My ordination in the Church of God in Christ was at age 9, and I later became a Baptist minister, which I… — Al Sharpton Copy Share Image
I have real good parents. I have two brothers, and we got good educations. My parents didn't have a whole lot of… — Ryan Coogler Copy Share Image
My father was the superintendent of the churches in the state of Montana. He was content in his beliefs. He befit the… — Phil Jackson Copy Share Image
Those who saw Pope John Paul II either in person or through the mass media glimpsed a man who millions of Catholics… — Chris Matthews Copy Share Image
I'm interested in the kind of religion that makes life harder. I'm not so interested in the comforting kind of religion. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
From childhood on I have had the dream of life lived as a sacrament... the dream implied taking life ritually as something… — Bernard Berenson Copy Share Image
I'm Catholic and Mum taught me the comfort that you can get from going to church. But I'm an a la carte… — Patsy Kensit Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, when someone asks me for a favor, I cant say no. Because of my upbringing - my Catholic guilt - if… — Bradley Cooper Copy Share Image
Jack looked out the window as they passed the Mormon temple, just outside the beltway near Connecticut Avenue. A decidedly odd-looking building,… — Tom Clancy Copy Share Image
Such then in number and importance are the precious ties belonging to the Christian name which keep a believer in the Catholic… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
The price the Virgin demanded was purity, and the way the educators of Catholic children have interpreted this for nearly two thousand… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
Protestant churches everywhere are gravitating toward union with the Roman Catholic Church. These religious movements are speeding the fulfillment of the prophecies… — Herbert W. Armstrong Copy Share Image
Please receive in the name of the Spanish government and the people of Spain our warmest congratulations for your election as Supreme… — Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero Copy Share Image
I was raised in a little church, the Grundy Methodist Church, that was very straight-laced, but I had a friend whose mother… — Lee Smith Copy Share Image
“The Rochester group [of VOTF], however, was met with some concern as they found it hard to believe my account as it… — Charles L. Bailey Jr Copy Share Image
As Lent is the time for greater love, listen to Jesus' thirst...'Repen t and believe' Jesus tells us. What are we to… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
We have a pope [Francis] who's very popular among the Catholic faithful and non-Catholics, but there's no doubt he's going to continue… — Sylvia Poggioli Copy Share Image
I grew up in a small, rural community, where my extended family were mountain-folk type people, and some were very religious. — Mark Lanegan Copy Share Image
“The Catholic Church is the only thing which saves a man from the degrading slavery of being a child of his age” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
If you're going to do a thing, you should do it thoroughly. If you're going to be a Christian, you may as… — Muriel Spark Copy Share Image
I really feel like I'm a liberal because I'm a Catholic, because I took the words of the New Testament to heart. — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
As a practicing Catholic, I am shocked that the Catholic League is speaking out against my PETA ads, which I am very… — Joanna Krupa Copy Share Image
I think the strength of the Catholic church is that when it does finally identify a problem, it works to resolve it. — Donald Wuerl Copy Share Image
We do not innovate anything ... How is it that novelties are introduced which were never even thought of by our predecessors? — Ambrose Copy Share Image
If you think about Protestant and Catholic or Shiite and Sunni, they are basically the same thing... one eats with their left… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
I was raised Catholic and didn't like the dogma and exclusivity of that teaching but I was moved by the moral teachings… — Tom Shadyac Copy Share Image
I trained to be a priest - started to. I went to seminary school when I was 11. I wanted to be… — Johnny Vegas Copy Share Image
But there's always a Mass. It's not a formal Mass at all. We're sitting around her dining room table with wine and… — Linda Vester Copy Share Image
There was a lot of Southern Baptist preachers and some yelling ones but mostly we had a pastor who didn't scream and… — Victoria Jackson Copy Share Image
In high school, I came to realize I had a second-hand faith, derived from my parents and family background. I had no… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
Do not be afraid. Do not be satisfied with mediocrity. Put out into the deep and let down your nets for a… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Every kingdom divided against itself will be laid waste, and no town or house divided against itself will stand. -Matthew 12:25 — Bible Copy Share Image
Catholics and evangelicals need to remain allied, and in solidarity, against the increasingly aggressive secularism of our age. — Gary Bauer Copy Share Image
The funny thing about being Catholic, and I was raised Catholic, is that you identify with the Church, just as part of… — Alex Gibney Copy Share Image
That's what I mean about Catholicism - your sexual life is supposed to be dead if you're a good Catholic. That's wrong.… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
I don't believe in a God. I don't believe in any of that stuff to determine my life or my goals or… — Sasha Grey Copy Share Image
In my growing-up years in Germany, I attended church in many different locations and circumstances - in humble back rooms, in impressive… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
I teach in the Divinity School at Duke University, a very secular university. But before Duke, I taught fourteen years at the… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
“If you boil it down, just because someone else does the wrong thing we are not exempt from doing what’s right.” — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
I'm a closet Catholic. I love the iconography of the saints. There was a point in my life when I was going… — Lynda Resnick Copy Share Image
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![“The Rochester group [of VOTF], however, was met with some concern as they found it hard to believe my account as it unfolded before them. I feel that some people have a hard time with the truths around us, not only the sexual abuse by priests, but all bad things. I call it chosen ignorance. This…” quote by Charles L. Bailey Jr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/ec3/charles-l-bailey-jr-39399_abuse_the-rochester-group-of-votf-however-was_2460877.jpg)
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