Church Quotes

I don't have a religion. I ain't nothing wrong with church as long as they selling chicken. Cause I read the Quran, I read the Kabalah, I read the Bible. They all got the same three basic principles: Love God, love your neighbor as yourself, and...As far as me being, I live by those principles.

You can study God through everything and everyone in the universe, because God is not confined in a mosque, synagogue or church. But if you are still in need of knowing where exactly His abode is, there is only one place to look for Him: in the heart of a true lover.

I am in love with every church And mosque And temple And any kind of shrine Because I know it is there That people say the different names Of the One God.

A time will come when instead of shepherds feeding the sheep, the church will have clowns entertaining the goats

Sportsmanship... what a load of crap, don't preach your morality to me. Steve Austin doesn't have any mercy... you want mercy? Take your *ss to church!

If you cannot find Christ in the beggar at the church door, you will not find Him in the chalice.

The Bible is not the light of the world, it is the light of the Church. But the world does not read the Bible, the world reads Christians! “You are the light of the world.”

The Church says that the Earth is flat, but I know that it is round. For I have seen the shadow of the Earth on the moon, and I have more faith in the shadow than in the Church.

There is no reason to regret that I cannot finish the church. I will grow old but others will come after me. What must always be conserved is the spirit of the work, but its life has to depend on the generations it is handed down to and with whom it lives and is incarnated

A church that doesn't provoke any crises, a gospel that doesn't unsettle, a word of God that doesn't get under anyone’s skin, a word of God that doesn't touch the real sin of the society in which it is being proclaimed — ​what gospel is that?

Christianity is being concerned about [others], not building a million-dollar church while people are starving right around the corner. Christ was a revolutionary person, out there where it was happening. That's what God is all about, and that's where I get my strength.

When the church hears the cry of the oppressed it cannot but denounce the social structures that give rise to and perpetuate the misery from which the cry arises.

I believe that one reason why the church of God at this present moment has so little influence over the world is because the world has so much influence over the church.

The church changes the world not by making converts but by making disciples.

The expiatory church of La Sagrada Família is made by the people and is mirrored in them. It is a work that is in the hands of God and the will of the people.

To be spiritual is not by praying and going to church. Spiritualism is the understanding of the universe so that it can be a better place to live in.

You want mercy? Take your ass to church!

You can tell the people that if they succeed in killing me, that I forgive and bless those who do it. Hopefully, they will realize they are wasting their time. A bishop will die, but the church of God, which is the people, will never perish.

It is a tragedy when the church saves money instead of saving souls. We MUST spend to save.

If the presence of God is in the church, the church will draw the world in. If the presence of God is not in the church, the world will draw the church out.

It is better to go skiing and think of God, than go to church and think of sport.

I'd rather have ten people that want God than 10,000 people who want to play church.

I’d rather be in the mountains thinking of God, than in church thinking about the mountains.

May a merciful God preserve me from a Christian Church in which everyone is a saint! I want to be and remain in the church and little flock of the fainthearted, the feeble and the ailing, who feel and recognize the wretchedness of their sins, who sigh and cry to God incessantly for comfort and help, who believe in the forgiveness of sins.

If I were not a Catholic, and were looking for the true Church in the world today, I would look for the one Church which did not get along well with the world; in other words, I would look for the Church which the world hated.

Help me, Lord, to remember that religion is not to be confined to the church... nor exercised only in prayer and meditation, but that every where I am in Thy Presence

Let the Church always be a place of mercy and hope, where everyone is welcomed, loved and forgiven.

Every church needs to be able to answer two questions. First, what is our plan for making disciples? And second, does our plan work?

The world doesn't want to be punished. It wants to remain in darkness. It doesn't want to be told that what it believes is false. If you also don't want to be corrected, then you might as well leave the church and spend your time at the bar and brothel. But if you want to be saved-and remember that there's another life after this one-you must accept correction.

[A]ll churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Muslim, are simply human inventions. They use fear to enslave us. They are a monopoly for power and profit.

Worshipers never leave church...we carry our sanctuary with us wherever we go.

I will go peaceably and firmly to the Catholic Church: for if Faith is so important to our salvation, I will seek it where true Faith first began, seek it among those who received it from God Himself.

Now the Church is not wood and stone, but the company of believing people; one must hold to them, and see how they believe, live and teach.

If you look around, you can find a face of God in each thing, because He is not hidden in a church, in a mosque, or a synagogue, but everywhere. As there is no one who lives after seeing him, there is also no one dying after seeing him. Who finds Him, stays forever with him.

The greatest obstacle in the apostolate of the Church is the timidity or rather the cowardice of the faithful.

The less power a church has, the more entertainment it has.

A good local pub has much in common with a church, except that a pub is warmer, and there's more conversation.

Church is what you do. Church is who you are. Church is the human outworking of the person of Jesus Christ. Let's not go to Church, let's be the Church.

In all cases, the Church is to be judged by the Scripture, not the Scripture by the Church.

If our church is not marked by caring for the poor, the oppressed, the hungry, we are guilty of heresy.

Sometimes I need to reject the music proposed for my songs because the musicians misunderstand that the Fanny Crosby who once wrote for the people in the saloons has merely changed the lyrics. Oh my no. The church must never sing it's songs to the melodies of the world.

The best remedy for a sick church is to put it on a missionary diet.

I want to throw open the windows of the Church so that we can see out and the people can see in.

Persecution has never hurt the church ... only prosperity.

The local church is the hope of the world, and its future rests primarily in the hands of its leaders.

The Church is not the building, its the people, its not just the gathering, its also the scattering.

It does matter where you go to church, it does matter where you worship, it does matter where you lift your head, it does matter where you cry out to God. There is something about the atmosphere. I might be lame, but put me in the atmosphere. I may be drunk, but put me in the atmosphere. I may be weak, but put me in the atmosphere.

The excellence of the Church does not consist in multitude but in purity.

Look, don't judge Christianity by the imperfect examples that we have seen in history. Judge it by Jesus Christ.

I don't need a church to tell me I'm wrong where I already know I'm wrong; I need a Church to tell me I'm wrong where I think I'm right