Any of us can be happy and have a good attitude when everything is going our way. But I believe it's the… — Joel Osteen Copy Share Image
Spiritual leadership should remain spiritual leadership and the temporal power should not become too important in any church. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I'm not even an atheist so much as I am an antitheist; I not only maintain that all religions are versions of… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
To put it in a few words, the true malice of man appears only in the state and in the church, as… — Paul Ricoeur Copy Share Image
My priorities are leaning more towards family, and I credit my southern upbringing to that. I was raised in the church as… — Omari Hardwick Copy Share Image
The call of the gospel is for the church to implement the victory of God in the world through suffering love. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We all need to kind of preach to ourselves. I grew up in church, and I don't think I necessarily understood what… — Shane Harper Copy Share Image
After listening to modern tirades against the great creeds of the Church, one receives a shock when one turns to the Westminster… — John Gresham Machen Copy Share Image
Fathers, yours is an eternal calling from which you are never released. Callings in the Church, as important as they are, by… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
What the universal Church holds, not as instituted [invented] by councils but as something always held, is most correctly believed to have… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
I feel very at home in an empty church. I feel the most protected. It's very mystical. — Jean Dujardin Copy Share Image
Our church has been legal since late 1960s. I've been involved since 1972. I was ordained in 1975. — Sally Kirkland Copy Share Image
It is true that going out on to the street implies the risk of accidents happening, as they would to any ordinary… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
When you are before the altar where Christ reposes, you ought no longer to think that you are amongst men; but believe… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
This may sound pernickety but I wouldn't describe myself as an evangelical. These are labels, which I don't think are helpful. If… — Nicky Gumbel Copy Share Image
I thought that perhaps if the sky was truly free of clouds and any other distractions (birds, kites, skywriting), we could see… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
Congregational life wherein each member has his opportunity to contribute to the life of the whole body, those gifts with which the… — Lesslie Newbigin Copy Share Image
I lived in Meadowbrook. I went to church at Meadowbrook United Methodist Church. I went to school at Meadowbrook Elementary School and… — Kay Granger Copy Share Image
The Church is our Mother, which means it is an internal voice. It is not a set of external rules. That's what… — Francis George Copy Share Image
The only use for military service is that it reveals the number of morons in the population," he would remark. "And that… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
When God brings deep conviction and I agree with Him about my condition, God restores my confidence in Him. — Johnny Hunt Copy Share Image
There are people out there who are into traditional country music and for those people you have artists like Brad Paisley and… — Jason Aldean Copy Share Image
The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Any man who takes Jesus Christ seriously becomes the target of the devil. Most church members do not give Satan enough trouble… — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
By the sympathy of your human hearts for sin ye shall scent out all the places whether in church, bedchamber, street,… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
In my view there are basically two types of weddings. There is the wedding that is based on law, and there is… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
The Church even now is the kingdom of Christ and the kingdom of heaven. Accordingly, even now His saints reign with Him,… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
I grew up in the church and had religion in my life for a long time. I'm not really a church goer,… — Wes Bentley Copy Share Image
The secret of every discord in Christian homes and communities and churches is that we seek our own way and our own… — Alan Redpath Copy Share Image
Yes, I see the Church as the body of Christ. But, oh! How we have blemished and scarred that body through social… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
It is the whole business of the whole church to preach the whole gospel to the whole world. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
We in Africa are always on the receiving end. We have had human slavery, political slavery, economic slavery and now religious slavery.… — Peter Akinola Copy Share Image
No one goes to heaven by parroting a prayer, being baptized, or joining a church, but by believing in Jesus Christ with… — Steven J Lawson Copy Share Image
The problem is that you can't impose the church's teachings on all Americans as a matter of law. — Mario Cuomo Copy Share Image
The Constitution separated the ideologies and values of the Church from the State, and leaders of the State were thus educated in… — Mike Medavoy Copy Share Image
The church is precisely that against which Jesus preached -- and against which he taught his disciples to fight. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Through the years, I, like you, have experienced pressures and disappointments that would have crushed me had I not been able to… — Sheri L. Dew Copy Share Image
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