I've been speaking at churches for years, as well as juvenile jails, rehabs and hospitals, and I always talk about my faith.… — Smokey Robinson Copy Share Image
But if the world is watching, we might as well tell the truth. And the truth is, the church doesn't offer a… — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
To be a Christian is to be a theologian-a student of God and his will. The contemporary disdain for theological content and… — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
Some have immersed themselves in internet materials that magnify, exaggerate, and in some cases invent shortcomings of early Church leaders. Then they… — Quentin L. Cook Copy Share Image
The hungry nations of the world cry out to the peoples blessed with abundance. And the Church, cut to the quick by… — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image
The credulity of the church is decreasing, and the most marvelous miracles are not either 'explained,' or allowed to take refuge behind… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I've grown up in a generation that questions God for setting boundaries. Does He have the right to set boundaries? I've grown… — Francis Chan Copy Share Image
You know, you should really look at where Mitt has led his life, and where he's been financially. He's a very generous… — Ann Romney Copy Share Image
Any political movement directed against any body of our fellow-citizens because of their religious creed is a grave offense against American principles… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
To be connected with the church is to be associated with scoundrels, warmongers, fakes, child-molesters, murderers, adulterers, and hypocrites of every description.… — Ronald Rolheiser Copy Share Image
Prophecy and history predict and record a great and universal apostasy which was to be followed by a restoration as predicted by… — Hugh B. Brown Copy Share Image
I majored in religion for my entire undergraduate career at Duke University and then I went to seminary for a year unsure… — Randall Wallace Copy Share Image
The concept of 'purgatory' is in Catholic Church dogma, and most black people are not Catholic - mostly their Christian realities focus… — Harry Lennix Copy Share Image
As to those other things which we hold on the authority, not of Scripture, but of tradition, and which are observed throughout… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
If people like us, our life is good. If somebody doesn't like us, our whole life is tanked. That happens at your… — Mark Hall Copy Share Image
“When his flock thronged into the midnight service, there was wonder on every face at the newly hung greens and the softly… — Jan Karon Copy Share Image
My training in Science of Mind had begun with my mother. She took me to a different church every Sunday, and she… — Esther Williams Copy Share Image
When the church becomes an institution, people are nothing more than volunteers to be recruited. When the church is a movement, our… — Erwin McManus Copy Share Image
If we do not do this our churches will lighthouses without light, wells without water, dumb witnesses, sleeping watchmen, silent trumpets, messengers… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
There is a real hunger for spiritual things in today's culture; people are seeking something spiritual, something beyond themselves. That's the good… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
I think my election is one of several indications that gay and lesbian folk are being brought more into the center of… — Gene Robinson Copy Share Image
Christian Science is often inherited, and like many inheritances, it comes with family secrets. The religion encourages secrecy. Members of the Church… — Caroline Fraser Copy Share Image
I have a much wider, freer view about spirituality. I feel that people need to pursue it on their own, personally. You… — Peter Jurasik Copy Share Image
As the Supreme Governor of the Church of England, the Queen feels she cannot be seen to smile in church - and… — Ingrid Seward Copy Share Image
Well, I've never left my faith - but have I made a lot of mistakes? But was I fortunate that I was… — Billy Ray Cyrus Copy Share Image
I am a former newspaper reporter turned church secretary turned vampire novelist. I wrote my first complete novel, 'Nice Girls Don't Have… — Molly Harper Copy Share Image
“I made the fearful decision to head to Sydney, Australia, to study the Bible. My calling, my wife, Laura, my church, my… — Carl Lentz Copy Share Image
“Man's principle trait is a readiness to believe anything. Otherwise, how could the Church have survived for almost two thousand years in… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
The transcendent gift of the Holy Ghost, along with membership in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, is bestowed by… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
I'm saying that the leaders of the church have locked the sacred cow called science in the stable and they won't let… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
The church has gotten it wrong a few times on science, and I think that we probably are better off leaving science… — Rick Santorum 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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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