Beginning under the Roman Empire, intellectual leadership in the West had been provided by Christianity. In the middle ages, who invented the… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
I remember one of the first gigs I played with that amp was at a local church. They wanted someone to fill… — Angus Young Copy Share Image
Extremist groups like People for the American Way attack Christians who run for public office as a threat to the 'separation of… — Ronald H. Nash Copy Share Image
I have always been involved in some philanthropic work - growing up in the church, you always had to have a reasonable… — LaTanya Richardson Copy Share Image
She started walking toward me and perfect white teeth caught her full bottom lip between them. I’d fantasized about those lips way… — Abbi Glines Copy Share Image
When my neighbor walks the dogs, he performs a ritual act of sacer simplicitas, to use the church Latin: "sacred simplicity." Walking… — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
I think very few people realize how much the separation of church and state has to do with the fact that Americans… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
The basic trouble with the church today is her unworthy concept of God... Our religion is weak because our God is weak...… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
It's a cultural disability in America that we worship pleasure, leisure, and affluence. I think the church is doubly damned when they… — Rich Mullins Copy Share Image
The atheist, agnostic, or secularist ... should guard against the encroachment of religion in areas where it has no place, and in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In Europe, the Enlightenment of the 18th century was seen as a battle against the desire of the Church to limit intellectual… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Combativeness was, I suppose, the dominant trait in my grandmother's nature. An aggressive churchgoer, she was quite without Christian feeling; the mercy… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
There's a mindset in other countries that if you're an American, you're a Christian. Well, those people are sadly misled; they don't… — Tim Conway Copy Share Image
When you put biblical truth to the songs used in churches, you'll have the congregation leave singing the sermon. You'll have God's… — Laura Story Copy Share Image
We don't teach from Books of the Bible because it gets in the way of evangelism. We don't offer different kinds of… — Steven Furtick Copy Share Image
I love my ink. They all have a meaning. I'm very strong in my faith, so I wanted to have some religious… — Lewis Hamilton Copy Share Image
We can walk when we want to, we can build many things, but if we do not witness to Jesus Christ then… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
My church growing up, we went around to nursing homes. I was part of the puppet team. You put your hand in… — Jason Taylor Copy Share Image
There is great mystery in a church. For me, there is a great privilege to be confronted with the design of a… — Mario Botta Copy Share Image
Where's Barack Obama when Christmas references are being erased from civic calendars? Is he crying out in defense of religious liberty and… — Chuck Norris Copy Share Image
The person who understands the evil in his own heart is the only person who is useful, fruitful, and solid in his… — John Owen Copy Share Image
I am what is known as a benched Catholic and disillusioned by the church doctrine. I believe in things the Catholic Church… — Kitty Kelley Copy Share Image
The traditional Jeffersonian principle of religious freedom was so broadly democratic that it included the right to have no religion at all… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Racists are not born, they are raised. Isolation is the breeding ground for racism. The more you come to know the world… — Erwin McManus Copy Share Image
“Discipleship is messy. There are seasons of growth followed by seasons of pruning. Some seasons burst forth with rapid change, and others… — Curtis Ferrell Copy Share Image
I grew up a Catholic and I dont want to talk badly about the Catholic Church but theres a lot of routine… — Bernhard Langer Copy Share Image
Never was the victory of patience more complete than in the early church. The anvil broke the hammer by bearing all the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Whatever your woman is into, you better be into. Whatever your man is into, you better be N2. Your partner into church,… — Chris Rock Copy Share Image
When John Coltrane passed, we were in the church for the memorial. Albert Ayler came walking in playing, real out there. He… — Wayne Shorter Copy Share Image
I believe in an America ... where no public official either requests or accepts instructions on public policy from the Pope, the… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
The most stupendous system of organized robbery known has been that of the church towards woman, a robbery that has not only… — Matilda Joslyn Gage Copy Share Image
Churches provide a place of gathering for people who share common beliefs, support and encouragement for each other in faith, a place… — Mary C. Neal Copy Share Image
It is not permitted for a woman to speak in the church, nor is it permitted for her to teach, nor to… — Tertullian Copy Share Image
The Church is the safe place to be. I can safely believe everything the Church teaches. It will not harm me, and… — Frederica Mathewes-Green Copy Share Image
People like Clyde McPhatter who came out of the black churches - like Sam Cooke and Aretha Franklin - were all church… — Ahmet Ertegun Copy Share Image
The doctrine of hell is not "mediaeval priestcraft" for frightening people into giving money to the church: it is Christ's deliberate judgment… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
Christian proclamation might make the gospel audible, but Christians living together in local congregations make the gospel visible (see John 13:34-35). The… — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
The people responsible for the dollars that will buy the sex and violence so many deplore, don't even know what's going -… — Norman Lear Copy Share Image
When I married Humphrey I made up my mind to like sermons, and I set out by liking the end very much.… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I want the Church to go out onto the streets, I want us to resist everything worldly, everything static, everything comfortable...eve rything… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
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