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You may call a jay a bird. Well, so he is, in a measure--because he's got feathers on him, and don't belong… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Rigel, Betelgeuse, and Orion. There was no finer church, no finer choir, than the stars speaking in silence to the many consumptives… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
Let the church come to God in the strength of a perfect weakness, in the power of a felt helplessness and a… — Mark Hopkins Copy Share Image
A day will come when the civilized world will deny its God, when the Church will doubt as Peter doubted. She will… — Pope Pius XII Copy Share Image
When Dylann Roof walked into a black church, he wanted to start a race war. We didn't let him do that because… — Chuck Todd Copy Share Image
We have chaos reigning in the Middle East. There is a great deal of instability. In the past, people would have turned… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
Believe in Jesus Christ, our Savior and our Redeemer, the Son of God, who came to earth and walked the dusty roads… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
[M]an has been accustomed, ever since he was a boy, to having a dozen incompatible philosophies dancing about together inside his head.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I decided that if nobody else was going to do anything to rectify this colossal inequity in taxation, I'd have to do… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
We went to a church that had missionaries who'd come back once a year from Fiji & give talks. I remember one… — Brian Andreas Copy Share Image
For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can't readily accept… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
At this time of crisis we cannot be concerned solely with ourselves, withdrawing into loneliness, discouragement and a sense of powerlessness in… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
I believe that prayer in public schools should be voluntary. It is difficult for me to see how religious exercises can be… — Gerald R. Ford Copy Share Image
“I'm a spiritual person, she said. "I believe in Allah, you know, though I don't always call It 'Allah' and I pray… — Michael Muhammad Knight Copy Share Image
No father, no son, no mother, no daughter should get so busy that he or she does not have time to study… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
“The Pope would have an easier job than the President of the United States in adopting a change of course. He has… — Hans Küng Copy Share Image
Church membership was so important that Paul and Silas baptized the Philippian jailer into the membership of Christ's church at midnight with… — Jay Adams Copy Share Image
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It's a mistake to expect the laws of the country to reflect the imperatives of the New Testament and the Sermon on… — Kelefa Sanneh Copy Share Image
Jim Jones wanted his people to believe the establishment was trying to kill him because whites were threatened by his message of… — Julia Scheeres Copy Share Image
I went to the little church in the country after ten years in the city. And part of my dream was to… — Barbara Brown Taylor Copy Share Image
I am not even an atheist so much as I am an antitheist; I not only maintain that all religions are versions… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“The original Christians regarded the deposit of faith, as finally inseparable from the very living substance of the Gospel in the saving… — Thomas F. Torrance Copy Share Image
Even as he would be guilty of falsehood who would, in the name of another person, proffer things that are not committed… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
At a time when many churches throughout the world are experiencing significant decreases in numbers, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
The so-called Church Fathers are not some theologians as we know them nowadays. They were close to the teaching of the Apostles… — Notker Wolf Copy Share Image
See that ye all follow the bishop, even as Jesus Christ does the Father, and the presbytery as ye would the apostles;… — Ignatius of Antioch Copy Share Image
To square the records, however, it should be said that if the Calvinist does not rise as high, he usually stays up… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Near the end of the 1700s, philosophers began to declare that humans were rational individuals. People were flattered by being recognized as… — Alex Pentland Copy Share Image
“But although it is the case that anyone who contends that in the Catholic medieval civilization of Europe woman was on the… — Sigrid Undset Copy Share Image
Regarding African education in this country, there was a time when the government took no interest whatsoever in African education. It was… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
I go to a lot of independents and foreign films. I really try to keep up and see what there is to… — Joe Dante Copy Share Image
You have the Super Soaker filled with holy water?” “Yeah. I sucked it out of the church. You know that bird-bath thing… — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
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I believe in absolute freedom of conscience for all men and equality of all churches, all sects and all beliefs before the… — Al Smith Copy Share Image
For me, there's no difference between what's temporary and what's definitive. I built the church in Kobe, which was supposed to be… — Shigeru Ban Copy Share Image
Your death and my death are mainly of importance to ourselves. The black plumes will be stripped off our hearses within the… — Alexander Smith Copy Share Image
My aunt Geraldine was the unofficial historian and storyteller. She had all the information about family members and the gossip that came… — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
What's sometimes called the 'browning' of the American Catholic church is very much on the minds of many U.S. bishops - and… — Anthea Butler Copy Share Image
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