Only one party sticks out in my mind as a kid. It was the best party ever. I was 5 years old,… — Rihanna Copy Share Image
He needs no library, for he has not done thinking; no church, for he is himself a prophet; no statute book, for… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When any government separates from God and His law in Scripture and from His people and His church, it invites judgment on… — John MacArthur Copy Share Image
When there throbs in the heart of an individual Latter-day Saint a great and vital testimony of the truth of this work,… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
I had five brothers and sisters. Four of them older, and some of them played instruments, and we would get together and… — Al Jarreau Copy Share Image
“A final note on numbers: My research shows Ann Eliza was most likely Brigham's 52 of 55 wives. As far as I… — David Ebershoff Copy Share Image
That connectivity with the audience that I get to enjoy, that's my church. It's not one of ego or anything like, 'I'm… — Duff McKagan Copy Share Image
In the Eucharistic Sacrifice the Church venerates the memory of Mary the ever Virgin Mother of God and the memory of Saint… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
...the Bible itself is less read than preached, less interpreted than brandished. Increasingly, pastors may drape a limply bound Book over the… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
Tomorrow these villagers would carry their secret icons into the church without any priest and light the candles themselves, moving together in… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Nothing in the church makes people in the church more angry than grace. It's ironic: we stumble into a party we weren't… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“One example is the familiar parable of the prodigal son (Luke 15:11-32), which in some ways might be better called the parable… — Jaroslav Pelikan Copy Share Image
The opportunities for using our financial resources to spread the gospel and strengthen the church all over the world are greater than… — Randy Alcorn Copy Share Image
“As the government of the United States is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion, — as it has in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Beyond the earliest days of the religion, early Christians were believers because they'd been converted, not because they were witnesses to supernatural… — Robert B. Seidensticker Copy Share Image
Here's why I don't have time to 'play church': at the end of the day, when I was supposed to be discarded,… — Fred Hammond Copy Share Image
“God’s downward descent to us in grace reversed by our upward ascent in pragmatic enthusiasm, we are increasingly becoming a sheep without… — Michael S. Horton Copy Share Image
As for the general view that the Church was discredited by the War—they might as well say that the Ark was discredited… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think church and state should remain entirely separate at all costs, and that the decision of religious marriage should be of… — Adam Rickitt Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, every Sunday was a rest day, so after church, we'd get all my cousins and sisters together,… — Jessica Mauboy Copy Share Image
I do not believe in the creed professed by any church that I know of. Each of these churches accuse the other… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
I was an altar boy in an incredible monastery that was attached to a rectory. The theater of the church is the… — Bobby Cannavale Copy Share Image
Playing football and rugby is the Samoan sport. It's part of the conversation at church. It's part of the conversation in their… — Junior Seau Copy Share Image
In Bolivia there are Catholic, Evangelical, Methodist, Baptist churches, and so on. In Bolivia there are indigenous religious beliefs like the rite… — Evo Morales Copy Share Image
If we look back into history for the character of the present sects in Christianity, we shall find few that have not… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Our ultimate aim in this welfare work is to help Church members to become self-supporting, and to obtain work they can do… — Henry D. Moyle Copy Share Image
Our society is divided by the culture wars into the Left and Right, and the United Methodist Church has always stood historically… — Adam Hamilton Copy Share Image
With so much effort being poured into church growth, so much press being given to the benefits of faith, and so much… — Barbara Brown Taylor Copy Share Image
It can have a secular purpose and have a relationship to God because God was presumed to be both over the state… — Roy Moore Copy Share Image
The church is not meant to call men and women out of the world into a safe religious enclave but to call… — Lesslie Newbigin Copy Share Image
You don't need organized religion to connect with the universe. Often a church is the only place you can go to find… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
When I am dead, let it be said of me: he belonged to no school, to no church, to no institution, to… — Gustave Courbet Copy Share Image
I read the Bible, I speak through issues, I see what I think is hypocrisy in the church and things that are… — Tony Campolo Copy Share Image
I was raised in the church, and there's still a fire burning inside me. I definitely don't ever want to be preachy.… — Brandon Flowers Copy Share Image
Open your hearts to the Lord. The Lord is waiting for you and the Church will welcome you if your willingness to… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
In our ecclesiastical region there are priests who don't baptize the children of single mothers because they weren't conceived in the sanctity… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
And we find from Church history that the primitive Christians thus understood it; for that women did actually speak and preach amongst… — Catherine Booth Copy Share Image
I loved every second of Catholic church. I loved the sickly sweet rotting-pomegranate smells of the incense. I loved the overwrought altar,… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
A person with homosexual inclinations, where they're kept under control, or, if yielded to are appropriately repented of, is eligible to do… — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
Even from when I was in grade school or church or wherever, I was always like: we're one, and we should respect… — Valerie June Copy Share Image
