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By comparison with a night-club, churches are positively gay.

By divine mandate the interpreter and guardian of the Scriptures, and the depository of Sacred Tradition living within her, the Church alone is the entrance to salvation: She alone, by herself, and under the protection and guidance of the Holy Spirit, is the source of truth.

By operating independently of government aid, the churches . . . avoid the resentment of those who do not want to be forced to contribute to churches to which they do not belong and of their own members who do not welcome being forced to contribute through government taxation.

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

By the time we got to Courageous, we were bringing in more outsiders, so any time we would bring in outsiders, we would offer to pay them, and [as for volunteers from] the church, because they were getting the benefit of the income to all the ministries of the church and the mission, the building program and all those things, they knew up-front that they were volunteering and gladly did so.

Can any of us refute the wisdom of Madison and the other framers? Can anyone look at the carnage in Iran, the bloodshed in Northern Ireland or the bombs bursting in Lebanon and yet question the dangers of injecting religious issues into the affairs of state?

Can human hearts be changed? Why, of course! It happens every day in the great missionary work of the Church. It is one of the most widespread of Christ’s modern miracles. If it hasn't happened to you—it should.

Can any deny that in the modern church setup the main cause of anxiety is money? Yet that which tries the modern churches the most, troubled the New Testament Church the least. Our emphasis is on paying; theirs was on praying. When we have paid, the place is taken; when they had prayed, the place was shaken!

Can any church help us to win a war? If you can't help us win a war, then please don't press us.

Can the "word" be pinned down to either one period or one church? All churches are, of course, only more or less unsuccessful attempts to represent the unseen to the mind.

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.

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.

Churches and trains they all look the same to me now they shoot you some place while we ache to come home somehow.

Churches are having a limited impact on society because they fail to understand that the goal of the church is not the church itself but the kingdom.

Churches are like announcement factories that pump toxic levels of noise pollution into the atmosphere.

churches, like all the rest of our major institutions, are rooted in capitalism. For a church to attack capitalism is to 'bite the hand that feeds it.

Churches that make an impact are more focused on putting boots on the streets than butts in the seats

Church: if the world could see a snapshot of our worship today, would they perceive that we believe our God is worthy of praise?