Church Quotes - Page 28

• I'm spiritual. I'm religious. I'm a strong Christian and I'm a Catholic but I go to a Presbyterian Church. Occasionally I go to the Catholic church too. I take communion. I haven't transferred my membership or anything.

  Wesley Clark

  Christian, Spiritual, Religious

  "'I'm Spiritual. I'm Religious. I'm a Good Christian.'". Interview with Steven Waldman, www.beliefnet.com. December 2003.

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• I'm fortunate in that I've grown up in a worshipping tradition which is quite rich musically (and music is very important to me) and has a wonderful resource of hymns from all sorts of different parts of the Church... and to go to church and be able to sing that stuff and listen to a Bach motet or indeed some charismatic choruses.

  N. T. Wright

  Hymns, Important, Different

  Source: blogs.thegospelcoalition.org

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• We have to separate here the church in its broad sense. We have Catholics, Protestants, Eastern Orthodox churches. The Catholic church is a corporation like a chief executive. A fairly homogenous operation. Today its attitude toward anti-Semitism is much more severe than it's ever been. The Catholic Church today is much less the problem than the other groups.

  Manfred Gerstenfeld

  Attitude, Church Today, Catholic

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• Modern church music is so constructed that the congregation cannot hear one distinct word.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Church Music, Modern, Music Is

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• I gave my heart to Jesus. I accepted him as my Lord and Savior, started reading the Bible, started going to a church (and) started a relationship with Jesus.

  Patricia Mauceri

  Jesus, Reading, Heart

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• I had known David Ham and Marco Santiago from having met and worked with them on The Cross and the Switchblade which we worked on together at Times Square Church. We joined together as Trace Life Media to be a directing/producing team to be able to assist churches in the production of a play in their own community or to bring a fully-produced productions - something that will be ministering to the Body of Christ.

  Patricia Mauceri

  Team, Play, Squares

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• My wife has helped me with a lot of things. She's also got me to like a lot of different things like sushi. I never would have tried that if it weren't for her. I also went to Hillsong (Church) in New York for the first time with her. It's fun to experience new things with the person you love.

  Jrue Holiday

  New York, Fun, Wife

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• I grew up in church and it's always been important to me. I've always had a sense of calling to do life and faith-affirming media.

  Brian Bird

  Media, Important, Calling

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• My religion is my whole life. I love sharing it with people and clearing up any misunderstandings people might have about our Church.

  Carmen Rasmusen

  People, Might, Whole Life

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• I am a God-fearing man. In fact, I don't go to church because I'm afraid I'll run into him there.

  Matthew Diamond

  Running, Men, God Fearing Man

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• I believe in an America ... where no public official either requests or accepts instructions on public policy from the Pope, the National Council of Churches, or any other ecclesiastical source.

  John F. Kennedy

  Believe, America, Separation

  Address to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association, delivered 12 September 1960 at the Rice Hotel in Houston, TX

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

  Henry David Thoreau

  May, Christ, Pale

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.47, Xist Publishing

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• If you leave the church service thinking about how good the pastor was, he has missed the mark. If you leave consumed with Christ, the pastor has been used by the Lord.

  Howard G. Hendricks

  Past, Thinking, Church Service

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• A church has the right to set its own standards within its community. I don't think it has a right to prohibit birth control or to enforce upon a secular society its conception of divorce and the indissolubility of the marriage tie.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Divorce, Thinking, Secular Society

  "The Mike Wallace Interview". www.hrc.utexas.edu. April 27, 1958.

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• The separation of church and state is necessary partly because if religion is good then the state shouldn't interfere with the religious vision or with the religious prophet. There must be a realm of truth beyond political competence, that's why there must be a separation of churches, but if religion is bad and a bad religion is one that gives an ultimate sanctity to some particular cause. Then religion mustn't interfere with the state - so one of the basic Democratic principles as we know it in America is the separation of church and state.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Religious, America, Giving

  ABC TV Interview with Mike Wallace, www.hrc.utexas.edu. April 27, 1958.

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• I think it's already apparent that a good part of this Nation understands - if only instinctively - that anything which seems to suggest that God favors a political party or the establishment of a state church, is wrong and dangerous.

  Mario Cuomo

  Party, Thinking, Political

  New York (State). Governor (1983- : Cuomo), Mario Matthew Cuomo (1989). “Public Papers of Governor Mario M. Cuomo, 1984”

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• The American people need no course in philosophy or political science or church history to know that God should not be made into a celestial party chairman.

  Mario Cuomo

  Philosophy, Party, People

  New York (State). Governor (1983- : Cuomo), Mario Matthew Cuomo (1989). “Public Papers of Governor Mario M. Cuomo, 1984”

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• You have to get past the idea that music has to be one thing. To be alive in America is to hear all kinds of music constantly: radio, records, churches, cats on the street, everywhere music. And with records, the whole history of music is open to everyone who wants to hear it.

  Jerry Garcia

  Cat, Past, Ideas

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• It is the deepest desire of my heart to have every member of the Church worthy to enter the temple.

  Howard W. Hunter

  Heart, Desire, Temples

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• The task of the church, for example, becomes less that of indoctrinating or relating people to an external divine power and more that of providing opportunities for people to touch the infinite center of all things and to grow into all that they are destined to be.

  John Shelby Spong

  Opportunity, People, Example

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• Our spiritual immutarity never shows up more than in our lack of praying, be it alone or in a church prayer meeting. Let 20% of the chior members fail to turn up for rehearsal and the chior master is offended. Let 20% of the church members turn up for a prayer meeting, and the pastor is elated.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Spiritual, Prayer, Past

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• The Rule of 150 says that congregants of a rapidly expanding church, or the members of a social club, or anyone in a group activity banking on the epidemic spread of shared ideals needs to be particularly cognizant of the perils of the bigness. Crossing the 150 line is a small change that can make a big difference.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Small Changes, Epidemics, Differences

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

  Barbara Brown Taylor

  Poet, Grew, Drifting

  Barbara Brown Taylor (2011). “Leaving Church: A Memoir of Faith”, p.111, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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• I think I'm a real good person off the field. I've got good character traits, I go to Church often, and I do community service. I think I'm a really good role model.

  Jeremy Shockey

  Real, Character, Thinking

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• If you are really spontaneous, people will think you are mad.  If you go to a tree and start talking, or to a flower, people will think you are mad.  If you go to a church and talk to a cross or to an image, nobody will think your are mad, they will think that you are religious.  You are talking to a stone in a temple and everybody thinks you are religious because this is the authorized form.

  Rajneesh

  Religious, Flower, Thinking

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