Imagine all contradictions, all possible incompatibilities--you will find them in the government, in the law-courts, in the churches, in the public shows of this droll nation.
Dear Church, everyone is broken, stop pretending like you're not.
The Church today is more likely to alienate than to seduce...
I seemed so different from other kids; I grew up in church and felt a connection with God, and a lot of kids my age really didn't understand that.
At age 11, I went to a Jewish school. I speak Yiddish. I'm Church of England Protestant. My father was Catholic, and my mother was Protestant. My wife is a Muslim.
I've traveled all over the country for years speaking in churches, teaching the Ten Commandments. It's amazing if 2 percent of any congregation knows the Ten Commandments.
never say amen in church if they're capping off a prayer about you.
The world and it's people are my church". ~R. Alan Woods [1996]
It felt exactly like someone had hit me in the head with a church.
The world is perishing for lack of the knowledge of God and the Church is famishing for want of His Presence.
In 1054, the patriarch of Constantinople and the pope excommunicated each other. That was the end of holiness for both churches.
A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.
There is a danger that threatens everyone in the church, all of us. The danger of worldliness. It leads us to vanity, arrogance and pride.
Leaders of the Church have often been Narcissus, flattered and sickeningly excited by their courtiers. The court is the leprosy of the papacy.
I was unwilling to - without getting too philosophical about it - I was unwilling to structure my spirituality in the way that the church wanted me to structure it.
As for the British churchman, he goes to church as he goes to the bathroom, with the minimum of fuss and no explanation if he can help it.
We should always be disposed to believe that that which appears white is really black, if the hierarchy of the Church so decides.
I started saying things in church that didn't meet with a lot of approval - like 'Jesus isn't coming back.' They started throwing Bibles.
The clock in the church tower said 4.32, as it had done for three hundred years. It was right once a day and that was better than no clock at all.
It doesn't matter what Church you belong to. If you don't believe in yourself you're Already Damned
Some Churches are heated and cooled 365 days a year. As homeless soldiers lay in alleys and bushes quite near.
