Top 1200 Roman Catholic Church Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

I was brought up Catholic and we show my mom, my mother, my sister and then I take pains to explain on camera, that there were years after that where I wasn't really religious. I certainly wasn't a Catholic anymore, but I still lived with some mythical man in my head. I didn't really put a name to a face, but I just knew that if I was in trouble or scared I would go, 'Oh God, please help me get out of this one.'

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

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

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

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

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

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.

If [Pope's Francis] media-generated popularity, fragile as that may turn out to be when the world discovers that the pope is really a Catholic, opens windows of possibility for explaining that divine mercy leads us to the truths God revealed to us (and inscribed into the world and into us), then his reanimation of the papacy will advance the "Church in permanent mission" for which he called in Evangelii Gaudium, which is the grand strategy document of his pontificate.

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.

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.

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 must send or the church will end.

The Church knows nothing of a sacredness of war. The Church which prays'Our Father'asks God only for peace.

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.

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!

The holy scriptures as well as the local and General Authorities of the Church provide a safety net of counsel and guidance for the people of the Church.

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

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

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.

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

Jesus was the poorest of the poor. Roman Catholicism, which claims to be His church, is the richest of the rich, the wealthiest institution on earth. () How come, that such an institution, ruling in the name of this same itinerant preacher, whose want was such that he had not even a pillow upon which to rest his head, is now so top-heavy with riches that she can rival - indeed, that she can put to shame - the combined might of the most redoubtable financial trusts, of the most potent industrial super-giants, and of the most prosperous global corporation of the world?

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.

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

In Edinburgh, there was a lovely little Episcopalian Church of Scotland church on my way to the theater, so I used to pop in there and soak up the atmosphere.

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.

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.

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

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.'

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

I talk about a Christianity that is enlightened enough to separate spirituality from the rest of life. Not just church and state, but knowledge and church.

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.

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.

Roman Polanski actually said as much to me once. He had his head in his hands, and I said, "Roman, I've got to tell you, as an actor, seeing the director with his head in his hands... Look, I really want to do what you want me to do." And he went away and he came back, having obviously thought about what I said. And he said, "When my head is in my hands, I'm closing my eyes and trying to remember what I saw in my head, before any of the stuff."

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.

In our secular society, school has become the replacement for church, and like church it requires that its teachings must be taken on faith.

Attending church does not necessarily mean living the principles taught in those meeting. You can be active in a church but inactive in its gospel.

We need to avoid the spiritual sickness of a church that is wrapped up in its own world: when a church becomes like this, it grows sick.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

When you go to a church and you see the pastor of that church with a philosophy and a program that's designed to bring black people together and elevate black people, join that church. Join that church. If you see where the NAACP is preaching and practicing that which is designed to make black nationalism materialize, join the NAACP. Join any kind of organization, civic, religious, fraternal, political, or otherwise that's based on lifting the black man up and making him master of his own community.

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.

The Bible is big in my teaching. It's a wonder the ACLU didn't get after me pretty good. I really kept thinking they would. I took my boys to church. I took my football team to church. I only did it two times a year. Before I signed a kid, I'd write the parents and I'd tell that parent we were gong to take your son to church twice.

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.

The reality is that while heliocentrism was discussed and often accepted within Catholic circles - it was effectively the only place where it could be - the more traditional view of the solar system still prevailed even among leading scientists. So it's hardly surprising that Galileo's Catholic judges had difficult accepting his views, especially when they saw themselves as defending scientific orthodoxy and were supported in this by the scientific establishment.

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.

Both need each other: The agnostic cannot be content to not know, but must be in search of the great truth of faith; the Catholic cannot be content to have faith, but must be in search of God all the time, and in the dialogue with others, a Catholic can learn more about God in a deeper fashion.

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

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

So I decided to start a church, for three reasons. First, I hated going to church and wanted one I liked, so I thought I would just start my own. Second, God had spoken to me in one of those weird charismatic moments and told me to start a church. Third, I am scared of God and try to do what he says.

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

People who put money in the church basket and people who go to church and pay the pastor: that isn't real philanthropy; that's just like you belong to a country club. You pay your dues to belong to that church, so you pay your tithing or whatever it is.