Quotes on Church

If ever the church is to flourish again, one must begin by instructing the young.

Against the State, against the Church, against the silence of the medical profession, against the whole machinery of dead institutions of the past, the woman of today arises.

The church, the state, and the poor, are 3 daughters which we should maintain, but not portion off.

The Catholic Church is not dead, it is not even tired!

Art in the Church fundamentally exists for evangelization

What, then, shall a Catholic Christian do ... if some novel contagion attempt to infect no longer a small part of the Church alone but the whole Church alike? He shall then see to it that he cleave unto antiquity, which is now utterly incapable of being seduced by any craft or novelty.

Baseball is like church. Many attend few understand.

I'm grateful to God that, through the Negro church, the dimension of nonviolence entered our struggle.

If God can't get the attention of the church house, He's certainly not going to stop by the White House.

The church becomes irrelevant when it becomes purely a human creation. We are not all we were made to be when everything in our lives and churches can be explained apart from the work and presence of the Spirit of God.

A church in the land without the Spirit is rather a curse than a blessing. If you have not the Spirit of God, Christian worker, remember that you stand in somebody else's way; you are a fruitless tree standing where a fruitful tree might grow.

The writers of the French enlightenment had deliberately used blasphemy as a weapon, refusing to accept the power of the Church to set limiting points on thought.

Dear young people, the Church expects great things of you and your generosity. Don’t be afraid to aim high.

Got no religion. Tried a bunch of different religions. The churches are divided. Can't make up their minds and neither can I.

Women should unite upon a platform of opposition to the teaching and aim of that ever most unscrupulous enemy of freedom--the Church.

Not until I went into the churches of America and heard her pulpits flame with righteousness did I understand the secret of her genius and power. America is great because America is good, and if America ever ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.

Without the Eucharist, the Church simply does not exist.

I think with great affection and deep gratitude of my venerable predecessor, Benedict XVI, who during these years of his pontificate has enriched and strengthened the Church with his teaching, his goodness, his guidance, his faith, his humility, and his gentleness, which will remain a spiritual heritage for all.

Take away the Mass, destroy the Church.

You can't have Christ without the Church.

If the gospel isn't good news for everybody, then it isn't good news for anybody. And this is because the most powerful things happen when the church surrenders its desire to convert people and convince them to join. It is when the church gives itself away in radical acts of service and compassion, expecting nothing in return, that the way of Jesus is most vividly put on display.