Quotes of: Church Keyword

In Edinburgh, there was a lovely little Episcopalian Church of Scotland church on my way to the theater, so I used to pop in there and soak up the atmosphere.

Neve McIntosh

My grandparents knew it was important that I understood Christianity and the Bible. But they never took me to church; they sent me to church.

Lee Greenwood

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

The principle that certain sins should not receive the Church's testimony of forgiveness was probably no novelty at all, but had been applied in various churches; perhaps, however, with no strict consistency.

Robert Rainy

I think our failure in the production of good town churches of distinctive character must have struck you often, as it has me, when contrasted with our comparative success in country churches.

George Edmund Street

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

The artistic taste of the Catholic priests is appalling and I am most anxious to have a Catholic church in which everything is genuine and good, and not tawdry and ostentatious.

Giles Gilbert Scott

I talk about a Christianity that is enlightened enough to separate spirituality from the rest of life. Not just church and state, but knowledge and church.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

A church of dialogue in the contemporary world... a church, taking on the mission of Jesus, which is in the world not to judge humanity, but to love it and to save it.

Claudio Hummes

I read a lot on the subject and had many conversations, and I have come to the conclusion that the Catholic Church is a force for evil.

Gabriel Byrne

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

George Carey

You go to church to respect God, not the priest. By not going to church, you disrespect God, not the priest. - Don Camillo

Giovannino Guareschi

I grew up in the United Methodist Church, and church was always a very big part of my growing up.

Hilarie Burton

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

Allen Ginsberg

The Church of England is the only church in the world that interferes neither with your politics nor your religion

Anthony Trollope

In fact, my parents were church people; my father was a deacon in the church.

Tina Turner

That churchgoers do the lion's share of the charitable work in our communities is simply untrue. They get credit for it because they do a better job of tying the good works they do to their creed. But according to a 1998 study, 82% of volunteerism by...

Parenting Beyond Belief: On Raising Ethical, Caring Kids Without Religion

Over the past thirty-five years, untold numbers of gay Christians have turned from God in their "failure" and "inability to please God," who, they were told, could not accept them as a gay person. Some felt so rejected and depressed that they turned ...

Walking the Bridgeless Canyon: Repairing the Breach Between the Church and the LGBT Community

The sound of a church bell at times has more effect than a sermon.

American

A cask of wine works more miracles than a church full of saints.

Italian

The church is near, but the way is icy. The tavern is far, but I will walk carefully.

Ukranian