Church Quotes - page 3

Write on my gravestone ''Infidel, Traitor.''--infidel to every church that compromises with wrong traitor to every government that oppresses the people. (Wendell Phillips)
Our own theological Church, as we know, has scorned and vilified the body till it has seemed almost a reproach and a shame to have one, yet at the same time has credited it with power to drag the soul to perdition. View quote
Eliza Farnham
The whole history of the Christian Church is a mixture of errors and violence. View quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Voluntary self-directed religion was more dangerous to the Church than any number of infidels. View quote
Barbara Tuchman
When I'm on stage, I'm trying to do one thing: bring people joy. Just like church does. People don't go to church to find trouble, they go there to lose it. View quote
James Brown
There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being. View quote
James Joyce
If I believe in anything, it is in the dark night of the soul. Awe is my religion, and mystery is its church. View quote
Charles Simic
About Jesus Christ and the Church, I simply know they're just one thing, and we shouldn't complicate the matter. View quote
Joan of Arc
It is better to go skiing and think of God, than go to church and think of sport. View quote
Fridtjof Nansen
. . . there warn't anybody at the church, except maybe a hog or two, for there warn't any lock on the door, and hogs likes a puncheon floor in summer-time because it's cool. If you notice, most folks don't go to church only when they've got to but a hog is different. View quote
Mark Twain
I would not believe in the Gospel if the authority of the Catholic Church did not move me to do so. (Augustine of Hippo)
The Tories in England had long imagined that they were enthusiastic about the monarchy, the church and beauties of the old English Constitution, until the day of danger wrung from them the confession that they are enthusiastic only about rent. View quote
Karl Marx
In the West there has always been the attempt to try make the religious building, whether it's a Medieval or Renaissance church, an eternal object for the celebration of God. The material chosen, such as stone, brick, or concrete, is meant to eternally preserve what is inside. View quote
Tadao Ando
I learned more stuff in church than I did in the world. View quote
Al Green
To someone standing in the nave, looking down the length of the church toward the east, the round window would seem like a huge sun exploding into innumerable shards of gorgeous color. View quote
Ken Follett
Evolution's logical, unlike religion. Even the Church will agree with that. You have to take religion on faith and you can't test it by common sense. View quote
Lester del Rey
One of my beliefs is that there are certain institutions within a community which stand for the spirit and heart of that community, there's the church, the local football team, the local pub and the theatre. View quote
David Soul
Yet for my part, deeply as I am moved by the religious architecture of the Middle Ages, I cannot honestly say that I ever felt the slightest emotion in any modern Gothic church. View quote
Goldwin Smith
It is death that goes down to the center of the earth, the great burial church the earth is, and then to the curved ends of the universe, as light is said to do. View quote
Harold Brodkey
Westminster Abbey, the Tower, a steeple, one church, and then another, presented themselves to our view; and we could now plainly distinguish the high round chimneys on the tops of the houses, which yet seemed to us to form an innumerable number of smaller spires, or steeples. View quote
Karl Philipp Moritz
An Atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a church. An atheist believes that deed must be done instead of prayer said. An atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death. He wants disease conquered, poverty vanished, war eliminated. (Madalyn Murray O'Hair)
I was raised by the Christian Brothers, who believe in that, fortunately. They were, to me, the most rebellious arm of the Catholic Church - and one of the most liberal and forward thinking. View quote
Paul Kantner
I sang in the choir for years, even though my family belonged to another church. View quote
Paul Lynde
People feel that decisions about their jobs, the way their children are educated, how their church functions, and products they buy are made by someone and some place so distant that they can't find anybody to talk to that has any influence over them. View quote
Robert Teeter
We're not at a point in time to be taking chances with children and young people in the church. The Holy Father himself said... there is no room in the priesthood or religious life for someone who has abused a child. I think he's right. View quote
Roger Mahony