The nearest my parents came to alcohol was at Holy Communion and they utterly overestimated its effects. However bad the weather, Dad… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
The church today is riddled with fad doctrines and new sounds that distract from the clear message of the Great commission in… — John Hagee Copy Share Image
For me it is the virgin birth, the Incarnation, the resurrection which are the true laws of the flesh and the physical.… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Priesthood quorums teach and assist their members to attain good health, financial stability, and a year's supply of food and clothing. They… — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
The church was everything: our social engagements, Sunday morning, Sunday evening. Wednesday night was the hour of power. We had Bible study… — Leslie Jordan Copy Share Image
The parents, the society, the state, the church, the educational system, they all depend on lies. As the child is born they… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I fully understand it's important to maintain the separation of church and state. We don't want the state to become the church,… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
It sounds like a cliche, but it... you do sing about what you know about. And I grew up in a small… — Kenny Chesney Copy Share Image
It is upsetting to many parents that their teen-agers introduce them to their friends as encyclopedia salesmen who are just passing through… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
You know I told the Lord, "Why can't I just move in healing and forget talking about all that other stuff." He… — Todd Bentley Copy Share Image
The lack of brotherhood among believers themselves has paralyzed the church in front of the skepticism and immorality of the world; but… — William Mackergo Taylor Copy Share Image
My point is, however, that churches do promote beliefs that would more appropriately find a place in a context of intellectual debate.… — Robert M. Price Copy Share Image
One does not structure the church to meet the felt needs and desires of the tares. The purpose of corporate assembly, which… — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
Now I want you to listen to me," he said in a low voice, taking her chin in his hand and forcing… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
In a head-on collision with Fanatics, the real problem is always the same: how can we possibly behave decently toward people so… — David James Duncan Copy Share Image
I have great love for Saint Joseph, because he is a man of silence and strength. On my table I have an… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
I've definitely seen huge shifts, but the church is a little afraid of hip-hop, and hip-hop is a little afraid of the… — Trip Lee Copy Share Image
To say that we are able by our own efforts to think good thoughts or give God spiritual obedience before we are… — John Owen Copy Share Image
I was raised in a very religious home with two parents who were deeply involved in the black church. When I was… — Cory Booker Copy Share Image
“as Barbara Tuchman, author of Distant Mirror, put it, “clerical celibacy was a joke.” Despite the previous ban on clerical marriages, nuns,… — Charles River Editors Copy Share Image
The Church has a special duty to safeguard and strengthen the sacredness of the Eucharist. In our pluralistic and often deliberately secularized… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
I go farther, and say, that it is plainly our duty to desire pastors and teachers to take the care of such… — John Nelson Darby Copy Share Image
“She was going to be okay. I knew she was. She had forever changed my life and I had changed hers. I… — Anna Aquino Copy Share Image
When Queen Victoria became Britain's longest ruling monarch in September 1896, ousting George III, church bells rang throughout the country, and beacons… — Ingrid Seward Copy Share Image
It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
My teacher, Hopkins, often commented on the craving for certainty that led so many physicists into mysticism or into the Church and… — Norman Pirie Copy Share Image
The eastern part of the Roman Empire spoke mostly Greek, and the western parts spoke mostly Latin. So very soon, you begin… — Justo L. Gonzalez Copy Share Image
The Christian test was a willingness to believe in the one Jesus Christ and His Message of salvation. What was demanded was… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
The world is not religious because religion is imposed upon us. The parents are in a hurry to impose; the church, the… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Clary felt suddenly annoyed. "When the self-congratulatory part of the evening is over, maybe we could get back to saving my best… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
We [me and Alex Kendrick] had our pastor's blessing back in 2013 to launch out, and so we shot [ War Room]… — Stephen Kendrick Copy Share Image
The preaching of the faith has lost nothing of its relevance in our times. The Church has a sacred duty to proclaim… — Pope Pius XII Copy Share Image
There are people out there who are into traditional country music and for those people you have artists like Brad Paisley and… — Jason Aldean Copy Share Image
The true idea of a church has not yet been shown the world, a visible Church, I mean, unless it was in… — Lucy Larcom Copy Share Image
It is one of the ironies of the ministry that the very man who works in God's name is often hardest put… — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
Calvinism is an all-embracing system of principles... It is rooted in a form of religion which was peculiarly its own, and form… — Abraham Kuyper Copy Share Image
When Christians start thinking about Jesus, things start breaking down, they lose their faith. It's perfectly possible to go to church every… — A. N. Wilson Copy Share Image
Because religious training means credulity training, churches should not be surprised to find that so many of their congregations accept astrology as… — Barbara G. Walker Copy Share Image
Ricky Washington is from a Baptist church in Miami, Florida, and he can pretty much sing anything. We just started working it… — Joe Walsh Copy Share Image
Ordinary people - churches, too - have a role to force politicians to respond. Governments are not impressed with theories, but governments… — Allan Boesak Copy Share Image