quotations about church
It became obvious why Catholics had built such beautiful cathedrals and churches throughout the world. Not as gathering or meeting places for Christians. But as a home for Jesus Himself in the Blessed Sacrament. Cathedrals house Jesus. Christians merely come and visit Him.
ALLEN R. HUNT
Confessions of a Mega Church Pastor
And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the powers of death shall not prevail against it.
JESUS
Matthew 16:18
The true Church is not an institution to be kept apart from the world because the world "is common and unclean," but a vital heart of truth and love, beating with the life of Jesus, and sending abroad its sanctifying pulsations until nothing shall be common and unclean.
E. H. CHAPIN
Living Words
An humble spire, pointing heavenward from an obscure church, speaks of man's nature, man's dignity, man's destiny, more eloquently than all the columns and arches of Greece and Rome, the mausoleums of Asia, or the pyramids of Egypt.
WILLIAM E. CHANNING
Thoughts
The Church must be forever building, for it is forever decaying within and attacked from without.
T.S. ELIOT
The Rock
The church is precisely that against which Jesus preached -- and against which he taught his disciples to fight.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
unpublished fragment, Nov. 1887
Some keep the Sabbath going to church;
I keep it staying at home,
With a bobolink for a chorister,
And an orchard for a dome.
EMILY DICKINSON
"Some keep the Sabbath going to Church"
There's a bunch of huge churches clustered together, trying to blend in with all the family-themed restaurants, because salvation is as easy as chicken wings, I guess.
PATRICK NESS
The Rest of Us Just Live Here
All churches are an echo of this--the Cathedral of Nature.
SETH ADAM SMITH
Rip Van Winkle and the Pumpkin Lantern
Where Christ erecteth his church, the devil in the same churchyard will have his chapel.
RICHARD BANCROFT
sermon preached at Paul's Cross, Feb. 9, 1589
The Church is not a gallery for the better exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
The True Church can never fail
For it is based upon a rock.
T.S. ELIOT
The Hippopotamus
When introverts go to church, we crave sanctuary in every sense of the word, as we flee from the disorienting distractions of twenty-first-century life. We desire to escape from superficial relationships, trivial communications and the constant noise that pervade our world, and find rest in the probing depths of God's love.
ADAM S. MCHUGH
Introverts in the Church: Finding Our Place in an Extroverted Culture
I never weary of great churches. It is my favourite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
Inland Voyage
I was afraid of a united Church; it makes a mighty power, the mightiest conceivable, and then when it by and by gets into selfish hands, as it is always bound to do, it means death to human liberty and paralysis to human thought.
MARK TWAIN
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
The nearer the Church the further from God.
LANCELOT ANDREWES
Sermon on the Nativity before James I
Once I returned to the Church and began to see the universe as a place that really did incorporate redemption and really tried to understand the implications of there being a God, my identification with the vampires as outcasts, as outsiders and lost souls began to totally wane. It no longer worked for me. I had done it. It had led me to this point.
ANNE RICE
interview, BookPage, Nov. 2005
There is no salvation outside the church.
ST. AUGUSTINE
De Baptismo
There is one grand, all-comprehending church; and if I am a Christian, I belong to it, and no man can shut me out of it.
WILLIAM E. CHANNING
Thoughts
I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Essays