You cannot pray at home, like you can at church, where there is a great multitude; where exclamations are cried out to… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
If you want to put on a suit and come to church, fine. But it's a problem when you make people feel… — LeCrae Copy Share Image
The silence of those in positions of influence in the church who know, or have a strong suspicion, that being gay is… — James Alison 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
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
“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
I fancy it must be the quantity of animal food eaten by the English which renders their character insusceptible to civilization. I… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“God has always been about the business of shattering expectations, and in our culture, the standards of leadership are extroverted. It perfectly… — Adam S. McHugh Copy Share Image
Religion is so focused on family. These days, for many people, being gay is also focused on family. The Mormon Church is… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
Coming from the South and growing up in L.A. where it was so segregated - worse than the South in many ways… — Charles Burnett Copy Share Image
“It's like this,' began the elder. 'All these sentences of hard labour in Siberian prisons, and formerly with flogging, too, do not… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
If you want to attain salvation, learn and keep in your heart all that the holy Church teaches and, receiving heavenly power… — Theophan the Recluse Copy Share Image
One of the primary questions in a state-church arrangement is, 'which controls which?' . . . In Norway, for example, the liberal… — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
Contemplation in the age of Auschwitz and Dachau, Solovky and Karaganda is something darker and more fearsome than contemplation in the age… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“All believers have been called into only one fellowship, which is that of Jesus Christ. Believers may mistakenly consider the group they… — Henry Hon Copy Share Image
In two areas above all others the Christian demonstration of love and communication stands clear: in the area of the Christian couple… — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
One area where American Jews have something to teach Israel is religious pluralism, something that living in a democracy with a separation… — Bari Weiss Copy Share Image
We are so used to multi-tasking. 2014 was probably the most productive year of my life...But I noticed during the last couple… — Francis Chan Copy Share Image
I grew up in a Southern Baptist-style church with a choir, a band, and music, but I've been asking myself my whole… — Roger Ross Williams Copy Share Image
“It is too easy to call the church political. The nature of fallen people is political. And they happen to make up… — Mea McMahon Copy Share Image
Hip hop, this is church. Church, this is hip-hop. Y'all need to meet. I know you have some misconceptions about them, I… — LeCrae Copy Share Image
The Church therefore has one inescapable task: To lift up Christ. When she seeks to lift herself up she becomes weak, but… — Avery Dulles Copy Share Image
I spent a lot of time in churches. If you go to a synagogue, someone is always asking if you're alone, if… — Peter Malkin Copy Share Image
I hate it when someone of authority can just take church from you. Church keeps people in God's hands, and can keep… — Stephenie C Bryant Copy Share Image
The church acknowledges some Scientologists choose to sever communications with family members who leave. The church says it is a fundamental human… — John Sweeney Copy Share Image
Cyprian was not issuing a new decree but was keeping to the most solid belief of the Church in order to correct… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
What we get, we members of the Church, compared with the total mass that is distributed, is almost microscopic, but the spirit… — J. Reuben Clark Copy Share Image
The contemporary quarrel over church and state is not really about whether a wall of separation of church and state should exist… — James Davison Hunter Copy Share Image
I think for us - and for a lot of people in the Church of Satan - we definitely like ruffling people's… — Matt Skiba Copy Share Image
The primary contribution that the Church offers to the development of mankind and peoples does not consist merely in material means or… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
We wrote about having five kids and bringing them to church. A journalist at The Washington Post wrote this article where the… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
The one thing that the Catholic Church desires, and that I seek as Bishop of Rome, “the Church which presides in charity”,… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“The Church insists on teaching that my—along with so many other’s—homosexual inclination is intrinsically disordered and my homosexual acts—even with my husband—are… — Charles Benedict Copy Share Image
If you compare the United States with Europe, my view is that what happened in Europe is that the church became deeply… — John Rawls Copy Share Image
I'm not a big fan of religion for that reason. But I am a true believer in God, and I have great… — Shaun Cassidy Copy Share Image
“Is the church really demonstrating the new life in Christ if there is no discipline, if there is no fencing in of… — Michael Sattler Copy Share Image
The Italians are very unmusical. If I go to a Protestant church in London or Amsterdam or listen to a black choir,… — Gian Carlo Menotti Copy Share Image
I dont know that the United States is Gods Country, but the church has been so strong here, and because of its… — Rich Mullins Copy Share Image
I'm an elder in a Presbyterian church. I've taken Scripture seriously. I really do believe, like my more religious colleagues, that religion… — Jim Himes Copy Share Image
Some of the most unkind,judgmental people I've ever known go to church every Sunday and read the Bible. I don't know how… — Judith McNaught Copy Share Image
