Quotes of: Roman-catholic-church Keyword

People don't come to church for preachments, of course, but to daydream about God.

Kurt Vonnegut

Joining a new church and starting a new life is never easy and often frightening.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Our church has been legal since late 1960s. I've been involved since 1972. I was ordained in 1975.

Sally Kirkland

Vatican II declares the Church... as necessary for salvation.

Francis Arinze

Depressions may bring people closer to the church but so do funerals.

Clarence Darrow

I grew up in the church and had always questioned what they were telling me.

Jimmy Cliff

What the church is really concerned about is what endures.

Donald Wuerl

Every individual in the church is free to think as he pleases.

Gordon B. Hinckley

The Church being what she is cannot have the instincts of a gentleman.

George Everett Macdonald

In no instance have... the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.

James Madison

Yes, though I have nothing but gratitude for my upbringing in the church.

John McGahern

I don't go to church regularly. I wouldn't say I was religious, but more spiritual.

Julian Ovenden

Cheap grace is the deadly enemy of our church. We are fighting today for costly grace.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

I kept quiet for eight years. I did not want to hurt the church.

Jessica Hahn

The Joker: Darling, I've got to get you to the church on time.

Batman

Our public schools began as ministries of the church; now it is time to return them to the Lord.

Jay Alan Sekulow

Dr. Peter Venkman: NOBODY steps on a church in my town.

Ghostbusters

Callings in the church, as important as they are, by their very nature are only for a period of time, and then an appropriate release takes place.

Ezra Taft Benson

I am not the Jesus of the official church tolerated by those in power. I am not your superstar.

Klaus Kinski

The church is not a political power; it's not a party, but it's a moral power.

Pope Benedict XVI

No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state.

Felix Adler