Top 1200 Church Lady Quotes & Sayings - Page 6

That was an interesting aspect: to go to war with the Church to fight for the very thing that the Church was meant to give to people.

There's always the tendency to transform the Church into an ethical agency, and of measuring the Church by the yardstick of social and cultural utility.

The best music of my life I heard at my grandmother's church, this little wooden church up on a hill.

It's time for a new Reformation in the Church--to call the Church back to the authority of the Word of God, beginning in Genesis.

I listen to everything from Lady Gaga to Lady Antebellum. I've got Frank Sinatra. I've got old stuff, new stuff. Iggy Azalea. I've got everything.

If we all gave all our goods to the poor, the church would fall apart. If we all hated our father and mother, as Jesus told us to, there'd be an end of the church's emphasis on the family as being the one important thing holding the whole society together. There are all sorts of ways in which the church's teachings contradict directly what Jesus says in the Gospel.

The Church and only the Church has been given the keys to the kingdom, so we have unique access to God that nobody else has.

It is better to have a Church that is wounded but out in the streets than a Church that is sick because it is closed in on itself.

The current version of... separation of church and state says you can be salt, and you can be light, but only inside the four walls of the church.

It is easier to make a lady of a peasant-girl than a peasant-girl of a lady.

The clerical system of church management is exceedingly popular, but the whole thought is foreign to Scripture. In a church all the members are active. He [God] appointed some to take oversight of the work so that it might be carried on efficiently. It was never His thought that the majority of the believers should devote themselves exclusively to secular affairs and leave church matters to a group of spiritual specialists.

The church has no authority to preach of inclusivity if we fear altering the look of our church by bringing in the poor.

I love the church. And the church is flawed. I think it's important that the issues of justice become important to the church. A lot of these churches don't necessarily take on justice because it affects dollars that come in. We need to start and assess the areas that we're in and not be so obsessed with becoming this big, huge church where everybody's pointing at one leader! We all should be pointing at Jesus, and if that's true we got to get to a place where the people become important to us. It kills me! It hurts me! Jesus has set the example. It's very clear!

For years I had been disillusioned by the Church of England's compromising on everything. The Catholic Church doesn't care if something is unpopular.

Christianity in the suburb is cheerful. The church is a centre of social activity and those who go to church need never be lonely.

The Church did the most when the Church was the least like the world.

I have learned that you can do anything you want to. They used to ask me if I thought the first lady ought to be paid. If you get paid, then I have to do what first lady is supposed to do. But you can do anything you want to, and it's such a great soap box.

It's hard enough to be a lady writer. Doubly hard to be a funny lady writer.

The Catholic Church was the church of the colonial fascist regime.

Clearly the person who accepts the Church as an infallible guide will believe whatever the Church teaches.

The church is the only mechanism for mass mobilization. That's why the civil rights movement came out of the church.

One of the primary questions in a state-church arrangement is, 'which controls which?' . . . In Norway, for example, the liberal labor government has regularly angered Church officials by making controversial ministerial appointments against the wishes of the clergy. . . . These and other actions have strained the church-state relationship almost to the breaking point. As a result, some of the bishops have advocated disestablishment.

The National Catholic Register's coverage of the Church universal, and the Church in our own country, is splendid.

Does any sane man imagine that the church could cease to be missionary and remain the church?

As the Church is the aggregate of believers, there is an intimate analogy between the experience of the individual believer, and of the Church as a whole.

For years, my mom dated a man who was really active in the Baptist church in the town next to the town I grew up in, and so he used to drag me to these Baptist church services that lasted forever. I remember that I didn't like the church services, but I really liked the music.

I played at my church every once in a while, but that's not a good gauge, because everybody loves you at your church.

I'm afraid the SS's relationship with the Catholic Church is something the Church still has to deal with and does not deny.

I grew up in the Southern Baptist Church, where my father was a minister at music, so I sang in the church all the time.

A church that won't listen to the Word of God is a church already lost.

When I don't have to do out on tour I go to church. Church is a good place to be.

Yes, I'm a Pastor of a church called Understand Principles for Better Living Church, in Los Angeles, CA.

She only maintains that it is possible, under some circumstances, for a lady to murder her husband; but that a woman who wears ankle-strap shoes and smokes on the street corner, though she may be a joy to all who know her and have devoted her life to charity, could never qualify as a lady.

Much of today’s church relies more on a book the early church didn't have, than the Holy Spirit they did.

There are financial bankruptcies in many parts of the church. No question about that. But we see the possibility of reimagining and revitalizing the church.

Where a people prays, there is the church; and where the church is; there is never loneliness.

I have two nexuses of sadness about the Mormon Church. The first is the effect the Church's position on homosexuality has on Mormons.

Church membership was so important that Paul and Silas baptized the Philippian jailer into the membership of Christ's church at midnight with Paul's back still bloody from a beating! He did not even wait till morning! Identification with Christ's church is important; without it, one must be treated 'as a heathen and publican.'

Economics is like a church, and it fulfills the same function the church had fulfilled for centuries: the justification of the status quo.

It's not necessarily a church theme and it's not really about church. I like my album themes to be metaphors because it gives me the freedom to speak about something else that's going on in my life, so the Born Sinner thing is not about church, it's not even about religion. It's using that as canvas to get other messages across and that's what the album will be.

A deaf church is a dead church: that is an unalterable principle.

The Church must send or the church will end.

I'm happiest in an empty church. I love the smell of a church.

'Heroes' was great, but I was like the sorority sister, the friend. So often, we as black women, we are cast as the best friend; we are rarely the leading lady. So for me, being on 'The Flash,' it's been so important for me to be the leading lady, to be the woman that is desired by the superhero, to be the hero herself.

But the appeal to antiquity is both a treason and a heresy. It is a treason because it rejects the Divine voice of the Church at this hour, and a heresy because it denies that voice to be Divine. How can we know what antiquity was except through the Church? ... I may say in strict truth that the Church has no antiquity. It rests upon its own supernatural and perpetual consciousness. ... The only Divine evidence to us of what was primitive is the witness and voice of the Church at this hour.

The Roman Catholic Church is for saints and sinners alone - for respectable people, the Anglican Church will do.

I had actually gone to a church-related college, but I went on a football scholarship, not because of any interest in the church.

My sister is a very peculiar lady. When we were young, I wasn't allowed to talk to her friends. Now I'm not allowed to talk to her children, nor are they permitted to see me. This is the nature of the lady. Doesn't bother me at all.

We are not the Westboro Baptist Church. We are a church that embraces the tenants of historic Christianity - there's nothing hateful about our members at all.

if the devil can get the church to withdraw from prayer by believing reasonable excuses, the church is under his dominion.

Churches are having a limited impact on society because they fail to understand that the goal of the church is not the church itself but the kingdom.

It is true that going out on to the street implies the risk of accidents happening, as they would to any ordinary man or woman. But if the church stays wrapped up in itself, it will age. And if I had to choose between a wounded church that goes out on to the streets and a sick, withdrawn church, I would definitely choose the first one.

My father is maestro at the Metropolitan church, which gives me an opportunity to write for the church as much as I please.

So if we approach church membership from the perspective of entitlement, we have it upside down. You always ask first what you can do for your church.

Knowing that there is one Baptism, we who hold the head and root of the One Church know for certain that to him who is outside the Church nothing is lawful.

I get a lot - a lot - of requests to make things that are like Lady Gaga. Like, 'I'm a 9-year-old girl in Wisconsin. Please dress me like Lady Gaga. How much would this cost?'

I think there is tribalism is a big deal inside of the church, that the church thinks of themselves as a tribe and not a mission.

You can plant a church and grow a church. That's not that hard to do, but it's harder to be a viable source of transformation in a city or your time or space.

The most depressing thing about blogging is watching so-called 'citizen journalists' turn in to little more than easily offended partisan hacks. Any remark that is slightly less than completely and totally scripted and can give the slightest opportunity to offend some delicate soul somewhere is used to set off a series of partisan screeches and cries of outrage that would make the Church Lady jealous.

I got baptized in June of 2001, I think. But I always went to church camp, went to church every Sunday, went to Bible class.