My family has always gone to church. I like to think that faith has been a part of my life since I… — Nick Goepper Copy Share Image
I said God, I want to spend the rest of my life helping people, and felt a real call through a divine… — Paula White Copy Share Image
Your deepest, darkest sins and your shameful secrets are simply irrelevant when it comes to the counterintuitive, ecstatic announcement of the gospel.… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
I grew up in a French-dominated Catholic part of the country. I was an altar boy. I went to Catholic school. I… — James Carville Copy Share Image
I am highly susceptible to the force of all truly religious music, especially to the music of my own church, the church… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
They cannot make it say what they want it to say. And this is the beginning and the end of the case… — Clifford Longley Copy Share Image
The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
[Pope Francis] is a humble man. He lives the faith out in his own personal life. ... He's here to be a… — Rick Santorum Copy Share Image
Religion does a lot of good, especially the loving kind, like at Grace Church. I know people who went to a more… — Jerry DeWitt Copy Share Image
“The Church acts as a sort of embassy for the government of the King. It is an outpost of the Kingdom of… — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share Image
Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles, expressions of the Holy Spirit’s power, evangelism to seekers, or… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you were good enough, there would be no need of confessing Christ at all. It is just because you are not… — Washington Gladden Copy Share Image
I just want to encourage every one of us to realize when we obey God, we’re not doing it for God—I mean,… — Victoria Osteen Copy Share Image
“Perhaps it is no wonder that the women were first at the Cradle and last at the Cross. They had never known… — Sarah Bessey Copy Share Image
The churches had left me cold, but I thought there's got to be a God. I remember going out, this is in… — Goswami Kriyananda Copy Share Image
THURSDAY, APRIL 5, 1894... I met with the Quorum and Presidency in the temple... President Woodruff then spoke... 'In searching out my… — Abraham H. Cannon Copy Share Image
Once an old woman at my church said the secret is that God loves us exactly the way we are and that… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“...ask yourself, "Who's getting the glory in this ministry?" You see, if we do ministry OUR way, it won't be for His… — Charles R. Swindoll Copy Share Image
When I'm really stressed out, I go to church. I light candles and sit and pray. And I'll ask myself, What's the… — Sandra Lee Copy Share Image
In vain do we seek to awaken our churches to zeal in evangelism as a separate thing. To be genuine it must… — Archibald Alexander Copy Share Image
If you read back in the Bible, the letter of the apostle Paul to the church of Thessalonia, he said that in… — Pat Robertson Copy Share Image
The Bible does not say we should aim at numbers but rather urges us faithfully to proclaim God's message in the boldness… — Jim Cymbala Copy Share Image
To try to turn Iraq into a liberal democracy is absolutely crazy. Islam has no understanding of the separation between church and… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
I hope the Church will examine what is good and what is ill, and what good could be achieved by getting the… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
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Jesus Christ rose from the grave.' With this proclamation, the Christian church began. This may be the fundamental element of Christian faith;… — Elaine Pagels Copy Share Image
Today's widespread relegation of religion to merely something people do only in the privacy of their homes or churches would have been… — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
In many cases students are never exposed to competing ideas within their families, churches, or Christian schools, and as a result they… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
I already knew, from church, that this place was raped and pillaged by Spaniards and the Pilgrims. "Don't sit here and try… — Michelle Rodriguez Copy Share Image
“Many millions of pregnancies—many if not most of which have each led to the birth of at least one child—were each used… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Some people in the church, like Martin Luther King, Jr., came out against segregation. But if you look at the bulk of… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
It takes all sorts to make a world; or a church. This may be even truer of a church. If grace perfects… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Priestly celibacy has been guarded by the Church for centuries as a brilliant jewel, and retains its value undiminished even in our… — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image
The message delivered with unrelenting enthusiasm by our culture is, 'You can be happy without discipline. Do whatever you feel like doing… — Matthew Kelly Copy Share Image
At 18, I guarded the parking lot at the Catholic Church bingos. Now, my dad made sure I could take care of… — Susana Martinez Copy Share Image
Must we, under the happy hope of a false tranquility, sacrifice to the people in power the public welfare, and under vain… — Claude Adrien Helvetius Copy Share Image
I believe that that foolish man of Galilee, Jesus Christ, had something to tell us, to tell me. Not considering his existence… — Elias Chacour Copy Share Image
The Church knew what the psalmist knew: Music praises God. Music is well or better able to praise him than the building… — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
Well, being from Mississippi, the church house is kind of the common denominator. It was for me growing up. Like so many… — Marty Stuart Copy Share Image
In the eyes of the Catholic Church, abortion is a tragedy. Our principle objective must be to try and win greater sympathy… — Vincent Nichols Copy Share Image
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