“(from chapter 24, "Heather-scented Theology") "...I was more than ever what I had been becoming for a long time - a contemplative… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
I think I've always been fascinated by women, colors, and makeup and the whole art of vanity because I would always watch… — Bretman Rock Copy Share Image
I often went to Catholic mass or Eucharist at the Episcopal church, nourished by the symbol and power of this profound feeding… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
The world doesn't want to be punished. It wants to remain in darkness. It doesn't want to be told that what it… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
As disciples of Christ, we need to feel genuine charity for one another. As we do, new light will come into our… — M. Russell Ballard Copy Share Image
I say to Israel, the Lord will never permit me or any other man who stands as president of this Church to… — Wilford Woodruff Copy Share Image
The early church was strikingly different from the culture around it in this way - the pagan society was stingy with its… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
I was nurtured in the church; I went to a Catholic school; I was an altar boy; I went to a Catholic… — Bruce Babbitt Copy Share Image
The church is in trouble-that's what they say anyways. The problem is most of what they call the church is not the… — Paul Washer Copy Share Image
For 2,000 years, the Church has been the cradle in which Mary places Jesus and entrusts Him to the adoration and contemplation… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
What the Latins have done in this text (1 John v, 7) the Greeks have done to Paul (1 Tim. iii, 16).… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
I have more to boast of than ever any man had. I am the only man that has ever been able to… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
“There is good even in church people. You find it hard to believe, right? Jesus never shut the door on religious people.… — Mea McMahon Copy Share Image
I do not think I could myself, be brought to support a man for office, whom I knew to be an open… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I still go to that church now, and they don't believe in instruments in the church. But, my brothers and sisters in… — Ralph Stanley Copy Share Image
In many ways, American evangelicalism is somewhat stronger today than it was in, say 1955 - certainly more mainstream and influential in… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
Why do we idolise Christian singers and speakers? We go from glorifying musicians in the world to glorifying Christian musicians. It's all… — Keith Green Copy Share Image
The establishment of religious freedom was no less momentous an achievement than the clearing of the great forest or the winning of… — Clinton Rossiter Copy Share Image
Martin Luther King challenged the conscience of my generation, and his words and his legacy continue to move generations to action today… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
Every once in a while I check and I say, do I still believe in God? And the answer is absolutely yes.… — Dar Williams Copy Share Image
Seeing there are many who think they hold the opinions of Christ, and yet some of these think differently from their predecessors,… — Origen Copy Share Image
Joy and grief are never far apart. In the same street the shutters of one house are closed, while the curtains of… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
When we see the many grave-stones which have fallen in, which have been defaced by the footsteps of the congregation, which lie… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
In Freethinkers Hall, which before the Nazi resurgence was the national headquarters of the German Freethinkers League, the Berlin Protestant church authorities… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
After a few days in hospital, I was thinking, Oh, gee - I raised in a church, Protestant upbringing which I'd rejected… — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
“Wasn’t I allowed at least one nervous breakdown a year? Maybe next year Jon and I could pencil it into our calendar.… — Anna Aquino Copy Share Image
We sometimes get so caught up in one or another aspect of the teaching, we forget that if a person hasn't been… — Donald Wuerl Copy Share Image
Comics, which are really best described as an arrangement of images in a sequence that tell a story - an idea -… — Will Eisner Copy Share Image
(After getting out of another treatment center) I came home one Sunday morning. I sat on the edge of my bed. I… — Jay Haizlip Copy Share Image
I think we've made it a golden idol. I think we in the church have treated it differently than we've treated anything… — Alan Chambers Copy Share Image
Anyone who believes in the natural and inalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness is obliged to accept that… — Sheldon Richman Copy Share Image
This is our first interest as a church-to save and exalt the souls of the children of men. There is no richer… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
I felt angry, frustrated. I felt I didn't belong, not in my church, not in my home, not in my skin. Amidst… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
Although until recently the Church was closely linked to the established order, it is beginning to take a different attitude regarding the… — Gustavo Gutiérrez Copy Share Image
California has often led the country, indeed the world, in the technology, consumption, trends, lifestyles, and of course, mass entertainment. It is… — Fareed Zakaria Copy Share Image
Banks and churches and courtrooms all depend on the appurtenances of theatre. On illusion. Banks, the illusion of stability and honourable dealings… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If those who voice opposition to Pope Francis and the direction in which he is leading the church come from other nations… — Wilton Daniel Gregory Copy Share Image
When I talk about the pain and hardship of a scientist's life, I'm speaking of more than existential angst. Galileo's work was… — Leon M. Lederman Copy Share Image
The Catholic Church holds that it is not admissible to ordain women to the priesthood, for very fundamental reasons. These reasons include:… — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image
If we admit instrumental musick in the worship of God, how can we resist the imposition of all the instruments used among… — Cotton Mather Copy Share Image
