I know one gay ex-Mormon who is a talented, self-destructive alcoholic. Whenever he is drunk and going on a tear, we are… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
The number, the industry, and the morality of the priesthood, and the devotion of the people have been manifestly increased by the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
When I'm sitting in the church alone, I can hear singing of the old people. I can hear their singing and I… — Ernest Gaines Copy Share Image
I poured the wine into the chalice our church had given me. In the one-sixth gravity of the moon the wine curled… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
In all God's plans for human redemption, He proposes that men pray. The men are to pray in every place, in the… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
I went to Bethlehem in Christmas 2015 to do a television show for German TV and we filmed in the Church of… — Chris de Burgh Copy Share Image
The equality that we are all entitled to, as citizens of this democracy, can't be avoided by some religious dogma of a… — Rosie O'Donnell Copy Share Image
False self is an identity based on what you have, what you do, and what others think about you. In stark contrast… — Basil Pennington Copy Share Image
It would be easy to show that at our present rate of progress the kingdoms of this world never could become the… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
So, you want to be like Christ? Me too. But that kind of godliness won't just happen by hanging around a church… — Charles R. Swindoll Copy Share Image
We stink more of the world than we stink of sack cloth and ashes. A lot of contemporary churches today would feel… — Nicky Cruz Copy Share Image
Whoever isolates himself from the church, i.e., from Christianity as a whole, from the history of dogma in its entirety, loses the… — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
I'm an ex-Catholic priest. I have such a complex relationship to Catholicism. On the one hand, if I called myself a Catholic… — Benjamin Alire Saenz Copy Share Image
The Church has been and now is unalterably opposed to gambling in any form whatever. It is opposed to any game of… — Heber J. Grant Copy Share Image
I could scarcely reconcile myself at first to this strange way of preaching in the fields, of which Whitfield set me an… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
Important thing about myth is that it's not just something that you believe, a myth is essentially a program for action. And… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
My first marriage was very traditional, in the church, and then we left the church and went to the reception hall. So… — NeNe Leakes Copy Share Image
“Since the time of Voltaire and two-chamber Government, which is at bottom simply distrust and personal self-examination, and gives the popular mind… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
Do what Jesus says,... what he commands through his ministers who are in the Church [see 1 Cor 6:4]. Be subject to… — Bernard of Clairvaux Copy Share Image
Inconsistency on the part of pastors and the faithful between what they say and what they do, between word and manner of… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
There is a tradition that the church represents, without which we wouldn't have the church, that's all about diving deep beneath the… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
I think it is wrong for the federal government to force Christian individuals, businesses, pastors, churches to participate in wedding ceremonies that… — Bobby Jindal Copy Share Image
The [book of the bible] Song Of Songs is an amazing erotic love poem that the church has tried very hard not… — Alan Green Copy Share Image
As fanatical as it may sound to fundamental evangelical Christians, the Church is destined to subdue all things and put all things… — Bill Hamon Copy Share Image
Cheap grace is the grace we bestow on ourselves. Cheap grace is the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance, baptism without church… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
During the ten years I lived in the U.K., I frequently attended an Anglican church just outside of London. I enjoyed the… — Gary Hamel Copy Share Image
God has a plan for His Church upon earth. But alas! we too often make our plan, and we think that we… — Andrew Murray Copy Share Image
As soon as the Gospels were written, speech without experience began to dabble with the new facts proposed by the existence of… — Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy Copy Share Image
The early morning belongs to the Church of the risen Christ. At the break of light it remembers the morning on which… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Hollywood is run by people who sit up in their executive office, who are not connected to Mississippi, Alabama, Chicago, South Carolina.… — Steve Harvey Copy Share Image
I am surprised you shd. say fancy and aesthetic tastes have led me to my present state of mind: these wd. be… — Gerard Manley Hopkins Copy Share Image
The Catholic Church had strict racial attitudes and intolerance for anybody who was not Catholic. When I look at a lot of… — Harry Belafonte 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
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
“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
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
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
The Catholic Church sees voluntary vampirism as a kind of suicide. I tend to agree. Though the Pope also excommunicated all animators,… — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
In many cases, everything that once constituted a traditional worship service disappeared altogether, giving way to rock-concert formats and everything else the… — John MacArthur Copy Share Image
In the days of Joseph [Smith] it was considered a great privilege to be permitted to speak to a member of Congress,… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
![“Do what Jesus says,... what he commands through his ministers who are in the Church [see 1 Cor 6:4]. Be subject to his vicars, your leaders, not only those who are gentle and kind, but even those who are overbearing [see 1 Pt 2:18].” quote by Bernard of Clairvaux](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/583/bernard-of-clairvaux-3845_church_do-what-jesus-says-what-he-commands-thro_2099669.jpg)
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![“In the days of Joseph [Smith] it was considered a great privilege to be permitted to speak to a member of Congress, but twenty-six years will not pass away before the Elders of this Church will be as much thought of as the kings on their thrones.” quote by Brigham Young](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/313/brigham-young-1075_church_in-the-days-of-joseph-smith-it-was-consi_1261300.jpg)
