The Catholic Church is a weird church. Much mysticism is sown broadspread from its ritual mysteries till it extends into the very… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
The Church has always advised against birth control and that is the only position the Church can take in view of our… — Hugh B. Brown Copy Share Image
The church becomes irrelevant when it becomes purely a human creation. We are not all we were made to be when everything… — Francis Chan Copy Share Image
It is an unsufferable blasphemy to reject the public ministry or to say that people can become holy without sermons and Church.… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Worship is more than singing beautiful songs in church on a Sunday. It is more than instruments and music. As a true… — Darlene Zschech Copy Share Image
The church is the only institution supernaturally endowed by God. It is the one institution of which Jesus promised that the gates… — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
Nothing can ever pass away from the words of Christ, nor can anything be changed in the doctrine which the Catholic Church… — Pope Pius IX Copy Share Image
The fact that I was taking naps in churches, in between takes of the [Ordinary World], and there was that guerilla style… — Billie Joe Armstrong Copy Share Image
We are a people of many races, many faiths, creeds, and religions. I do not think that the men who made the… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
For years we have been counseled to have on hand a year's supply of food. Yet there are some today who will… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
Make careful choice of the books which you read: let the holy scriptures ever have the pre-eminence, and, next to them, those… — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
I wander thro' each charter'd street, Near where the charter'd Thames does flow, And mark in every face I meet Marks of… — William Blake Copy Share Image
One of the major changes in attitude that occurred in the world of art as we moved from the nineteenth into the… — Jerry Uelsmann Copy Share Image
If we look at it more from a philosophical standpoint, these foundations of atheism and secular humanism believe that you are your… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
The Reformed Church was identified with the old all-white government of South Africa and its apartheid policy. The Roman Catholic Church was… — Edd Doerr Copy Share Image
The clerical system of church management is exceedingly popular, but the whole thought is foreign to Scripture. In a church all the… — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
We have devoted ourselves to the government and extension of the Church, and, among other objects, we have conceived it to be… — Pope Leo X Copy Share Image
“Christians are famous for telling people to be "child-like" and yet one of the greatest qualities of a child (the never ending… — D.R. Silva Copy Share Image
War is a ritual, a deadly ritual, not the result of aggressive self-assertion, but of self-transcending identification. Without loyalty to tribe, church,… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
Helmut Walcha was a gifted organist, improviser, and composer! He would play Evensong every week at his church for free, the Dreikönigskirche… — Barbara Harbach Copy Share Image
Bring the little ones to Christ. Lord Jesus, we bring them today, the children of our Sunday-schools, of our churches, of the… — Thomas De Witt Talmage Copy Share Image
The most heinous crime of the Church has been perpetrated not against churchmen but against churchgoers. With its poisonous concepts of sin… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
The true man of God is heartsick, grieved at the worldliness of the Church, grieved at the toleration of sin in the… — Leonard Ravenhill Copy Share Image
Any denomination or church group that forsakes inerrancy will end up shipwrecked. It is impossible to prevent the surrender of other important… — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
An old argument with me is that the true religious force in the world is not the church, but the world itself:… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
You sang in church, you know, and you didn't act at all. You tried not to act, you tried to tell the… — James Earl Jones Copy Share Image
Far from being disturbed by the presence of the church, the power structure of the average community is consoled by the church's… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
My position on the issue of homosexuality is no different from the position of the Anglican Church and all the major denominations… — Nicky Gumbel Copy Share Image
The Christian church is a society of sinners. It is the only society in the world membership in which is based upon… — Charles Clayton Morrison Copy Share Image
I certainly think there are things that impressed me as a child about the church. The smells and the sounds and the… — Jonathan Meiburg Copy Share Image
“Americans tend to use "nation" as a synonym for "country." But political scientists and historians, as well as many Europeans, tend to… — Robert Lane Greene Copy Share Image
It is death that goes down to the center of the earth, the great burial church the earth is, and then to… — Harold Brodkey Copy Share Image
We ought to regard the sacrament of baptism with reverence. An ordinance of which the Lord Jesus Himself partook, is not to… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
When I started and first got to the MMA gym the guys would start and say, 'You're like the All-American kid.' It… — Chris Weidman Copy Share Image
Churches are healthier and stronger if they assume responsibility both for financing their own programs and for stimulating their members to accept… — John M Swomley Copy Share Image
The short-term impact is that people are encouraged to give the Church another look. It's up to the liveliest parts of the… — George Weigel Copy Share Image
There is a continuum of values between the churches and the general community. What distinguishes the handling of these values in the… — Peter L. Berger Copy Share Image
I myself am a Buddhist, not a Christian. But I cannot help but think that if Christ ran a public establishment, it… — George Takei Copy Share Image
The quality of the Lord's church on earth, cannot be seen by any man, so long as he lives in the world,… — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image
But how odd that in this heathen nation of empty pews, where churches' bare, ruined choirs are converted into luxury loft living,… — Polly Toynbee Copy Share Image
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