That phrase "hocus-pocus" started out as "hocus-pocus dominocus", and was, in the beginning, a mocking imitation of the holy incantations of the… — L. M. Boyd Copy Share Image
I would like it to be known that I have decided not to marry Group Capt. Peter Townsend. Mindful of the church's… — Princess Margaret Copy Share Image
It (a baseball box score) doesn't tell how big you are, what church you attend, what color you are, or how your… — Branch Rickey Copy Share Image
The bells are a very good investment. They never break if they are maintained. I can teach the kids the basics. They… — Dan Gable Copy Share Image
I go to a Calvary Chapel church out here in Los Angeles. I had been here about two years at the time.… — Tiffany Dupont Copy Share Image
The most important part of religion isn't in any church. It's down in your own heart. Religion is in your thoughts, and… — Maud Hart Lovelace Copy Share Image
All Church power arises from the indwelling of the Spirit; therefore those in whom the Spirit dwells are the seat of Church… — Charles Hodge Copy Share Image
Church always seemed the same. Jess could tune it out the same way he tuned out school, with his body standing up… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
The Bible is not a book for the faint of heart -- it is a book full of all the greed and… — Rich Mullins Copy Share Image
The devil is perfectly willing that the Church should multiply its organization and its deftly contrived machinery for the conquest of the… — R. A. Torrey Copy Share Image
A move of the Spirit of God is coming to the Catholic Church. The youth in particular will be ignited with a… — Patricia King Copy Share Image
I think at every moment in the last probably 100 years, when the institutional church had the opportunity to do the right… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
The faults of advertising are only those common to all human institutions. If advertising speaks to a thousand in order to influence… — Bruce Barton Copy Share Image
There's a wonderful old Italian joke about a poor man who goes to church every day and prays before the statue of… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
The period of Catholic ascendancy was on the whole one of the most deplorable in the history of the human mind. .… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
Now, where a man in this church says, 'I don't want but one wife, I will live my religion with one,' he… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
Going to church it is the best thing to do in your life. why? well because you get to learn what Jesus… — Jess Jessenia Copy Share Image
“I thought I was looking at a building at first: that it was some kind of tent, as high as a country… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
If you talked or laughed in church, told lies, had impure thoughts or conversations, you were bad; if you obeyed your parents… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
I have Hurt Myself over and over, ensure confusion and distraction as my way of living with my Pitied self.. I fear… — Samara Visser Copy Share Image
Spiritually, we have marginalized the Bible. We've trivialized marriage, and we've neutralized the church. America today is in great turmoil. It feels… — David Jeremiah Copy Share Image
Preaching the Word is the primary task of the Church, the primary task of the leaders of the Church, the people who… — Martyn Lloyd-Jones Copy Share Image
I do not know all of the providences of the Lord, but I do know that he permits false doctrine to be… — Bruce R. McConkie Copy Share Image
A great reformation and revival-it will happen the same way the early Christians conquered Rome. Their program of conquest consisted largely of… — Douglas Wilson Copy Share Image
I was born in the Golden West, reared in the arms of the Church, deluged with saints to draw from, and suckled… — Gutzon Borglum Copy Share Image
Just as the divine Redeemer, dying on the Cross, offered Himself as Head of the whole human race to the eternal Father,… — Pope Pius XII Copy Share Image
Many people get what they need from church attendance because the Word is preached, and the rituals are carried on, and God… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
And the angel said unto me: Behold the formation of a church which is most abominable above all other churches, which slayeth… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
If you are called upon to play a church service, it is a greater honor than if you were to play a… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
When I walk into an Orthodox Church... one is immediately aware that one has stepped into the presence of what St. Paul… — Thomas Howard Copy Share Image
But all the other frenzies of passions-impious both toward the bodies and toward the sexes-beyond the laws of nature, we banish not… — Tertullian Copy Share Image
Put bluntly, the American church today accepts grace in theory but denies it in practice. We say we believe that the fundamental… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
I was never forced to go to church, and there is a lot of beauty in Christianity that I take in my… — Emily Saliers Copy Share Image
The longer we are members of the Church, the better we understand the gospel, the more we will be inclined to be… — Theodore M. Burton Copy Share Image
My first memory of Umbro was when I refused to take off my orange and purple Umbro checkerboard shorts for church at… — Ashlyn Harris Copy Share Image
When I pastored a country church, a farmer didn't like the sermons I preached on hell. He said, Preach about the meek… — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
And also those to whom these commandments were given, might have power to lay the foundation of this church, and to bring… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
Real religion should be something that liberates men. But churches don't want free men who can think for themself and find their… — Federico Fellini Copy Share Image
For two thousand years, the Church has guided the development of music, carefully legislating to fuse artistic talent and aesthetic beauty with… — Richard Morris Copy Share Image
“It is important to think about the Church not as "over there" but as a community of struggling, weak people of whom… — Henri J.M. Nouwen Copy Share Image
