The Catholic Church is an innately conservative rock - they call themselves the 'rock of Peter' - and its resistance to change… — Gabriel Byrne Copy Share Image
My father had played cornet, although I never saw him play it. I found his mouthpiece when I was a kid. I… — Johnny Griffin Copy Share Image
Jesus was not sent here to teach the people to build magnificent churches and temples amidst the cold wretched huts and dismal… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Usually in church, when the congregation is overcome by the Holy Spirit for a moment, the people will interrupt the sermon to… — Daniel Caesar Copy Share Image
The woman pastor would often be, especially for women and children, a better minister than the clergyman; for them also, the woman… — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
Since the primary motive of the evil is disguise, one of the places evil people are most likely to be found is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Within evangelicalism is a distressing drift toward accepting a Christianity that does not demand a life-changing walk with God. Many evangelicals (today)… — Erwin W. Lutzer Copy Share Image
I was raised in the Seventh-Day Adventist Church so I grew up around music a lot, singing harmonies and stuff like that,… — Koffee Copy Share Image
I think all of us would agree that a lot of Christian radio sounds the same. A lot of music that comes… — Dominic Balli Copy Share Image
This issue is whether or not our government should be infusing religion into the public schools. Our churches are very strong in… — Michael Newdow Copy Share Image
When I read the documents relative to the Modernism, as it was defined by Saint Pius X, and when I compare them… — Jean Guitton Copy Share Image
In my class was an Annapolis graduate, several engineers, and most recent president of the University of Alabama.These were all small-town people… — Jeff Sessions Copy Share Image
I am opposed to all forms of control; I am for an absolute laissez faire, free, unregulated economy. I am for the… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
For over forty years, in a spirit of love, members of the Church have been counseled to be thrifty and self-reliant; to… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
The New Birth church is a church unto itself who has a board and it has a membership. How they choose to… — T. D. Jakes Copy Share Image
Until we can insert a USB into our ear and download our thoughts, drawing remains the best way of getting visual information… — Grayson Perry Copy Share Image
Some go to Church, proud humbly to repent, And come back much more guilty than they went: One way they look, another… — Edward Young Copy Share Image
[Whenever the average intellect of the clergy declines in the balance with the average intellect of the people] the churches will be… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Marriage is the real vocation crisis in the United States... We have a vocation crisis to life-long, life-giving, loving, faithful marriage. If… — Timothy M. Dolan Copy Share Image
When I went to college is really when it became my own. I had to get up out of that dorm room… — Philip Rivers Copy Share Image
The Church expects that each of us carry a share of the burden of leadership. There is no paid clergy. The work… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
God is dethroned; and although the incognizant masses are tardy in realizing the event, they feel the icy draught caused by that… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
The Roman Catholic Church and its rituals were so much part of life that, although my parents would often question a small… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
When my children were born, I didn't have them baptized because I felt baptism was about erasing Original Sin - something the… — Olympia Dukakis Copy Share Image
When you listen to my music, you hear that there are all these voices going on in different parts of the song.… — Valerie June Copy Share Image
The only sure rule is to remember that the Bible is indeed God's gift to the church, to equip that church for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sunday, if I'm lucky, I'll go to church or listen to some good spiritual advice on the television or on the radio.… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The Bible is not the light of the world, it is the light of the Church. But the world does not read… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
These opportunities to go on Broadway are the most special thing, and although the idea of doing something for a year or… — Roger Bart Copy Share Image
I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
If I had my brothers I think with just a little bit of the correct marketing, I'd like to be almost exclusively… — Terry Bozzio Copy Share Image
I solemnly declare that this spiritual kingdom of faith will move forward with or without each of us individually. No unhallowed hand… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
It is a thoroughly anti-Christian doctrine that the Spirit of God, and therefore the life and governing power of the Church, resides… — Charles Hodge Copy Share Image
If the party is a broad church, then it only has one priest. It was my job to keep it united and… — Kyriakos Mitsotakis Copy Share Image
There's more than one mosque in the world that used to be a church and before that was a temple. Because it's… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
I hate Science. It denies a man's responsibility for his own deeds, abolishes the brotherhood that springs from God's fatherhood. It is… — Basil Bunting Copy Share Image
Women work overtime, do double triple duty, juggle ten balls at once -- children, careers, husbands, schoolwork, housework, church work, and more… — Susan L. Taylor Copy Share Image
Young and old will sit and judge unfeeling, while the empty churches' bells are pealing. And the green hills lay ignored, untended,… — Pete Townshend Copy Share Image
I tried to imagine a church that did not support its country's wars as a matter of patriotic course and instead stood… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
The months of political campaigning have given us vivid reminders that women's rights are under constant assault all over the globe. Tragically… — Carolyn Custis James Copy Share Image
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