I'm never surprised when there's dark stuff in the church because the church is made up of people and people are dark,… — Griff Copy Share Image
We've got to deal with the fact that the church has been violently prejudiced against gay people. We've murdered them; we've burned… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
The best advice that I can give you is this: Church-traditions- especially when they do not run counter to the faith- are… — St. Jerome Copy Share Image
I don't have any complaints about homosexuals being married in a civil ceremony. But I don't think that the government ought to… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
My elder brothers were all put apprentices to different trades. I was put to the grammar-school at eight years of age, my… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I am a politically motivated person, and that will come through in the music. I'm not sure if every song will be… — Hozier Copy Share Image
I've seen many dig in their heels and becoming disenchanted with the church because of these kinds of denunciations from coreligionists. We… — John I. Jenkins Copy Share Image
“I have a problem with a church that has its main mission aimed at preferential treatment of rich, attractive, influential, and gifted… — Scott S. Haraburda Copy Share Image
To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
We are told that Sin consists in acting contrary to God's commands, but we are also told that God is omnipotent. .… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“You mean the day they stop needing the church,” Vittoria challenged, moving toward him. “Doubt is your last shred of control. It… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
The Church was founded upon Peter: although elsewhere the same is attributed to all the Apostles, and they all receive the keys… — St. Jerome Copy Share Image
“The Church's obsession with sexual restrictions is and always has been wrong wrong wrong. Wrong to be contemptuous of naïve young women… — Ann Medlock Copy Share Image
“Lobbing hand grenades on the bride of Christ takes zero talent or effort. I also think this really ticks God off. My… — Mike Foster Copy Share Image
The term revolution means: a sudden, radical, and complete change from the way things are normally done. I love that definition because… — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
That one woman is both mother and virgin, not in spirit only but even in body. In spirit she is mother, not… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
I don't have any way to control the Spirit or create revival. I pray that the Holy Spirit would move upon the… — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
But I make a distinction between the doctrines of the Church, which matter, and the structure invented by half a dozen Italians… — Bernadette Devlin Copy Share Image
So many today are worshiping in the mountains, big churches, stone and frame buildings. But Jesus teaches that salvation is not in… — William J. Seymour Copy Share Image
It is not enough to be a member of the Church of Christ, one needs to be a living member, in spirit… — Pope Pius XI Copy Share Image
In her religious role, the Queen is head of the Church of England, but in her civic role she cares for all… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
For years I thought my assignment or the Church's assignment was to articulate the Gospel and nothing more. Now I believe that… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
I think the church has to apologize not only to the gay person it has offended, but also to the poor, to… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
For many people, morality means a set of rules governing the disposition on one's genital organs; or a set of injunctions against… — Marilyn French Copy Share Image
Consider Ireland… You have a starving population, an absentee aristocracy, and an alien Church, and in addition the weakest executive in the… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
There are a still lot of people in today's church who can easily identify the idolatry outside the church and are pretty… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
I used to do bell ringing in Benenden church. It was really good fun, actually. My best friend's dad was the local… — Jo Brand Copy Share Image
Sunday at 11 o'clock is the most segregated hour in America. You have black churches; you have white churches; you have Hispanic… — David Oyelowo Copy Share Image
Those who embrace belief in Christ Jesus are bound together in Him, in a real yet incomplete way, in his Body, the… — Vincent Nichols Copy Share Image
I used to work with a relief group that took care of the people in the dump. We took them food and… — Luis Alberto Urrea Copy Share Image
If you look at the history of music, you have classical composers, church music, pop music, etc. Music that's existed for centuries.… — Mike Love Copy Share Image
There can, therefore, be no doubt that Presbyterians do carry out the principle that Church power vests in the Church itself, and… — Charles Hodge Copy Share Image
The older we get and the longer we labor in the Church the more there is that we can do. There is… — George Q. Morris Copy Share Image
“We get called dishonoring for pointing out the garbage in the church, yet nobody ever seems to think it's dishonoring that somebody… — D.R. Silva Copy Share Image
the Press has no band of critics who go the round of the churches and chapels, and are on the watch for… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I can only say that I believe the Mormon Church is changing because the people inside the church are changing, particularly, the… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I can't tell Black people to fight a war that is Israel's war. What kind of leader will you be, or should… — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
I grew up in the church and loved contemporary Christian music. I go back to the early days of when it first… — Jay DeMarcus Copy Share Image
I believe that he [Jesus] is Lord of the government, and the church, and business and education, and, hopefully, one day, Lord… — Pat Robertson Copy Share Image
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