I wouldn't want to criticise someone like Charlotte Church because she has done fantastically well, but personally I've always cared about the… — Lesley Garrett Copy Share Image
God has clearly called and gifted some people in the church to teach his Word formally. — David Platt Copy Share Image
The choir always tittered and whispered all through the service. There was once a church choir that was not ill-bred, but I… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The war against illegal file-sharing is like the church's age-old war against masturbation. It's a war you just can't win. — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
Go to church once a week and nobody pays attention. Worship God seven days a week and you become strange! — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
Christianity contains within itself a germ hostile to the Church (Dietrich Bonhoeffer) — Eric Metaxas Copy Share Image
if the devil can get the church to withdraw from prayer by believing reasonable excuses, the church is under his dominion. — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
I've always said the theatre is my church. It's where I feel God the most. It's where I know there's a God. — Ruthie Henshall Copy Share Image
One would think that [persecution] would be an obstacle to church growth when joining the church meant a death sentence. And yet,… — Gene Veith Copy Share Image
“A true homosexual would never turn down sex. The megapastor at his mama's church had given many a sermon about the immoral,… — Marshall Thornton Copy Share Image
Joseph F. Smith probably authorized Apostles Clawson and Cowley to marry their plural wives after the second Manifesto of 1904, since he… — D. Michael Quinn Copy Share Image
I always dug the stuff like the covered dish suppers because I could feel the fun and the joy of what church… — Edi Patterson Copy Share Image
“Of all the sermons that I heard at church growing up, I can’t remember a single message that was preached in any… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
What the churches are peddling is high abstraction, and you really have to work yourself up into a lather to be able… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
My parents are pretty religious, devout, but did they force it on me? No, I don't think so. I still think of… — Kristen Schaal Copy Share Image
If women can organize missionary societies, temperance societies, and every kind of charitable organization... why not permit them to be ordained to… — Frances E. Willard Copy Share Image
Anything's possible in Human Nature," Chacko said in his Reading Aloud voice. Talking to the darkness now, suddenly insensitive to his little… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
To put it a little crudely, these days nobody is afraid of excommunication. If they decide they don't want to be Catholic… — Ninian Smart Copy Share Image
Susan Boggs, a black runaway interviewed in Canada in 1863, said of the religious slave masters: 'Why the man that baptized me… — Gerry Spence Copy Share Image
“Spring came late. For the children, shut in the dark, cold parsonage, adjusting to Aunt and getting over the death that brought… — Lynne Reid Banks Copy Share Image
In the middle of this despair [of postwar Germany], my family learned about The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
The people will have no need to change their place of concourse; where of old they were wont to sacrifice cattle to… — Pope Gregory I Copy Share Image
Methinks some creeds in vestries and churches do forget the hunter wrapped in furs by the Great Slave Lake, and that the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We need to avoid the spiritual sickness of a church that is wrapped up in its own world: when a church becomes… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Many believe it is possible to be a "good Christian" without joining (or even attending) a local church, but God would strongly… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
It is not the church we want, but the sacrifice; not the emotion of admiration, but the act of adoration; not the… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The founding fathers of the U.S. were right when they erected that wall between church and state. — Jim Starlin Copy Share Image
Democracy, I do not conceive that ever God did ordain as a fit government either for church or commonwealth. If the people… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There's a special place in hell for what some people have done but there's also a special place in God's heart for… — Johnny Hunt Copy Share Image
No one goes to heaven by parroting a prayer, being baptized, or joining a church, but by believing in Jesus Christ with… — Steven J Lawson Copy Share Image
History showed that many people had lost their respect for any religion that had relied upon the support of government to spread… — Hugo Black Copy Share Image
All my life, my church, my family, my friends have always told me to have high self-esteem... to think well of myself.… — Shawn Bradley Copy Share Image
The problem in the church today is not the profession of faith, but it's possession. — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
I was brought up a Roman Catholic, so when I was a child I was frogmarched to church every Sunday. — Harry Enfield Copy Share Image
The chiefest sanctity of a temple is that it is a place to which men go to weep in common. — Miguel de Unamuno Copy Share Image
If the church would only be the church- if Christians would only be Christians- nothing could halt our onward march. — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
I grew up in San Francisco in the 1970s. We were part of a church that belonged to the California Jesus movement. — Sara Zarr Copy Share Image
When anyone has the power to destroy the whole human race in a matter of hours, it becomes a moral issue. The… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
Buddha says: "Do not flatter your benefactor!". Let one repeat this saying in a Christian church : it immediately purifies the air… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
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