Church Quotes

I think Margaret Thatcher started it, the greed thing, people just wanting more and more. And we’ve lost our morals to some extent. And the church has weakened. People don’t believe in anything apart from money and success.

I have had great responsibilities in the Catholic Church. All the greater is my pain for the abuses and the errors that occurred in those different places during the time of my mandate.

It’s hard to embrace something that doesn’t embrace you.

He who is near the church is often far from God.

Where God has his church the Devil will have his chapel.

It were better to be of no church, than to be bitter for any.

I don’t go to church. Kneeling bags my nylons.

Going to church doesn’t make you a Christian any more than going to the garage makes you a car.

The church or company of worshipers (whether true or false) is like unto a corporation, society, or company: which companies may hold their courts, keep their records, hold disputations, and in matters concerning their society may dissent, divide, break into schisms and factions, sue and implead each other at the law, yea wholly break up […]

Who builds a church to God, and not to fame, will never mark the marble with his name.