The more we study the early Church, the more we realize that it was a society of ministers. About the only similarity… — D. Elton Trueblood Copy Share Image
Thank you from the heart to all those who in various ways are near me or follow me spiritually with affection and… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Every Christmas should begin with the sound of bells, and when I was a child mine always did. But they were sleigh… — Paul Engle Copy Share Image
“You're better off believing in God they'd warn you, just in case. Because you'd hate to arrive at the gates of heaven… — Drew Magary Copy Share Image
Thus godlike sympathy grows and thrives and spreads far beyond the teachings of churches and schools, where too often the mean, blinding,… — John Muir Copy Share Image
We Protestants ought to humbly confess that the theater and the sports have done more for race amity, for race understanding than,… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
We know what hair smells like when a hot comb hits it. That's a cultural thing. We know what that smells like… — Denzel Washington Copy Share Image
One of the most popular current errors, and the one out of which springs most of the noisy, blustering religious activity in… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
I meet young people everywhere who are wonderful and faithful; youth who want to do the right thing and who indicate the… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
There's an ethic that says: 'You don't run off to the church for the sacraments of salvation, you establish a personal relationship… — John Shelton Reed Copy Share Image
In the magical universe there are no coincidences and there are no accidents. Nothing happens unless someone wills it to happen. The… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
It was my duty to give them the best show possible. Say you've got a timid little preacher in North Carolina or… — Marjoe Gortner Copy Share Image
The United States of America have exhibited, perhaps, the first example of governments erected on the simple principles of nature. . .… — John Adams Copy Share Image
I think it's alright if the government wants to say, in the state of Massachusetts, in the state of New York, in… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
This doctrine ['that the condition of man cannot be ameliorated, that what has been must ever be, and that to secure ourselves… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
But this inestimable privilege was soon violated: with the knowledge of truth the emperor imbibed the maxims of persecution; and the sects… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The music in Haiti is all tied up in voodoo and African rhythm, and so there's this funny thing: go to a… — Win Butler Copy Share Image
In your eyes the light the heat in your eyes I am complete in your eyes I see the doorway to a… — Peter Gabriel Copy Share Image
I had a dream that my dad passed away and that Jesus came into the room and he was basically knocking on… — Russell Wilson Copy Share Image
The church is: a conspiracy of love for a dying world, a spy mission into enemy occupied territory ruled by the powers… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
I became an altar boy because of the solemn face, but I got thrown out at fourteen for laughing. Because the priest… — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
“For centuries after Christ, the church and other religions that use cruciform symbols have misrepresented the physical nature of Christ's death with… — nwaocha ogechukwu Copy Share Image
While I have no problem with the church adapting to the culture, we must ensure that we remain painstakingly true to the… — Jerry Falwell Copy Share Image
The schools would fail through their silence, the Church through its forgiveness, and the home through the denial and silence of the… — Simon Wiesenthal Copy Share Image
[As a young man ] I came to the conclusion that the church was just a bunch of fascists that supported Franco.… — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
Officially, the New Testament church at an early stage took seriously their responsibility for widows who lacked family or other resources. The… — Carolyn Custis James Copy Share Image
Perhaps one day, all these conflicts will end, and it won't be because of great statesmen or churches or organisations like this… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
In the largest sense, every work of art is protest... A lullaby is a propaganda song and any three-year-old knows it... A… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
To great sections of the church the art of worship has been lost entirely, and in its place has come that strange… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The hard struggle which the Pan-Germans fought with the Catholic Church can be accounted for only by their insufficient understanding of the… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
We're always trying to elevate the platform of Christian and gospel music, church music, worship music and not just elevate it to… — Israel Houghton Copy Share Image
Whoever uncouples the religious and the social life has not understood Jesus. Whoever sets any bounds for the reconstructive power of the… — Walter Rauschenbusch Copy Share Image
Do you believe that Jesus is worth abandoning everything for? Do you believe him enough to obey him and to follow him… — David Platt Copy Share Image
Christian Science has been enormously influential in our religious history, and the church is very powerful. It has won an extraordinary number… — Caroline Fraser Copy Share Image
I wouldn't say I'm die-hard religious, but I have my beliefs. I grew up right on the beach. We would wear flip-flops… — Ryan Zimmerman Copy Share Image
For here the religion that languishes in crowded cities or steals shame-faced to hide itself in dim churches, flourishes greatly, filling the… — William Henry Hudson Copy Share Image
We indeed did and do own our own minds and bodies, and anything from church or state that limits that is inappropriate… — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
When I look around, the biggest way in which we are failing to care for those in need is through ignoring climate… — Katharine Hayhoe Copy Share Image
I was born rather late in [my father's] life, in his mid - 40s. And so what he did up until the… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
As a personal matter I don't give a damn where mosques, churches, temples or other religious shrines and symbols are built as… — Bob Higgins Copy Share Image
![“The United States of America have exhibited, perhaps, the first example of governments erected on the simple principles of nature. . . . [In] the formation of the American governments . . . it will never be pretended that any persons employed in that service had interviews with the gods, or were…” quote by John Adams](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/562/john-adams-529_america_the-united-states-of-america-have-exhibi_3078397.jpg)
![“This doctrine ['that the condition of man cannot be ameliorated, that what has been must ever be, and that to secure ourselves where we are we must tread with awful reverence in the footsteps of our fathers']is the genuine fruit of the alliance between Church and State, the tenants of which…” quote by Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/78e/thomas-jefferson-43_alliances_this-doctrine-that-the-condition-of-man_2558220.jpg)
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