PALACE, n. A fine and costly residence, particularly that of a great official. The residence of a high dignitary of the Christian… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The study of theology, as it stands in the Christian churches, is the study of nothing; it is founded on nothing; it… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Birth control appeals to the advanced radical because it is calculated to undermine the authority of the Christian churches. I look forward… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
“Adolescents are looking for a soul-shaking, heart-waking, world-changing God to fall in love with; and if they do not find that God… — Sarah Arthur Copy Share Image
The Christian church in the U.S. is still strong numerically, but it has lost its decisive influence both in American public life… — Os Guinness Copy Share Image
When a religion is good, I conceive it will support itself; and when it does not support itself, and God does not… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The seven deadly sins of the Christian Church are: greed, pride, envy, anger, gluttony, lust, and sloth. Satanism advocates indulging in each… — Anton Szandor LaVey Copy Share Image
Peggotty!" repeated Miss Betsey, with some indignation. "Do you mean to say, child, that any human being has gone into a Christian… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
It would be more in keeping with the intention of the noblest man in this world if our two Christian churches, instead… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Why did the consensus of Christian churches not only accept these astonishing views but establish them as the only true form of… — Elaine Pagels Copy Share Image
Little do the devout worshippers of the Vatican suspect, when they lift up their eyes in mute adoration upon the head of… — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
Contemporary Christianity, diverse and complex as we find it, actually may show more unanimity than the Christian churches of the first and… — Elaine Pagels Copy Share Image
The 20th century was a turning point; it freed and emancipated women, broke the back of segregation, and began the struggle to… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
“After half a millennium of dominance, the West is being eclipsed in the global era, the United States as the lead society… — Os Guinness Copy Share Image
Henceforward the Christian Churches having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof, came into the hands of the Encratites: and… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
“THE attention of the writer having been called to the fact that all Indo-Germanic nations have worshipped crucified Saviours, an investigation of… — Sarah E. Titcomb Copy Share Image
“Sadly, the Christian church has not proven to be immune to performancism. Far from it, in fact. In recent years, a handful… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
“To the altars of the Great Mother, and later still to that of the Horned God, came those women who wanted children.… — Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki Copy Share Image
“Multitudes are now turning to Christ in all parts of the world. How unbearably tragic it would be, though, if the millions… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
“interchangeably. There are numerous biblical texts expressing Yahweh’s hatred and condemnation of all people who could be generically defined as witches: “diviners,”… — Monica Sjöö Copy Share Image
“Long before it was known to me as a place where my ancestry was even remotely involved, the idea of a state… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Thus that Upright Judge, whose three Letters my Friend having read, did well approve of 'em, acknowledging, that with great Exactness he… — William Stephens Copy Share Image
“If better conditions will make the poor more fit to govern themselves, why should not better conditions already make the rich more… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“J. C. Ryle[69] (1816-1900) wrote the following: “For many centuries there has prevailed in the Churches of Christ a strange, and to… — Dalton Lifsey Copy Share Image
Although most Christian churches advocate some sort of mission to non-Christians, no Jewish group advocates a mission to non-Jews. Proselytization seems to… — David Novak Copy Share Image
The Christian church, in its attitude toward science, shows the mind of a more or less enlightened man of the Thirteenth Century.… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The fourth rule is: "Make the enemy live up to their own book of rules." You can kill them with this, for… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
The most urgent need in the Christian Church today is true preaching; and as it is the greatest and most urgent need… — Martyn Copy Share Image
There's nobody who doesn't have problems with the church, because there's sin in the church. But there's no other place to be… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
“a dream half-waking, broken and uneasy, of the small gods of small places; gods of hills and woods and streams and crossways;… — Mary Stewart Copy Share Image
The primary message of the Christian Church is that we were born in sin and we need to be rescued; we cannot… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
The biblical texts that we Christians have used for centuries to justify our hostility toward the Jews need to be banished forever… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
“True and genuine charity is no lesse necessary to Salvation for all Churches, and members of Christian Churches, than the true and… — John Davenant Copy Share Image
The Christian Church overwhelmingly - there are exceptions - who choose to call Muhammad a terrorist. They could call Jesus a terrorist… — Ramsey Clark Copy Share Image
Be sure to lay wide streets planted with shady trees, every other of a quick-growing variety. Be sure that there is plenty… — Jamsetji Tata Copy Share Image
“The Christian churches were probably the only communion in antiquity that had no special place of worship but rather came together in… — Michael Moynagh Copy Share Image
“If we look into the matter of how Christian theology rose in the beginning, the Christian Church was always already earlier, and… — Friedrich Schleiermacher Copy Share Image
For a Christian to be a Christian, he must first be a sinner. Being a sinner is a prerequisite for being a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What harm would it do, if a man told a good strong lie for the sake of the good and for the… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
The right to freedom is the gift of God Almighty…The rights of the Colonists as Christians may be best understood by reading,… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image