Church Quotes - page 56

Orthodox theologians insisted that the rest of humankind were only transitory creatures, lost in sin - a view that would support what would become their dominant teaching about salvation, offered only through Christ, and, in particular, through the church they claimed to represent. (Elaine Pagels)
Everybody takes what they life from the teachings of the church, and ignores the parts that don't suit them. View quote
Ken Follett
It was an odd relationship, but then she was an extraordinary woman: a prioress who doubted much of what the church taught; an acclaimed healer who rejected medicine as practised by physicians; and a nun who made enthusiastic love to her man whenever she could get away with it. If I wanted a normal relationship, Merthin told himself, I should have picked a normal girl. View quote
Ken Follett
Because we employ no professional preachers, it means that every sermon or lesson in church is given by a regular member - women and men, children and grandparents. View quote
Clayton Christensen
Each of our children during their high school years went to 'early morning seminary' - scripture study classes that met in the home of a church member every school day morning from 6:30 until 7:15. View quote
Clayton Christensen
But it's a poor church that cares only for what happens to a soul after it leaves this life." -Damien. View quote
Alan Brennert
The average Christian pays more in interest than he gives to the Lord's work. In a church of 100 families 37 will give nothing. View quote
Larry Burkett
'Safe Harbor' is a state of mind... it's the place - in reality or metaphor - to which one goes in times of trouble or worry. It can be a friendship, marriage, church, garden, beach, poem, prayer, or song. View quote
Luanne Rice
The Italians are very unmusical. If I go to a Protestant church in London or Amsterdam or listen to a black choir, I hear four-part harmony. Italians could never do that. In Italy, we all have to sing the melody because we cannot harmonise. View quote
Gian Carlo Menotti
I tell people, and it's the truth, I could sit in my garage for a week and it won't make me a car. And you can sit in church till your bottom is flat and that won't make you a servant of Christ. View quote
Joyce Meyer
It's amazing to me the number of people who will volunteer to help at church but won't lift a finger to help at home! (Joyce Meyer)
I hate how hard spiritual transformation is and how long it takes. I hate thinking about how many people have gone to church for decades and remain joyless or judgmental or bitter or superior. View quote
John Ortberg
The church is in the hope business. View quote
John Ortberg
The thing that brings people to wail at a wall, or face Mecca, or to go to church, is a search for that feeling of purity. View quote
Michael Fox
I love going to black churches, and I love some of these black preachers. The best preacher I ever saw in my life was a 93-year-old in a black church in Hamilton, Virginia. What a preacher! View quote
Robert Duvall
I grew up in a very Catholic family. Up until puberty, I would go to a Catholic church every week. View quote
Park Chan-wook
I always knew I would sing. I just didn't know if I would be successful or not. But I sang at school, I sang at parties, I sang at church. Everyone always asked me to sing. I'd be playing football with my friends and my parents would ask me to sing for their guests. I was never very happy about that because I wanted to play football. View quote
Andrea Bocelli
I started growing up in a hurry and taking a lot of the philosophy I'd heard from church as a kid a lot more seriously - especially the Ten Commandments - and wondering how 'Thou shalt not kill' could be so absolutely ignored. It took me until I was in my 40s to write what I was thinking as a young soldier. View quote
Dave Brubeck
But, actually, so many of the clerics that I've met, particularly the Church of England clerics, are people of such extraordinary smugness and arrogance and conceitedness who are extraordinarily presumptuous about the significance of their position in society. View quote
Rowan Atkinson
Research desk: In 1930, a Spanish edition of the "Protocols” appeared. And in 1972 another edition was published there and used to explain certain Vatican reforms by the Catholic Church! It Italy in 1930 the neo-fascist group Ordino Nuovo circulated a new edition of the "Protocols”! And also in 1930 the neo-facist group ordino nuovo circulated a new edition of the "Protocols”! And also in 1930 in Argentina "Los Protocols De Los Savios De Sion Y La Subversion Mundial” appeared. It was supposed to predict a plot to found a Jewish state by Zionists in Argentina. View quote
Will Eisner
The American Indian was an individualist in religion as in war. He had neither a national army nor an organized church. (Charles Alexander Eastman)
I used to do bell ringing in Benenden church. It was really good fun, actually. My best friend's dad was the local vicar, and so it was expected as her best friend that I would go to church every Sunday with her. View quote
Jo Brand
And we're at the very beginning stages of a very brutal and bloody conflict, of which if the people in this room, the people in the church, do not bind together and really form what I feel is an aspect of the church militant, to really be able to not just stand with our beliefs, but to fight for our beliefs against this new barbarity that's starting, that will completely eradicate everything that we've been bequeathed over the last 2,000, 2,500 years. ... Now that call converges with something we have to face, and it's a very unpleasant topic, but we are in an outright war against jihadist Islamic fascism. And this war is, I think, metastasizing far quicker than governments can handle it. View quote
Steve Bannon
I began with dance, doing ballet at 3, then tap, jazz, modern. Then I sang in church choirs, learned how to play clarinet and drums, sang with rock bands and only then did I get into musical theatre. View quote
Samantha Barks
His conflict with the Catholic Church arose because deep in his heart Galileo was a believer. There was for him no path of compromise, no way to have separate secular and theological cosmologies. If the Copernican system was true as he believed, what else could Galileo do but fight with every weapon he had in his arsenal... to make his Church accept a new system of the universe. ...In the contrast between Galileo's heroic stand when he tried to reform the cosmological basis of orthodox theology and his humbled, kneeling surrender when he disavowed his Copernicanism, we may sense the tremendous forces attendant on the birth of modern science. View quote
I. Bernard Cohen