Church Quotes - page 83

I knew then that the Christian church thrives on hypocrisy, and that man's carnal nature will out... (Anton LaVey)
I am a vicar's daughter and still a practising member of the Church of England. View quote
Theresa May
One person may need (or want) more leisure, another more work; one more adventure, another more security, and so on. It is this diversity that makes a country, indeed a state, a city, a church, or a family, healthy. 'One-size-fits-all,' and that size determined by the State has a name, and that name is 'slavery.' View quote
David Mamet
I hope it might help players have confidence in our own ways, and not to be afraid of them, as Bernstein showed - things like hoe-downs, fiddle songs, and the art of improvisation, and the New Orleans funeral tradition, and call-and-response church singing, and the fact that the blues run through everything. And in our relationship to European music, in that we don't have to imitate it, it's a part of us, inseparable. View quote
Wynton Marsalis
And now the beginning of the expropriation of church lands in Austria, have all revealed the true face of National Socialism, which more and more among pious Germans is called, under their breaths, ‘the brown Bolshevism. View quote
Dorothy Thompson
For the tourist's brown pennies scattered at the old church door, the ragged papooses jump, and bite the dust. View quote
A. M. Klein
The day we find the perfect church, it becomes imperfect the moment we join it. View quote
Charles Spurgeon
If you have to give a carnival to get people to come to church, then you will have to keep giving carnivals to keep them coming back. View quote
Charles Spurgeon
That very church which the world likes best is sure to be that which God abhors. View quote
Charles Spurgeon
If God be near a church, it must pray. And if he be not there, one of the first tokens of his absence will be a slothfulness in prayer. View quote
Charles Spurgeon
It was a real surprise to me to come across the evidence that Christianity might once have been a danced religion. Certainly, some of the early church leaders thought this was great and spoke of what seems to have been circle dancing, perhaps around an altar. (Barbara Ehrenreich)
I go to church every Sunday, which is like going to the gas station once a week and really, really filling up. View quote
Anne Lamott
I loved every second of Catholic church. I loved the sickly sweet rotting-pomegranate smells of the incense. I loved the overwrought altar, the birdbath of holy water, the votive candles; I loved that there was a poor box, the stations of the cross rendered in stained glass on the windows. View quote
Anne Lamott
I went to church with my grandparents sometimes and I loved it. View quote
Anne Lamott
My mother was a not-too-devoted atheist. She went to Episcopal church on Christmas Eve every year, and that was mostly it. View quote
Anne Lamott
I feel incredibly successful. I make a living as a writer and am able to help support a big family, my church, my bleeding-heart causes. View quote
Anne Lamott
Against the State, against the Church, against the silence of the medical profession, against the whole machinery of dead institutions of the past, the woman of today arises. View quote
Margaret Sanger
Ministers should impress upon the people the necessity of individual effort. No church can flourish unless its members are workers. The people must lift where the ministers lift. View quote
Ellen G. White
The Catholic Church is an innately conservative rock - they call themselves the 'rock of Peter' - and its resistance to change is, ironically, what has kept it constant throughout the ages. View quote
Gabriel Byrne
So from this time of peak every people or every organization that goes against the Unification Church will gradually come down or drastically come down and die. Many people will die - those who go against our movement. View quote
Sun Myung Moon
I don't think that I want to make any wager if it means dealing with a Church that has grown so corrupt that it makes obedience and submission the price of its saving the life of someone's child. (Dan Simmons)
I began to understand. "A Faustian bargain...,” I said. "The Faustian bargain,” said the girl. "All the church had to do to gain the universe was sell its soul.”. View quote
Dan Simmons
The Catholic Church sees voluntary vampirism as a kind of suicide. I tend to agree. Though the Pope also excommunicated all animators, unless we ceased raising the dead. Fine; I became Episcopalian. View quote
Laurell K. Hamilton
And I definitely wanted to be a writer, but I felt a duty now, having used up those educational resources, I felt a duty to the church and my parents to become a priest. View quote
Thomas Keneally
It's wrong to criticize leaders of the Church, even if the criticism is true. View quote
Dallin H. Oaks