“You are killing your life if you are just going through the traditions and routine of church services with no product to… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
I was playing drums in church when I was six. Then I picked up the piano when I was 11 or 12. — Robert Glasper Copy Share Image
“The real architect of a life is the hard and almost impossible circumstances one faces.” — John Paul Warren Copy Share Image
Even when we were standing in church and I was getting ready to take my vow I can remember wishing that you… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
There's always the tendency to transform the Church into an ethical agency, and of measuring the Church by the yardstick of social… — Karl Lehmann Copy Share Image
I fell in love with music at the age of four, and I remember my grandmother being on the piano teaching me… — Dinah Jane Copy Share Image
I take square aim at an unbiblical churchianity that has resulted in a church-centric religion that fails to reflect the heart of… — Reggie McNeal Copy Share Image
The Church, wherever it is, is not only Christ's witness to its own people and nation, but also the home-base for a… — Lesslie Newbigin Copy Share Image
Me and my three younger siblings, we sang together in grandma's church, and I was in the Chicago Children's Choir in high… — Jamila Woods Copy Share Image
The Gospel lives in conversation with culture, and if the Church holds back from the culture, the Gospel itself falls silent. Therefore,… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
For some Church members the Book of Mormon remains unread. Others use it occasionally as if it were merely a handy book… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
In 1835 at Kirtland I learned from my Sisters Husband Lyman R. Shirman, who was close to the Prophet and Received it… — Benjamin F. Johnson Copy Share Image
How grateful we are that the heavens are indeed open, that the gospel of Jesus Christ has been restored, and that the… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
I want to see the church get closer to the people. I want to get rid of clericalism, the mundane, this closing… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
"If any man thirst, let him come and drink from the rivers of living water" (cf. John 7:38). Where shall he who… — Cyprian Copy Share Image
No one church has all the answers or the perfect map to the Promised Land, and I prefer to work out my… — Charley Pride Copy Share Image
“A woman has never been able to become a priest—she cannot even be a deacon, nor yet a chorister—but a woman can… — Sigrid Undset Copy Share Image
The biblical assertion that women are created in God's image and Boaz's advocacy for Ruth and Naomi necessarily mean women, then and… — Carolyn Custis James Copy Share Image
When you're mired in the depths of depression, it's impossible to believe that anything can get better, but it can and it… — Sara Benincasa Copy Share Image
The Church was resolved to have a New Testament, and as, after the lapse of more than three hundred years, no handwriting… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
My first heartbreak devastated me, but it was the support of my family and my second family, my church family, that helped… — Michael Ealy Copy Share Image
Encourage free schools and resolve that not one dollar appropriated for their support shall be appropriated to the support of any sectarian… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
The library was home away from home to my mom, and my family. We had spent every Sunday afternoon there since I… — Kami Garcia Copy Share Image
In coming to an appreciation of the Mormon Church, one of the things that has been most compelling to me is the… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
You may speak but a word to a child, and in that child there may be slumbering a noble heart which shall… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
My mother played the organ in church at Georgiana, and I sat on the seat beside her. — Hank Williams Copy Share Image
We are not engaged in domestic politics, in church building or in social uplift work, but we are engaged in nation building. — Marcus Garvey Copy Share Image
Alongside my own deep personal faith, I am a follower, as well, of our civic religion. I am a big believer in… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
But I'll tell you what, there was a lot of farmland between Falls Church and Washington. — Jim Fowler Copy Share Image
The Institutional Church (ecclesia) has killed only two kinds of people: Those who do not believe in the teachings of Jesus Christ,… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
I wanted to be successful enough that I'd have opportunities to talk about the church. I wanted people to listen whenever I… — Vernon Law Copy Share Image
“I have no objection to instruments of music in our worship, provided they are neither seen nor heard.” — John Wesley Copy Share Image
Jesus is interested in a relationship with you, not a 45 minute date every Sunday morning. Make Him first in your life. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Alas the Church of England! What with Popery on one hand, and schismatics on the other, how has she been crucified between… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
I never joined, but I used to go to church now and then. I liked it, because they always passed out plates… — A. Whitney Brown Copy Share Image
It was of tremendous comfort. I always said my prayers at night. My mother taught actually me to say prayers at night… — Wesley Clark Copy Share Image
The early Church had nothing but the Old Testament. The New Testament lies hidden in the Old; the Old Testament lies open… — Randall Terry Copy Share Image
My granddad was an elder at our church, so it was a big part of my life growing up. — Ricky Stenhouse Jr Copy Share Image
Church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back. — Charles de Gaulle Copy Share Image
It is often said that the Church is a crutch. Of course it's a crutch. What makes you think you don't limp? — William Sloane Coffin Copy Share Image
