If Church history teaches us anything, it is that we cannot afford to be a vacillating Church. We minister to a people… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
To attempt to pay for salvation with church membership, prayers, or good deeds is an insult to Christ, who paid the full… — Dave Hunt Copy Share Image
I have but one thought in my heart for the young folk of the Church and that is that they be happy.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Imagine if every church became a place where everyone is safe, but no one is comfortable. Image if every church became a… — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
Those who believe for a while make only a brief tour in the kingdom, though thereafter they often feel qualified to inform… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
I think we have muddled the terms of marriage, civil partnership, registry office, church etc. I would have liked that to have… — Andrea Leadsom Copy Share Image
The Chinese state is constructed in an entirely different way from western states. Unlike European states, for over a millennium the Chinese… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
“Because sometimes the Church seems like those posed circus tableaus where the curtain lifts and men, white, zinc-oxide, talcum-powder statues, freeze to… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
We realized that there's a great need in many churches to use the power of the media...There are a lot of different… — Patricia Mauceri Copy Share Image
There’s a passage that I love in Romans 1. … [I]t talks about homosexuality and it says that they will receive in… — David Barton Copy Share Image
Even his highly emotional Italian mother didn't believe that true love could blossom overnight. Like his brothers and sisters-in-law, she wanted nothing… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
There's one denomination in particular, though, that has pushed very hard to be multiracial in its denomination - not only its denomination… — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
Americans are an "almost chosen people," which is meant to suggest that there are clear parallels, literal, theological and everything else, between… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
Benedict XVI leaves no room for uncertainty or minimization. At this present time in which she feels humiliation, the Church learns from… — Angelo Bagnasco Copy Share Image
“The full Christian experience, however, is not an individual experience which may be isolated from all else; it is, unconditionally, an experience… — Hans Urs von Balthasar Copy Share Image
Christ is a persuasion, a form evoking desire, and the whole force of the gospel depends upon the assumption that this persuasion… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
I wanna tell you, ladies and gentlemen, that there's not enough troops in the army to force the Southern people to break… — Strom Thurmond Copy Share Image
I grew up as a kind of nondenominational Christian. I have two uncles who are Baptist ministers. I went to a Samoan… — Troy Polamalu Copy Share Image
“We must help young women immerse themselves in a selfless work, perhaps receiving little public praise or attention. Instead, they must feel… — Neill F. Marriott Copy Share Image
We have need to be as sturdy pioneers still as Miles Standish, or Church, or Lovewell. We are to follow on another… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In my growing-up years in Germany, I attended church in many different locations and circumstances - in humble back rooms, in impressive… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
It doesn't really matter how much of the rules or the dogma we accepted and lived by if we're not really living… — Martin Sheen Copy Share Image
We were environmentalists of the Teddy Roosevelt theory. We believed in separation of church and state. We believed in the independence of… — Pete McCloskey Copy Share Image
The funny thing about being Catholic, and I was raised Catholic, is that you identify with the Church, just as part of… — Alex Gibney Copy Share Image
It is only the forcible propagation of conventional Christianity that makes the agnostic so bitter toward the church. He knows that all… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
It is the wall of separation between church and state . . . that is largely responsible for religion thriving in this… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
The First Amendment has erected a wall between church and state. That wall must be kept high and impregnable. We could not… — Hugo Black Copy Share Image
I think whites are used to being in power, so when whites think we ought to have integrated churches they think, "People… — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
I think I never passed so sad an hour, Dear friend, as that one at the church to-night. The edifice from basement… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
After the phone call from The New Yorker, I walked more than a mile to church to thank God. But then I… — Uwem Akpan Copy Share Image
There were only two things I knew in a Christian framework that I could do. One would be the pastor of a… — Gary Chapman Copy Share Image
Sports teams, people who follow sports teams, religion, churches, work - any company, I find that people just generally have a need… — Sean Durkin Copy Share Image
The Church was as concerned with this world as the next: I saw that virtually all of the achievements of Africans seemed… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
I always start my New Year at church with my family. I see it as a fresh beginning - like a new… — Nivin Pauly 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
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 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
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
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
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
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