Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lee Smith

I was raised in a little church, the Grundy Methodist Church, that was very straight-laced, but I had a friend whose mother spoke in tongues. I was just wild for this family. My own parents were older, and they were so over-protective. I just loved the 'letting go' that would happen when I went to church with my friend.

Nicholas Winton

I know crowds of people who go to church and the synagogue who aren't religious.

Elaine Chao

We are going to try to find you. We have teams of people canvassing neighborhoods and visiting churches and relief centers.

Barack Obama

I attend Trinity United Church of Christ, and my pastor [was] Jeremiah Wright.

Ann Hood

Back when I was 8 or 9 and wanted to be a nun, I would often stop at church on my way home from school.

Ben Shapiro

The separation of church and state was meant to protect church from state; a state that declares religion off limits in public life is a state that declares itself supreme over all religious values.

George Jones

We'd just go to church and sing. My dad would get me and my sister Doris, and we would sing together. I sung the harmony, and my sister Doris took the lead.

We want this to happen. The church wants this to happen. It's time for it to happen.

Andrea Corr

I go to churches to pray, but I don't go to mass.

Phil Jackson

My father was the superintendent of the churches in the state of Montana. He was content in his beliefs. He befit the term 'true Christian.' He would turn the other cheek. He was truly a man of peace.

We are going for a more realistic look. The point here is that we're creating a children's worship room that is representative of their neighborhood. The intent is that worship of God is not just limited to a church building. Worship should take place everywhere, every day -- at a power plant, in a warehouse.

We are going for a more realistic look, ... The point here is that we're creating a children's worship room that is representative of their neighborhood. The intent is that worship of God is not just limited to a church building. Worship should take place everywhere, everyday -- at a power plant, in a warehouse.

John Franklin

We're coming up on in-gathering for Mary Hill Davis Offering for state missions. My church has just become a church made up completely of missionaries. This is mission right here, and this is so exciting,

Tourists as well as natives want to see cultural achievements - whether it's the Banaue Terraces, the old churches or museums.

William P. Leahy

What I think we can do is help individuals understand the church teaching, but also maybe help the church understand the viewpoint of lay men and women about what they want in regard to priests, or how do they want the hierarchy to deal with them?

I always felt God had called me to serve within the church because of what the church stands for. This has always been home.

Walter Martin

And yet, you do not throw out some of the great minds of the Church - and people in Church history - and say they have no credibility because they committed a sin or made a mistake.

A Church which has lost its memory is in a sad state of senility.

Billy Graham

Many churches today have special programs for people who are grieving, and these can be very helpful.

Ellen G. White

It is labor that keeps the strong man strong. And spiritual labor, toil and burden-bearing, is what will give strength to the church of Christ.

David A. Bednar

I will go where the Lord and the leaders of His Church want me to go, I will do what they want me to do, I will teach what they want me to teach, and I will strive to become what I should and must become.

Adrian Rogers

The Church is not a showboat; it's a battleship.

Abraham Kuyper

The seminaries must be like the churches' poor relations, prolonging their existence with austerity.

Alfred Rosenberg

From education by the Church to education by Germanic value is a step of several generations.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

But the churchmen fain would kill their church, As the churches have kill'd their Christ.

We won't release the (name of the) church because it would identify her.

A. Whitney Brown

I never joined, but I used to go to church now and then. I liked it, because they always passed out plates of money at the end.

Rowan Williams

The Church is the new creation, it is life and joy, it is the sacramental fellowship in which we share the ultimate purpose of God, made real for us now in our hearing the Word and sharing the Sacrament.

Pope Benedict XVI

It's a great responsibility before God, the judge who guides us, who draws us to truth and good, and in this sense the church must unmask evil, rendering present the goodness of God, rendering present his truth, the truly infinite for which we are thirsty.

Adrian Rogers

Have you ever wondered what a church full of Pharisees would be like? 1. They would all attend every service 2. They would all tithe 3. They would all work in the church 4. They would all go to hell

Susan Glaspell

Declining to go to church with my parents in the morning, I would ostentatiously set out for the Monist Society in the afternoon, down an obscure street which it seemed a little improper to be walking on, as everything was closed for Sunday, upstairs through a sort of side entrance over a saloon.

Troy Polamalu

What's really neat about the Orthodox church is that it's like walking back in time 2,000 years to the time of the Apostles, when they created these services. You walk into that and it's really like... living it. They have maintained the truth ever since the beginning.

Tony Campolo

Insofar as the church fails to do the will of God, I am called upon to help it discover and to do the will of God; and I am called upon to help the government to do the same.