If I might control the literature of the household, I would guarantee the well-being of Church and State. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
God's people should be baptized because God commanded it, not because some church requires it. — John R. Rice Copy Share Image
I go to church every Sunday, which is like going to the gas station once a week and really, really filling up. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
The saving principles and doctrines of the Church are established, fixed, and unchangeable. — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
The Church needs your faith, your idealism and your generosity, so that she can always be young in the Spirit. — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
In America, evangelical churches have often been bastions of conservatism, providing support for the status quo. — Tony Campolo Copy Share Image
I'm more spiritual than I am religious. I don't go to church; I go to the beach. — Paula Deen Copy Share Image
It's a blessing to know that the church and the gospel are the same no matter where I go. I can find… — Eric Weddle Copy Share Image
The silence of those in positions of influence in the church who know, or have a strong suspicion, that being gay is… — James Alison Copy Share Image
If you want to put on a suit and come to church, fine. But it's a problem when you make people feel… — LeCrae Copy Share Image
You cannot pray at home, like you can at church, where there is a great multitude; where exclamations are cried out to… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
I have given up the idea that there is an opposition-free church out there. But I have gained something else - an… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
In a church, I am a saint. In a public place, I am a lady. In my own home, I am a… — Lupe Velez Copy Share Image
Even in earliest youth my fondest desire was to understand Nature, and thus to come closer to the truth; a truth that… — Viktor Schauberger Copy Share Image
Since babyhood, I've always evolved from one thing to another. My mother gave me ballet lessons at 6 as part of her… — Judith Jamison Copy Share Image
The most remarkable thing about Hollywood is that it does not exist. ... Hollywood, in a word, has no center, never had… — Vicki Baum Copy Share Image
“The testimony of the apostles is some of the most compelling evidence for the truth of the Resurrection. That a band of… — James Allen Moseley Copy Share Image
The real important function of the church is to present the symbol, to perform the rite, to let you behold this divine… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“When pursued it becomes clear that this separation between one's self and the Church usually stems from deep unresolved pain or dissatisfaction… — Janet O. Hagberg Copy Share Image
Statistically speaking, giving in the church today is embarrassing at best. So, there needs to be a message, a movement that addresses… — Bob Coy Copy Share Image
I don't go to church all that regularly, and one reason I don't is very often when I go I am bored… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
Between the scribe who has read and the prophet who has seen there is a difference as wide as the sea. We… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The church latched on to that old doctrine of original sin like a dog to a stick, and before you knew it,… — Brian D. McLaren Copy Share Image
I wouldn't have known anything about Catholicism if I hadn't been dating Gert. In those days, Catholics were much less ecumenical than… — Wesley Clark Copy Share Image
The saints have always been the source and origin of renewal in the most difficult moments in the Church's history. — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
I walked away from going to church when I was 8. I didn't set foot in another church until I was 28. — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
Me and Sandra are thoroughly satisfied customers as parents of kids who came through this Orange model. — Andy Stanley Copy Share Image
Remember: Christ is calling you; the Church needs you; the Pope believes in you and he expects great things of you. — Pope John Paul I Copy Share Image
A church must grow larger and smaller at the same time. Larger through worship and smaller through small groups. — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
The Holy Spirit was not sent so we can have bless ups in our churches but so the world can be changed. — Mike Pilavachi Copy Share Image
Step 1 in casting vision is to make sure your people love Jesus more than they love the vision you are casting. — Matthew Carter Copy Share Image
Unable to suppress love, the Church wanted at least to disinfect it, and it created marriage. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
He'd gone to church for forty years and was only getting worse. It seemed like this should tell God something. — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
My church has a health and fitness ministry to encourage our members to take care of spiritually and physically; how could I… — Marvin Sapp Copy Share Image
As for gays, the church needs to be more loving, unconditionally, and willing to see these people as human beings, to minister… — Anita Bryant Copy Share Image
I have a group of people, about 40, in a local church in Surrey in England, who pray for me regularly. — Cliff Richard Copy Share Image
Mormonism is not simply a commitment to a theology or a church practice, but a social-cultural order. — Sterling M. McMurrin Copy Share Image
I think that the churches do a better job in many respects than the government does in various kinds of things. Extending… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
The ACLU sees the separation of church and state as so absolute that not a single religious word must be allowed to… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
Only God is the same yesterday, today and tomorrow. The Church has always been changing. — Gene Robinson Copy Share Image
