The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the Church. (Terullian) When she ceases to bleed, she ceases to bless. She… — L. E. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Free healthcare and free and equal education and peace are about the only things I passionately believe in, and I think if… — Robert Montgomery Copy Share Image
The main reason, Your Holiness, of why we are here today, is it is not the business of the church to stray… — Christopher Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley Copy Share Image
My desire as a Christian pastor is to see churches raised up as communities of grace ruled by Jesus and led by… — Mark Driscoll Copy Share Image
Isaiah calls the Church barren because her children are born without effort by the Word of faith through the Spirit of God.… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“-"I have kept the faith, Planchard." -"Then you are the only man who has" Planchard said, "and it is an heretical faith."… — Bernard Cornwell Copy Share Image
The Church at its best is about empowering the disempowered and giving voice to the dispossessed and not putting a price on… — Steve Coogan Copy Share Image
Better far off to leave half the ruins and nine-tenths of the churches unseen and to see well the rest; to see… — Augustus Hare Copy Share Image
Preachers are stewards whom the Lord has ‘set over his household servants to provide them with food at the proper time.’ After… — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share Image
Baptism into this Church is a serious thing. It represents a covenant made with our Heavenly Father. It is much more than… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
Today there survives more than 25,0000 partial and complete, ancient handwritten manuscript copies of the New Testament. These hand written manuscripts have… — Charlie Campbell Copy Share Image
Basically what Salomé did with Rilke as a mentor was direct him toward the Russian Orthodox Church, so he could project his… — Laura Marling Copy Share Image
It was a very aged, ghostly place; the church had been built many hundreds of years ago, and had once had a… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“One of the most striking things about the New Testament teaching on homosexuality is that, right on the heels of the passages… — Wesley Hill Copy Share Image
Look at the Metropolitan Community Church today, the gay church, almost accepted into the World Council of Churches. Almost, the vote was… — Jerry Falwell Copy Share Image
But why do some people support [the heretics]?" "Because it serves their purposes, which concern the faith rarely, and more often the… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
I remember, a couple of years ago I was playing my first headline show, and it was to 100 people in St… — Freya Ridings Copy Share Image
There was a state without king or nobles; there was a church without a bishop; there was a people governed by grave… — Rufus Choate Copy Share Image
I would recommend a free commerce both of matter and mind. I would let men enter their own churches with the same… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
“True and genuine charity is no lesse necessary to Salvation for all Churches, and members of Christian Churches, than the true and… — John Davenant Copy Share Image
He [Peter after the resurrection] now understood that he and the church were to exercise a transcendent power that did not depend… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
If the Mormon Church still supported polygamy, and if it appeared to be a system that was not exploitative of women, I… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
The beauty of the Catholic church is that it has a sacramental structure that can hold its own with the best out… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
I believe in the separation of church and state. We all have our own religious beliefs. There are people out there who… — Jesse Ventura Copy Share Image
I was 16 when I got a scholarship to study classical composition at a conservatory. By that time I had already listened… — Jack Bruce Copy Share Image
When I did the Abyssinian mass, I went through the whole history of the church music and the gospel music, even with… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
In all church discussions we are apt to forget the second Testament is avowedly only a supplement. Jesus came to complete the… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Christianity is being concerned about [others], not building a million-dollar church while people are starving right around the corner. Christ was a… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
“Jesus did not command us to "develop" leaders. He commanded us to make "disciples". The world "develops" leaders, the Church "disciples" them.… — John Paul Warren Copy Share Image
There's all the difference in the world between humbly saying "I want to find more light from Scripture than we have yet… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
If I had to choose between putting a saloon or a liberal church on a corner, I'd choose the saloon every time.… — Jay Adams Copy Share Image
Show me a church or a Christian organization that emphasizes prayer, and I'll show you a ministry where people are excited about… — Bill Bright Copy Share Image
If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false statement I could never stay there five minutes. But why… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Oh my friends, we are loaded with countless church activities, while the real work of the church, that of evangelizing and winning… — Oswald J. Smith Copy Share Image
The long-term goal of Christians in politics should be to gain exclusive control over the franchise. Those who refuse to submit publicly… — Gary North Copy Share Image
We still had the prayer support of our church. We shot this film [War Room] in Charlotte, North Carolina, and we had… — Stephen Kendrick Copy Share Image
The biblical texts that we Christians have used for centuries to justify our hostility toward the Jews need to be banished forever… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
In the past, children learned their values at home, reinforced by organizations such as the Boy Scouts and, of course, their church… — Paul Weyrich Copy Share Image
Reader! To whatever visible church, synagogue, or mosque you may belong! See if you do not find more true religion among the… — Moses Mendelssohn Copy Share Image
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![“But why do some people support [the heretics]?" "Because it serves their purposes, which concern the faith rarely, and more often the conquest of power." "Is that why the church of Rome accuses all its adversaries of heresy?" "That is why, and that is also why it recognizes as orthodoxy any heresy…” quote by Umberto Eco](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/2a9/umberto-eco-313_accepting_but-why-do-some-people-support-the-heret_2387868.jpg)
![“He [Peter after the resurrection] now understood that he and the church were to exercise a transcendent power that did not depend upon having a kingdom or government in any human sense, for it was literally a "God government" in which they were participants (Acts 1:6-8).” quote by Dallas Willard](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/ac7/dallas-willard-819_church_he-peter-after-the-resurrection-now-unde_716577.png)
![“Christianity is being concerned about [others], not building a million-dollar church while people are starving right around the corner. Christ was a revolutionary person, out there where it was happening. That's what God is all about, and that's where I get my strength.” quote by Fannie Lou Hamer](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/0b5/fannie-lou-hamer-3999_around-the-corner_christianity-is-being-concerned-about-ot_2597309.jpg)
![“We still had the prayer support of our church. We shot this film [War Room] in Charlotte, North Carolina, and we had about 85 churches rise up and support us across racial and denominational lines, and many of them were praying for us, and we built some prayer teams where we had people on set…” quote by Stephen Kendrick](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/eac/stephen-kendrick-12724_built_we-still-had-the-prayer-support-of-our-c_1596089.jpg)
