If fishing is a religion, fly fishing is high church.
~ Tom Brokaw
I was brought up Catholic and know the stench of the Catholic Church. I moved away from religion early, but the impression remains.
~ Günter Grass
The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women's emancipation.
~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The whole tone of Church teaching in regard to women is, to the last degree, contemptuous and degrading.
History shows that when the church accommodates culture, it weakens it.
~ Rick Warren
In the primitive church, it was customary for the Holy Eucharist to be celebrated on the anniversary of the death of a martyr - if possible, on his tomb.
~ Sabine Baring-Gould
All Church power is, therefore, properly ministerial and administrative. Everything is to be done in the name of Christ, and in accordance with his directions.
~ Charles Hodge
I am not the Jesus of the official church tolerated by those in power. I am not your superstar.
~ Klaus Kinski
For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel.
~ Martin Luther
The style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe.
~ Alan Watts
But separation of church and state was never meant to separate God and government.
~ Roy Moore
When my father died, I had a real experience with Christ, a real conversion with Christ and I had it in a Oneness church.
~ T. D. Jakes
The leadership lost its nerve. Instead of taking the lead in the reform movement... they pulled the plug on it. They tried and are still trying to return the church to the dry ice of the previous century and a half.
~ Andrew Greeley
Anyone who is to find Christ must first find the church. How could anyone know where Christ is and what faith is in him unless he knew where his believers are?
Is it faith to understand nothing, and merely submit your convictions implicitly to the Church?
~ John Calvin
I ground my faith upon God's word, and not upon the church.
~ Jane Grey
Some churches make intercessory prayer part of their weekly schedule. If that's not the case at your church, find another person in the faith to intercede with or go before God on your own.
~ Monica Johnson
Hold firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this, and you dissolve the unity of the Church.
~ Thomas Aquinas
The faith of the church must be tried by God's word, and not God's word by the church; neither yet my faith.
I go to church too, y'all. And I've heard it, too. And I want to say to all of our faith leaders out there that I understand that probably in my Baptist church in Maryland, it is not likely that there will be performed - in my church - gay marriages.
~ Donna Edwards
With everything that I design, from a church to a plate to skyscraper to a spoon. I am always thinking about voluptuous volumes and spaces.
~ Greg Lynn
I would like it to be known that I have decided not to marry Group Capt. Peter Townsend. Mindful of the church's teaching that Christian marriage is indissoluble, and conscious of my duty to the Commonwealth, I have resolved to put these considerations before any others.
~ Princess Margaret
The way I did the first album... the way I wrote 'Church'... was just to trust my instincts with the music and let it kind of do what it does.
~ Hozier
Forgiveness is a big part of - especially post-civil rights movement - is a big part of African-American Christianity, and I wasn't raised within the Christian church; I wasn't raised within any church.
~ Ta-Nehisi Coates
The principle that certain sins should not receive the Church's testimony of forgiveness was probably no novelty at all, but had been applied in various churches; perhaps, however, with no strict consistency.
~ Robert Rainy
I sang in the choir for years, even though my family belonged to another church.
~ Paul Lynde
The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
I learned more stuff in church than I did in the world.
~ Al Green
Going to church doesn't make you any more a Christian than going to the garage makes you a car.
~ Laurence J. Peter
I'm afraid the SS's relationship with the Catholic Church is something the Church still has to deal with and does not deny.
~ Christopher Hitchens
The language of the Catholic Church - the liturgy, the prayer, the gospels - was in many ways my first poetry.
~ Alice Mcdermott
What, but the rapacity of the only men who exercised their reason, the priests, secured such vast property to the church, when a man gave his perishable substance to save himself from the dark torments of purgatory.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft
The public school has become the established church of secular society.
~ Ivan Illich
Our church has been legal since late 1960s. I've been involved since 1972. I was ordained in 1975.
~ Sally Kirkland
I want a big church wedding.
~ Sienna Miller
I saw a photograph of a wedding conducted by Reverend Moon of the Unification Church. I wanted to understand this event, and the only way to understand it was to write about it.
~ Don Delillo
You may invite the entire 35th Division to your wedding if you want to. I guess it's going to be yours as well as mine. We might as well have the church full while we are at it.
~ Bess Truman
My dad was a pastor, so we were in church all the time.
~ Ben Zobrist
