And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.
Hans Kung

The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off, but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there about us always.
Willa Cather

For you see this scripture fulfilled this day and therefore I desire you as you tender the Lord and the church and commonwealth to consider and look what you do.
Anne Hutchinson

The Church knew what the psalmist knew: Music praises God. Music is well or better able to praise him than the building of the church and all its decoration; it is the Church's greatest ornament.
Igor Stravinsky

If you love god, burn a church.
Jello Biafra

I'd like to do my first record I ever made, A Church, a Courtroom, and Then Goodbye.
Patsy Cline

I heard stories from my mother's mother who was an American Indian. She was spiritual, although she did not go to church, but she had the hum. She used to tell me stories of the rivers.
Tina Turner

Ultimately Warhol's private moral reference was to the supreme kitsch of the Catholic church.
Allen Ginsberg

I ground my faith upon God's word, and not upon the church.
Jane Grey

The faith of the church must be tried by God's word, and not God's word by the church; neither yet my faith.
Jane Grey

No one can fail to see that the power of the Church among large numbers in many communities is today diminishing, or has already ceased.
Felix Adler

The Ethical Society, therefore, is like a Church in maintaining, and emphasizing the importance of maintaining the custom of public assemblies on Sunday.
Felix Adler

No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state.
Felix Adler

I sang in church growing up. Memphis is the blues capital of the world, we like to say.
Justin Timberlake

I walked away from going to church when I was 8. I didn't set foot in another church until I was 28.
Billy Corgan

I was brought up as a Catholic and went to church every week and took the sacraments. It never really touched the core of my being.
Sting

When one is required to preside over the Church, and be entrusted with the care of so many souls, the whole female sex must retire before the magnitude of the task, and the majority of men also.
John Chrysostom

If you were to look back at me as a school kid you'd see a very quiet little church mouse kind of character.
Johnny Rotten

Although I myself don't go to church or synagogue, I do, whether it's superstition or whatever, pray every time I get on a plane. I just automatically do it. I say the same thing every time.
Barbara Walters

I don't go to church regular. But I pray for answers to my problems.
Loretta Lynn