The church is her true self only when she exists for humanity. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
The church teaches us that we can make God happy by being miserable ourselves. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Nothing is more dreaded than the national government meddling with religion. — John Adams Copy Share Image
If the church does not identify with the marginalized, it will itself be marginalized. This is God's poetic justice. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Every church is a stone on the grave of a god-man: it does not want him to rise up again under any… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Maybe that is why there are not a whole lot of problems between the church and worldly culture today, because we are… — Paul Washer Copy Share Image
I agree with the idea that there is a separation of church and state. That teachers should not be leading prayer -… — Ken Buck Copy Share Image
The Catholic Church has never really come to terms with women. What I object to is being treated either as Madonnas or… — Shirley Williams Copy Share Image
Your problems are not just your problems. Ultimately, they belong to the church body that God has placed you in. — Francis Chan Copy Share Image
Whatever America's founders believed about Christianity - and they believed a wide range of things - they clearly rejected the idea of… — Parker Palmer Copy Share Image
Our public schools began as ministries of the church; now it is time to return them to the Lord. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When my kids were growing up, I wanted their teachers to teach them science, reading, math and history. I also wanted them… — Adam Hamilton Copy Share Image
I went to church when I was younger, but it was never something pushed down my throat or anything, which is a… — A.J. Styles Copy Share Image
As some to church repair, Not for the doctrine, but the music there. These equal syllables alone require, Though oft the ear… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
It felt good, the whole family together on a sunny morning in a wholesome environment. If it hadn't been for the warshiping… — Tom Perrotta Copy Share Image
At Westboro, the depictions of hell are extremely vivid. The only thing that changes in hell, according to the church, is your… — Megan Phelps-Roper Copy Share Image
It's quite nice when you've been generally dissed about your irrelevancy and then suddenly have people coming on bended knee and saying… — Edward Mortimer Copy Share Image
The fact that institutional churches have gone into decline doesn't mean that we're going to enter some purely secular age. Secular people… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
I would love to see churches start using their Web sites to present video profiles of people within their congregations so that… — Frank Minis Johnson Copy Share Image
People make their life really hard. It was as simple as this: My parents went to church. My grandfather was a bishop.… — Fetty Wap Copy Share Image
The child says, "Well geesh, the institutions that I'm supposed to respect - the church and the government - they're telling me… — Harold Ramis 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
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
Love in truth-caritas in veritate-is a great challenge for the Church in a world that is becoming progressively and pervasively globalized. The… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
“The Church is a place where human beings have the conviction to patiently seek the truth together, in a shared life of… — Thomas Joseph White Copy Share Image
From Rome, now the nuncio is on the border where [Ukrainians] are fighting, helping soldiers and the wounded. The Church of Rome… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“The church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.” — Abigail Van Buren Copy Share Image
In fact, my parents were church people; my father was a deacon in the church. — Tina Turner Copy Share Image
Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife. — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Enthusiasm is as good a thing in the Church as fire is in a cook stove. — Billy Sunday Copy Share Image