Our culture doesn't like being told what to do; that's happening in the Church. — Mike Pilavachi Copy Share Image
My house was really like 'It's a Wonderful Life.' I sang in the choir and was very involved in the church. — John Tesh Copy Share Image
The Church knows nothing of a sacredness of war. The Church which prays'Our Father'asks God only for peace. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
I may not be as active in it as some people are, but I think that the church has taught me great… — Julianne Hough Copy Share Image
I was brought up Methodist, christened as a little baby and went to church every Sunday. — Deborah Norville Copy Share Image
Too often [the Church] is weighted down and burdened with the sins and failings of her children; too often she appears disfigured… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
The church should be the safest place on the planet to talk about anything, including same-sex attraction. — Andy Stanley Copy Share Image
“Persecution is an enemy the Church has met and mastered many times. Indifference could prove to be a far more dangerous foe.” — Brother Andrew Copy Share Image
The Monster Ball is by nature a protest: A youth church experience to speak out and celebrate against all forms of discrimination… — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
We must grow out of religion. It is either bugaboo, formalism, or hysteria. Besides, what proof is there that "the churches" know… — Richard Aldington Copy Share Image
Growing up in Georgia, I used to think people up north or out west were so different. They're really not. They're just… — Alan Jackson Copy Share Image
To put it in a few words, the true malice of man appears only in the state and in the church, as… — Paul Ricoeur Copy Share Image
[Christianity] endeavors equally to establish these two things: that God has set up in the Church visible signs to make himself known… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
But I like going to church. If you've been brought up in the Church of England, it feels like visiting an elderly… — Jack Dee Copy Share Image
The real crisis of worship today is not that the preaching is paltry or that it's too drafty in church. It is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Catholic Church with its foreshortened American history and tangled puritanical roots was as inviolate to my mother and father as it… — Maureen Howard Copy Share Image
I cannot find language of sufficient energy to convey my sense of the sacredness of private integrity. All men, all things, the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“What if we who follow Jesus worked as one unit? What if we put aside the slight doctrinal differences, the denominational/movement mentality?… — David Holdsworth Copy Share Image
Christendom never came from an unbroken grave. It would have been buried in that grave, as Judas thought it was going to… — Richard Salter Storrs Copy Share Image
Evangelization does not consist in proselytizing, for proselytizing is a caricature of evangelization, but rather evangelizing entails attracting by our witness those… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Let them all believe whatever they want. It is pointless to go on radio shows and wrangle over mystical claims. However, such… — James A. Haught Copy Share Image
We are still in various kinds of patriarchal systems. The very definition of patriarchy is that men control women as the means… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
The 19th century Mormons, including some of my ancestors, were not eager to practice plural marriage. They followed the example of Brigham… — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
The chief danger of the Church today is that it is trying to get on the same side as the world, instead… — A. B. Simpson Copy Share Image
I grew up in a Christian home, but was nearly 17 before I realized I had to make my own decision to… — Drew Pinsky Copy Share Image
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