Top 1200 Old Churches Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

Some churches would rather die than to get out of the comfort of the past.

You think of 'Outlaw Josey Wales,' you immediately think of the old Indian guy, Sondra Locke, the old lady with the glasses, beautiful old actress.

Many churches today have special programs for people who are grieving, and these can be very helpful.

The Puritans removed organs and paintings from churches, but bought them for private use in their homes.

On your 60th, here's something philosophical To give the old grey matter a stir How old would you be If you didn't know how old you were?

Churches all over the country have decided they love their traditions more than their children.

We find not in the Gospel, that Christ hath anywhere provided for the uniformity of churches, but only for their unity.

Mere heathen morality, and not Jesus Christ, is preached in most of our churches.

I didn't fear old age. I was just becoming increasingly aware of the fact that the only people who said old age was beautiful were usually twenty-three years old.

When you're 20 you can put a ton of old-age prosthetics on and be an old guy, but when you're 70 you can't play a 20-year-old.

Churches are like announcement factories that pump toxic levels of noise pollution into the atmosphere.

Every European goes on the streets and sees medieval churches. Not if you live in Indianapolis.

Evangelical churches are weaker than we realize because we dont teach the confessions and doctrine.

People are always talking about the old days. They say that the old movies were better, that the old actors were so great. But I don't think so. All I can say about the old days is that they have passed.

I'm not bothered by the idea of getting old, or I guess you could say by having arrived at old. I was 10 when my mom turned 55. For 1955, she was a very old mom.

You know what makes me feel old? When I see girls who are 20-something, or the new crop of actresses, and I think, Aren't we kind of the same age? You lose perspective. Or being offered the part of a woman with a 17-year-old child. It's like, "I'm not old enough to have a 17-year-old!" And then you realize, well, yeah, you are.

'Greenleaf' never mocks religion. It reminds us that people in churches are human, and no one is perfect.

Those churches have closed down or have been merged with a church that has a more positive vision.

I leave it to the faithful to burn each other's churches and mosques and synagogues, which they can be always relied upon to do

I believe Saudi Arabia is the only Muslim country in which churches are prohibited.

The poets began drifting away from churches as the jurists grew louder and more insistent.

I trust that some may be as near and dear to Buddha, or Christ, or Swedenborg, who are without the pale of their churches.

I believe in Christianity, Judaism and Islamism, but I stay away from churches, synagogues and mosques.

Evangelical churches are weaker than we realize because we don't teach the confessions and doctrine.

It is important for American congregations to hold their churches accountable for what their money does in Africa.

We have to assess: Are we making disciples along the way as we draw people to our churches?

Marriage is the mother of the world. It preserves kingdoms, and fills cities and churches, and heaven itself.

The things that I look at include Renaissance art. I'm obsessed with churches and paintings of saints.

The seminaries must be like the churches' poor relations, prolonging their existence with austerity.

There was segregation everywhere. The churches, buses and schools were all segregated and you couldn't even go into the same restaurants.

The truth is, part of me is every age. I’m a three-year-old, I’m a five-year-old, I’m a thirty-seven-year-old, I’m a fifty-year-old. I’ve been through all of them, and I know what it’s like. I delight in being a child when it’s appropriate to be a child. I delight in being a wise old man when it’s appropriate to be a wise old man. Think of all I can be! I am every age, up to my own.

When I was a little girl, I watched all old movies. My mother liked old movies, and she loved shopping for antiques, so I was around old things all the time.

American churches work very hard at reaching out to people to bring them in.

It's true. somewhere inside us we are all the ages we have ever been. We're the 3 year old who got bit by the dog. We're the 6 year old our mother lost track of at the mall. We're the 10 year old who get tickled till we wet our pants. We're the 13 year old shy kid with zits. We're the 16 year old no one asked to the prom, and so on. We walk around in the bodies of adults until someone presses the right button and summons up one of those kids.

Old wives' tales are not enough in a day when old wives and old men, too, are constantly moving away from their labours.

Avoid kneeling in unheated stone churches. Ecclesiastical dampness causes prematurely grey hair.

Historically speaking, institutions are slow to change and usually resistant to any sudden moves - churches especially so.

I love the description of Gothic churches before the printed word, that they were the bibles of the poor.

It's taken me to be an older guy, an old man, to have an old man's voice. Because I only liked old men's voices. As a kid, I didn't like pip-squeaked singers.

If I ever found a church that didn't believe in knocking all the other churches, I might consider joining it.

I'm usually torn by, 'What's the role of government to cure injustice?' Families, churches, and schools can be more of an instrument of change.

In America, evangelical churches have often been bastions of conservatism, providing support for the status quo.

So we went on what we now call "The Beck Family Church Tour" and man did we see some churches.

The Holy Spirit was not sent so we can have bless ups in our churches but so the world can be changed.

The Lord did not tell us to build beautiful churches, but to evangelize the world

Burnin' churches, fearin' God, Who can be so cruel, We all ignorant to AIDS, Till it happens to you.

Every American has the right to feel safe in their schools, in their churches, in their movie theaters, and in their nightclubs.

The war against homosexuality in Uganda is fueled by the funds of American Christian missionary churches.

Theater is an old thing. It's thousands of years old. TV isn't. Film isn't. We're doing a really old thing.

I have the freedom of seeing it [churches and paintings of saints] with a non-Catholic eye without the guilt.

Why were you so old when we met? I answered with the truth: Age isn't how old you are but how old you feel.

The meetings least attended in our churches today are the ones whose only attraction is God.

In schools, churches and local communities, Americans are participating in their democracy by getting others to as well.

People say, 'You're old.' Old ain't nothing. You've got new cars that break down and old cars that pass them.

People talk to old people like they're children.'Oh you're very old aren't you?' Yeah I'm old. I'm not stupid.

I donate heavily to the church and various churches in the Detroit community and food banks.

I hate churches, all of them. But they used to know something about the importance of silence.

To a large extent, the aged in our society are ghettoized. Old people are seen as useless, bypassed by history, old-fashioned, in the way. So, not surprisingly, when we reach the official mark of old age, we're supposed to go gently into that good night, to get off center stage and hand over the spotlight. Old age is also surrounded by shame - the myth of impotence and inability.

Before you know it it's 3 am and you're 80 years old and you can't remember what it was like to have 20 year old thoughts or a 10 year old heart.

The Little Boy and the Old Man Said the little boy, "Sometimes I drop my spoon." Said the old man, "I do that too." The little boy whispered, "I wet my pants." I do that too," laughed the little old man. Said the little boy, "I often cry." The old man nodded, "So do I." But worst of all," said the boy, "it seems Grown-ups don't pay attention to me." And he felt the warmth of a wrinkled old hand. I know what you mean," said the little old man.