Max Muller Quotes

What is a church?—Our honest sexton tells, 'Tis a tall building, with a tower and bells.

The church of St. Peter at Berlin, notwithstanding the total difference between them in the style of building, appears in some respects to have a great resemblance to St. Paul's in London.

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.

To refer to the Church as a building is to call people 2 x 4's.

Maimed but still magnificent... Europe's mightiest medieval cathedral.

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.

The first thing I do when I start my day is, I get down on my hands and knees and give thanks to God. Whenever I go outside of my house, the first thing I do is stop at the church.

I am, I think the only surviving member of the original Battle Creek church. The church was disbanded, with the exception of thirteen members, in 1870.

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

You tell me: Can you live crushed under the weight of the present? Without a memory of the past and without the desire to look ahead to the future by building something, a future, a family? Can you go on like this? This, to me, is the most urgent problem that the Church is facing.

The school will fill the place now occupied by the church.

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

I was an altar boy in an incredible monastery that was attached to a rectory. The theater of the church is the most incredible theater, and in this church, it was beyond. It was this huge monastery. It was landmarked. It's a beautiful building, and I kind of had the run of it.

I've got a pretty iconoclastic attitude about all institutions myself. And I just think the church was corrupted right after Christ was killed.

The first decent building I did with my own practice was a chapel in Taiwan.

I kind of wish I would have been able to see the old Yankee Stadium after seeing the new one.

Just as the superstar pastor model can have its problems once the superstar pastor gets old or has a scandal or something, the house church model... there's a reason that the house churches of the New Testament era grew up into a more institutional faith down the road.

To me, anything that is a church is really just far too close minded.

To someone standing in the nave, looking down the length of the church toward the east, the round window would seem like a huge sun exploding into innumerable shards of gorgeous color.

The Church is not a showboat; it's a battleship.

The chances of someone who looks like Jesus having pot raises steadily, to a point. If the guy is on a cross you may have the wrong guy.

Let the Church always be a place of mercy and hope, where everyone is welcomed, loved and forgiven.

Each holy temple stands as a symbol of our membership in the Church, as a sign of our faith in life after death, and as a sacred step toward eternal glory for us and our families.

I love God and I follow Jesus but I just don't have much affinity for the organized folderol of the churches in the Western World.

Cheap grace is the grace we bestow on ourselves. Cheap grace is the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance, baptism without church discipline, Communion without confession.... Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ, living and incarnate.