If the Church is a living body united to the same head, governed by the same laws, and pervaded by the same… — Charles Hodge Copy Share Image
“Perhaps one of the most powerful things the contemporary church could do is to confess our sins to the world, the humbly… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
The minute the church and pastors start saying what do people want and then giving it to them, we betray our calling.… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
If you live today, you breath in nihilism ... it's the gas you breathe. If I hadn't had the Church to fight… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
It is a promise which eminently deserves our observation that all who are united to Christ and acknowledge Him to be Christ… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
From the church I received a spiritual foundation that has kept me balanced. From the gospel music I learned the importance of… — Oleta Adams Copy Share Image
organizations like the church or General Motors promote a man up and up until he reaches a spot which he is obviously… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
When once thy foot enters the church, be bare. God is more there than thou: for thou art there Only by his… — George Herbert Copy Share Image
Country music is about new love and it's about old love. It's about gettin' drunk and gettin' sober. It's about leavin' and… — Jeff Foxworthy Copy Share Image
Marriage is not mainly about prospering economically; it is mainly about displaying the covenant-keepin g love between Christ and his church. Knowing… — John Piper Copy Share Image
Consider what it takes for successful businessmen and businesswomen, effective entrepreneurs and hardworking associates, shrewd retirees and idealistic students to combine forces… — David Platt Copy Share Image
I met too frankly preposterous, if it weren't for their banal evil, politicians and pastors who told knowing lies about the evils… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
When the nazis came to power, I looked to the universities that prided themselves upon their intellectual freedom, and they failed me.… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
In the Pro-Eligendo Pontefice Mass, despite knowing that [ Joseph Ratzinger] was a candidate [to become Pope], he wasn't stupid, he didn't… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
These [conservative] people, if they're Americans, look back on the last 35 years of our ecclesial experience and take heart from that.… — George Weigel Copy Share Image
We were just floored by the kindness of the people here. The minister of the Unitarian Church in Honolulu invited my family… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
The Roman Catholic Church, had it captured me, as it nearly did, would have sent me on some mission of danger and… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
I add, that those who are bent on restoring the whole church ought to be well instructed in the word, and to… — John Nelson Darby Copy Share Image
By operating independently of government aid, the churches . . . avoid the resentment of those who do not want to be… — John M Swomley Copy Share Image
Even though we say Church Growth, we are actually saying, Making Disciples of Christ. Having a large church with only a few… — Albert Kang Copy Share Image
Proclaiming the gospel to a lost world cannot be just another activity to add to the church's crowded agenda. It must be… — Francis Chan Copy Share Image
The true messianism of the Russian Church is not what the Slavophiles have imagined, but it is the example of suffering. It… — Leonid Feodorov Copy Share Image
If somebody wants to go to church because they like the ritual of it and want to sit in silence for a… — Patrick Wilson Copy Share Image
We thought the church had withdrawn from interfering in Italian politics... but instead there is a terrible resurgence. These are ugly signs… — Dario Fo Copy Share Image
Homosexuality was massively practiced in some of the conflicting religions at the time of Christ and even at the time of Christ,… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
While the secular world pushes woman to find her identity in herself as a sex object, the popular teachings in the Church,… — Leanne Payne Copy Share Image
When you stroll through Munich it can happen that you suddenly stand in front of an old house, an idyllically-dreaming church that… — Joseph Goebbels Copy Share Image
I believe in the flesh and the appetites, Seeing, hearing, feeling, are miracles, and each part and tag of me is a… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
The Church is not an automobile showroom - a place to put ourselves on display so that others can admire our spirituality,… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
I still went to church regularly every Sunday; that is we all went there together. I reverenced the family pew where we… — Pierre Loti Copy Share Image
What is there to be said about a Church which certainly promises its believers eternal salvation, but at the same time condemns… — Arnulf Øverland Copy Share Image
To put everyone in government housing and food stamps and bring them in from around the world I think is a mistake.… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
My grandma was a church organist for 40 years, and she got me into jazz music and great songwriters, Harold Arlen, George… — Zach Anner Copy Share Image
I am a conservative Republican, but I believe in democracy and the separation of church and state. The conservative movement is founded… — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
Both state and church have as their object actions as well as convictions, the former insofar as they are based on the… — Moses Mendelssohn Copy Share Image
At the end of the day, whether it was in a little church or Westminster Abbey didn't matter: it was me, as… — James William Middleton Copy Share Image
The church is the bride of Christ. The kingdom will be the eternal celebration of the wedding of Christ and the church.… — Paul P. Enns Copy Share Image
Make no mistake, I am a Christian and I believe in God and I don't believe he makes mistakes, so I believe… — Kristin Chenoweth Copy Share Image
I prefer a church which is bruised, hurting and dirty because it has been out on the streets, rather than a church… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
If a church offers no truth that is not available in the general culture - in, for instance, the editorials of the… — Richard John Neuhaus Copy Share Image
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