It’s amazing to me the number of people who will volunteer to help at church but won’t lift a finger to help at home!

Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.

A calling is you feel – you look out and see the need – maybe it’s the need for the poor, to help poor people. Maybe it’s the need to get involved in the race problem, as Martin Luther King was – felt called.

Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration.

When anyone has the power to destroy the whole human race in a matter of hours, it becomes a moral issue. The church must speak out.

To gather with God’s people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.

Being part of a community with a church at its centre and singin‘ hymns is a great thing to do.

Fans are my favorite thing in the world. I’ve never been the type of artist who has that line drawn between their friends and their fans. The line’s always been really blurred for me. I’ll hang out with them after the show. I’ll hang out with them before the show. If I see them in the mall, I’ll stand there and talk to them for 10 minutes.

We must not reduce the bosom of the universal church to a nest protecting our mediocrity.

Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home.

He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.

Really I feel less keen about the Army every day. I think the Church would suit me better.

If we had more hell in the pulpit, we would have less hell in the pew.

In our ecclesiastical region there are priests who don’t baptize the children of single mothers because they weren’t conceived in the sanctity of marriage. These are today’s hypocrites. Those who clericalize the church. Those who separate the people of God from salvation.

As a member of the Church, you have made sacred covenants with the Lord.

My parents had us in church every Sunday, every Wednesday. It was more of a tradition at that point; I didn’t have a personal relationship with the Lord until I went to the altar call one Sunday, and the youth pastor told us to make a decision for ourselves.

The number, the industry, and the morality of the priesthood, and the devotion of the people have been manifestly increased by the total separation of the church from the state.

The people of God want pastors, not clergy acting like bureaucrats or government officials.

When I speak at my local church, which I try to do 35 to 40 times a year, I try in every lesson to take the Old Testament text or New Testament text and apply them to what is happening to me or how that applies to the audience that I’m teaching in a modern, fast-changing, technological world. I use headlines, interfaith and that sort of thing.

Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.

At home I am a nice guy: but I don’t want the world to know. Humble people, I’ve found, don’t get very far.

In a long meter hymn, a singer – they call it ‚lays out a line.‘ And then the whole church joins in in repeating that line. And they form a wall of harmony so tight, you can’t wedge a pin between it.

I like to give back.

Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.

To me, my house is always recreating what I lost in youth.

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 style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe.

Every church is a stone on the grave of a god-man: it does not want him to rise up again under any circumstances.

Once you get a spice in your home, you have it forever. Women never throw out spices. The Egyptians were buried with their spices. I know which one I’m taking with me when I go.

I used to live with my grandmother. I used to wonder why the other kids in school went home with their mothers and fathers. I wanted to be the guy that got married. I wanted to be the guy with the children and the white picket fence. I never had that.

My home is in Heaven. I’m just traveling through this world.

We have to work harder to develop a profound theology of women within the church. The feminine genius is needed wherever we make important decisions.

It’s always great to perform at home in the good ol‘ U.S.A.

The Church is like a great tree whose roots must be energetically anchored in the earth while its leaves are serenely exposed to the bright sunlight. In this way, she sums up a whole gamut of beats in a single living and all-embracing act, each one of which corresponds to a particular degree or a possible form of spiritualisation.

Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me.

I don’t want to just preach to the church. I feel like I have a broader message.

We are not cisterns made for hoarding, we are channels made for sharing.

One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time.

Inconsistency on the part of pastors and the faithful between what they say and what they do, between word and manner of life, is undermining the Church’s credibility.

I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.

Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it.

I believe that Catholics involved in politics carry the values of their religion within them, but have the mature awareness and expertise to implement them. The Church will never go beyond its task of expressing and disseminating its values, at least as long as I’m here.

I can remember being home from school with tonsillitis and writing stories in bed to pass the time.

Where thou art, that is home.

It is true that going out on to the street implies the risk of accidents happening, as they would to any ordinary man or woman. But if the church stays wrapped up in itself, it will age. And if I had to choose between a wounded church that goes out on to the streets and a sick, withdrawn church, I would definitely choose the first one.

When my dad founded our church, he used either a globe or a map of the world behind him. It was symbolic of what Christ said: to go forth and preach hope to the world. We believe in the cross, but we just continued with the globe.

I saw what the Depression was doing to my students. Often they could get no jobs, or jobs which were wholly inadequate. And through them, I began to understand how deeply political and economic events could affect men’s lives. I began to feel the need to participate more fully in the life of the community.

My dear sisters, whatever your calling, whatever your circumstances, we need your impressions, your insights, and your inspiration. We need you to speak up and speak out in ward and stake councils.

I love traveling all over the world; but it’s true: there’s nothing like home.

Spiritual worldliness kills! It kills the soul! It kills the Church!

The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.

I really learned to sing in church, I think, really with emotion.

Oh, how I would like a poor Church, and for the poor.

My children love Maleficent’s voice, so they always make me do it at home.

We lived in a tall, narrow Victorian house, which my parents had bought very cheaply during the war, when everyone thought London was going to be bombed flat. In fact, a V-2 rocket landed a few houses away from ours. I was away with my mother and sister at the time, but my father was in the house.

A church without women would be like the apostolic college without Mary. The Madonna is more important than the apostles, and the church herself is feminine, the spouse of Christ and a mother.

A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.

Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

Although I’ve been living in the British Virgin Islands for some time now, I have never stopped caring passionately about the U.K. and its great people.