Best Church Quotes

Is the Church fulfilling a purely religious role when by its silence or friendly relationships it lends legitimacy to dictatorial and oppressive government?

You have big names in Scientology running around pretending to be the nicest people, and they take the care to talk to you and look at you in the eye, but that’s all part of the process. That’s all part of being in the church – to be a good example, to ingratiate yourself to Hollywood so that they’ll say, Hey, I don’t know why you’re attacking Scientology. It’s all purposeful. I did it, I know!

What is there to be said about a Church which certainly promises its believers eternal salvation, but at the same time condemns the non-believers, all those who think differently, to an eternal torment in hell? – If that Church absolutely must talk about love, then it should do so very quietly.

If you really look at the numbers at the entertainment industry, in comparison to the small number of Scientologists that are celebrities, the number wouldn’t even register. I think Scientology has done an amazing job convincing people that there is a great number of celebrities in the Church.

I’m the only person in my family who can’t sing. My grandmother was an opera singer and all of her kids were in church five days a week – or between church and vocal lessons at Carnegie Hall. But my mom had her first studio experience recording on my album. She’s used to having to fill the room, so she had to adjust to the microphone and not sing opera.

The decision to leave [the church] is you’re giving up everything you’ve worked for your whole life. I feel that people need to understand this has been my whole life. As time goes on, you start to lose touch with the real world. The mindset becomes us against them.

Wanderers, Dublin’s oldest rugby club, has been described more than once as the club of the Church and the Army: the wags added
…unfortunately the wrong Church and the wrong Army.

Marriage vows in an objectivist church would probably run along the lines of Do you promise to attempt to dominate and subdue this woman until such time as you grow bored? Maybe. Close enough. And do you promise to applaud this man`s production until such time as you find someone with a bigger … corporation? Whatever. By the power vested in me by having scammed you guys out of a marriage license fee, I now pronounce you man and appendage. May you be unencumbered by small persons.

The only way out of the Scientology church is rip the Band-Aid off and know that your eternity is not at stake and know that you’re doing the right thing and know that you’re involved in a damaging, hurtful cult. Just look outside, don’t listen to Scientology. They are not saving the world. Don’t give up your lives, don’t give up your families, don’t give up your friends for something that turns its back on you and is ultimately a lie. What’s Scientology’s selling is a lie.

God is a God of motion, of movement, and of mission… Mission is not an activity of the church but an attribute of God. God is a missionary God, Jesus is a missionary Messiah, and the Spirit is a missionary Spirit. Missions is the family business.

Church unity comes from corporate humility.

All you have to do is get in a closer walk with God and you’ll find your enemies are in your own church.

Just like I believe God is everywhere, I believe that whether it’s nature, whether it’s sitting on a bike in spin class, that can be church, too, for me.

Only a couple of times have I ever been to church and felt enlightened by it.

I know specifically me being somebody who has had most of my experiences within the black church, that’s cultural… you gotta put on your church clothes when you got to church…and it’s nothing wrong with that – that’s absolutely fine! But I think what’s happening to a new generation ,the hip hop generation, there’s astigmatism, a feeling that I’m unwelcome.

There is too much theology in the Church now, and too little of the Gospel.

The idea that I would get to see this revival was almost overwhelming. And in the last decade or so, I believe we have seen this revival begin to sweep the earth. We have seen amazing moves of God in Africa Recently, I was in China and met with the underground church. I was told there are at least forty-five million Full Gospel Christians in China. I discovered a depth of prayer and integrity there that I have not felt anywhere else in the world So I believe we are seeing Wigglesworth’s prophecy begin to be fulfilled. We are seeing the first stages of it.

The church has paid a terrible price for statistics!

I think there’s a ton of things about being Catholic that are hard. Going to Church every week is tough. I’d like to go to church, like, every couple of months. Going to confession is hard. Confessing my sins out loud is a very difficult thing.

The two great moments in human history are the day that Christ was born and the day He was raised from the dead. These are represented by Christmas and Easter – the two biggest holidays for the church. People who don’t even go to church do go on these days.

A wise man can do no better than to turn from the churches and look up through the airy majesty of the wayside trees with exultation, with resignation, at the unconquerable uncomplicated sun.

Coming from the cotton plantation, the southern regions, I was brought up with real nice kids, mannered kids, who would go to church on Sunday.

In Europe I have been accused of taking my scientific ideas from the Church. In America I have been called a heretic, because I will not let my church-going friends pat me on the head.

Someone asked me, ‘Do you pray for the dead?’ I said, ‘No, I preach to them! I think every pew in every church is death row. Think about that! They’re dead! They sing about God; they talk about God, but they’re dead! They have no living relationship (with God).

People who minister worldwide to protect and conserve the environment are of no lower status than those who minister to plant churches.

I didn’t have to do paper routes. I’d sing for 5 bucks a crack at weddings and church functions; I’d have four or five on some Saturdays.

The victory of the Church over the power which was embodied in the Roman imperial system was not won by seizing the levers of power: it was won when the victims knelt down in the Colosseum and prayed in the name of Jesus for the Emperor.

We need to close every church in the land for one Sunday and cease listening to a man so we can hear the groan of the Spirit which we in our lush pews have forgotten.

Philanthropy is lost. The human spirit is suppressed. Most people want a legacy; they want to give something back, a library, a hospital wing, a donation to their church. This is a form of socialism that must go.

The church didn’t know what to do with Ray Charles or Al Green. And so they were kind of ostracized.

[Conservatives] go to church, they do lots of things for free for each other. They hold potluck dinners. … They serve food to poor people. They share, they give, they give away for free. It’s the very same people leading Wall Street firms who, on Sundays, show up and share.

I am a person that believes in different emotions with music. Music can bring about different vibes on the field, off the field, urban life, going to church, leaving church. Everything the world may bring, there’s a song for it to put you in the right frame of mind.

Men build our churches but do not enter them, print our Bibles but do not read them, talk about God but do not believe Him, speak of Christ but do not trust Him for salvation, sing our hymns and then forget them.

People in the church should not accept the notion that the public square is off limits to religious values.

If there were even one spark of evidence from antiquity that Jesus even may have gotten married, then as a historian, I would have to weigh this evidence against the total absence of such information in either Scripture or the early church traditions. But there is no such spark-not a scintilla of evidence-anywhere in historical sources. Even where one might expect to find such claims in the bizarre, second-century, apocryphal gospels…there is no reference that Jesus ever got married.