The Lord has placed next to me many people, who, with generosity and love for God and the church, have helped me… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
In our house, the name for all athletic shoes - any that weren't dress or 'church' shoes - was 'tennis shoes,' or… — Steve Rushin Copy Share Image
Wherever we see the Word of God purely preached and heard, there a church of God exists, even if it swarms with… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
I was raised in the Baptist church... but I didn't really have a real committed experience with Christ until my father died. — T. D. Jakes Copy Share Image
Religion is a set of social and political institutions and spirituality is a private pursuit which may or may not take place… — D. Patrick Miller Copy Share Image
If a preacher tells you how God says you are, I don't see how you can say that's bad preaching. — Johnny Hunt Copy Share Image
The Church can't be a religious theater where paid men perform for the religious amusement of the people who pay them. — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
It is our boast, that a man's religious tenets will not forfeit the protection of the Laws. — George Washington Copy Share Image
No light privilege is it to have a hand in building up the moral life of these new communities; no common honour… — Henry Parry Liddon Copy Share Image
In church, the music is for everyone. People are singing off tune, loud; they're not ashamed - it's for their healing. That's… — Jamila Woods Copy Share Image
“Vicar: You ought to try [religion], one of these days," he said. "I believe you'd like it." I said: "but I have… — Dodie Smith Copy Share Image
What government supports, government controls. This is an ancient axiom repeatedly ratified by experience. . . . Indeed, as is well known,… — Edd Doerr Copy Share Image
“Odakle dolazi dojam da je Crkva lakše izlazila na kraj s krivcima-počiniteljima negoli s nedužnim žrtvama? Nije li naša kristologija toliko pretjerano… — Johann Baptist Metz Copy Share Image
Orthodox churches, autocracy and national traditions are supposed to form a new national ideology in Russia. This would mean that Russia would… — Vladimir Sorokin Copy Share Image
Sir Richard Steele has observed, that there is this difference between the Church of Rome and the Church of England: the one… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
We need to close every church in the land for one Sunday and cease listening to a man so we can hear… — Leonard Ravenhill Copy Share Image
The religion of art, like the religion of politics, was born from the ruins of Christianity. Art inherited from the old religion… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
(...) contemporary art has become a kind of alternative religion for atheists. (...) For many art world insiders and art aficionados of… — Sarah Thornton Copy Share Image
We do it all the time, we legislate taste. We do it with the tax code. Churches and children get a tax… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
Officers in the Church of Jesus Christ are called for two distinct purposes: First and foremost, to serve the people; and, secondly,… — John Andreas Widtsoe Copy Share Image
As the magistrate has no power to impose by his laws the use of any rites and ceremonies in any church, so… — John Locke Copy Share Image
By day, Venice is a city of museums and churches, packed with great art. Linger over lunch, trying to crack a crustacean… — Rick Steves Copy Share Image
You know, what God uses to impress a pagan world is really the quality of life, the standard of living that we… — Kong Hee Copy Share Image
The Church now has been placed potentially in the control of the heavenly places once ruled by the prince of the power… — Ed Silvoso Copy Share Image
On the ordination of women, the church has spoken and said no. John Paul II, in a definitive formulation said that door… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
In every growing church you will find leadership that is not afraid to believe God. — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
Dear Mother, dear Mother, the Church is cold, But the Ale-house is healthy and pleasant and warm. — William Blake Copy Share Image
I seem to have this need to belong to some church. I get worried on Sunday mornings. — John Updike Copy Share Image
Adoption should be an empowering option for young women in crisis, knowing that the people around them - family, friends, church -… — Nina Easton Copy Share Image
You have no idea, right now, what some young person in your church will mean for the cause of Christ. Lean in,… — Albert Mohler Copy Share Image
I was never interested in singing in the church choir or in school. I was more interested in becoming a musician. — Cassandra Wilson Copy Share Image
I'm not knocking the poor homosexual, I'm not. They need salvation just like anybody else. — Jimmy Swaggart Copy Share Image
“Your right of religious freedom ends where my right of religious abstinence begins...” — T. Rafael Cimino Copy Share Image
Does any sane man imagine that the church could cease to be missionary and remain the church? — Arthur Judson Copy Share Image
That is the great contribution of Reformed thinking to the Christian church: theology for a life well-lived. — Oliver D. Crisp Copy Share Image
I know the team, as a whole, has had an impact on the youth of the church, and on the missionary efforts… — LaVell Edwards Copy Share Image
After my study of today's church, my conclusion is that the church is politely bored with God. — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I believe in anything, it is in the dark night of the soul. Awe is my religion, and mystery is its… — Charles Simic Copy Share Image
The Labour party has never been a socialist party, although there have always been socialists in it - a bit like Christians… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
There is nothing in the U.S. Constitution that sanctifies the separation of church and state. — Pat Robertson Copy Share Image