Congregational life wherein each member has his opportunity to contribute to the life of the whole body, those gifts with which the… — Lesslie Newbigin Copy Share Image
The Church exists by mission, just as a fire exists by burning. Where there is no mission there is no Church; and… — Emil Brunner Copy Share Image
Says one brother to another, 'Joseph says all covenants are done away, and none are binding but the new covenants; now suppose… — Jedediah M. Grant Copy Share Image
I could fall in love with a sumo wrestler if he told stories and made me laugh. Obviously, it would be easier… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I was born again. It happens to Episcopalians. Sometimes it doesn't hit you till you're 47 years old. It changed my whole… — Ann B. Davis Copy Share Image
President Monson, I may never see the Prophet. I may never hear the Prophet. But President, far better, now that I am… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
Before I was ten I became critical of the anthropomorphic God as interpreted in the churches. I did not warm to One… — Miles Franklin Copy Share Image
Preaching styles and people being slain in the spirit and things like that. Now it doesn't happen in all black churches, and… — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
I grew up in the church, Resurrection Baptist Church in Philadelphia, and my grandmother was that grandmother at the church, the one… — Will Smith Copy Share Image
I would advise you to get all of your blessings written and preserve them...I do feel to enjoin it upon you to… — Wilford Woodruff Copy Share Image
“This leaves us with the urgent question: How can we be or become a caring community, a community of people not trying… — Henri J.M. Nouwen Copy Share Image
The Eucharist is not only a particularly intense expression of the reality of the Church's life, but also in a sense its… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
The real religion is about the understanding that if we can only still our egos for a few seconds, we might have… — John Cleese Copy Share Image
The ecclesial communities which have not preserved the valid Episcopate and the genuine and integral substance of the Eucharistic mystery, are not… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
I think that the church in America today is so obsessed with being practical, relevant, helpful, successful, and perhaps well-liked that it… — Michael Horton Copy Share Image
Anyone attempting to live a Christian lifestyle will always be pressed towards settling for "nominal Christianity." For the believer who lives in… — Matthew West Copy Share Image
Does Scripture forbid homosexual behavior? Of course it does. Jesus and his apostles taught that God's intention in marriage is for a… — Michael Horton Copy Share Image
Probably one of the strongest movements of the Holy Spirit is in the Roman Catholic Church, so there's not a huge theological… — Nicky Gumbel Copy Share Image
And what I learned in Church's course. He trained us intensively in his new system, which he was just developing. Two papers… — Stephen Cole Kleene Copy Share Image
Each believer comes to understand his or her significance in relationship to the whole Body, and the conviction begins to take hold:… — Danny Silk Copy Share Image
If religious freedom is to endure in America, the responsibility for teaching religion to public school children must be left to the… — Sam Ervin Copy Share Image
If religion and churches are truly threats to our liberties, how did those liberties survive, and in such healthy condition, all those… — William Murchison Copy Share Image
Who does not see that . . . the same authority which can force a citizen to contribute three pence only of… — James Madison Copy Share Image
America wasn't founded as a theocracy. America was founded by people trying to escape theocracies. Never in history have we had a… — Gregory A. Boyd Copy Share Image
The church for too long has followed Casper, the friendly ghost instead of seeking the fire of the Holy Spirit. We have… — Francis Frangipane Copy Share Image
The churches used to win their arguments against atheism, agnosticism, and other burning issues by burning the ismist, which is fine proof… — Ben Lindsey Copy Share Image
“Hit don’t make no difference what a man perfesses. I been in a heap o’ churches. There’s the Nazarene Church and the… — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Copy Share Image
The Church has realized that anything and everything can be built up on a document of that sort, no matter how contradictory… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
I know at my church a lot of the times we sung from hymn books and as we got older we started… — Charles King Copy Share Image
I'm proud, and Islam did it. And after these things that I heard in church, a preacher and watching this and that,… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
“We are being called to a new and deeper passion: to those who live under the shadow of the cross and those… — Megan McKenna Copy Share Image
I would beg the wise and learned fathers [of the church] to consider with all diligence the difference which exists between matters… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
When there is a spirit of controversy in the church or in the land, a revival is needful. The spirit of religion… — Charles Grandison Finney Copy Share Image
I wish that we might get back to worship again. Then when people come into the church they will instantly sense that… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
In too many modern churches there is no emphasis on theology at all. There is a kind of justification by works or… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Wicked sons do not have the Holy Ghost in the same way as do beloved sons, and yet they do have Baptism.… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
There were so many outstanding women in scripture that were leaders. And, you know, the organized church sometimes puts boundaries on us… — Anne Graham Lotz Copy Share Image
Recent surveys of Church members have shown a serious erosion in the number of families who have a year's supply of life's… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
Since the early 1960s, since what's been called the charismatic movement within the Christian church, a significant number of Christians believe that… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
God's Wisdom and God's Goodness!--Ah, but fools Mis-define thee, till God knows them no more. Wisdom and goodness they are God!--what schools… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
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