A good local pub has much in common with a church, except that a pub is warmer, and there's more conversation. — William Blake Copy Share Image
As I say, it never ceases to amaze me how gullible some of our Church members are. — Harold B. Lee Copy Share Image
I went to St. James Methodist Church in Clinton, a segregated church on the other side of the tracks. — David Steward Copy Share Image
I don't go to church on Sunday, don't get on my knees to pray, or memorize the books of the Bible, I… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
I'm a pastor. I say, 'Let the church say amen,' and that settles it. Everything has been said, you know; it's like… — Andrae Crouch Copy Share Image
“The departure of the church-going element had induced a more humanitarian atmosphere.” — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
It is now for the Catholic Church to bend herself to her work with calmness and generosity. It is for you to… — Pope John XXIII Copy Share Image
God exposes your sin...And you see yourself as small as you are in the presence of a holy God. — Johnny Hunt Copy Share Image
I was immersed in comfortable Christianity. Years ago, I found myself living what seemed like the American church dream - pastoring a… — David Platt Copy Share Image
Some churches make intercessory prayer part of their weekly schedule. If that's not the case at your church, find another person in… — Monica Johnson Copy Share Image
Through the confessional system, the Catholic church spied upon the lives of its congregants. While Latin mass excluded most people who could… — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
The death of Pope John Paul II led many of different faiths and of no faith to acknowledge their debt to the… — Suzanne Fields Copy Share Image
The closing period of the fifteenth century witnessed the slow but sure increase of the churches of the Brethren. Although far from… — Ezra Hall Gillett Copy Share Image
For many years, despite what I thought were really punitive decisions about women in the church, I stayed and stayed and stayed.… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Really, there is no infidelity, nowadays, so great as that which prays, and keeps the Sabbath, and rebuilds the churches. The sealer… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
One footnote says that divorced and remarried faithful, who are not recognized by the Catholic Church because it upholds the indissolubility of… — Sylvia Poggioli Copy Share Image
How many people also in our time are in search of God, in search of Jesus and of his Church, in search… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Help" is a prayer that is always answered. It doesn't matter how you pray--with your head bowed in silence, or crying out… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
If your father is an air-conditioner repairman from Nebraska, its conceivable that you might become a CEO, but you can't imagine being… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
Everybody knows that really intimate conversation is only possible between two or three. As soon as there are six or seven, collective… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
“Remembering that only a few years ago men, women, and even children, were imprisoned, tortured and burned, for having expressed in an… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Abraham Lincoln was asked by an aide about the church service he had attended. Lincoln responded that the minister was inspired, interesting,… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
But the consequences of the whole-hearted and uncritical embrace of politics by Christians has been, IN EFFECT, to reduce Christian faith to… — James Davison Hunter Copy Share Image
When you look at the dominance of Notre Dame, the love of Mary in almost every European country, psychologically, had to come… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Jesus was a friend of women, the first and practically the last friend women had in the church. — Uta Ranke-Heinemann Copy Share Image
Indeed, no one does more injury in the church than he who acts perversely and yet has the name and order of… — Jan Hus Copy Share Image
I love 'O Holy Night.' On Christmas Eve, there's a service at the church where I grew up, and at midnight, we… — Rachel Boston Copy Share Image
When will we realize that one of the greatest mission fields in the West is the pews of our churches every Sunday… — Paul Washer Copy Share Image
When God brings deep conviction and I agree with Him about my condition, God restores my confidence in Him. — Johnny Hunt Copy Share Image
Donald Trump has not held an event in the black community. He has not gone to a black church, as Hillary Clinton… — Donna Brazile Copy Share Image
Every American has the right to feel safe in their schools, in their churches, in their movie theaters, and in their nightclubs. — Jackie Speier Copy Share Image
In the early days of the Mormon Church, stewardship toward the land was a priority. It was a matter of survival in… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
“I can never endorse sin any more than when I tell people it's their nature to do it.” — D.R. Silva Copy Share Image
My grandparents knew it was important that I understood Christianity and the Bible. But they never took me to church; they sent… — Lee Greenwood Copy Share Image
“To live [in the church] at the beck and call of marketing logic is to live in slavery.” — Mark Galli Copy Share Image
“Unbeliever are enjoying. They know what they want and they do it. The one struggling is you who is between two opinions.… — Mary Tornyenyor Copy Share Image
I have said to people I have six children, one son, four daughters, and a church. — Robert H. Schuller Copy Share Image
Well, I think that Catholicism's basic foundation of faith is personal conscience. I think it's between you and God, not you and… — Martin Sheen Copy Share Image
God's everywhere, but I gotta go down (to church) to see him? Really? And he's mad at me down there, and I… — Bill Burr Copy Share Image
Jesus is not from Georgia. Jesus does not speak English. And Jesus is not a member of the NRA. — Robert Wright Copy Share Image