Facebook has more than 1 billion members, which by population makes it the third largest country in the world—somewhere between India and… — Phil Cooke Copy Share Image
Religious institutions should have religious freedom on this issue. No church or minister should ever have to conduct a marriage that is… — Kay Hagan Copy Share Image
This concern for the poor is in the Gospel, it is within the tradition of the Church, it is not an invention… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
When you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the church, which belongs to God, and… — Keith Richards Copy Share Image
When you think about your relationship with Christ, it really just affects every aspect of your life. I think a lot of… — Jeremy Lin Copy Share Image
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Remarkable is the greater openness of the Catholic Church towards people of other religious traditions and persuasions. The development has not been… — Francis Arinze Copy Share Image
The victory of the Church over the power which was embodied in the Roman imperial system was not won by seizing the… — Lesslie Newbigin Copy Share Image
There are times when the gospel just seems to be powerfully at work in a nation, and thousands upon thousands are converted.… — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
Manly natural religion - it is not joining the Church; it is not to believe in a creed, Hebrew, Protestant, Catholic, Trinitarian,… — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
We have to avoid the spiritual sickness of a self-referentia l church. It's true that when you get out into the street,… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Churches are tax exempt because they are supposed to provide a public good. To prove that good to the IRS, churches arent… — Lawrence Wright Copy Share Image
“The verbal tool of exploring mystery together is not confrontation or preaching but dialogue. We subject ourselves to the same questions we… — Adam S. McHugh Copy Share Image
Shortly before my arrest, my girlfriend at the time, who's now my wife of ten years, told me she was quitting drugs… — Christian Hosoi Copy Share Image
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The mere change of custom, even though it may be of advantage in some respects, unsettles men by reason of the novelty:… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
I know in the Christian church the old ladies use to say "what the devil meant for bad God meant for good."… — Kwame Kilpatrick Copy Share Image
The Church has never changed its teaching on the sanctity of human life - it didn't make up a rule for the… — Wellington Mara Copy Share Image
This old aristocracy and Church-ridden, and tradition-ridden country will never grow wiser. Whilst we are fighting for supremacy in Europe, the [United]… — John Bright Copy Share Image
The church is a home for all to come together, regardless of the depth or the height of our testimony. I know… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
Religion is a superstition that originated in man's mental inability to solve natural phenomena. The Church is an orgainized institution that has… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
It may be a product of me being raised in episcopal church, but I have a love for ritual and theater and… — Jonathan Meiburg Copy Share Image
Hopefully when you see the movie, Maybe you don't have the Orlando in your life, but you know that guy. He goes… — Shemar Moore Copy Share Image
A church has the right to set its own standards within its community. I don't think it has a right to prohibit… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
I compose with bells a lot. Bells and breath. Both things you react to without thinking about it. Bells traditionally give us… — Sxip Shirey Copy Share Image
I realize that my ministry would someday come to an end. I am only one in a glorious chain of men and… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
Since many of you do not belong to the Catholic Church and others are non-believers, from the bottom of my heart I… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
It might work in the short term, but it's not going to keep the people who hop from congregation to congregation. Church… — J. Gordon Melton Copy Share Image
I discovered the same thing Gram Parsons did, that soul music and country music are practically identical. Based off of the same… — Justin Townes Earle Copy Share Image
It is easy to forget, since the Catholic Church is now the only large American religious denomination whose ecclesiastical hierarchy continues to… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
If I don't go to mass, necessarily, every day, but I definitely go to the church every day. That's how I start… — Mark Wahlberg Copy Share Image
That's all the information I need to know about the church, Jesus picked it. And so instead of me telling the church… — Bob Goff Copy Share Image
Cardinal Dolan, of course, has a very, very hard job: trying to hold up Catholic family values in sexually liberal New York… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
This is the river of the great 19th-century landscapists; of Cole, Cropsey and Church, and at the end of the summer it… — Judith Thurman Copy Share Image
I grew up in a family where, through my teenage years, I was expected to go to church on Sunday. It wasn't… — John Irving Copy Share Image
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