Rowan Williams Quotes

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.

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

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

Wherever an altar is found, there civilization exists.

I like the aesthetics of the Church.

I don't know any institution in this country that... carries more influence than the church.

Eighteen years ago, the Holy Spirit led me to establish a church in the heart of Times Square.

The Clergy is the greatest hindrance to faith.

Religion is, too often, politics that you’re not supposed to talk about.

My father was a pastor, my mother was the quintessential pastor's wife.

Like, you can have church at your house. I feel like as long as you're giving Him praise, you can do it wherever. You don't have to be inside of a church to give praise to Him.

The church is something beautiful

The local church is the hope of the world.

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.

I continue to be a pastor who speaks to the people of God about the things of God.

Lithuanian bishops have been heroic!

There is needed, no doubt, a body of servants (ministerium) of the invisible church, but not officials (officiales), in other words, teachers but not dignitaries, because in the rational religion of every individual there does not yet exist a church as a universal union (omnitudo collectiva).

Nowhere nor in anything, except in the assertion of the Church, can we find that God or Christ founded anything like what churchmen understand by the Church.

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

This is the Church of Jesus Christ, and He leads it. No assignment in it need ever overwhelm you if you know that and listen for the Master's voice.

I still go to church occasionally. I went the other day and found peace.

Scientology...is not a religion.

The local church is the hope of the world, and its future rests primarily in the hands of its leaders.

Where a people prays, there is the church; and where the church is; there is never loneliness.

Yes, I'm a Pastor of a church called Understand Principles for Better Living Church, in Los Angeles, CA.