If I had a motto, it would be, 'Believe in God, fear the church'. — Margrethe Vestager Copy Share Image
The Church did the most when the Church was the least like the world. — G. Campbell Morgan Copy Share Image
All my life, my church, my family, my friends have always told me to have high self-esteem... to think well of myself.… — Shawn Bradley Copy Share Image
History showed that many people had lost their respect for any religion that had relied upon the support of government to spread… — Hugo Black Copy Share Image
No one goes to heaven by parroting a prayer, being baptized, or joining a church, but by believing in Jesus Christ with… — Steven J Lawson Copy Share Image
I was brought up a Roman Catholic, so when I was a child I was frogmarched to church every Sunday. — Harry Enfield Copy Share Image
Many believe it is possible to be a "good Christian" without joining (or even attending) a local church, but God would strongly… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
The founding fathers of the U.S. were right when they erected that wall between church and state. — Jim Starlin Copy Share Image
It is not the church we want, but the sacrifice; not the emotion of admiration, but the act of adoration; not the… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
There's a special place in hell for what some people have done but there's also a special place in God's heart for… — Johnny Hunt Copy Share Image
Life is war. That's not all it is. But it is always that. Our weakness in prayer is owing largely to our… — John Piper Copy Share Image
Nobody understands the nature of the Church, or the ringing note of the creed descending from antiquity, who does not realize that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Yes, hypothetically, western Catholicism could revise the theme of celibacy. ... But for the moment, I am in favor of maintaining celibacy,… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“Non-churchgoers tend to see Christians as takers rather than givers. When Christians sacrifice and give wildly to the poor, that is truly… — Francis Chan Copy Share Image
So long as there's been black churches in the United States, there's been a relationship between spiritual well-being and material acquisition. This… — Anthony B Pinn Copy Share Image
We cannot believe that the church of God is already possessed of all that light which God intends to give it; nor… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
The men who were running the church in the late '60s and '70s panicked when they saw the chaos, which developed after… — Andrew Greeley Copy Share Image
The freedom to be able to offer education, human services, and health care in accordance with our own identity as a church… — Donald Wuerl Copy Share Image
Where do you come from?"...This is the number one most-asked question in all of South Carolina. We want to know if you… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
It doesn't necessarily matter if I'm onstage or not. I just find the communal experience of a rock concert, or any type… — Jeff Tweedy Copy Share Image
I kept saying to myself, this is a calling that God has given me. And so with intention I said, "Okay I'm… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
As Indian citizens, we subsist on a regular diet of caste massacres and nuclear tests, mosque breakings and fashion shows, church burnings… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
We try to evade the question of existence with property, prestige, power, possession, production, fun, and, ultimately, by trying to forget that… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
What I notice, as a historian reading stories about so-called nature miracles, the walking on the water, or the miraculous catch of… — John Dominic Crossan Copy Share Image
“I'm not particularly in favor of doctrine or creed, ordination, the elevation of holy texts, the institution of church, or, for that… — Elizabeth J. Andrew Copy Share Image
“I was once reproved by a minister who was driving a poor beast to some meeting-house horse-sheds among the hills of New… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The Church is a terrible engine of oppression, especially as concerns woman — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
“You don't get to turn someone's sanctuary into an unsafe space.” — Darnell Lamont Walker Copy Share Image
The church always arrives on the scene a little breathless and a little late. — Bernard Lonergan Copy Share Image
