Church Quotes · Page 93

I think the word is counter-productive. Capitalism is counter-productive to art, just as the Catholic Church was counter-productive to art four hundred…

— Mick Farren

“God loves each person, I believe; although, just like we do in our private homes, He reserves His kingdom only for those…

— Criss Jami

It is a thoroughly anti-Christian doctrine that the Spirit of God, and therefore the life and governing power of the Church, resides…

— Charles Hodge

We played every bar, party, pub, hotel lounge, church hall, mining town - places that made Mad Max territory look like a…

— Michael Hutchence

It's a very important part of my life: parents and church - and your surroundings.

— Joseph Parker

The whole musical institution of the church involves a lot of different styles of communication at the same time. Things like call…

— Lizz Wright

God's word is unpredictable in its power... The Church has to accept this unruly freedom of the word, which accomplishes what it…

— Pope Francis

In general, the churches, visited by me often on weekdays... bore for me the same relation to God that billboards did to…

— John Updike

Once again, through myself, the Church, in the words of the well-known declaration Nostra Aetate, 'deplores the hatred, persecutions and displays of…

— Pope John Paul II

I'd like to do my first record I ever made, A Church, a Courtroom, and Then Goodbye.

— Patsy Cline

We had no churches, no religious organizations, no sabbath day, no holidays, and yet we worshiped. Sometimes the whole tribe would assemble…

— Geronimo

O, because I have had only that kind of benevolence which consists in lying on a sofa, and cursing the church and…

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

Yes, the kingdom of Christianity and the Church has been one of the most destructive forces in history, and there are levels…

— Sufjan Stevens

“I remember an answer which when quite young I was prompted to make to a valued adviser who was wont to importune…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

These principles have been proclaimed by God, by the Church, by the Saints, by reason, by Christian morality.

— Pope Pius XII

There is no record in the Bible of a weak man falling.

— Johnny Hunt

Well, I think Barkley and I were the only two who were working with Church for a Ph.D.

— Stephen Cole Kleene

It never frightened a Puritan when you bade him stand still and listen to the speech of God. His closet and his…

— Phillips Brooks

Oh, yes! Fill the churches with dirty thoughts! Introduce honesty to the White House! Write letters in dead languages to people you've…

— Grant Morrison

On the one hand we are called to play the good Samaritan on life's roadside; but that will be only an initial…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

It is really impressive and makes us proud that in a lot of places in Indonesia, a church is close to a…

— Suharto

No, the last thing she cared about was whether people were staring at the boy and girl kissing by the river, as…

— Cassandra Clare

Every time that a man has, with a pure heart, called upon Osiris, Dionysus, Buddha, the Tao, etc., the Son of God…

— Simone Weil

The Church is not an enforcer of rules, but an outpost of grace

— Brian Houston

If you're a Catholic you believe what the Church teaches and the climate makes no difference.

— Flannery O'Connor

I need to learn not to bend over backwards to be nice to faith-heads. Give these people an inch and they take…

— Richard Dawkins

The only church that illuminates is a burning church.

— Buenaventura Durruti

If the Mormon Church still supported polygamy, and if it appeared to be a system that was not exploitative of women, I…

— Andrew Solomon

The priest is not and must not be a civil servant of the Church. Above all the priest is a man who…

— Pope John Paul II

There's a lot of us who do not accept the culture of the bubbles.

— Mike Huckabee

No one should have to go to school with a bulletproof backpack or be afraid to go to synagogue or church or…

— Jacky Rosen

The task of the church, for example, becomes less that of indoctrinating or relating people to an external divine power and more…

— John Shelby Spong

I'm very interested in religion and different religions, and I know quite a lot about it. I love gospel music, and I…

— Nick Lowe

I always start my New Year at church with my family. I see it as a fresh beginning - like a new…

— Nivin Pauly

Humility is the great preserver of peace and order in all Christian churches and societies, consequently pride is the great disturber of…

— Matthew Henry

Nowas you all know, this week, Pope Benedict told Vatican Radio—you know, Vatican Radio, playing the hits from the 8th century, 9th…

— Bill Maher

I take square aim at an unbiblical churchianity that has resulted in a church-centric religion that fails to reflect the heart of…

— Reggie McNeal

When the Christian majority takes over this country, there will be no satanic churches, no more free distribution of pornography, no more…

— Gary Potter

You can be committed to Church but not committed to Christ, but you cannot be committed to Christ and not committed to…

— Joel Osteen

All our institutions rest upon business. Without it we should not have schools, colleges, churches, parks, playgrounds, pavements, books, libraries, art, music,…

— Charles Gates Jr