1130 Church Quotes for You to Enjoy

I went into a church and simply said, 'Goodbye.' It is the terrible unfairness of life. How could God allow cancer, poverty, the sheer unfairness of so many lives? That is the question which finishes it for me. Ruth Rendell

There's always been a religious strain in me. I can't get rid of it. I don't want to get rid of it. I'm not involved in a church, but I understand that impulse to believe in something that's never going to betray you. Ruth Wilson

Me You Church Believe Religious Betray Something Never Involved Understand Always Been Get Going Impulse Want Strain Rid

English churchmen have long gazed with love on the primitive church as the ideal of Christian perfection, the Eden wherein the first fathers of their faith walked blameless before God and passionless towards each other. Sabine Baring-Gould

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

Legal Church Late Our Has-Been Since Involved Been Ordained

Respect for the dignity of the human person is the foundational principle of any just society. From a Catholic perspective, it also forms the foundation of all of our Church's social teachings. Salvatore J. Cordileone

Respect Dignity Perspective Church Society Our Also Principle Catholic Person Any Human Just Forms Social Teachings Foundation Foundational

I was a Presbyterian minister at a small church in Omaha, Nebraska. Sam Barry

Church Minister Small Presbyterian Nebraska Omaha

My voice gets recognized before anything else. It's always gotten attention. In choruses at church and school, I started as a tenor, moved to a baritone and finally became a bass. I knew then that my voice would be my instrument. Now if I want to hide, I just keep my mouth shut. Sam Elliott

Hide School Church Before Mouth Bass Else Finally Recognized Would Would-Be Voice Tenor Knew Attention Instrument Became Always Gotten Gets Just Moved Want Anything Anything Else Then Baritone Keep Now Shut Started

It was like going to church, except Ozzy Osbourne was there. Sam Kinison

Church Except Like Going Ozzy

Some of the craziest people I know, some of the coolest guys I know who party and go crazy and play rock shows and have tons of tattoos, they will still go to church on Sunday and do their best to live that kind of a life. Samuel Larsen

When I'm really stressed out, I go to church. I light candles and sit and pray. And I'll ask myself, What's the lesson? Why am I going through this? There's got to be a reason I'm here. What am I supposed to learn? Sandra Lee

Wherever Koreans are, they set up a church. Sandra Oh

Church Koreans Up Wherever Set

I grew up in so much church: English-speaking church, Korean church. Sandra Oh

Church Korean Up Grew Much English-Speaking

I have a friend who lives in the South Side of Chicago. I helped out at a church charity there where they try to give a bit of cohesion to a desperate area. Everyone was very welcoming. Sara Paretsky

The principle of plural marriage was revealed to the Mormons amid much secrecy. Dark clouds hovered over the church in the early 1840s, after rumors spread that its founder, Joseph Smith, had taken up the practice of polygamy. While denying the charge in public, by 1843 Smith had shared a revelation with his closest disciples. Scott Anderson

Marriage Clouds Dark Church Practice Secrecy Rumors Charge Mormons Had Shared Taken Joseph Over Principle Smith Disciples Revealed Revelation Spread His Up Denying Closest After Polygamy While Public Much Founder Early

I went to a fundamentalist Christian high school and went to a fundamentalist church, and they were the greatest people; there was an amazing sense of community. The problem is when the messiness of real life enters, and the inflexibility of a moral code cannot cope with the realities of moral relativism. Scott Derrickson

For some of my friends who raise personal objections to marriage equality, they still recognize the importance of being accepting. And many of them also recognize that regardless of what they choose to believe or practice at home or at their church, that doesn't give them the right to discriminate. Scott Fujita

Home Marriage Equality Church Practice Believe Recognize Marriage Equality Some Objections Give Importance Also Accepting Still Friends Discriminate Personal Being Regardless Them Choose Who Many Right Raise

May God forgive us for the times when we as individuals and as a Church failed to seek out and care for those little ones who were frightened, alone and in pain because someone was abusing them. That we did not always respond to your cries with the concern of the Good Shepherd is a matter of deep shame. Sean Brady

God Alone Good Matter Care Church Pain Cries Those Respond Out Seek Someone Shame Failed Individuals Abuse Concern Because Always Shepherd Were Times Frightened Did Forgive May Little Them Us Your Who Deep

I've been singing forever; I grew up singing in church. Sevyn Streeter

Church Singing Been Up Forever Grew

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