Quotes about Church

The superior types, he points out, are also sinners. Of course, they are nice church members. They don't let all their dirty laundry hang out. No, their sins are vegetarian sins. Compared with the really nasty people, they appear good in their own eyes.

Karol Wojtyla, the disciple who was a product of the Church in the modern world, not of the Roman bureaucracy.

Congregations are lifeless because dead men preach to them.

To be of no Church is dangerous.

The Church is perishing today through the lack of thinking, not through an excess of it.

A terrible crisis unquestionably has arisen in the Church. In the ministry of evangelical churches are to be found hosts of those who reject the gospel of Christ. By the equivocal use of traditional phrases, by the representation of differences of opinion as though they were only differences about the interpretation of the Bible, entrance into the Church was secured for those who are hostile to the very foundations of the faith.

The secular mind and heart, however gifted and personally charming, has no place in the leadership of the church.

I believe that the real difference in the American church is not between conservatives and liberals, fundamentalists and charismatics, nor between Republicans and Democrats. The real difference is between the aware and the unaware.

The church should be a disciplined charging army. Christians, like slaves and solders ask no questions. We are fighting a holy war.

There's a coffin in the back of the church as the wedding is going on ... Look, I'm a romantic. I like marriage...In the movies.

It is plain to me that our prelates in granting indulgences do commonly blaspheme the wisdom of God.

We may go to church once a week, but our Christian life is daily - step-by-step.