The cinema has done more for my spiritual life than the church. My ideas of fame, success and beauty all originate from… — John Updike Copy Share Image
[On Christianity:] Its lip-service and its empty rites have made it the easiest of all tasks for the usurer to cloak his… — Ouida Copy Share Image
Mr. Lincoln's maxim and philosophy were: 'What is to be, will be, and no prayers of ours can arrest the decree.' He… — Mary Todd Lincoln Copy Share Image
In the Eucharist, the Son of God comes to meet us and desires to become one with us; eucharistic adoration is simply… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
I hold that in this country there must be complete severance of Church and State; that public moneys shall not be used… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The ultimate effort of everything in the Church is to the end that a father and a mother and their children can… — Boyd K. Packer Copy Share Image
I believe in the separation of church and state. The government has the right to say what happens in a civil case,… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
We have a pope [Francis] who's very popular among the Catholic faithful and non-Catholics, but there's no doubt he's going to continue… — Sylvia Poggioli Copy Share Image
For some reason, which I believe I can guess, the churches/mosques want control of people when or while they are the most… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Our society trains us to think of marriage as a contractual arrangement. If one party fails to fulfill his or her end,… — Michael Horton Copy Share Image
The United States has adventured upon a great and noble experiment . . . of total separation of Church and State. .… — John Tyler Copy Share Image
Such then in number and importance are the precious ties belonging to the Christian name which keep a believer in the Catholic… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
That's why the virgin birth never gets rid of the human mother. The story only gets rid of the human father. So… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
There is a study that shows that people who were asked their political opinions, when there was a picture of the American… — Robert Cialdini Copy Share Image
Habit must play a larger place in our religious life. We worship when we feel like it, we pray when we feel… — Ralph Washington Sockman Copy Share Image
To me the church's problem would be a hundred times worse if you felt everyone has written the church off, they don't… — Chris Lowney Copy Share Image
We need to make a distinction between misled Iraqis, those who believe that they are carrying weapons to liberate Iraq from what… — Jalal Talabani Copy Share Image
I think there's a time and place to watch an independent film, or catch up on a French action film on your… — Robert Englund Copy Share Image
I was probably toward 8 1/2 when I actually joined the church and was baptized - and, my God, did I take… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
The evil of the Church is the doing of Church work in a spirit of business, something to be got through. The… — Arthur Middleton Copy Share Image
We want a crowd to make us feel important and liked. But why is getting a crowd our focus? Jesus never suggested… — Charles R. Swindoll Copy Share Image
Consider the problem of taking showers with Christians. They are, after all, constantly going on about the business of witnessing in the… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
The custom of Mother Church in baptizing infants is certainly not to be scorned, nor is it to be regarded in any… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Home is the seminary of all other institutions. There are the roots of all public prosperity, the foundations of the State, the… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
One should not seek among others the truth that can be easily gotten from the Church. For in her, as in a… — Irenaeus of Lyons Copy Share Image
Nowhere else in the world do the laws on firearms become the playthings of politicians and lobbyists intent on manufacturing cultural conflict.… — E. J. Dionne Copy Share Image
During our religious instruction in school, we always asked: How can one prove the existence of God? And I have learned that… — Jean-Claude Juncker Copy Share Image
I'm a God-fearing man, go to church every Sunday, and have since I was a boy. But if I ever found out… — Chael Sonnen Copy Share Image
God pity us that after years of writing, using mountains of paper and rivers of ink, exhausting flashy terminology about the biggest… — Leonard Ravenhill Copy Share Image
A prayerless church member is a hindrance. He is in the body like a rotting bone or a decayed tooth. Before long,… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Full knee-deep lies the winter snow, And the winter winds are wearily sighing: Toll ye the church bell sad and slow, And… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
The most creative social strategy we have to offer is the church. Here we show the world a manner of life the… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
What I'd say about that is that we must respect homosexuals in the church. I've got many homosexual friends, the issue is… — George Carey Copy Share Image
In the Western Church to which I belong, priests cannot be married as in the Byzantine, Ukrainian, Russian or Greek Catholic Churches.… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
The Bible is unfortunately unclear on a long list of moral and social questions and sex is one of them. On the… — Steve Allen Copy Share Image
Before the Beatles, America was musically a very conservative country. You can see film footage of people at a baseball game, they… — Don McLean Copy Share Image
Me and Ron C, I was cool with a lot of his family. We went to church together and one of his… — Paul Wall Copy Share Image
...have you ever found God in church? I never did. I just found a bunch of folks hoping for him to show.… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
If we can embrace the adventure and risk and equip our churches to lay down their lives and abandon their inherent loss-aversion,… — Alan Hirsch Copy Share Image
Is the leadership of the worldwide church in the hands of men and women who know how to lead others one by… — Stephen Neill Copy Share Image
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