Quotes of: Church Keyword

In places where marriage's core meaning has been altered through legal action, officials are beginning to target for punishment those believers and churches that refuse to adapt.

Salvatore J. Cordileone

The Gospel of Judas is a kind of protest literature. It's challenging leaders of the church.

Elaine Pagels

A servant church must have as its priority solidarity with the poor.

Claudio Hummes

If God be near a church, it must pray. And if he be not there, one of the first tokens of his absence will be a slothfulness in prayer.

Charles H. Spurgeon

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

H. G. Wells

If our church is not marked by caring for the poor, the oppressed, the hungry, we are guilty of heresy.

Ignatius of Loyola

I was brought up Methodist, christened as a little baby and went to church every Sunday.

Deborah Norville

Faithful attendance at Church meetings brings blessings you can receive in no other way.

Ezra Taft Benson

Humanity is not a church made of stone, in which vault after vault lies open.

Goran Persson

Missions is not the ultimate goal of the church. Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn't.

John Piper

If you will stay with the majority of the Twelve Apostles, and the records of the Church, you will never be led astray.

Joseph Smith, Jr.

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

Justin Timberlake

Church attendance is as vital to a disciple as a transfusion of rich, healthy blood to a sick man.

Dwight L. Moody

The first persecution of the Church took place in the year 67, under Nero, the sixth emperor of Rome.

John Foxe

The Left regards the Constitution as defective and outmoded - in part because it impedes the government's ability to control institutions, like churches and families, which stand between the state and individuals.

Gary Bauer

I think that the churches do a better job in many respects than the government does in various kinds of things. Extending aid, the helpfulness, and so on, yes.

Gordon B. Hinckley

The Minister: We do not need bells in our church to worship God.

Breaking the Waves

I grew up in church, so every time I say certain words, I'm like, 'I'm going to get in trouble.'

Craig Robinson

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

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

The black groups that boycott certain films would do better to get the money together to make the films they want to see, or stay in church and leave us to our work.

Richard Pryor