Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Hodge

Romanists tell us that the Pope is the vicar of Christ; that he is his successor as the universal head and ruler of the Church on earth. If this is so, he must be a Christ.

Charles Hodge

As the Church is the aggregate of believers, there is an intimate analogy between the experience of the individual believer, and of the Church as a whole.

Charles Hodge

All Church power arises from the indwelling of the Spirit; therefore those in whom the Spirit dwells are the seat of Church power. But the Spirit dwells in the whole Church, and therefore the whole Church is the seat of Church power.

Charles Hodge

The Church is everywhere represented as one. It is one body, one family, one fold, one kingdom. It is one because pervaded by one Spirit. We are all baptized into one Spirit so as to become, says the apostle, on body.

Charles Hodge

True zeal is connected with a holy life. It is remarkable how often the greatest zealots for God, the Church, and sound doctrine (as they regard it), have been unholy and even immoral in their lives.

Charles Hodge

All the reasons which require the subjection of a believer to the brethren of a particular church require his subjection to all his brethren in the Lord.

Bill Maher

There's more than one mosque in the world that used to be a church and before that was a temple. Because it's a lot easier to just change the sign on the top and say under new management than it is to change the whole building.

Bill Maher

Nowas you all know, this week, Pope Benedict told Vatican Radio—you know, Vatican Radio, playing the hits from the 8th century, 9th century and today—Benedict told them he was going to resign because the Church needs a fresh, young face, somewhere other than a priest's lap.

Bill Maher

If you want to get rich with a tax free enterprise that sells nothing, start a church.

Cheech Marin

Hey, I was raised in the church.

Charles Wesley

One family--we dwell in Him, One church above, beneath, Though now divided by the stream, The narrow stream of death.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The world is perishing for lack of the knowledge of God and the Church is famishing for want of His Presence.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The task of the church is twofold: to spread Christianity throughout the world and to make sure that the Christianity she spreads is the pure New Testament kind.

Bernice Johnson Reagon

I went to a church where you could not sing out loud in the service until you had been saved

Eddie Guerrero

Religion should be about your relationship with God, not what the church says you can and can't do.

Whether or not these marriages are good is an issue. It is too simplistic to take something this church has wrestled with for 30 years and say it doesn't matter.

When we went through it, we had nowhere to turn, no one to talk to who had a similar experience. Small, rural churches usually have no money and little or no insurance to rebuild. So we helped form an organization that gives guidance to pastors whose churches have burned.

We're going to ship them to a Nazarene church in Mobile, Alabama. There are several evacuees heading to Mobile, and we're providing some support when they get there.

Kay Hagan

Religious institutions should have religious freedom on this issue. No church or minister should ever have to conduct a marriage that is inconsistent with their religious beliefs. But I think as a civil institution, this issue's time has come and we need to move forward.

What? have ye not houses to eat and to drink in? or despise ye the church of God, and shame them that have not? What shall I say to you? shall I praise you in this? I praise you not.

Unity is the only way a church can ever thrive.

Would you say that your views are the same as those expressed by John Kennedy when he was a candidate, when he spoke to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association in September of 1960, quote, I do not speak for my church on public matters, and the church does not speak for me, close quote?

Billy Sunday

The church is not a dormitory for sleepers, it is an institution for workers; it is not a rest camp, it is a front line trench.

Billy Sunday

Churches don't need new members half so much as they need the old bunch made over.

Bernard Ebbers

I just want you to know you aren't going to church with a crook

We want to reinforce the church sites and let them know the environment is going to be clean and safe.

Where the Church is, there is the Spirit of God. And there the Spirit is, there is the Church and all grace.

Where Peter is, there must be the Church

Benjamin Franklin

Some make Conscience of wearing a Hat in the Church, who make none of robbing the Altar.

Benjamin Franklin

A lighthouse is more useful than a church.

Jim Wallis

No, we are not the master of the state, said King. We are not the servant of the state. We are the conscience of the state. The churches or the religious community should be, I think, the conscience of the state. We're not just service providers.

Jasmine Guy

The state and the church seldom approve of anything I do. I don't need their approval. I don't aspire to the heterosexual nuclear family model

Barbara Walters

Although I myself don't go to church or synagogue, I do, whether it's superstition or whatever, pray every time I get on a plane. I just automatically do it. I say the same thing every time.