Mass ought to be in Latin, unless you could do it in Greek or Chinese. In fact, any abracadabra that no bloody… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
Leaders in the realm of religious activity are to be judged by their praying habits and not by their money or social… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
If this taxation exemptions for Church were rescinded, our property taxes would be substantially lowered, and those who rent houses and apartments… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
I can recall that nobody ever went out the door that wasn't dressed nicely, even though it was the Depression. I particularly… — Faith Ringgold Copy Share Image
The notion that the church, the press, and the universities should serve the state is essentially a Communist notion. In a free… — Alan Barth Copy Share Image
Even in my hometown of Linkoping where I grew up... the church we had was very lavish - very boasty. So it… — Tobias Forge Copy Share Image
For who does not know, or does not advert to the fact, that what was given to the Roman Church by Peter,… — Pope Innocent I Copy Share Image
All religions upon the earth are necessary because there are people who need what they teach. ... Each church fulfills spiritual needs… — Betty Eadie Copy Share Image
When you live in the present moment, time stands still. Accept your circumstances and live them. If there is an experience ahead… — Barbara Johnson Copy Share Image
My grandmother took me to church on Sunday all day long, every Sunday into the night. Then Monday evening was the missionary… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
We planted the church by starting a Sunday night outreach. The very first Sunday we had 70 people turn up. The second… — Brian Houston Copy Share Image
When, as a child, I first opened my eyes on a Sunday-morning, a feeling of dismal anicipation, which began at least on… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
one trouble with all the churches is that they have too many incurable saints in them, men and women who pray too… — Corra May Harris Copy Share Image
“And in the Incarnation the whole human race recovers the dignity of the image of God. Henceforth, any attack even on the… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
I used to have to do readings in church, and it was terrifying. I would never have my glasses. The words are… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
I owe my nurture to evangelicalism. The evangelical wins hands down in the history of the church when it comes to nurturing… — Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk Copy Share Image
I'm chasing a feeling more than a sound and I try to reflect that in my turns of phrases. Growing up in… — Tyler Childers Copy Share Image
Most of us like thinking we are God's only children...At least one of the purposes of church is to remind us that… — Barbara Brown Taylor Copy Share Image
My church [Catholisism] is hurting from arrogance and from its indifference to the suffering of children that were abused and the inclination… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
However, it must always remain a dialogue, and never an imposition of the church's own convictions and methods. Propose, not impose. To… — Claudio Hummes Copy Share Image
The Lord said that He was giving us a new president who is better than we deserve. He represents a reprieve from… — Paul Cain Copy Share Image
Jesus is coming back for a church without a spot or a wrinkle. His righteous blood covers the spots and the wrinkles… — Monica Johnson Copy Share Image
If anyone says that it is possible that at some time, given the advancement of knowledge, a sense may be assigned to… — Pope Pius IX Copy Share Image
“Our church, which has been fighting in these years only for its self-preservation, as though that were an end in itself, is… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
I grew tired of religion some time not long after birth. I believe in people, I believe in humans, I believe in… — John Malkovich Copy Share Image
The great monuments are raised up like dams, pitting the logic of majesty and authority against all the shady elements: it is… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
“Each of us ought to be so happy that Jesus found us and saved us, that we are running to find the… — Justin Buzzard Copy Share Image
How ironic that returning to a raw and ancient form of worship is now seen as new and even cutting edge. We… — Dan Kimball Copy Share Image
If all experienced God in the same way and returned Him an identical worship, the song of the Church triumphant would have… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The whole underside of our society has always been violence and still is. Churches, laws - everybody seems to think that man… — Sam Peckinpah Copy Share Image
I think generally, Pope Benedict did a good job cleaning up the way the church handled abusive priests but didn't go far… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
Now they always accuse me of carrying around a sledge hammer with which to pound the church members. Yes sir, I do… — Mordecai Ham Copy Share Image
The Lord made it very clear at the start of this last dispensation that we were to take the gospel to all… — Henry B. Eyring Copy Share Image
My theory is that church used to be that place. Instead of being a place where you went to look good, it… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I simply care nothing for any of your religions, as all three are fundamentally flawed, unlike the Church of Common Sense, right… — Roseanne Barr Copy Share Image
He who tears down the cross, what is there left to lift him to heaven? The church claiming to be a Christian… — Herrick Johnson Copy Share Image
The task of the church, for example, becomes less that of indoctrinating or relating people to an external divine power and more… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
A church determined to hold only those doctrines that a secular world finds adequately comprehensible is a church that will hold to… — Albert Mohler Copy Share Image
Not until I went into the churches of America and heard her pulpits flame with righteousness did I understand the secret of… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
If the Jew transmogrified into the Devil for the medieval church, he retained his devilish characteristics as Christian sentiment found other places… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image