Nothing doth so much keep men out of the Church, and drive men out of the Church, as breach of unity. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
A man who is well grounded in the testimonies of the Scripture is the bulwark of the Church. — St. Jerome Copy Share Image
Good hymns are an immense blessing to the Church. They train people for heaven, where praise is one of the principal occupations. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Now the Church is not wood and stone, but the company of believing people; one must hold to them, and see how… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
The secret of every discord in Christian homes and communities and churches is that we seek our own way and our own… — Alan Redpath Copy Share Image
The church must share in the secular problems of ordinary human life, not dominating, but helping and serving. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
God wants us to make Jesus Christ the central figure in our church--not just say that we do, but actually do it. — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
The first thing my family did when we moved was join the local church. The second was to go to the library… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
But we are learning from the teaching and example of Jesus that life itself is a religion, that nothing is more sacred… — Anna Howard Shaw Copy Share Image
“I am accountable. I am correctable. I am transformable. Presenting myself a living sacrifice to God. By the love of God. By… — Carlton T. Brown Copy Share Image
As a Christian, part of my obligation is to alleviate suffering. Explicit recognition of that in the Methodist tradition is one reason… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
[Our] plan is to follow the example of the prophets and the ancient fathers of the church, and to compose psalms...so that… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“Where did you meet?” he pressed on. I shrugged and considered a little rephrasing. “I was out for a run.” “From who?”… — Dannika Dark Copy Share Image
If no other consideration had convinced me of the value of the Christian life, the Christ like work which the Church of… — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
It is an absolutely unique success of the church community to have introduced such an epoch-making change, in just a few years,… — Hans Kung Copy Share Image
I was born in Bala, North Wales, and was sent to a private tutor. I seem to remember walking to the tutor… — Christopher Timothy Copy Share Image
When we decided to marry, we had two ceremonies - one was more bureaucratic for the sake of the Swiss authorities,then a… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
It's curious that the Church has become the most tightfisted at the very time in history when God has provided most generously.… — Randy Alcorn Copy Share Image
When you eat, I want you to think of God, of the holiness of hands that feed us, of the provision we… — Shauna Niequist Copy Share Image
Let us instill into the hearts of our children the love of freedom. Teach them that to be free is as precious… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
How we act and dress reflects how we regard where we are and who we are. Let me demonstrate. One of the… — Harold G. Hillam Copy Share Image
Thoughtful men, with hearts craving the truth, have come to seek in the Catholic Church the road which leads with surety to… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
Little do the devout worshippers of the Vatican suspect, when they lift up their eyes in mute adoration upon the head of… — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
“It is my trade," he said. "I work for the bean family, and every day there are deaths among the beans, mostly… — Janet Frame Copy Share Image
I'm a pastor. I lead Ebenezer Baptist Church, where Martin Luther King Jr. served. — Raphael Warnock Copy Share Image
“It was Sunday morning, and old people passed me like sad grey waves on their way to church.” — Barbara Comyns Copy Share Image
Anytime you commit sin and God deals with you, you have the opportunity to confess it. If you don't confess it, you… — Johnny Hunt Copy Share Image
Church attendance may be dipping, but God can survive the Internet age. After all, He knows a thing or two about resurrection. — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
Avoid kneeling in unheated stone churches. Ecclesiastical dampness causes prematurely grey hair. — John Cheever Copy Share Image
“Christian women also, at one time, covered their heads—not just nuns but all women when they entered churches, until quite recently.” — Alaa Alghamdi Copy Share Image
Our church has been legal since late 1960s. I've been involved since 1972. I was ordained in 1975. — Sally Kirkland Copy Share Image
I think that the church has to develop its own agenda, and not allow itself to be consumed by either party to… — T. D. Jakes Copy Share Image
Reformed theology belongs to this confessional tradition, and Reformed theologians and churches continue to write confessions even today. — Oliver D. Crisp Copy Share Image
I attend the greatest of all Churches. I put a capital N on Nature, and call it my Church. — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
The kind of churches we played in, it wasn't about how good you could play your instrument, it was about how much… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have a church background. I've been playing piano and keyboard and organ all my life in church. — Zaytoven Copy Share Image
What makes books - and with them writers - so dangerous that church and state, politburos and the mass media feel the… — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
Historically speaking, institutions are slow to change and usually resistant to any sudden moves - churches especially so. — Gene Robinson Copy Share Image
He strode over to the ruined church. This, Blue had discovered, was how Gansey got places - striding. Walking was for ordinary… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
Hierarchy, as in the Catholic Church, has to do with power, and vertical attention has to do with longing. — Robert Bly Copy Share Image