I realize how much my life lines up with artists like Marvin Gaye and Sam Cooke. My sound comes from church, but… — BJ the Chicago Kid Copy Share Image
I'm not religious, but I've always been attracted to the rituals of religion; as a kid, Sunday church was the closest thing… — Missy Mazzoli Copy Share Image
We had a few calls saying election precincts had closed early. But it turned out that the callers were in the wrong… — Jane Anderson Copy Share Image
I've never been tied to one party or one candidate or even one institution. And that's true even with one church as… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
You may invite the entire 35th Division to your wedding if you want to. I guess it's going to be yours as… — Bess Truman Copy Share Image
I looked for God. I went to a temple and I didn't find him there. Then I went to a church and… — Rumi Copy Share Image
In many churches, the message of justification- how to get right with God- is preached over and over again. But much less… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
In Scotland, Catholics have raised their voices against sectarianism and intolerance directed against the Church. Clearly, these actions show that freedom of… — Keith O'Brien Copy Share Image
But, irreverently consorting with these grave, reputable, and pious people, these elders of the church, these chaste dames and dewy virgins, there… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
It happens a little bit more in the West, where there's more fluid - where everybody's originally from somewhere else. So they… — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
And how did little Tim behave?” asked Mrs Cratchit, when she had rallied Bob on his credulity and Bob had hugged his… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Sporadic and shallow dipping in the doctrine of Christ and partial participation in His restored Church cannot produce the spiritual transformation that… — David A. Bednar Copy Share Image
My mother's family is Christian: her father was a Baptist lay preacher, and her brother, in a leap of Anglican upward mobility,… — Shereen El Feki Copy Share Image
It is within the sanctuary of the Church that we protect our faith. Meeting together with others who believe, we pray and… — Neil L. Andersen Copy Share Image
As women are taking an active part in pressing on the consideration of Congress many narrow sectarian measures, such as more rigid… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Our whole world is entrenched in sin. There in the quiet of our hearts a woman is calling us, each one of… — Jim Caviezel Copy Share Image
In the post-enlightenment Europe of the 19th century the highest authority was no longer the Church. Instead it was science. Thus was… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
Mom and sister played piano growing up; my grandma still plays piano in church. They always beat me over the head trying… — Dustin Lynch Copy Share Image
We used to go to church and, musically, I remember that being a massive influence. It had a band so it was… — Jonathan Bailey Copy Share Image
The greatest heresy in the American Evangelical and Protestant church is that if you pray and ask Jesus Christ to come into… — Paul Washer Copy Share Image
I think that one of the things that Christianity really needs, and the church really needs, is credibility. People need to be… — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
A religion is a unified system of beliefs and practices relative to sacred things, that is to say, things set apart and… — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
It is a dogma of the Roman Church that the existence of God can be proved by natural reason. Now this dogma… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
The very word woman in the writings of the church fathers stood for the basest of temptations... As women were lowered in… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
You know that Awkward moment on Sunday when the I didn't turn and look at you even though the preacher told me… — Stevynne Callahan Copy Share Image
...churchgoing is not synonymous with personal spirituality. There are some people who get so busy in church worship and projects that they… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The church still meets people at the transition points. Marriages break down. Children commit suicide and leave helpless parents. Death and suffering… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
There are knives that glitter like altars In a dark church Where they bring the cripple and the imbecile To be healed.… — Charles Simic Copy Share Image
It is a high Christian privilege to pray for one another within each local church body and then for other believers throughout… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
The daughter of an ordained minister, I had been forced to go to church since I was a toddler. I hated church… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
I'm spiritual. I'm religious. I'm a strong Christian and I'm a Catholic but I go to a Presbyterian Church. Occasionally I go… — Wesley Clark Copy Share Image
We do hereby command the Leaders of the Hebrew, Catholic and Protestant Churches to sanctify and have us crowned Emperor of the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Wherefore, by the authority of Apostolic power, We declare inventors of novel notions, which as the Apostle Paul has said are of… — Pope Innocent I Copy Share Image
All the men of the Old Testament were polygamists, and Christ and Paul, the central figures of the New Testament, were celibates,… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
“There’s no stronger bulwark of sound conservatism than the evangelical church, and no better place to make friends who’ll help you to… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
Once, John and I were coming form a concert that he had played, and it was late in the morning. We heard… — Alice Coltrane Copy Share Image
The forest is the first cathedral. I felt that from the time I was a child. I credit my mother with that.… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I feel like the Church should have the most amazing entertainment and the best music, because we know the author and the… — Danny Gokey Copy Share Image
We in the church have humility and contrition to offer the world, not a formula for success. Almost alone in our success-oriented… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
The Church no longer contends that knowledge is in itself sinful, though it did so in its palmy days; but the acquisition… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
