Church Quotes - Page 18

• It's a very common belief [among Mormons] that the Constitution will hang by a thread and the Church will save it.

  Jan Shipps

  Belief, Common, Constitution

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• Separation of the Church and State is like a railroad track. It cannot be close to one another, neither can it be distant, because there will be derailment. We (Church) should cooperate with the government and the government should cooperate with us because we're serving the same people.

  Jaime Sin

  Government, People, Track

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• I grew up Presbyterian, just a basic Protestant upbringing. There were years in my life when I would go to church every Sunday and to Sunday school. Then I just phased out of it.

  Andy Dick

  School, Sunday, Years

  Interview with Steven Lawson, relevantmagazine.com. May 21, 2003.

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• As in the natural life a child must have a father and a mother, so in the supernatural life of grace a true child of the Church must have God for his Father and Mary for his mother. If he prides himself on having God for his Father but does not give to Mary the tender affection of a true child, he is an impostor and his father is the devil.

  Louis de Montfort

  Mother, Children, Father

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• The priest is not and must not be a civil servant of the Church. Above all the priest is a man who lives for the spirit for God. This being the case the Seminary is the place where he learns 'to be with Him.'

  Pope John Paul II

  Men, Spirit, Priests

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• I did most of my volunteer work when I was in college because I knew of more ways to get involved. In high school, we'd do things like, there was a homeless shelter near our hometown and our church group decorated one of the rooms. In college, I was in a sorority, and we did a lot of things, like pick up trash on the highway.

  Carrie Underwood

  School, College, Volunteer

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• I grew up in church, and I have a wonderful family that always supported that.

  Carrie Underwood

  Wonderful, Grew Up, Grew

  "Carrie Underwood Interview SOUL SURFER". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 7, 2011.

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• If no other consideration had convinced me of the value of the Christian life, the Christ like work which the Church of all denominations in America has done during the last 35 years for the elevation of the black man would have made me a Christian.

  Booker T. Washington

  Christian, Men, Years

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• Church is not a museum for Saints, but rather a hospital for sinners.

  Ann Landers

  Museums, Saint, Hospitals

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• Who mentioned the Church? On the contrary, I have great respect for religion. My objection is to those who are against so many things and for so little.

  Louis L'Amour

  Littles, Contrary, Objections

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• Though I was a Catholic, I recognized that Protestant churches had something.

  Ethel Waters

  Catholic, Protestants

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• Once there was a time when all people believed in God and the church ruled. This time is called the Dark Ages. He who can, does. He who cannot teaches.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Dark, People, Age

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• It's no understatement that the church has done a poor job in teaching our young people that reason and faith are not opposites, and that atheists are far from being on the side of reason. You can find on our website a chart which I use to demonstrate the various worldviews work out, and which one, Christianity, is rational. Many kids, however, who grow up huddled in a Christian environment find themselves in the university setting completely unequipped to defend the rationality of the Christian faith against the secular humanist worldview so prevalent on college campuses.

  Charles Colson

  Christian, Atheist, Jobs

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• Without prolonged moments of adoration, of prayerful encounter with the word, of sincere conversation with the Lord, our work easily becomes meaningless; we lose energy as a result of weariness and difficulties, and our fervor dies out. The Church urgently needs the deep breath of prayer, and to my great joy groups devoted to prayer and intercession, the prayerful reading of God's word and the perpetual adoration of the Eucharist are growing at every level of ecclesial life.

  Pope Francis

  Prayer, Reading, Joy

  Pope Francis (2015). “The Spirit of St Francis: Inspiring Words on Faith, Love and Creation”, p.75, SPCK

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• ...the Bible itself is less read than preached, less interpreted than brandished. Increasingly, pastors may drape a limply bound Book over the edges of the pulpit as they depart from it. Members of the congregation carry Bibles to church services; the paster announces a long passage text for his sermon and waits for people to find it, then reads only the first verse of it before he takes off. The Book has become a talisman.

  Harold Bloom

  Book, Past, Church Service

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• We use a lot of creativity and new technology, cutting edge things to use in our church, but really what it comes down to is God changing a life.

  Kerry Shook

  Creativity, Cutting, Technology

  "Megachurch Interview: Kerry Shook". Interview with Ed Stetzer, www.christianitytoday.com. September 2008.

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• Growing up in Jamaica, the Pentecostal church wasn't that fiery thing you might think. It was very British, very proper. Hymns. No dancing. Very quiet. Very fundamental.

  Grace Jones

  Growing Up, Thinking, Jamaica

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• Some of the most moving experiences I've had are just in black churches in the South, during the Civil Rights Movement, where people were getting beaten, killed, really struggling for the most elementary rights.

  Noam Chomsky

  Moving, Struggle, Rights

  "Noam Chomsky on Love: 'Life's Empty Without It'". Big think Interview, bigthink.com. August 18, 2009.

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• War is a ritual, a deadly ritual, not the result of aggressive self-assertion, but of self-transcending identification. Without loyalty to tribe, church, flag or ideal, there would be no wars.

  Arthur Koestler

  Loyalty, War, Self

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• If the embodiment of the fundamental idea of our age were to be found in Victorian architecture, in the Church of Cristo Re in Rome or the Church in Brasilia, in Moscow University or the Capitol in Washington, then our age would undoubtedly be called the 'age of kitsch.'

  Hermann Broch

  Rome, Ideas, Age

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• The modern [endtimes] notion has greatly damped the zeal of the church for missions, and the sooner it is shown to be unscriptural the better for the cause of God. It neither consorts with prophecy, honours God, nor inspires the church with ardour

  Charles Spurgeon

  Inspire, Causes, Modern

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• The Kingdom must be advanced not merely extensively, but also intensively. The Church must seek to conquer not merely every man for Christ, but also the whole of man

  Greg L. Bahnsen

  Men, Kingdoms, Conquer

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• If Church history teaches us anything, it is that we cannot afford to be a vacillating Church. We minister to a people who are in great need of hearing truth, we dare not make any attempt to soft pedal that glorious truth.

  Martin Luther

  People, Needs, Hearing

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• There's nothing more political than sex. The church has had its hand on our crotch for more than 2,000 years, and the government is moving in that direction.

  Larry Flynt

  Sex, Moving, Government

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• We see that there are two worms that eat the fabric of the Church, weakening Her. Rivalry and vainglory go against this harmony, this agreement.

  Pope Francis

  Agreement, Two, Fabric

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