“Together as a church we are practicing, learning the strokes that teach us to live our lives.” — Tish Harrison Warren Copy Share Image
Were it not for the work of the Holy Spirit there would be no gospel, no faith, no church, no Christianity in… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
One of my realizations in such an earthy atmosphere was that many of the burning theological issues in the church were neither… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
In the United States, if one family out of every four churches adopted a child, there would be no orphans in the… — Kay Warren Copy Share Image
I'm getting married in the morning! / Ding dong! the bells are gonna chime. / Pull out the stopper! Let's have a… — Alan Jay Lerner Copy Share Image
Oh boy, I grew up hearing Sam Cooke, The Soul Stirrers, Mahalia Jackson, sitting on Mahalia Jackson's lap in my dad's church. — Merry Clayton Copy Share Image
The Church is not a museum to display perfect people, but a hospital for the hurting. — John Osteen Copy Share Image
Separation prevents the government from determining church policy, whether directly or indirectly. — John M Swomley Copy Share Image
The religion of which you are a part is 7 days a week. It isn't just Sunday, it isn't the block plan,… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
I don't think sometimes people in positions of leadership in the church really engage gay and lesbian people and talk to them… — Blase J. Cupich Copy Share Image
If I were to look at the church of Jesus Christ in America today, I would say our greatest problem is not… — Paul Washer Copy Share Image
One of the most important qualities in a pope is his judgment of people - can he get around him the people… — George Weigel Copy Share Image
I was going to play pro baseball. That was the dream. But in my sophomore year of high school a teacher who… — Christopher Jackson Copy Share Image
“The church, which squatted among the headstones like a wet mother dodo, had been at various times Presbyterian, Congregationalist, Unitarian, and Universally… — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share Image
I believe in an America that is officially neither Catholic, Protestant, or Jewish - where religious liberty is so indivisible that an… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
I hear people say all the time, "I'm not really religious, but I consider myself spiritual." I definitely have always been spiritual,… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
When young Galileo, then a student at Pisa, noticed one day during divine service a chandelier swinging backwards and forwards, and convinced… — Hermann von Helmholtz Copy Share Image
It was an odd relationship, but then she was an extraordinary woman: a prioress who doubted much of what the church taught;… — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
As we mature personally, as our families mature, and as our churches mature, we need the doctrine of sin more, not less;… — C. J. Mahaney Copy Share Image
I try to practice my religion in a very devout way and follow the teachings of my church in my own personal… — Tim Kaine Copy Share Image
Bowing down in blind credulity, as is my custom, before mere authority and the tradition of the elders, superstitiously swallowing a story… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Certainly the affirmative pursuit of one's convictions about the ultimate mystery of the universe and man's relation to it is placed beyond… — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
...Why is compassion not part of our established curriculum, an inherent part of our education? Compassion, awe, wonder, curiosity, exaltation, humility -… — Yehudi Menuhin Copy Share Image
What we argue in the piece is that the headscarf has become a political symbol for an ideology of Islam that is… — Asra Nomani Copy Share Image
I don't believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute. — Rick Santorum Copy Share Image
Until we start thinking in terms of revolution instead of compromise the Church will continue to pat itself on the back with… — Mike Yaconelli Copy Share Image
“Training is an active, dynamic process lived out daily in all areas of life- not a rote exercise in memorizing verses and… — Craig Groeschel Copy Share Image
Educational institutes can no longer be prizes in church politics or furnish berths for failure in other walks of life. — E. Franklin Frazier Copy Share Image
Tear down the mosque, the temple, everything in sight. But don't break a human heart. For that is where God resides. — Bulleh Shah Copy Share Image
"How" is what kills vision and dreams. Don't ask "How" until we figure out the "What". The "How" can kill the "What". — Andy Stanley Copy Share Image
There are many who stay away from church these days because you hardly ever mention God any more. — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
Everything we see in a Catholic church is there for a single purpose: to tell a love story. — Donald Wuerl Copy Share Image
When God measures a church, He begins with its depth not its breadth, with its substance not its style. — Steve Lawson Copy Share Image
Unable to do away with love, the Church found a way to decontaminate it by creating marriage. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
The church alone beyond all question Has for ill-gotten goods the right digestion. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
My first real experience with worship, I was 19. I was playing drums in the church band at a church in Phoenix,… — Israel Houghton Copy Share Image
Christianity in the suburb is cheerful. The church is a centre of social activity and those who go to church need never… — Stevie Smith Copy Share Image
Despite a rich history of black Americans involved in the Catholic Church, invisibility is a big problem for black Catholics in America. — Anthea Butler Copy Share Image
If you are not a member of the church you regularly attend, you may well be going to hell. — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
If I could play any character from the book though it’d be Church. Who wouldn’t want to be a cat?! — Jamie Campbell Bower Copy Share Image