John Nelson Darby Quotes

One may as well dam for water tanks the people's cathedrals and churches, for no holier temple has ever been consecrated by the heart of man.

The fact that 35 percent of all American giving went to religious organizations in 2010 reflects how closely bound many of us are with our place of worship.

Let's start with the church. As you know, it's my background, it's a natural setting for me and it's definitely my roots.

We all know that a church is not a building.

I like the aesthetics of the Church.

In an urban environment, a church building is a thing of the past.

Episcopalians are pretty thin on the ground in the central United States.

Where there is no temple there shall be no homes.

No more than 20 percent of the population in 1776 belonged to a church.

Religions prosper in large part because of the communities that they create.

I know of no religion or sect that has done or is doing without a house of God, variously described as a temple, a mosque, a church, a synagogue or agiary.

Some of us worship in churches, some in synagogues, some on golf courses...

I have a body and I have a soul. And my body belongs to the faith - in fact, the church - into which it was born, the Methodist Church.

No one can have God as his father who does not have the Church as his mother.

Because religious institutions are not afraid to talk about love as a goal, they are likely to be more effective at providing community services.

What a hideout: Holiness lies spread and borne over the surface of time and stuff like color.

Our Christian identity is belonging to a people: the Church. Without the Church we are not Christians.

Nature is to zoos as God is to churches.

By a garden is meant mystically a place of spiritual repose, stillness, peace, refreshment, delight.

...bookstores, libraries... they're the closest thing I have to a church.

In a library, you can find small miracles and truth, and you might find something that will make you laugh so hard that you will get shushed, in the friendliest way. I have found sanctuary in libraries my whole life, and there is sanctuary there now, from the war, from the storms of our families and our own minds. Libraries are like mountains or meadows or creeks: sacred space. So this afternoon, I'll walk to the library.

So often people will say that I converted to the Catholic religion. This is false. Although I was raised as a Protestant, I was never baptized and had never been a member of any church. I joined the Roman Catholic Church after I had written my Mass To Hope!During the night I dreamt the entire Lord's Prayer with chorus and orchestra. I jumped out of bed and wrote down what I had heard as accurately as I could remember. Because of this event I decided that I might as well join the Catholic Church because someone somewhere was pulling me toward that end.

But churches always have been the leading cause of the need for churches.

Donald Trump would never belong to a church that required a ten percent hit. He's too smart.

I hold it a blasphemy to say that the Creator resides in a temple from which a particular class of His devotees sharing faith in it are excluded.