CHURCH QUOTES III

quotations about church

Take me to church
I'll worship like a dog at the shrine of your lies
I'll tell you my sins and you can sharpen your knife
Offer me that deathless death
Good God, let me give you my life

HOZIER

"Take Me to Church"


See, that why I ain't go to church. Figger I got me a church wherever I be. Want'a talk to God, well I say, "howdy-howdy, God," and we jaw fer a bit.

DAVID BALDACCI

Wish You Well


Temples and churches have become social centers. They have lost their original purpose because the minds of the people are more attracted to worldly things than to prayer. The lips repeat the prayer mechanically like a phonograph record, but the mind wanders to other places.

SRI S. SATCHIDANANDA

The Yoga Sutras


The nearer the church, the further from God.

BISHOP ANDREWS

sermon on the Nativity before James I, 1622


The Head and the body are Christ wholly and entirely. The Head is the only begotten Son of God, the body is His Church; the bridegroom and the bride, two in one flesh. All who dissent from the Scriptures concerning Christ, although they may be found in all places in which the Church is found, are not in the Church; and again all those who agree with the Scriptures concerning the Head, and do not communicate in the unity of the Church, are not in the Church.

ST. AUGUSTINE

De Unitate Ecclesiae


We're gonna make it to the church on time
Need to hear the preacher
Give me a sign
We're gonna make it to the church on time

BEN HARPER

"Church on Time"


Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest.

EMILE ZOLA

attributed, What Great Men Think of Religion


When a man unites with the church, he should not come saying, "I am so holy that I think I must go in among the saints," but, "O brethren, I find I am so weak and wicked that I cannot stand alone; so, if you can help me, open the door and let me enter."

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Life Thoughts


There are ten church-members by inheritance for one by conviction.

AUSTIN O'MALLEY

Keystones of Thought


The Church had the words reason and liberty on her lips when the inalienable rights of the human race were threatened with shipwreck.

HENRI-DOMINIQUE LACORDAIRE

Letters to Young Men


You left my heart as empty
As a Monday morning church
It used to be so full of faith and now it only hurts
And I can hear the devil whisper
"Things are only getting worse"
You left my heart as empty
As a Mondy morning church

ALAN JACKSON

"Monday Morning Church"


The church says the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen the shadow on the moon, and I have more faith in a shadow than in the church.

FERDINAND MAGELLAN

attributed, The Quotable Atheist


Surely as a man may say of a rock--nothing more quiet, because it is never stirred; and yet nothing more unquiet, because it is ever assaulted--so we may say of the church--nothing more peaceable, because it is established upon a rock; and yet nothing more unpeaceable, because that rock is in the midst of seas, winds, enemies, and persecutions.

EDWARD REYNOLDS

Explication of the Hundred and Tenth Psalm


The church always arrives on the scene a little breathless and a little late.

BERNARD LONERGAN

attributed, Quotes for the Journey


Church was never meant to be a place for gods to gather, but for devils wanting to shed their horns for halos.

RICHELLE E. GOODRICH

Being Bold


Behind this Church, made out of the blood and bricks you see before you, there is another Church, infinite and invisible, whose flags are raised towards heaven. This Church lives in the hearts of the millions of the faithful who love Christ and his message. It will be reborn from its ashes and fill the world.

JUAN GOMEZ-JURADO

God's Spy


The Church must be intelligible to the simple as well as to the shrewd.

ROBERT HUGH BENSON

A City Set on a Hill


I'm more spiritual than I am religious. I don't go to church; I go to the beach.

PAULA DEEN

Good Housekeeping, Nov. 2009


Damn the Church. Damn it for imposing impossible celibacy on its people. Damn it for hypocrisy--Christendom was littered with priests wallowing in varieties of sin. How many of them were condemned? And damn it for its hatred of women--an abuse of half the world's inhabitants, so that those who refused to be penned into its sheepfold were condemned as harlots and heretics and witches.

ARIANA FRANKLIN

The Serpent's Tale


See the Gospel Church secure,
And founded on a Rock!
All her promises are sure;
Her bulwarks who can shock?
Count her every precious shrine;
Tell, to after-ages tell,
Fortified by power divine,
The Church can never fail.

CHARLES WESLEY

Scriptural