1124 Church Quotes for You to Enjoy

I understood that the Church had a Heart, and that this Heart was burning with love. Thérèse of Lisieux

Love Heart Church Had Understood Burning

I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Service Better Church Before Preaching Silent Like Than Begins Any

I would suggest the taxation of all property equally, whether church or corporation, exempting only the last resting place of the dead and possibly, with proper restrictions, church edifices. Ulysses S. Grant

Property Church Resting Corporation Possibly Would Resting Place Proper Only Restrictions Dead Equally Whether Place Taxation Suggest Last

Solemnity is proper in church, but things that are proper in church are not necessarily proper outside, and vice versa. For example, I can say a prayer while washing my teeth, but that does not mean I should wash my teeth in church. C. S. Lewis

'We really shouldn't look like a church.' I've heard that so much I want to vomit. 'Why?' I ask. 'Do you want your bank to look like a bank? Do you want your doctor's office to look like a doctor's office, or would you prefer your doctor to dress like a clown?' Charles R. Swindoll

You Doctor Church Clown Would Dress Vomit Like Look Heard Office Bank Want Prefer Ask Much Really Your Why

We want a crowd to make us feel important and liked. But why is getting a crowd our focus? Jesus never suggested that crowds were the goal. He never addresses getting your church to grow. Never. Charles R. Swindoll

We cannot have communion with Christ till we are in union with Him; and we cannot have communion with the Church till we are in vital union with it. Charles Spurgeon

Christ Church We Cannot Vital Him Till Cannot Communion Union

My mother always used to say, 'Well, if you had been born a little girl growing up in Egypt, you would go to church or go to worship Allah, but surely if those people are worshipping a God, it must be the same God' - that's what she always said. The same God with different names. Jane Goodall

God You People Allah Mother Church Girl Worship Say Worshipping Those Must Would Born Had Names She Well Surely Said Always Go Been Up Same Egypt Different Little Little Girl Different Names Used Growing Growing Up

The audience that I try to reach are members of what I call the church alumni association. Now they are people who have not found in institutional religion a God big enough to be God for their world. John Shelby Spong

God Religion People World Try Church Big Enough Members Institutional Reach Call Alumni Audience Big Enough Who Found Now Association

I am politically pro-choice, but personally pro-life. I have my faith but refuse to force it on the world at large - especially this world, so brutal and unjust. I cannot make these wrenching personal life and death decisions for others - nor do I believe they should be made by a church run by childless men. Julianna Baggott

Life Death Faith World Church Made Men Personal Life Believe Unjust Others Run Life And Death Wrenching Brutal Force Make Am Nor Personal Pro-Choice Pro-Life Politically Refuse Childless Cannot Decisions Personally Should Large

I have such happy memories of performing in a choir and I don't think I'd have got where I am today without all that experience. So my advice to young singers is to either join your school or church's choir or find one in your local area. Choral music at any level teaches you so much about musicianship and blending your voice. Katherine Jenkins

Today Music You Memories Happy Experience School Church Advice Young Think Local Musicianship Find About Voice Area Join Blending Performing Singers Without Got Am Any Where Either Much Choir Your Teaches Level

For me, true beauty has nothing to do with wrinkles and everything to do with the fact that my maternal grandmother raised five children just after the war and remained a fighter throughout her life. True beauty is the slick of red lipstick my paternal grandmother would put on before going to church on Sunday. Monica Bellucci

Life War Me Church Sunday Wrinkles Beauty Before Nothing Fighter Slick Everything Would Fact Remained Throughout Put True Red True Beauty Red Lipstick Maternal Five Lipstick Paternal Going Just Children After Grandmother Her Raised

Nature is my church. The wind in the trees and the bugs and the frogs. All those things are comfort to me. Sissy Spacek

Nature Me Church Wind Trees Those Comfort Bugs Frogs Things

Declare Church and State forever separate and distinct, but each free within their proper spheres, and that all church property shall bear its own proportion of taxation. Ulysses S. Grant

Property Church Free Own State Church And State Distinct Spheres Proper Bear Shall Proportion Within Forever Declare Taxation Separate Each

A revival does two things. First, it returns the Church from her backsliding and second, it causes the conversion of men and women; and it always includes the conviction of sin on the part of the Church. What a spell the devil seems to cast over the Church today! Billy Sunday

Today Women Church Men Men And Women First Devil Conviction Spell Seems Cast Part Sin Over Returns Does Always Causes Revival Conversion Her Things Second Two

A good man, is a good man, whether in this church, or out of it. Brigham Young

Good Man Good Man Church Out Whether

I dare not stay home while Quichuas perish. What if the well-filled church in the homeland needs stirring? They have the Scriptures, Moses, and the prophets, and a whole lot more. Their condemnation is written on their bank books and in the dust on their Bible covers. Jim Elliot

Home Needs Bible Church Dust Books Dare Stay More Prophets Written Moses Perish Condemnation Covers Lot Stirring What If Bank While Scriptures Whole Homeland

For faithful Catholics, communion is not just a nice ritual: It is the body and blood of Jesus Christ, and the ultimate sign of our willingness to be incorporated into the church. Maggie Gallagher

Christ Church Faithful Nice Our Sign Willingness Ritual Catholics Ultimate Blood Just Body Communion Jesus Jesus Christ Incorporated

It is a better thing to save souls for the Lord than to save treasures. He who sent forth his apostles without gold had not need of gold to form his Church. The Church possesses gold, not to hoard, but to scatter abroad and come to the aid of the unfortunate. Saint Ambrose

Better Church Aid Possesses Scatter Abroad Better Thing Had He Come Without Souls Lord His Than Hoard Gold Form Unfortunate Sent Forth Apostles Who Thing Treasures Need Save

The Catholic Church was the church of the colonial fascist regime. Samora Machel

Church Colonial Catholic Catholic Church Regime Fascist

My parents had us in church every Sunday, every Wednesday. It was more of a tradition at that point; I didn't have a personal relationship with the Lord until I went to the altar call one Sunday, and the youth pastor told us to make a decision for ourselves. Stephen Curry

Relationship Youth Decision Church Sunday Parents Every Every Sunday Ourselves More Wednesday Point Had Until Altar Make Call Lord Tradition Pastor Personal Personal Relationship Us

My mind is my own church. Thomas Paine

Mind Church Own My Own

My elder brothers were all put apprentices to different trades. I was put to the grammar-school at eight years of age, my father intending to devote me, as the tithe of his sons, to the service of the Church. Benjamin Franklin

Service Me Age Father Church Brothers Put Sons Devote Trades Were His Years Intending Eight Different Elder

When anyone has the power to destroy the whole human race in a matter of hours, it becomes a moral issue. The church must speak out. Billy Graham

Speak Matter Church Power Destroy Out Moral Must Moral Issue Hours Becomes Issue Human Anyone Race Human Race Whole

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