Quotes about Church
Then, overcome by joy, I cried, 'Jesus, my love. At last I have found my vocation. My vocation is love. In the heart of the Church, my mother, I will be love, and then I will be all things.
— St. Therese of Lisieux
In the old law, God was praised both with musical instruments, and human voices. But the church does not use musical instruments to praise God, lest she should seem to judaize.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Christians don't tell lies. They just go to church and sing them.
— AW Tozer
How much we need, in the church and in society, witnesses of the beauty of holiness, witnesses of the splendour of truth, witnesses of the joy and freedom born of a living relationship with Christ!
— Pope Benedict XVI
We cannot be tepid disciples. The Church needs our courage in order to give witness to truth.
— Pope Francis
Imagine if every church became a place where everyone is safe, but no one is comfortable. Image if every church became a place where we told one another the truth. We might just create sanctuary.
— Rachel Held Evans
Blasphemy and sedition (meaning the truth about Church and State).
— George Bernard Shaw
In truth the Church is too unique to prove herself unique. For most popular and easy proof is by parallel; and here there is no parallel.
— GK Chesterton
The church does not need apologists of its causes nor crusaders of its battles, but sowers humble and confident of the truth, who ... trust of its power
— Pope Francis
It is the simple truth to say that the New Testament books became canonical because no one could stop them doing so.
— William Barclay
There's nobody who doesn't have problems with the church, because there's sin in the church. But there's no other place to be a Christian except the church.
— Eugene Peterson
Racism is a sin and has no place in the church, including the Archdiocese of Chicago.
— Blase J. Cupich