No God and no religion can survive ridicule. No political church, no nobility, no royalty or other fraud, can face ridicule in… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The first thing Jesus tells the church of Ephesus that He loves about them is they have sound doctrine. — Matthew Carter Copy Share Image
Since the Church is to be servant to the poor, it is our fault if that wealth is not channeled to help… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
The separation of Church and State in everything relating to taxation should be absolute. — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“For where the Church is, there is the Spirit of God; and where the Spirit of God is, there is the Church,… — The Church Fathers Copy Share Image
The most important criterion is this: hire someone whose character and humility and attitude you would like to have reproduced in your… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
We will become mightier and more powerful in our own right in direct proportion to the service and contribution we make to… — Henry D. Moyle Copy Share Image
The tragedy is not that nonviolence did not work against the Nazis, but that it was so seldom utilized... The churches as… — Walter Wink Copy Share Image
But, actually, so many of the clerics that I've met, particularly the Church of England clerics, are people of such extraordinary smugness… — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share Image
In the war upon the powers of darkness, prayer is the primary and mightiest weapon, both in aggressive war upon them and… — Jessie Penn-Lewis Copy Share Image
Love should make joy; but our benevolence is unhappy. Our Sunday-schools, and churches, and pauper-societies are yokes to the neck. We pain… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I'm not really into alternative country - I'm into Patsy Cline, who lived down the street from where I lived, and old… — Valerie June Copy Share Image
When you say your Rosary, the angels rejoice, the Blessed Trinity delights in it, my Son finds joy in it too, and… — Alanus de Rupe Copy Share Image
People came into the Church in the Roman Empire because the Church was so good-Catholics were so good to one another, and… — Andrew Greeley Copy Share Image
One of the loveliest things about being grown up is the knowledge that never again will I have to go through the… — Peg Bracken Copy Share Image
In my mother's church, everybody read the Bible and it was mostly about music. My mother had the most beautiful voice I… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Paul commands: 'Therefore, brethren, stand fast and hold the Traditions which you have been taught, whether by word or by our letter.'… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
Benedict XVI leaves no room for uncertainty or minimization. At this present time in which she feels humiliation, the Church learns from… — Angelo Bagnasco Copy Share Image
“The full Christian experience, however, is not an individual experience which may be isolated from all else; it is, unconditionally, an experience… — Hans Urs von Balthasar Copy Share Image
Christ is a persuasion, a form evoking desire, and the whole force of the gospel depends upon the assumption that this persuasion… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as definitive and has as its highest value one's… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Religion does a lot of good, especially the loving kind, like at Grace Church. I know people who went to a more… — Jerry DeWitt Copy Share Image
Baptism does not profit a man outside unity with the Church ... For many heretics also possess this Sacrament but not the… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
I actually go to church. I know it's hard for you to believe. It's only because you know that Jesus on the… — Paul Provenza Copy Share Image
Today's Catholic church seems to reward authoritarian personalities who are clearly ill, violent, sexually obsessed and unable to remember the past. — Matthew Fox Copy Share Image
“Stay in church, stay in prayer, stay in the Word, and stay in fellowship with other believers.” — Nancy Alcorn Copy Share Image
After my father died, we went to church for a long time every day, and then every other day during the summer. — Kerry Kennedy Copy Share Image
The Church became both more accessible and less imposing. It threw itself open to risk. — Lance Morrow Copy Share Image
We need to become a more welcoming church, one that reaches out more to those who have walked away or who aren't… — Chris Lowney Copy Share Image
I am a Protestant. I am a communicant at the Church of the Holy Family, an Episcopal church in Chapel Hill, North… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
A landscape, torn by mists and clouds, in which I can see ruins of old churches, as well as of Greek temples… — Edvard Grieg Copy Share Image
It's a matter of each of the two churches being very deeply enculturated in its own setting and having difficulty understand the… — Justo L. Gonzalez Copy Share Image
If the world is turning, even the church can't stop it; if it isn't turning, nobody can go out and make it… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
The early church didn’t say, ‘Look what the world is coming to!’ They said, ‘Look what has come into the world’! — Carl F. H. Henry Copy Share Image
In 1054, the patriarch of Constantinople and the pope excommunicated each other. That was the end of holiness for both churches. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Woman was the Church's rival, the temptress, the distraction, the obstacle to holiness, the Devil's decoy. — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
Time, like a preacher in the days of the Puritans, turned the hour-glass on his high pulpit, the church belfry. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
The operation of the Church is entirely set up for the sinner; which creates much misunderstanding among the smug.” (August 9, 1955) — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
When the acting all dries up, I won't be going there - either to the police force or to the church. I'll… — Nicola Walker Copy Share Image
