Every time we equip the church with a verse, chapter or a story from the Bible, we're really placing another weapon in… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
The Church, in her wisdom, maintains the distinction between engaged and married couples -- they are not the same, today's culture and… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
All modern philosophizing is political, policed by governments, churches, academics, custom, fashion, and human cowardice, all off which limit it to a… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Everyone related to me in my circle was from church: church friends, church school, church activities. All my friends weren't allowed to… — Katy Perry Copy Share Image
In autumn 2012 I conducted a dedication and blessing service following the Civil Partnership of two wonderful gay Christians. Why? Not to… — Steve Chalke Copy Share Image
... what I believe to be one of the major tragedies in the Church today. Namely, that evangelicals are biblical, but not… — John Stott Copy Share Image
For me this world was neither so high nor so low as the Church would have it; chequered over with its wild… — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
When you grow up in the church, the only translation in that insular world that people understand is preaching. You're supposed to… — Billy Porter Copy Share Image
There comes a time in the affairs of men when they must prepare to defend not their homes alone but the tenets… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The barbarians, who possessed no books, no secular knowledge, no education, except in the schools of the clergy, and who had scarcely… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
The paid wealth which hundreds in the community acquire in trade, or by the incessant expansions of our population and arts, enchants… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Let us assume that the Turks in whose ranks Europeans were fighting as well, even in high positions, would have conquered Vienna… — Heinrich Himmler Copy Share Image
I'd make an educated guess that 20 to 25 percent of the taxable property in the U.S. is Church-owned.In a recent book,… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
“Church is not a building. Church is not an event that takes place on Sundays. I know, it’s how we’ve come to… — John Eldredge Copy Share Image
I'm calling my initiative take the other to lunch. If you are a Republican, you can take a Democrat to lunch or… — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
For years Christians in particular have been attacked and silenced as they tried to challenge the immorality pervasive in today's society. When… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
O father, father Gone from us, lost to us, The church lies bereft, Alone, Desecrated, desolated. And the heathen shall build On… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Despite the slowness, the infidelity, the errors and sins it committed and might still commit against its members, the Church, trust me,… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
I contend the state ought to do its thing and provide legal rights for all couples who want to be joined together… — Tony Campolo Copy Share Image
Since separation precludes financial support or special privilege from government, the churches are free to engage in prophetic criticism of the government… — John M Swomley Copy Share Image
The faith of the Church is this: That one and identical is the Word of God and the Son of Mary Who… — Pope Pius XII Copy Share Image
I counted everything. I counted the steps to the road, the steps up to church, the number of dishes and silverware I… — Katherine Johnson Copy Share Image
God has a church upon the earth, who are His chosen people, who keep His commandments. He is leading, not stray offshoots,… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
Downsides, yeah, and when there are more downsides when churches first start - they go through stages of transforming to becoming multiracial.… — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
I hope to see the day when, as in the early days of our country, we don't have public schools. The churches… — Jerry Falwell Copy Share Image
There's no tradition of scientists knocking down the Sunday school door, telling the preacher, That might not necessarily be true. That's never… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Everybody is called to become a saint. Not everybody's gonna be canonized by the Church...The only thing about being canonized is you're… — Lino Rulli Copy Share Image
When sinners are careless and stupid, and sinking into hell unconcerned, it is time the church should bestir themselves. It is as… — Charles Grandison Finney Copy Share Image
Apostles receive revelations from God, and consequently they are able to say 'This is what the Spirit is saying to the churches… — C. Wagner Copy Share Image
My favorite singers in the world have been black singers, and you can go to any church and hear the best singers… — Johnny Van Zant Copy Share Image
Some people can't go into church any longer to feel this longing, but they still have the longing, so what do they… — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
Honest investigation is utterly impossible within the pale of any church, for the reason, that if you think the church is right… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
But have we Holy Ghost power-power that restricts the devil's power, pulls down strongholds and obtains promises? Daring delinquents will be damned… — Leonard Ravenhill Copy Share Image
I’m really only responsible to make sure that one person is clapping at the end of my life. Because I feel like… — Jon Foreman Copy Share Image
To campaign in the South is a unique cultural experience. You go into the little church facilities and meet people, or you… — Jaime Harrison Copy Share Image
One who believes, as I do, that the free intellect is the chief engine of human progress, cannot but be fundamentally opposed… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
How long must the church live before it will learn that strength is won by action, and success by work, and that… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
The more I go to church and the more I turn myself over to the process of believing in Jesus and listening… — Sylvester Stallone Copy Share Image
Better that only a few Catholics should be left, staunch and sincere in their religion, than that they should, remaining many, desire… — Peter Canisius Copy Share Image
In the reign of the Greek Emperor Justinian , and again in the reign of Phocas , the Bishop of Rome obtained… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image