On a hot summer day, the varnish from the pews would end up on your shirt. We decided that if the church wasn't going to repaint and renovate itself, we would do it for the church. (Quote by - Harry Schmidt)

And if he shall neglect to hear them, tell it unto the church: but if he neglect to hear the church, let him be unto thee as an heathen man and a publican. (Quote by - Bible)

The church says the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen the shadow on the moon, and I have more faith in a shadow than in the church. (Quote by - Ferdinand Magellan)

A man of good sense but of little faith, whose compassion seemed to lead him to church as often as he went there, said to me; 'that he liked to have concerts, and fairs, and churches, and other public amusements go on. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)

The established churches or religious organizations in this country are generally declining, overwhelmed by secular thoughts, secular culture. But the Unification Church is different; we don't feel any decline of spirit in our movement. We are pioneers; we are like a volcano erupting. (Quote by - Sun Myung Moon)

Where God hath a temple, the devil will have a chapel. (Quote by - Robert Burton)

We want to empower people in the community. We don't want them to just be able to play an instrument but to be leaders in music ministry. Not just in our church but in other churches. (Quote by - Steve Heimer)

Although their ideologies are very different, the strategy Howard Dean employed could be the strategy Mark Warner employs. Basically camp out in Iowa and New Hampshire and go door to door, church supper to church supper, to make himself a household name in those states. (Quote by - Stephen Farnsworth)

In our homes there's tons of technology available, and then you go to church and it feels archaic. In today's world, if you don't have technology in the church you don't even have what people have in their homes. (Quote by - Larry Vinyard)

The church is the center of the black community, .. The church provides day care, education and housing to African-Americans. Republicans realize that the government cannot do it all, so they want to give more control back to the churches. (Quote by - Adam Hunter)

If the church was in the county, this never would have happened. They never would have allowed us to be inundated with traffic out here. The city never accepted responsibility for this. They do this all over. They give carte blanche to developers. I firmly believe that's why the church was annexed into the city. I firmly believe that's why they never talked to us and they never got a development order. (Quote by - Jay Anderson)

Those areas are growing fast, .. The Canadian and U.S. churches are shrinking - it's the incredible shrinking church. It's not surprising, because there's no meat there. (Quote by - Bill Thompson)

Thank God for both our grandmothers, the Hollands' grandmother was very seminal, and mine was the head of the choir at my church, .. I had to be at church on Thursday, Saturday and Sundays rehearsing. I couldn't do anything else until I got that business taken care of. (Quote by - Lamont Dozier)

We heard church bells ringing. We heard people yelling, screaming, clapping. A friend of one of the miners came over, crying, to tell us that he had heard and just been told in the church that 12 of them (miners) had been found alive. (Quote by - Anderson Cooper)

What is a church? Let Truth and reason speak, They would reply, "The faithful, pure and meek, From Christian folds, the one selected race, Of all professions, and in every place. (Quote by - George Crabbe)

We changed the name because of the mission of our church to reach out to people who are un-churched, those who are far away from God. Sometimes denominational names can raise barriers for people. So many people here were not raised in the cultural South, and they have pretty stereotypical ideas about what Baptists are like. (Quote by - Rick White)

Whichever church you are from, it's a tremendous experience to bring a church group. (Quote by - Pastor Michael Birnbaum)

It's a matter of someone doing the legwork to contact those churches and have them put it in every Sunday bulletin, .. And these are economically feasible ways to advertise. The NAACP branches aren't going to charge the school districts. The churches are going to be ecstatic the districts contacted them. (Quote by - John Jordan)

We are in very good relationships with the present pope, Benedict XVI, and I'm in the very happy position to announce to you that we are going to restart the dialogue on the international global level between the Orthodox church and the Roman Catholic church. (Quote by - Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew)

I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church. (Quote by - Thomas Paine)

Some go to church to see and be seen, Some go there to say they have been, Some go there to sleep and nod, But few go there to worship God. (Quote by - Proverb)

Nashville Mayor Bill Purcell thanked Metro Schools Director Pedro Garcia and other educators in attendance. The church hosts school-related neighborhood partnerships. Despite everything we might do during the school day, there is a lot more that needs to be done, .. This is a place for families. And because it is Sunday, it seems appropriate to mention that it makes use of a sacred space. Churches are often looking for ways to make their facilities available through the week in their communities. (Quote by - Bill Purcell)

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. (Quote by - Igor Stravinsky)

I thought somebody had just died, either her mother or my father. When she said the church was on fire, I thought it was probably just the kitchen area. I couldn't conceive that the church building could be gone. (Quote by - Rev. Daniel Donaldson)

At the moment we're having to rent facilities but the new church will enable us to do so much more.. not just as a church.. but be far more effective within our community. (Quote by - David Smith)