The truth is, the Devil's job is easy.
Love only fails when we fail to love.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I believe with all my heart that the Church of Jesus Christ should be a Church of blurred edges.
You go to church to respect God, not the priest. By not going to church, you disrespect God, not the priest. - Don Camillo
I grew up in the United Methodist Church, and church was always a very big part of my growing up.
The Church of England is the only church in the world that interferes neither with your politics nor your religion
In fact, my parents were church people; my father was a deacon in the church.
Living in filth was regarded by great numbers of holy men, who set an example to the Church and to society, as an evidence of sanctity. St. Jerome and the Breviary of the Roman Church dwell with unction on the fact that St. Hilarion lived his whole l...
I have always thought of myself as a Czechoslovak Catholic.
I am just an ordinary Catholic.
Growing up Catholic has been a gift.
I'm Irish. That means I'm Catholic. But, truth is, now I'm a retired Christian.
A Buddhist or a good atheist is as acceptable to God as a good Catholic.
