Like my parents, I have never been a regular church member or churchgoer. It doesn't seem plausible to me that there is… — Benjamin Spock Copy Share Image
It was here in Edinburgh that in the 1980s I joined with many others to protest against Margaret Thatcher as she arrived… — Douglas Alexander Copy Share Image
In the bible homosexuality is condemned, but along with divorce and greed and callousness toward poor people. So its elevation to a… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Even though I didn't continue with my therapy, I went to church and received counseling from my pastor and got straight spiritually.… — Ginuwine Copy Share Image
Accompanying the people in their growth through good times and also through their difficulties, accompanying people in their joy and in their… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Conversion is a very, very important part of what you are doing. We will have a responsibility to report to Heavenly Father… — Richard G. Scott Copy Share Image
I've been singing all my life. I've always wanted this. I sang in church, in school plays, and my parents gave me… — Aaliyah Copy Share Image
“She [the Church] proclaims that we owe love, honour and service to God in the first place, and after God not to… — Antonin Sertillanges Copy Share Image
The Catholic church, once all her assets have been put together, is the most formidable stockbroker in the world. The Vatican, independently… — Avro Manhattan Copy Share Image
“Those who love their dream of a Christian community more than they love the Christian community itself become destroyers of that Christian… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
The Holy Spirit gives us joy. And he is joy. Joy is the gift in which all the other gifts are included.… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
I didn't have a clue. I grew up Protestant in Connecticut at the Saugatuck Congregational Church. We didn't talk about the devil.… — Linda Blair Copy Share Image
The central problem of our age is not liberalism or modernism, nor the old Roman Catholicism or the new Roman Catholicism, nor… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Mr. Brown had thought of nothing but numbers. He should have known that the kingdom of God did not depend on large… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
The wearing of fabric head coverings in worship was universally the practice of Christian women until the twentieth century. What happened? Did… — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
Society,--the only field where the sexes have ever met on terms of equality, the arena where character is formed and studied, the… — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
You are responsible for the world that you live in. It is not government's responsibility. It is not your school's or your… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
I want people to help me reanchor the church to undeniable, mind-boggling, culture-shifting demonstration of compassion and generosity. Because, generosity was the… — Andy Stanley Copy Share Image
I got the nickname 'Deacon' because I didn't swear, didn't drink, went to church, and did quite a bit of speaking in… — Vernon Law Copy Share Image
Israel, and you who call yourself Israel, the Church that calls itself Israel, and the revolt that calls itself Israel, and every… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
For clothes, I like Anna on Regent's Park Road. Anna Park, who owns it, has an amazing eye for fresh, exciting clothes.… — Sophie Winkleman Copy Share Image
When you have faith in something a lot of other people believe then you a member of the church" said Ceas, "When… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I grew up singing in Kansas. My dad had a band when I was growing up. So I sang in church and… — Martina McBride Copy Share Image
I grew up performing in glee club at my school; I was the ostrich in 'Peter Pan,' and then I was super-involved… — Kelsea Ballerini Copy Share Image
We must stop this incessant victimhood mentality. Somebody else will not fix things. Somebody else will not make me healthy. Somebody else… — Joel Salatin Copy Share Image
My grandmother lived on Elizabeth Street in Little Italy, and she used to go to church every day. She'd go in, light… — Leah Remini Copy Share Image
There's a way to accomplish the separation of church and state, and at the same time, accomplish the social objective of having… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Is the Church of England an Anglican church? The church did not start in Canterbury, the church did not start in Rome.… — Peter Akinola Copy Share Image
I have many sources of inspiration. I'd have to point to Dr. Martin Luther King, first and foremost. But my parents were… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
The smell of roasting meat together with that of burning fruit wood and dried herbs, as voluptuous as incense in a church,… — Claudia Roden Copy Share Image
Every member of our Church is a missionary. Without the formality of a setting-apart we should be so set-apart from the ways… — William J. Critchlow, Jr Copy Share Image
I was brought up a strict Christian. My father was a lay preacher, my mother a church warden. The rhythm and ritual… — Monty Don Copy Share Image
I have always been astonished that women were allowed to enter churches. What conversation can they possibly have with God? The eternal… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
A man I admire and respect - Congressman John Lewis, an American hero, made allegations that Sarah Palin and I were somehow… — John McCain Copy Share Image
Love never ends or fails. Love never ends. Everything must be based on love - the relation between two friends, my ministry,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I will go peaceably and firmly to the Catholic Church: for if Faith is so important to our salvation, I will seek… — Elizabeth Ann Seton Copy Share Image
I've really gotten to play a lot of different things, starting with 'Southpaw.' For 'Spotlight,' I got to play this amazing journalist,… — Rachel McAdams Copy Share Image
My beliefs and my faith are part of who I am, and I'm so grateful that I had the foundation laid early… — Jay DeMarcus Copy Share Image
I would like the church to be a place where the questions of people are honored rather than a place where we… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
I'm absolutely, utterly, and completely certain that God wouldn't be homophobic. I'd much rather go to hell - I really would much… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image