There are fully forty towers, which are lofty and well built, the largest of which has fifty steps leading to its main body, and is higher than the tower of the principal tower of the church at Seville"

Hernando Cortes, Leader

"Not far from our house, and opposite the old church with the golden cross, stood a large building, even larger than the church, and having many towers"

Max Muller, Educator

"Westminster Abbey, the Tower, a steeple, one church, and then another, presented themselves to our view; and we could now plainly distinguish the high round chimneys on the tops of the houses, which yet seemed to us to form an innumerable number of smaller spires, or steeples"

Karl Philipp Moritz, Author

"I sang in church growing up. Memphis is the blues capital of the world, we like to say"

Justin Timberlake, Musician

"Really, at a time when they're debating when and where a nativity scene can be used, this is the kind of stuff we need to have out there - outside of the church"

John Tesh, Musician

"I was green. All I knew was to walk my dog and go to church"

Jessica Hahn, Celebrity

"I contend the state ought to do its thing and provide legal rights for all couples who want to be joined together for life. The church should bless unions that it sees fit to bless, and they should be called marriages"

Tony Campolo, Clergyman

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