The Church says that the Earth is flat, but I know that it is round. For I have seen the shadow of… — Ferdinand Magellan Copy Share Image
We are formed by environment and grace, by politics and prayer, by church and conscience. All God's creatures conspire to teach us… — Anthony of Padua Copy Share Image
Religious life ought to promote growth in the Church by way of attraction. The Church must be attractive. Wake up the world!… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
If the Church would have her face shine, she must go up into the mount, and be alone with God. If she… — Frederic Dan Huntington Copy Share Image
I was influenced by my children's education in Quaker schools in the Philadelphia area. I experienced a spiritual awakening and became a… — Mike Berenstain Copy Share Image
What, but the rapacity of the only men who exercised their reason, the priests, secured such vast property to the church, when… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
I was always going to church with my mom, dad and sister. I was literally raised under the godly influence both at… — Bobby Bowden Copy Share Image
That's what they do in Europe. You go down to the city hall and you become legally connected. You have a civil… — Tony Campolo Copy Share Image
It helps certain church leaders identify the fact that they have the spiritual gift of leadership that the Bible talks about in… — Bill Hybels Copy Share Image
“The authority of the Church was thrown over by the authority of the state. Twenty years only have passed, and the authority… — Lucy Beckett Copy Share Image
My feet are always cold. I'm a vampire," he said in a teasing voice, almost as if he was trying to chase… — C.C. Hunter Copy Share Image
“Where's your church?" "We're standing in it." "But this is a bookstore and it's a Friday." "Yes, but you might also choose… — Forrest Church Copy Share Image
I had to fight to be me and get respect, and to carry that stigma, for me, is pride. Carrying the tag… — Chavela Vargas Copy Share Image
I have more to boast of than ever any man had. I am the only man that has ever been able to… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
In order to the existence of such a ministry in the Church, there is requisite an authority received from God, and consequently… — John Wycliffe Copy Share Image
Sister Eliza R. Snow was given a charge from the prophet Brigham Young to help lift and teach the sisters of the… — Eliza R. Snow Copy Share Image
He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
[T]hese losses of the Church in the past hundred years give us reason to fear in the present misfortune that in another… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
By the sympathy of your human hearts for sin ye shall scent out all the places whether in church, bedchamber, street,… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Elizabeth Drescher makes a convincing case for why digital social media and Church not only go hand in hand, but how new… — Donna Freitas Copy Share Image
If churches around the world would grasp the revolutionary truth that Christ's transforming power always comes through sacrifice and weakness, it would… — Joni Eareckson Tada Copy Share Image
Why should an atheist pay more taxes so that a church which he despises should pay no taxes? That's a fair question.… — E. Haldeman-Julius Copy Share Image
My sisters have been baptized and my dad is a deacon at his church now. Sadly my mother passed away but what… — Sherri Shepherd Copy Share Image
As soon as I could write with a little pencil, I was writing these little hymns and illustrating them, and I thought… — W. S. Merwin Copy Share Image
I don't care if every patriarch in the Church has made a mistake in a blessing, and told a lie, I believe… — Heber J. Grant Copy Share Image
The faith of a church or of a nation is an adequate faith only when it inspires and enables people to give… — James Luther Adams Copy Share Image
This crusade to separate church and state is only one expression of my raison d'être. I'm an atheist, but I'm also an… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
Brothers and sisters, if only we had more compassion for those who are different from us, it would lighten many of the… — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
In the early 1800s, religion was often used as a way to keep slavery in place. Slaves were forced to attend the… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
We must always bear in mind that the primary purpose of our work is not to get people to join a church,… — R. A. Torrey Copy Share Image
What a terrible thing it would be to be the Pope! What unthinkable responsibilities to fall on your shoulders at an advanced… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
When the church hears the cry of the oppressed it cannot but denounce the social structures that give rise to and perpetuate… — Oscar Romero Copy Share Image
I am from a Church of England background, with tales of Mary, Joseph, stars and swaddling clothes imprinted on my psyche. But… — Grace Dent Copy Share Image
In Poland, some people think that I'm kind of scandalous because I'm a woman who should stay at home with her kids… — Malgorzata Szumowska Copy Share Image
A church that is deeply aware of it's misery and nakedness before a holy God will cling tenaciously to an all sufficient… — Michael Horton Copy Share Image
Evermore the Law must prepare the way for the gospel. To overlook this in instructing souls is almost certain to result in… — Charles Grandison Finney Copy Share Image
It's hard to know how many rank-and-file nineteenth-century church members accepted the idea that Jesus was married to multiple women and fathered… — John Turner Copy Share Image
The legendary missionary journey of St. Paul, which led to the foundation of the British church, presupposes the existence of a Jewish… — Cecil Roth Copy Share Image
“We don’t find God in temples and cathedrals. We don’t find Him by standing on a prayer rug or sitting in a… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
Our contexts are foreign. They derive from church tradition that is thousands of years removed from the people who wrote Scripture and… — Michael S. Heiser Copy Share Image
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