Famous Quotes & Sayings

They're a solid church; my family goes there, ... They're probably the most stable independent church in the area. I know them, and I trust them, and they're capable.

They realize that church members are just like us, but they have something we don't.

Edward Abbey

In social institutions, the whole is always less than the sum of its parts. There will never be a state as good as its people, or a church worthy of its congregation, or a university equal to its faculty and students.

In our homes there's tons of technology available, and then you go to church and it feels archaic. In today's world, if you don't have technology in the church you don't even have what people have in their homes.

Clayton Christensen

Inviting others to help us with our work in the Church helps them feel needed and helps them feel the Spirit. When these feelings come, many people often then realize that something has been missing from their lives.

Bud Selig

I, of course, share the concerns that you have raised and I will take steps to insure that much of what you have written is implemented into Major League Baseball, ... I was deeply offended by what happened with Ryan Church and Jon Moeller.

James E. Faust

The saving principles and doctrines of the Church are established, fixed, and unchangeable.

Janet Evanovich

I was going to go to church, but I decided to get doughnuts instead.

Frank Herbert

In 1054, the patriarch of Constantinople and the pope excommunicated each other. That was the end of holiness for both churches.

Harold B. Lee

Remember that, brethren. You cannot destroy the appointments of the prophets of God. The Lord knows whom He wants to preside in His Church, and sometimes it takes a lot of practicing, guiding, testing, before He may know whether or not one of us is prepared for the present assignment.

George Herbert

Bells call others, but themselves enter not into the Church.

Jay-Z

You ain't gotta go to church to find your God.

Karl Lehmann

The mission proper to the Church is that of proclaiming the Gospel.

Karl Marx

The English Established Church... will more readily pardon an attack on 38 of its 39 articles than on 1/39 of its income.

Joseph Smith, Jr.

If you will stay with the majority of the Twelve Apostles, and the records of the Church, you will never be led astray.

H. G. Wells

Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.

George Herbert

Some make a conscience of spitting in the Church, yet robbe the Altar.

George Herbert

Nothing lasts but the Church.

Jim DeMint

Partner with churches to assist the poor.

Robert Jeffress

I do believe, sooner rather than later, churches will face the loss of their tax-exempt status if they do not engage in same-sex ceremonies.

Howard Carter

Let me ever love Thyself more than Thy service.

If church leaders will not provide them, there may be a friendly member of the congregation who has a directory that he or she can pass along.

He's in his stall in Churchill Downs. We walked him here this morning before he left. ... They said he unloaded good.

Enya

My influences are with Irish music, church music and classical music,

Emily Saliers

I was in a church choir early on and that really helped me musically in terms of chops, learning how to sing harmonies.

Evan Esar

The Lord takes care of his own, but church trustees still put lightning rods on the steeple.

Ira Glasser

The first exception [to the First Amendment] will not be the last.

J. B. Priestley

It is hard to tell where the MCC ends and the Church of England begins.

J. C. Ryle

If you want to warm a church, put a stove in the pulpit.

Churches are the only thing that we do. I'm not sure we know all the answers, but we have heard all the questions.

Churches are the new radio. You have a kind of music here that engages tens of millions of people every Sunday.

Jim Fowler

But I'll tell you what, there was a lot of farmland between Falls Church and Washington.

Thomas Howard

I owe my nurture to evangelicalism. The evangelical wins hands down in the history of the church when it comes to nurturing a biblically literate laity. When we think of evangelism, evangelicals are the most resourceful, the most intrepid, and the most creative. But evangelicals themselves would say that they have never come to grips with what the whole mystery of the church is.