Top 1200 Unitarian Church Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

I went to St. James Methodist Church in Clinton, a segregated church on the other side of the tracks.

Most of us come to the church by a means the church does not allow.

If the church says we will not accept you here or that we will expose you if you are stealing the resources of the country or stealing the resources of a private company or other establishment, where you work, then we would not have the type of problem that we have in this country. If only the church does so - just the church.

Church growth strategies are the death gurgle of a church that has lost its way.

I believe with all my heart that the Church of Jesus Christ should be a Church of blurred edges.

What the church should be telling the worker is that the first demand religion makes on him is that he should be a good workman. If he is a carpenter he should be a competent carpenter. Church by all means on Sundays-but what is the use of church if at the very center of life a man defrauds his neighbor and insults God by poor craftsmanship.

When I was growing up, I'd be in the choir. My mum was the organist in the church, so I'd sing in the church.

I refused to teach Sunday school. When Archdeacon Henry Phillips, my last rector, died, I flatly refused again to join any church or sign any church creed. From my 30th year on I have increasingly regarded the church as an institution which defended such evils as slavery, color caste, exploitation of labor and war.

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.

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.

I grew up in the Episcopal Church, went to private school in that church, went to chapel every day.

One major difference between Mormons and evangelicals on the subject of revelation is that Latter-day Saints believe that God has appointed modern-day prophets and apostles to receive revelation for Christ's church. All church members may receive revelation appropriate for their particular callings or positions within the church and their families, but never in contradiction to church doctrine or policy. So Mormonism has both a democratic practice of revelation that would resonate with evangelicals, but also an institutional understanding of revelation foreign to evangelicalism.

When we say Church of All Nations, it's a vision given to me, that the church will touch all the world.

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

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

Our Christian identity is belonging to a people: the Church. Without the Church we are not Christians.

If the Church is not now as bad as the Soviet Government, that is due to the influence of those who attacked the Church

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 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.

Church is great, but I found my church here. Hugh Hefner has been nothing but a gentleman.

I was raised in a little church, the Grundy Methodist Church, that was very straight-laced, but I had a friend whose mother spoke in tongues. I was just wild for this family. My own parents were older, and they were so over-protective. I just loved the 'letting go' that would happen when I went to church with my friend.

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

The world could not long ignore a holy church. The church is not despised because it is holy: it is despised because it is not holy enough. There is not enough difference between the people inside the church and those outside to be impressive. A church in which saints were as common as now they are rare would convict the world, if only by contrast. Sanctity cannot be ignored. Even a little bit is potent. So far from the gates of hell prevailing against it, it hammers on their triple steel.

The Church is composed of people, and people do terrible things and commit sin - it's what the Church has been telling us for two thousand years and continues to tell us, which is why the Church is here and essentially one of the major reasons why people hate it so much.

The Church exists by mission, just as a fire exists by burning. Where there is no mission there is no Church; and where there is neither Church nor mission, there is no faith.

Today the separation of church and state in America is used to silence the church. When Christians speak out on issues, the hue and cry from the humanist state and media is that Christians, an all religions, are prohibited from speaking since there is a separation of church and state.

I walked away from going to church when I was 8. I didn't set foot in another church until I was 28.

This is what heaven's gonna be like. Not just a white church or a black church, but people.

I do object to the sensationalism or even the voyeurism of doing things in church or out of church.

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

After my study of today's church, my conclusion is that the church is politely bored with God.

Though you see a Church-man ill, yet continue in the Church still.

Personally, I am a church-going Christian. I love my church, my congregation; it's my favorite place to be.

If you're not looking forward to church this morning perhaps it's time to look for a church.

In fact, my parents were church people; my father was a deacon in the church.

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

I did not grow up in the church. I'm not a church-goer now. I'm a very spiritual person.

I think we are all trying to figure out what it means to be the Church as opposed to just doing church.

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

Is this really the church of Christ, or are we just calling it the church because of our traditions and history?

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

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

Every true prayer is a prayer of the Church; by means of that prayer the Church prays, since it is the Holy Spirit living in the Church, Who in every single soul 'prays in us with unspeakable groanings'.

Religion is not the hero of the day, but the zero. In any exposition of the products of brains, the Sunday-School takes the booby prize. . . . Man has asked for truth and the Church has given him miracles. He has asked for knowledge, and the Church has given him theology. He has asked for facts, and the Church has given him the Bible. This foolishness should stop. The Church has nothing to give man that has not been in cold storage for two thousand years. Anything would become stale in that time.

I acknowledge myself a unitarian - Believing that the Father alone, is the supreme God, and that Jesus Christ derived his Being, and all his powers and honors from the Father. ... There is not any reasoning which can convince me, contrary to my senses, that three is one, and one three.

The Church of the Apostles was a Church of the poor; of silver and gold it had none.

My church is in the detention facilities where I preside and celebrate the Eucharist. To me that's the church. That's the people of God.

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

The church's final word is not 'church' but the glory of the Father and the Son in the Spirit of liberty

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

By the time we get to church, I need church cuz I've been yelled at by everyone in the family.

Stop going to church everywhere and start belonging to church somewhere.

When a church is faithless to its duties, the real church is outside its walls, in the community.

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.

All Church power arises from the indwelling of the Spirit; therefore those in whom the Spirit dwells are the seat of Church power. But the Spirit dwells in the whole Church, and therefore the whole Church is the seat of Church power.

I have a church background. I've been playing piano and keyboard and organ all my life in church.

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

If you can get a spiritual connection without going to church, why go to 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.