It is impossible for us to understand the Church if we regard her as subject to the limitations of human culture. For… — Christopher Dawson Copy Share Image
The African American's relationship to Africa has long been ambivalent, at least since the early nineteenth century, when 3,000 black men crowded… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
When we adopt—and when we encourage a culture of adoption in our churches and communities—we’re picturing something that’s true about our God.… — Russell D. Moore Copy Share Image
A laboratory of natural history is a sanctuary where nothing profane should be tolerated. I feel less agony at improprieties in churches… — Louis Agassiz Copy Share Image
I feel comfortable singing in the great cathedrals of the world because I spent so much time as a child singing in… — Jessye Norman Copy Share Image
The 'means of grace' are such as Bible reading, private prayer, and regularly worshiping God in Church, wherein one hears the Word… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
The Synod of Bishops has existed for forty years. In that long span of time it has been for all of us… — Karl Lehmann Copy Share Image
We do not admit the authority of the church with respect to its pretended infallibility, its manufactured miracles, its setting itself up… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
I deliberately disregarded the right angle and rationalist architecture designed with ruler and square to boldly enter the world of curves and… — Oscar Niemeyer Copy Share Image
The minister should preach as if he felt that although the congregation own the church, and have bought the pews, they have… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
Without the church it's like having a boat without the rudder. You think you can do it on your own and this… — Sylvester Stallone Copy Share Image
There's no question that a public official of either party can take it too far, and it's up to the candidate to… — Bob Casey, Jr Copy Share Image
Well, I kind of split my life into two pieces. One was where my chess career lies. There, I kept my sanity,… — Bobby Fischer Copy Share Image
This is the first nation that organized government on the basis of universal liberty with a free Church and a free State.… — Oscar Straus Copy Share Image
Do you, good people, believe that Adam and Eve were created in the Garden of Eden and that they were forbidden to… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
The origin of the stupid ideal of womanhood against which men as well as women to-day are still fighting was the asceticism… — Dora Russell Copy Share Image
I support mosques, obviously. We need churches, temples, mosques. Whatever people use to speak with their god or to receive spiritual inspiration… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The story goes that a public sinner was excommunicated and forbidden entry to the church. He took his woes to God. 'They… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
I have never met a happy atheist. I believe in separation of church and state, but I think we have gone so… — Dixie Carter Copy Share Image
We can't know at any given time how God will bless our faithful witness. So the apparent numerical growth of the church… — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
When the Church obtained the direction of the civil power, she soon modified or abandoned the tolerant maxims she had formerly inculcated;… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
I've left the Church - for many reasons that I've written about publicly - but it's still a large part of my… — Julianna Baggott Copy Share Image
Most people today in our churches are lost, and they demonstrate that they are lost because their entire Christianity is nothing more… — Paul Washer Copy Share Image
Try to be all you can be to be the best human being you can be. Try to be that in your… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
In order to the existence of such a ministry in the Church, there is requisite an authority received from God, and consequently… — John Wycliffe Copy Share Image
For me, when I grew up playing music, I played music in church and people were shouting and having a big time,… — Randy Owen Copy Share Image
I think here is the irony of American history. We don't have an established church. When you have an established church nobody… — Eric Foner Copy Share Image
As you know, Sunday at 11 o'clock is the most segregated hour in America. You have black churches; you have white churches;… — David Oyelowo Copy Share Image
“Under the gaze of Christ, Simon becomes Peter, and God’s church is built with men and women whose only hope is that… — Shannan Martin Copy Share Image
I became a Christian within a fundamentalist church. I saw 'A Thief in the Night' on a 16 mm. print when I… — Scott Derrickson Copy Share Image
Ask me, it's a sin to pervert faith with religion. Despite every church, mosque, & synagogue in it, this is not the… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
As Magnus turned to walk away from the church, he heard the sound of violin music carried to him on the cloudy… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Before my grandpa built his own church, we went to the neighboring town, and it was a white community. You know, up… — James Earl Jones Copy Share Image
Teachings and ideologies subversive to the fundamental principles of this great Republic, which are contrary to the Constitution of the United States,… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
I'm theologically in line with the Roman Catholic Church. I believe in the authority of the church, but I also have tremendous… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
It's a curious thing in American life that the most abject nonsense will be excused if the utterer can claim the sanction… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
When I grew up in the church, we were praying because the Communists were going to come over and hang you upside… — Susan Sarandon Copy Share Image
Alas! Much has been done of late to promote the production of dwarfish Christians. Poor, sickly believers turn the church into an… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
The limitless loving devotion to God, and the gift God makes of Himself to you, are the highest elevation of which the… — Edith Stein Copy Share Image
“The basements of the churches I've loved reveal the foundation of the spiritual life to be not belief so much as engagement… — Elizabeth J. Andrew Copy Share Image
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