A child is a person who is going to carry on what you have started ... He will assume control of your… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
My first church had seven members in it, and I have to remember, the rent was $225 a month and I worked… — T. D. Jakes Copy Share Image
I've done three short films with 'The Chosen' creator Dallas Jenkins, staged a passion play at my local church and even as… — Jonathan Roumie Copy Share Image
I think it's going to open up a wider place for a discussion about we ought to come together in our churches,… — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
When you go to church you are really listening-in to the secret wireless from out friends: that is why the enemy is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
God's word is unpredictable in its power... The Church has to accept this unruly freedom of the word, which accomplishes what it… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
The liberal understanding of 'the separation of church and state' means that as the area of politics expands, the area of private… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
Religion, it seems to me, has nothing whatsoever to do with any belief, with any priest, with any church or so-called sacred… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“With grace and hope, the church is to inherently and commonly seek and love the forgotten, the unseen, the undesirable, the uncool.… — Mark Labberton Copy Share Image
Fonny and I just sat there... while the voices of the congregation rose and rose around us, without mercy... Teddy had the… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
...the word occult, despite conjuring images of devil worship, actually means ‘hidden’ or ‘obscured.’ In times of religious oppression, knowledge that was… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
“Let me speak plainly: The United States of America is and must remain a nation of openness to people of all beliefs.… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
But that is not because these principles are traditional; it is because they are biblical. There is certainly an arrogant, hide-bound type… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
I've noticed that most authors who are pastors or speakers write books whose message is derived from a sermon series they did… — Matthew West Copy Share Image
Calpurnia evidently remembered a rainy Sunday when we were both fatherless and teacherless. Let to its own devices, the class tied Eunice… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
[A.J. Muste] was from Michigan and he grew up in the Dutch Reform Church there, which is a fairly strict church. He… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
We all claim to worship the same God, so why don't we fellowship together? ... The only thing that keeps us from… — Donnie McClurkin Copy Share Image
Nowhere in the Word of God is there any text or passage or line that can be twisted or tortured into teaching… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
I bear witness of the power of the priesthood given to the Church to protect us and guide us. And because we… — Boyd K. Packer Copy Share Image
Early man recognised these lines of force and marked them out on the landscape with, well, any old thing, really standing stones,… — Stephen R. Lawhead Copy Share Image
The emerging church, reformed according to the needs of self-esteem-starved-souls under the Lordship of Christ… will help us to affirm the concept… — Robert H. Schuller Copy Share Image
The pope's instruction for priests to forgive may mean, in some cases, the difference between a woman staying in the Catholic Church… — Anthea Butler Copy Share Image
It is the Happiness of his Church that, when the Powers of Earth and Hell combine against it...that the Throne of Grace… — John Hancock Copy Share Image
I live in Rome and five minutes from my flat is a church where you can walk in and see this beautiful… — Taiye Selasi Copy Share Image
When I was a kid I had an imaginary friend and I used to think that he went everywhere with me, and… — Jimmy Carr Copy Share Image
I spent the summers of 1984 and 1985 as an associate pastor at Dolores Mission Church, the poorest parish in the Los… — Greg Boyle Copy Share Image
Although I myself don't go to church or synagogue, I do, whether it's superstition or whatever, pray every time I get on… — Barbara Walters Copy Share Image
Far more books get written about how to get more people in your church than how to get the people already in… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
For example, this, what I said about the bishops who move pedophile priests, the best thing they can do is resign. This… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
'Amoris Latetia' reiterates that Pope Francis is interested in changing both the tone and reception of people and families in the church… — Anthea Butler Copy Share Image
Evangelism was not a program in the Jerusalem church; it was a way of life. The believers' lives and behaviors created such… — David Jeremiah Copy Share Image
I was born into a religious cult in Indianapolis, straight up. They had an apartment complex in this one area, and there… — Adrianne Lenker Copy Share Image
God is punishing America for the way they have persecuted us at Westboro Baptist Church, and worse and more of is coming… — Fred Phelps Copy Share Image
Katherine of Aragon was speaking out for the women of the country, for the good wives who should not be put aside… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
Keep to the ancient way and custom of the Church, established and confirmed by so many Saints under the inspiration of the… — Angela Merici Copy Share Image
A heck of a lot more accountability comes from individuals or the church doing it than the government, that signs off on… — Doug LaMalfa Copy Share Image
“Church and God ain't the same thing. From what I know, God's perfect. The Church makes mistakes... God's about order, Church is… — Nathan Yocum Copy Share Image
People are quite clear in viewing nuns as the servants and the teachers and the supporters of the poor. You contrast that… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
On that gray street, with the smell of industrial smokes in the air and the afternoon bleeding away to evening, downtown Derry… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I think it's been hard for people to understand how Islam can be a good religion, and yet the Islamists are evil.… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image