I grew up in church. That's how most young African American musicians learn how to perform. You could be six years old… — Robert Glasper Copy Share Image
You can lose your MONEY. You can lose your FRIENDS. You can lose your JOB and you can lose your MARRIAGE...and still… — John Paul Warren Copy Share Image
Now who can hear Christ declare, that his kingdom is, not of this world, and yet believe that this blending of church… — Isaac Backus Copy Share Image
And because Jesus is the Eucharist, keeping Him in the center allows all the rich doctrines of the Church to emanate from… — Kimberly Hahn Copy Share Image
We have to start making sure that churches start to talk about... black queerness in a way that's affirming. Because a lot… — Karamo Brown Copy Share Image
There needs to be a place in the church or just outside - there needs to be a place where people feel… — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
I was not in the church, but we claim, like so many people, 'Yeah, I grew up in the church.' Well yeah,… — Lou Brock Copy Share Image
God tries you in certain, certain ways. Some people are rich, and they believe in God. They lose the money, things get… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
When I was in my early 20s I converted to Catholicism after a long period of searching. What I think drew me… — Kevin Hart Copy Share Image
“One of the most amazing and perplexing features of mainstream Christianity is that seminarians who learn the historical-critical method in their Bible… — Bart D. Ehrman Copy Share Image
Mysticism has been in the past and probably ever will be one of the great powers of the world, and it is… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
If you would be a better teacher, teach by the spirit. That is the thing that gives strength and power, meaning and… — A. Theodore Tuttle Copy Share Image
The faults of advertising are only those common to all human institutions. If advertising speaks to a thousand in order to influence… — Bruce Barton Copy Share Image
I think at every moment in the last probably 100 years, when the institutional church had the opportunity to do the right… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
There's a wonderful old Italian joke about a poor man who goes to church every day and prays before the statue of… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
The period of Catholic ascendancy was on the whole one of the most deplorable in the history of the human mind. .… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
I was raised in an evangelical Methodist church. Evangelical meant that though you had been baptized and made a member of the… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
You have suffered grievously and I am truly sorry. I know that nothing can undo the wrong you have endured. Your trust… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
We cannot insist only on issues related to abortion, gay marriage and the use of contraceptive methods. The teaching of the church… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Bad theology dishonors God and hurts people. Churches that sever the root of truth may flourish for a season, but they will… — John Piper Copy Share Image
Women today leave the house in animal prints and six inch stilettos, what does that say? I'm going to church? They're saying… — Andrew Dice Clay Copy Share Image
As a mother in the 1950s, she did not impose the same strict religious routine on myself and my brother, Mark, though… — Carol Thatcher Copy Share Image
I think poetry has started to take on a supplementary role of prayer for some people. The churches, I think, including my… — Kevin Hart Copy Share Image
Yet this is trash that the Church imposes upon the world as the Word of God; this is the collection of lies… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
It is a significant fact that, of all the Christian countries, in those where the church stands highest, and has most power,… — Helen H. Gardener Copy Share Image
The more I do bookstores, the more people come up to me from church groups. I spoke at Pittsburg State College and… — Anita Diament Copy Share Image
Growing up Mormon was very different from the way I live my life now. I wasn't allowed to show anything above my… — Rubi Rose Copy Share Image
Faith is the door to the full inner life of the Church, a life which includes not only access to an authoritative… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
By heart we believe and by mouth confess the one Church, not of heretics but the Holy Roman, Catholic, and Apostolic Church… — Pope Innocent III Copy Share Image
The essential thought must ever be that a man does not, except in his spiritual infancy, accept a statement merely because the… — John Andreas Widtsoe Copy Share Image
What would a church look like that created space for quietness, that bucked the celebrity trend and unplugged from noisy media, that… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
I have to thank my mother for this. When I was a little boy she used to teach me poems. I would… — Rudy Ray Moore Copy Share Image
“I was going to stop pretending that just because we were in ministry we were perfect. I was tired of wearing the… — Anna Aquino Copy Share Image
There is a statement often repeated in the Church, and while it is not in one of the Standard Church Works, it… — LeGrand Richards Copy Share Image
The true Church is not an institution to be kept apart from the world because the world "is common and unclean," but… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
My priorities are leaning more towards family, and I credit my southern upbringing to that. I was raised in the church as… — Omari Hardwick Copy Share Image
Christians who have influence in political life must feel as individuals responsibility in front of their own faith. And the duty of… — Karl Lehmann Copy Share Image
I feel the same way about solitude as some people feel about the blessing of the church. It's the light of grace… — Peter Høeg Copy Share Image
Teach your children that many of the blessings of the Church are available to them because you and they give tithes and… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
Following a meeting with Hitler, Cardinal Michael von Faulhaber, a man who had 'courageously criticized the Nazi attacks on the Catholic Church'… — Ian Kershaw Copy Share Image
