Church Role Quotes

I am an atheist, and I believe that religion should not be in the classrooms; it has to be in the churches. In the classrooms, you have to form citizenship, not people with religious beliefs, that corresponds to the private sphere.

The church is the gym of the soul.

Religion has no business to formulate social laws.

Churches should not be directly involved in politics.

The Church no more gave us the New Testament canon than Isaac Newton gave us the force of gravity.

You cannot train yourself. I feel the same way about Christianity and about what the church is: The church is the gym of the soul.

The Church exists for nothing else but to draw men into Christ.

He [Peter after the resurrection] now understood that he and the church were to exercise a transcendent power that did not depend upon having a kingdom or government in any human sense, for it was literally a "God government" in which they were participants (Acts 1:6-8).

When taxes go up, tithing goes down. When the government assumes the role of the shepherd, the power of churches is diminished. It's another way to attack religion and for the state to eradicate it from society.

The coronation is a symbol of power, but it's not a symbol for us the people. It's a symbol for that person, who is a human, to become a higher being and become one with God. The church, the scepter, and the crown have been around forever. And the line of kings of England goes back thousands of years.

A scared world needs a fearless church.

If the church doesn't minister to sinners, then who will?

The church ... is not the master or the servant of the state, but rather the conscience of the state.

It is not for the pastors of the Church to intervene directly in the political construction and organization of social life.

Can any church help us to win a war? If you can't help us win a war, then please don't press us.

Vatican II declares the Church... as necessary for salvation.

The last years of fading communism provided an ideal environment for Poland's Catholic Church, which acted as an umbrella for dissenters of all sorts.

I disagree strongly with the concept of separation of church and state. It was not written into the Constitution.

Since politics fundamentally should be a moral enterprise, the church in this sense has something to say about politics.

I want to be a pastor in a high school.

A lot of victims, for example, have become addicted to alcohol and drugs. It seems to me that the church's healing ministry is going to be enhanced through this in much broader strokes. That's good, it's all positive.

Many of the liberal people tend to say, "Well, the solution is government." I couldn't disagree more. The government cannot solve the problem and never will. I believe the solution to these problems is the church and that the church should be responsible for caring for the sick, and assisting the poor, and educating.

The Church does not dispense the sacrament of baptism in order to acquire for herself an increase in membership but in order to consecrate a human being to God and to communicate to that person the divine gift of birth from God.

Jesus is the hope of the world and the local church is the vehicle of expressing that hope to the world.

Martin Luther King Jr. really understood the role of the churches when he said, 'The church is not meant to be the master of the state.' We don't sort of take power and grab the levers of government and impose our agenda down people's throats.