Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Spurgeon

It is the whole business of the whole church to preach the whole gospel to the whole world.

Charles Spurgeon

That very church which the world likes best is sure to be that which God abhors.

Daniel Handler

Like a church bell, a coffin, and a vat of melted chocolate, a supply closet is rarely a comfortable place to hide.

Connie Willis

It is my belief that everything you need to know about the world can be learned in a church choir.

Arlen Specter

When Pat Robertson says there is no constitutional doctrine of separation of church and state, I say he is wrong.

That a mouse of scandal whisks its foolish tail across the church's floor is not sufficient cause for clamorous leaping out of its windows.

There are ten church-members by inheritance for one by conviction.

On a hot summer day, the varnish from the pews would end up on your shirt. We decided that if the church wasn't going to repaint and renovate itself, we would do it for the church.

She can be in this community and hold her conscience, but the church has its rights to its own governance.

Since we've been home, we've been to church and out to eat several times. Link does wonderful. When he's got his harness on he's all business. When we get home and take the harness off, he's all puppy.

She just said she was sorry and for me to write a note to the church saying that she was sorry for everything she had done.

Most of these kids grew up in church and they've been fed and everybody's been giving to them. But just to see the smile on their face when they get to reach out to somebody else and show the love of Jesus, it's something they'll never forget.

Most people in my church get dressed up. They like to look nice. If you dress to go to work, why not dress to serve God?

Barbara Kingsolver

(on asparagus) Europeans of the Renaissance swore by it as an aphrodisiac, and the church banned it from nunneries.

Arthur Middleton

Priesthood is not a convenient, historically conditioned form of Church organisation, but is rooted in the Incarnation, in the priesthood and mission of Christ himself.

We have really expanded within the past month. We have around 15 regulars now. We learn new songs, and sing at various churches on Saturdays and Sundays. We have already learned about twelve songs; we will probably learn four or five more before the end of the school year.

Ariel Sharon

We have problems in Bethlehem, ... Terrorists took shelter in the Church of the Nativity. Once they will be leaving ... we will be leaving.

We have had a lot of members of the church come.

Edward Abbey

Page, Arizona, Shithead Capital of Coconino County: any town with thirteen churches and only four bars has got an incipient social problem. That town is looking for trouble.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

The Church is a terrible engine of oppression, especially as concerns woman

Last year we met with our church leaders. They said there's going to be a point in life when you need to turn things back to God, and you have to decide when that is.

Many of these individuals and families may well decide to become our neighbors, ... We need to welcome them into our community, our churches and our schools.

Many people say, 'I don't have to go to church to be a Christian,' without considering fellowship in relation to their continued spiritual growth. In the New Testament coming together is emphasized. Over and over we find the passages saying to love one another, encourage one another and comfort each other.

She was a good woman. She was honest, she went to church regular. She always taught us right from wrong. I miss her already.

She was a church lady -- very intelligent lady.

She was part of her church choir, step team and usher board. She loved McDonald's, mashed potatoes ? but most of all she loved the Lord.

She went to church every day. A neighbor picked her up every morning. But when he drove past that morning, he noticed the victim was not at the curb. He knocked on the door, but (got) no response.

The only cure for seasickness is to sit on the shady side of a church in the country.

E. B. White

The politicians have focused so much on the mega-churches in the county from a land use perspective until they have not looked at the contributions being made by the smaller churches. Our church has a partnership with Longfields Elementary where we provide textbooks, school supplies and even shoes for the children.

The pastor at my church says that in everything you say or do you're teaching someone else.

Nancy Gibbs

The 1950s felt so safe and smug, the '60s so raw and raucous, the revolutions stacked one on top of another, in race relations, gender roles, generational conflict, the clash of church and state - so many values and vanities tossed on the bonfire, and no one had a concordance to explain why it was all happening at once.

The world looks at preachers out of church to know what they mean in it.

Rick Pitino

Football is only once a week. NASCAR is once a week. Those sports are insanely popular. Horse racing is oversaturated. Unless tracks cut back to three days a week of full fields, a lot of people will really hurt down the road. Horse racing, to survive, has to go to that. Let's face it: Churchill Downs only does well on Derby Week.