Offers for me to play dances, society parties, even churches, were now coming in regularly. For most dates I was paid the… — Mary Lou Williams Copy Share Image
Astronomers who do not draw theistic or deistic conclusions are becoming rare, and even the few dissenters hint that the tide is… — Hugh Ross Copy Share Image
The words of confirmation into the Church are an invitation: 'Receive the Holy Ghost.' And that choice must be made not once,… — Henry B. Eyring Copy Share Image
I didn't want to go to college - I was bored by junior high. So I was in church one day, staring… — Brad Holland Copy Share Image
The name of the new religion, said Rumfoord, is The Church of God the Utterly Indifferent. . . The two chief teachings… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
... our reality teaches us that, as Christians, we must create a Church of the poor, that we don't need a Church… — Rigoberta Menchu Copy Share Image
I never wanted to be a wild kid. I respected my parents and I had great friends. I was lucky. We did… — Carrie Underwood Copy Share Image
I just love all the music. My grandma was a church organist for 40 years, and she got me into jazz music… — Zach Anner Copy Share Image
There are times when the gospel just seems to be powerfully at work in a nation, and thousands upon thousands are converted.… — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
Now, where a man in this church says, 'I don't want but one wife, I will live my religion with one,' he… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
Manly natural religion - it is not joining the Church; it is not to believe in a creed, Hebrew, Protestant, Catholic, Trinitarian,… — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
Churches are tax exempt because they are supposed to provide a public good. To prove that good to the IRS, churches arent… — Lawrence Wright Copy Share Image
“The verbal tool of exploring mystery together is not confrontation or preaching but dialogue. We subject ourselves to the same questions we… — Adam S. McHugh Copy Share Image
We have to avoid the spiritual sickness of a self-referentia l church. It's true that when you get out into the street,… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
If the churches ever did reunite, it would have to be into something that was as sacramental and liturgical and authoritative as… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Shortly before my arrest, my girlfriend at the time, who's now my wife of ten years, told me she was quitting drugs… — Christian Hosoi Copy Share Image
There is needed, no doubt, a body of servants (ministerium) of the invisible church, but not officials (officiales), in other words, teachers… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Though the world is becoming more wicked, the youth of Christ's Church can become more righteous if they understand who they are,… — David B. Haight Copy Share Image
I didn't like my first primary school in Leicester very much. As I was going home on my tricycle one day, I… — Tim Pigott-Smith Copy Share Image
I never liked the Hierarchy of the Church-an equality in the teacher of Religion, and a dependence on the people, are republican… — Rufus King Copy Share Image
I wonder what really goes on in the minds of Church leadership who know of the data concerning the Book of Abraham,… — Thomas Ferguson Copy Share Image
I'm not. I don't – I don't dislike anybody. Gays are some of the nicest, kindest, most loving people in the world.… — Joel Osteen Copy Share Image
Some people accuse us of too much emotionalism. I say we have too little. That is why we are losing church people… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
In a world often marked by selfishness, a large family is a school of solidarity and sharing; and this attitude is to… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Because we lived in the presence of the church and the convent and the rectory and the school 24-7. And this was… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
To those who have no personal experience of this revolutionary aspect of Christian truth, but who see only the outer crust of… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
But when one identifies the Church with a cultural and political bloc, there is the danger of making difficult the Church's contact… — Karl Lehmann Copy Share Image
The supreme crime of the church to-day is that everywhere and in all its operations and influences it is on the side… — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
I loved my mission in Switzerland and Germany. As I left on the train from Basel, Switzerland, tears flowed down my cheeks… — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
The most he would do was to promise that the gates of hell should not prevail against it. It is about all… — Charles Williams Copy Share Image
In general, the churches, visited by me often on weekdays... bore for me the same relation to God that billboards did to… — John Updike Copy Share Image
I think most of our religious institutions are pretty corrupt, so they're not reliable. I think the Christian religion that I was… — Richard Gere Copy Share Image
May it not suffice for me to say ... that of course like every other man of intelligence and education I do… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Because I know that the early Greeks and Romans and the early Europeans at that age did not see racism as we… — Immortal Technique 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
“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 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
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
Just as in a physical body the operation of one member contributes to the good of the whole body, so it is… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
