I never went through a wave of hating Christianity, even though my parents were born-again Christians, and there were a lot of… — Adrianne Lenker Copy Share Image
Believing is an act of the intellect assenting to the divine truth by command of the will moved by God through grace. — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Take care of your body as if you were going to live forever; and take care of your soul as if you… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
When you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the church, which belongs to God, and… — Keith Richards Copy Share Image
My dad used to sit me on his knee and read from the Bible to us. We were a praying family. Ours… — Roma Downey Copy Share Image
The sex abuse crisis in the Catholic Church is the result of what police call "noble cause corruption," the belief that because… — Alex Gibney Copy Share Image
No relief was forthcoming from my then-Catholic faith, which said the practice of homosexuality was a 'mortal sin' subject to damnation. — James McGreevey Copy Share Image
The three kinds of services you generally find in the Episcopal churches. I call them either low-and-lazy, broad-and-hazy, or high-and-crazy. — Willa Gibbs Copy Share Image
In a world where there is so much noise, so much bewilderment, there is a need for silent adoration of Jesus concealed… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
“Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
My family, frankly, they weren't folks who went to church every week. My mother was one of the most spiritual people I… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
That I am not a member of any Christian church is true; but I have never denied the truth of the Scriptures,… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
In all countries, in all centuries, the primary reason for government to set up schools is to undermine the politically weak by… — Marshall Fritz Copy Share Image
I never lost my faith...But like all modern Catholics, I felt for a time that I had outgrown the church. Now it… — Martin Sheen Copy Share Image
The time for letting the Christian bashing go on essentially unchallenged has come to an end... There is a great need for… — D. James Kennedy Copy Share Image
In college, I was like most young men, doing what pleased me and looking out mainly for my own interest. I had… — Luke Scott Copy Share Image
“was weird being there, but at the same time I knew it was a huge deal because my dad was the last… — Candace Cameron Bure Copy Share Image
There's no bigger atheist than me. Well, I take that back. I'm a cancer screening away from going agnostic and a biopsy… — Adam Carolla Copy Share Image
The preaching is part of the reason I don't go to church. Plus, I don't know, it was never part of my… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
I still believe the lessons I learned when I was raised in a Roman Catholic household. Like, it's harder for a rich… — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
The blood of our Christian brothers is a witness that cries out..If they are Catholic, Orthodox, Copts, Lutherans, it is not important… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
The first organization structure in the modern West was laid down in the canon law of the Catholic Church eight hundred years… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
I'd never been religious, but I'd always obeyed my elders. My decision to become an omnivore was fraught, not because it was… — Samin Nosrat Copy Share Image
Faith is not a contract. Faith is surrender. If no other relationship in our experience is one of self-surrender, if it's all… — Francis George Copy Share Image
There is something in humility which, strangely enough, exalts the heart, and something in pride which debases it. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Our religion seems foolish to you, but so does yours to me. The Baptists and Methodists and Presbyterians and the Catholics all… — Sitting Bull Copy Share Image
When I was 12 years old, my pastor came to the church: Dr. Fredrick Samson. And that was revolutionary because he mentored… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
I came- though the child of entirely irreligious (Jewish) parents - to a deep religiousness, which, however, reached an abrupt end at… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I know that many writers have had to write under censorship and yet produced good novels; for instance, Cervantes wrote Don Quixote… — Guillermo Cabrera Infante Copy Share Image
What does the poor man do at the rich man's door, the sick man in the presence of his physician, the thirsty… — Francis of Assisi Copy Share Image
The Catholic teaching against murder, for example, is largely the same as our secular laws. But as a law, it obviously has… — Mario Cuomo Copy Share Image
“When I am completely united to you, there will be no more sorrow or trials; entirely full of you, my life will… — The Catholic Church Copy Share Image
I am a Congregationalist with Catholic sensibilities. Which probably explains how I ended up in a Episcopal church. — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
I was influenced by my children's education in Quaker schools in the Philadelphia area. I experienced a spiritual awakening and became a… — Mike Berenstain Copy Share Image
Growing up in bars might sound like child abuse. And if it does, then you're what my mom would call 'Protestants.' — Rory O'Malley Copy Share Image
What's funny is that in the '90s, growing up in the black church, everyone around you was older, so your swag became… — Kirk Franklin Copy Share Image
The great method of prayer is to have none. If in going to prayer one can form in oneself a pure capacity… — Jane Frances de Chantal Copy Share Image
Even Catholic parishes today are not wanting for talent. But no serious singer or organist will get anywhere near the typical music… — Richard Morris Copy Share Image
Catholics are necessarily at war with this age. That we are not more conscious of the fact, that we so often endeavor… — Eric Gill Copy Share Image
What will be the crown of those who, humble within and humiliated without, have imitated the humility of our Savior in all… — Bernadette Soubirous Copy Share Image
