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 is no surprise that when today’s affluent young professionals return to church, they want to do it only on their own terms – what’s amazing is how far the churches are going to oblige.

Suppose we’ve chosen the wrong god. Every time we go to church we’re just making him madder and madder. (Homer Simpson)

To the Church I once went, but I grieved and I sorrowed; for the season was Lent, and the sermon as borrowed.

One should not go into church if one wants to breathe pure air.

The observances of the church concerning feasts and fasts are tolerably well kept, since the rich keep the feasts and the poor the fasts.