It is true that the Jewish tradition emphasizes the moral mandate to save life. It also has a different position from the… — Michael Sandel Copy Share Image
“We must understand that the local church isn’t a country club or a casual self-help group. It is God’s holy temple, a… — Alexander Strauch Copy Share Image
Christians, you and your churches don't get to be millionaires while other people have nothing at all. They're your bloody rules! Either… — Marcus Brigstocke Copy Share Image
My children have absolutely no interest in my fame. They're very sophisticated, and they have a spiritual perspective on material things because… — Val Kilmer Copy Share Image
When Holy Church occasionally hinted that she still considered her authority to be supreme over all nations and superior to the authority… — Walter M. Miller, Jr Copy Share Image
Among our own people also the church sorely needs clergy in close touch with the ordinary life of the laity, living the… — Roland Allen Copy Share Image
My voice gets recognized before anything else. It's always gotten attention. In choruses at church and school, I started as a tenor,… — Sam Elliott Copy Share Image
Unless you have made a complete surrender and are doing his will it will avail you nothing if you've reformed a thousand… — Billy Sunday Copy Share Image
I go to a church here in New Jersey that is just a very exciting place, and I just love to be… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
The library was a little old shaby place. Francie thought it was beautiful. The feeling she had about it was as good… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
I truly believe slavery is why, as a by-product, we still have a disproportionate amount of black men incarcerated in the USA.… — David Oyelowo Copy Share Image
If anyone dared to assert that the Pontiff had erred in this or that canonisation, we shall say that he is, if… — Pope Benedict XIV Copy Share Image
To us, from the beginning, Nature has been but a poor plastic thing, to be toyed with this way or that, as… — Olive Schreiner Copy Share Image
Fathers, yours is an eternal calling from which you are never released. Callings in the Church, as important as they are, by… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
I was a violent, self-destructive teenager, who was adopted right at the end of World War II. I was lied to and… — Sam Hamill Copy Share Image
White people won't give you nothing because in their minds you don't deserve nothing. If the schools close, the hell with that… — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
The church is not a theological classroom. It is a conversion, confession, repentance, reconciliation, forgiveness and sanctification center, where flawed people place… — Paul David Tripp Copy Share Image
Is it possible that I am not alone in believing that in the dispute between Galileo and the Church, the Church was… — Stephen Vizinczey Copy Share Image
“The Church pleaseth it selfe too much which scorns and disdaines other Churches, as unworthy of her Communion, for some weakness in… — John Davenant Copy Share Image
My mother was truly my saving grace, because she would take me to church with her. I would see my mother smiling… — Tyler Perry Copy Share Image
I'm seeing too many kids where they get fixated on their own autism. I'd rather have them get fixated that they like… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
My mother is not a Catholic, but she's always tried to drag my brother and my sister and I to church from… — Sophie Kennedy Clark Copy Share Image
The Christian churches and Christianity have nothing in common save in name: they are utterly hostile opposites. The churches are arrogance, violence,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Well, we have nothing to hide. Our history is an open book. They may find what they are looking for, but the… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
Every act of reverence, every genuflection that you make before the Blessed Sacrament is important because it is an act of faith… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
There is real value in these local congregations. For me, a lot of it is the value of the sacraments we share.… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
The best advice that I can give you is this. Church-traditions — especially when they do not run counter to the faith… — St. Jerome Copy Share Image
I was brought up in the Christian church and I studied in the teachings of Jesus. I believed in caring for others… — Ronee Blakley Copy Share Image
I've always been funny. I look back in the day, when I would take the mic from my dad in church and… — Brandon T. Jackson Copy Share Image
Archbishop Romero of El Salvador was a member of the Salvadoran aristocracy. He could not have risen to the top of the… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
In the service of the Lord, it is not where you serve but how. In the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day… — Howard W. Hunter Copy Share Image
I did grow up poor. My mom managed to get a job as a custodian at our church, and it was really… — Crystal Bowersox Copy Share Image
The state, frankly, could care less. Historically, the state has been able to use any religious point of view for its own… — Peter McWilliams Copy Share Image
This determined bias against religion, especially Christianity, is clearly evident when viewed against the religious heritage of American culture as revealed in… — Mathew Staver Copy Share Image
The wisest man could ask no more of fate Than to be simple, modest, manly, true, Safe from the many, honored by… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
How many people would like to get up in a social prayer-meeting to say a few words for Christ, but there is… — Dwight L. Moody Copy Share Image
I was raised by both parents up to 17. We had a good family. We had a middle class family, good teaching… — Deontay Wilder Copy Share Image
Would the potential attraction to Mormonism by simply having a Mormon in the White House threaten traditional Christianity by leading more Americans… — Rick Santorum Copy Share Image
We live across the street from our Roman Catholic parish, 39 steps away from the holy water, so close that the church… — Michael Caputo Copy Share Image
I am the Democratic Party's candidate for president who happens also to be a Catholic. I do not speak for my church… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image