The history of the Church has been a history of divisiveness, repression and reaction. For almost 2000 years, Christianity has held mankind… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
The Copernican revolution was actually a contribution to the life of the church, the development of our view of ourselves in terms… — George Coyne Copy Share Image
European Christianity has allowed itself to be intimately united with the powers of this world. Now that these powers are falling, it… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
The conversion of agnostic High Tories to the Anglican church is always rather suspect. It seems too pat and predictable, too clearly… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
I didn't really think a lot about religion, but I didn't really think a lot against it, either. I was one of… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
As husbands, I think one reason we have some trouble with Paul's command to love our wives "as Christ loved the church,"… — Scott Means Copy Share Image
I just find the evangelical church too, well, restrictive. But the School of Practical Philosophy is nonconfrontational. We believe there are many… — Hugh Jackman Copy Share Image
But I really do have a soft spot for the solo shows. Any musician who writes and sings will tell you that's… — Ben Folds Copy Share Image
I sought for the greatness and genius of America in her commodious harbors and her ample rivers, and it was not there;… — W. Cleon Skousen Copy Share Image
One of the promising indications of a renewal in the Church's missionary consciousness in recent decades, has been the growing desire of… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
There are those among you who, although young, have already suffered a full measure of grief and sorrow. My heart is filled… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
Popular piety is one of our strengths because it consists of prayers deeply rooted in people's hearts. These prayers even move the… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
The crucified but risen Jesus appears in the believing, assembled community of the church. That this sense of the risen, living Jesus… — Edward Schillebeeckx Copy Share Image
“Worship gatherings are not always spectacular, but they are always supernatural. And if a church looks for or works for the spectacular,… — Matt Chandler Copy Share Image
On Saturday night, I would see men lusting after half-naked girls dancing at the carnival, and on Sunday morning when I was… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If I have renounced the search of truth, if I have come into the port of some pretending dogmatism, some new church,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Though man's feeling for the other-worldly often has recourse to solitude, solitude does not foster its development; rather, it is nourished by… — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
The fact that religion plays such a part in how people vote troubles me, troubles me as a minister's daughter. Because I… — Tori Amos Copy Share Image
'Salt' is like this snapshot in midair, an action shot. It's about my relationship with the church, the classical and choral music… — Lizz Wright Copy Share Image
We will never find joy in church membership when we are constantly seeking things our way. But paradoxically, we will find the… — Thom S. Rainer Copy Share Image
While the family is under attack throughout the world, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints proclaims, promotes, and protects the… — Russell M. Nelson Copy Share Image
People assume when they come into a church and see a person up there speaking, 'That person must be a good person.'… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
The episcopal church was destined, inevitably, to grow further and further away from the Christian teaching of poverty and denial of worldly… — Judith Herrin Copy Share Image
We have this idea in our minds that there's this separation of church and state in America, which I think is a… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
The truly longstanding tradition in the church is that some are called to celibacy. Some feel called to it. But the church… — Gene Robinson Copy Share Image
I first met Dr. King in 1954 when I was a student at Alabama State University and a member of a local… — Jesse White Copy Share Image
I don't think there is any religious revival. I think what we are hearing, the furor, is merely the hysterical response of… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
Instead of feeling like there's two or three of us in this town of hostile crackers, I'm in a big church filled… — Stanley Nelson Jr Copy Share Image
The root of almost every schism and heresy from which the Christian Church has suffered, has been because of the effort of… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
When a church manipulates the law to say, "These people are lesser," it takes a lot of resilience to hold your head… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
For centuries, Jews have been unjustly treated and despised. It is time they were treated with justice and humanity. God wills it… — Pope Pius XII Copy Share Image
No... souls are just counters for churches to collect, all the same value, like nails. No, what makes man man is mind;… — John Wyndham Copy Share Image
The reason I still go play the organ at church every Sunday and dedicate my talents to God first is because I… — Zaytoven Copy Share Image
I think I can be spiritual, and I can feel that I want to live well, I want to do things that… — Clare Balding Copy Share Image
Yes, polygamy is one of the relics of Adam, of Enoch, of Noah, of Abraham, of Isaac, of Jacob, of Moses, David,… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
The future of the church is also about looking back and looking at where we see these wonderful renewals and what we… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
In an attempt to hinder, if not altogether halt, the next move of God, Satan has sent forth an army of faultfinding… — Francis Frangipane Copy Share Image
When we go to different areas and look at doing period pieces and movies shot in other states and locations, even overseas,… — Alex Kendrick Copy Share Image
The organized churches must become schools of spiritual discipline where Christians are taught how to own without treasuring (Matt. 6:21); how to… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
To the extent that the parents who send their children to these [Catholic] schools are parents like my own, who actually have… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
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![“The crucified but risen Jesus appears in the believing, assembled community of the church. That this sense of the risen, living Jesus has faded in many [churches] can be basically blamed on the fact that our churches are insufficiently 'communities' of God. Where the church of Jesus Christ lives…” quote by Edward Schillebeeckx](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/ce3/edward-schillebeeckx-107038_believe_the-crucified-but-risen-jesus-appears-in_1198650.jpg)
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