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Catholic Church reasserts its moral authority on contraception: If God believed in birth control, altar boys would have a uterus.

Certainly, no church should be involved in trying to set the affairs of the nation.

Certainly, the church is not primarily a moral institution, but the bearer of a hope.

Certain things happened in the early church. Women who had never had any freedom suddenly have the ability to stand up and speak and be treated as equals within the life of the church.

Charisma on stage is not necessarily evidence of the Holy Spirit.

Child abuse is a heinous and personally damaging crime; it is therefore incumbent on the Church to treat such matters with the utmost seriousness.

Children are naive-they trust everyone. School is bad enough, but, if you put a child anywhere in the vicinity of a church, you're asking for trouble.

Christ bears the wounds of the church, his body, just as he bore the wounds of crucifixion. I sometimes wonder which have hurt worse.

Christ didn't leave us a book of instructions; He left us a body, a family - a Church. If it were perfectly clear, there wouldn't be any freedom.

Christianity is a missionary religion, converting, advancing, aggressive, encompassing the world; a non-missionary church is in the bands of death.

Christianity means a lot more than church membership.

Christianity or any religion doesn't necessarily have to be about a church. You carry your God inside you... But when you're famous and the word gets out that you're a Christian, every church is saying, "Even Jane Fonda." People come up to me in airports and throw their arms around me.

Christianity ... that musty old theology, which already has its grave clothes on, and is about to be buried... A wall of Bible, brimstone, church and corruption has hitherto hemmed women into nothingness.

Christian proclamation might make the gospel audible, but Christians living together in local congregations make the gospel visible (see John 13:34-35). The church is the gospel made visible.

Christians don't tell lies, they just go to church and sing them. How many times have you stood and sang, “Take my life and let it be” when you haven't given Him one ounce?

Christians in community must again show the world, not merely family values, but the bond of the love of Christ.

Christianity contains within itself a germ hostile to the Church (Dietrich Bonhoeffer)

Christianity in the suburb is cheerful. The church is a centre of social activity and those who go to church need never be lonely.

Christ is not knocking on the door of a sinner's heart, but on the door of a wayward church.

Christians should emphatically be campaigning for justice for the poor - but the Church is not a campaign.

Christmas, as a practicing Catholic child, was seen as a reward for lots and lots and lots of church.

Christmas is a time when God showed His love for us, and we're ready to show God's love in the communities where we live and serve. That's the purpose of the church.

Church and state should be separate, not only in form, but fact - religion and politics should not be mingled.

Church and state are, and must remain, separate.

Church can’t be a place where we feel like a visitor, or somewhere we’re afraid to allow others to see our messes. It’s got to feel like home.

Churches can easily bring together, in a short period of time, a substantial number of people, and politicians have to assume that these folks have the potential to vote. Although there's supposed to be a separation of church and state, they want to go to these churches to say hello to the people, and they assume their hello might turn into votes.

Churches have given us great treasures such as music and architecture. Whether that pays for the harm they have done is another matter.

Churches must extend their influence beyond the lives of church members to impact the broader community that they serve.

Churches should evaluate everything they do to determine how it can be done better.

Church should be a place where love is evident, God delivers, lives are changed, hearts are healed, and families restored.

Church wants you on your place. Kneel, stand, kneel, stand. If you go for that sort of thing, I don't know what to do for you. A man makes his own way. No one gives it to you. You have to take it. 'Non serviam'.

Church was never intended to be a place where we serve God to the exclusion of meeting with Him.

Churches are not the kingdom of God, but are primary and inevitable expressions, outposts, and instrumentalities of presence of the kingdom among us. They are 'societies' of Jesus.

Churches come and go, but there has ever been but one religion. The only religion is conscience in action.

Churches may decay and perish; riches may make themselves wings and fly away-but he who builds their happiness on Christ crucified and union with Him by faith, that person is standing on a foundation which shall never be moved, and will know something of true peace.

Churches we build only by our own efforts and not in the strength of the Spirit will quickly collapse when we don't push and prod people along.

Church hoppers are like wandering dogs. If they are not regularly patted on the head, they will go elsewhere until they are.

Church of painful love - unfulfilled,unrequited & unattained

Church attendance may be dipping, but God can survive the Internet age. After all, He knows a thing or two about resurrection.

Churches and mosques you shall not heed / The religion of Albanians is Albanism

Churches are healthier and stronger if they assume responsibility both for financing their own programs and for stimulating their members to accept that responsibility.

Churches are wonderful and beautiful, and they are vehicles for religion, but no Church can have more than a very little of the truth.

Churches can become places of cynicism, resistance, and pessimism.

Churches often confuse loyalty with competence.

Churches that depart from the Word will soon find that God has departed from them.

Church is a place where you get to practice what it means to be human.

Church is what you do. Church is who you are. Church is the human outworking of the person of Jesus Christ. Let's not go to Church, let's be the Church.

Church reminded me very much of going to shul. It was a bunch of men wearing long robes, speaking in a language I didn't understand.

Church should be enjoyed, not endured.

Church and State, Soul and Body, God and Man, are all one at Mont Saint Michel, and the business of all is to fight, each in his own way, or to stand guard for each other.