Who builds a church to God and not to fame, Will never mark the marble with his name. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Something I've noticed. Church planters don't pray for revival. They pray for opportunity, favor with the unchurched and leaders. — Andy Stanley Copy Share Image
Lord, there's danger in this land, you get witch hunts and wars when church and state hold hands. — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
There are a few Irish writers who have a very strong influence on me, especially on the 'Take Me to Church' EP. — Hozier Copy Share Image
“Music praises God. Music is well or better able to praise him than the building of the church and all its decoration;… — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
“One may be "outside" the church, but one can never be "outside" of God's love.” — Clark H. Pinnock Copy Share Image
It is a dangerous day when we can take the cross out of the church more easily than the flag. No wonder… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
If men are wont to play with swearing anywhere, can we expect they should be serious and strict therein at the bar… — Isaac Barrow Copy Share Image
Growing up in Jamaica, the Pentecostal church wasn't that fiery thing you might think. It was very British, very proper. Hymns. No… — Grace Jones Copy Share Image
While I was raised around churches and had gotten to know a few preachers fairly well, the thought never entered my head… — Charles R. Swindoll Copy Share Image
Yet for my part, deeply as I am moved by the religious architecture of the Middle Ages, I cannot honestly say that… — Goldwin Smith Copy Share Image
If all Church power vests in the clergy, then the people are practically bound to passive obedience in all matters of faith… — Charles Hodge Copy Share Image
For us, church was kind of the way that we found our first entry into community in Arkansas. My parents would drop… — Lee Isaac Chung Copy Share Image
As a former Catholic, and as someone who even today is not opposed to being called a Christian, I felt I had… — Andres Serrano Copy Share Image
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints sends forth to you an earnest appeal. Open your doors to the missionaries. Open… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
Yet some of the most faithful, effective Christians I know are those who are living out their quiet calling to the few… — Priscilla Shirer Copy Share Image
For more than 160 years, through the initiative of the French bishop Charles de Forbin Janson, the childhood of Jesus has become… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
It is interesting to observe that in the year 1935 the average individual's incurious attitude towards the phenomenon of the State is… — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
The Forgotten Man is delving away in patient industry, supporting his family, paying his taxes, casting his vote, supporting the church and… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
How torturous is the "churchly" language one must speak in church - the tone, style, habit. It is all artificial; there is… — Alexander Schmemann Copy Share Image
One faith, St. Paul writes (Eph. 4:5). Hold most firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this,… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
I've known I wanted to do this ever since I was a little kid and I used to get in trouble at… — Lamorne Morris Copy Share Image
I see the Christian world like this: we've inherited a divided map of the truth, and each of us has a piece.… — Michael Spencer Copy Share Image
Laypeople are a kind of nuclear energy in the Church on a spiritual level. A layperson caught up with the gospel and… — Raniero Cantalamessa Copy Share Image
You do not have to protect people's pocket books. They'll do a better job of that than you will. — Johnny Hunt Copy Share Image
Nobody can do as much damage to the church of God as the man who is within its walls, but not within… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Yes, I wanted to win! I wanted the belt! I'm a belt mark! I want to sleep with it! I want to… — CM Punk Copy Share Image
I looked in temples churches and mosques. But I found the Divine within my heart. — Rumi Copy Share Image
It wasn’t in books. It wasn’t in a church. What I needed to know was out there in the world. — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
I talk about a Christianity that is enlightened enough to separate spirituality from the rest of life. Not just church and state,… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
People are funny. They want the front of the bus, the middle of the road and the back of the church. —Mrs.… — Debbie Macomber Copy Share Image
These principles have been proclaimed by God, by the Church, by the Saints, by reason, by Christian morality. — Pope Pius XII Copy Share Image
Im against people who change the bible to fit their life... Gays, Men, Women, Business meN all sorts of people do it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I grew up quite poor, and the Mormon church was always there for us as a family. — Dustin Lance Black Copy Share Image
I love Jesus' Church! I love the charismatics, the Calvary Chapels, the non-denominational ones, and even the ones that don't believe in… — Brian Welch Copy Share Image
Because I grew up singing in church, I got used to performing in front of people from a really young age. — Raye Copy Share Image
“People who say we are just preaching "extreme grace" must not understand how extremely gracious our Father is.” — D.R. Silva Copy Share Image
Being part of a community with a church at its centre and singin' hymns is a great thing to do. — Vivienne Westwood Copy Share Image
As a child, I had lived many years in Southampton and sang in the choir of the Dune Church. — Rachel Lambert Mellon Copy Share Image
I left because I decided it just really wasn't for me, and I got a better understanding of what the Catholic Church… — Peter Jurasik Copy Share Image
