If your church conveys that spirit of condescension or judgment, it's likely not a place where grace is on tap. — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
My dad would give me $10, which is a lot of money when you're 9, to sing at church, on tables at… — Katy Perry Copy Share Image
Why does no one speak of the cultural advantages of the country? For example, is a well groomed, ecologically kept, sustainably fertile… — Gene Logsdon Copy Share Image
Centralized sounds good ... but the reality is that the National Guard and Army don't have the kind of ties with local… — Peter May Copy Share Image
Two orders of mankind are the enemies of church and state; the king without clemency, and the holy man without learning. — Saadi Copy Share Image
We believe that every child has a right to learn without fear, that every parent has a right to hug their beautiful… — Eric Swalwell Copy Share Image
When my father died, it sounds kind of simple but I just had the desire to step up and pastor the church.… — Joel Osteen Copy Share Image
Christian Science is often inherited, and like many inheritances, it comes with family secrets. The religion encourages secrecy. Members of the Church… — Caroline Fraser Copy Share Image
The early Church was married to poverty, prisons and persecutions. Today, the church is married to prosperity, personality, and popularity. — Leonard Ravenhill Copy Share Image
The Church will always be renewed when our attention shifts from ourselves to those who need our care. The blessing of Jesus… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
The Church's mission is to spread hope "contagiously" among all peoples... It is only in this mission that the true journey of… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
“The world is my church. My actions are my prayer. My behavior is my creed.” — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
From what cause the rite of baptism first proceeded is not expressed formally in the scripture, but it may be probably thought… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
If we do not do this our churches will lighthouses without light, wells without water, dumb witnesses, sleeping watchmen, silent trumpets, messengers… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
In all we do we must cultivate faith. Increased faith is the touchstone to improved church performance. — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
I can only say that I believe the Mormon Church is changing because the people inside the church are changing, particularly, the… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
I would sit in the back at church every Sunday trying to hide, and just when I thought I'd gotten through the… — Brooke Valentine Copy Share Image
But Christ could certainly not have established the Church. That is, the institution we now call by that name, for nothing resembling… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
You have not really learned a commandment until you have obeyed it. The Church suffers today from Christians who know volumes more… — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
Human artifacts not only include material structures and objects, such as buildings, machines, and automobiles, but they also include organizations, organizational structures… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
God has not granted civic rulers authority over the doctrine, practice, or polity of the church. — John MacArthur Copy Share Image
I was raised in the church, and there's still a fire burning inside me. I definitely don't ever want to be preachy.… — Brandon Flowers Copy Share Image
By the time we get to church, I need church cuz I've been yelled at by everyone in the family. — Jeff Foxworthy Copy Share Image
But how odd that in this heathen nation of empty pews, where churches' bare, ruined choirs are converted into luxury loft living,… — Polly Toynbee Copy Share Image
The first trip I can remember would have to be to Marianna, Arkansas. My mother's parents are from there, and we'd go… — Sterling K. Brown Copy Share Image
I didn't want to raise my daughter in the church because from what I experienced and what I saw, the church becomes… — Leah Remini Copy Share Image
It's not the Church that has made the issue of marriage a matter of federal law. Those who are vigorously advocating for… — Lance B. Wickman Copy Share Image
I believe that the tragedy [like terror attack] that's caused so much grief and suffering to so many thousands and thousands of… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
And when we go to church, read our Bibles, have our quiet times, and go to Christian conferences, we too can build… — Richard Stearns Copy Share Image
Anytime a church squabbles over minor things you can be certain they do not have a clear picture of what they need… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
You are where you are because the generation before you paid attention to their broken heart. — Andy Stanley Copy Share Image
When I think of some of the great renewals in the church I think of folks like St. Francis and Clare of… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
Richard Hadlee has the appearance of a rickety church steeple and a severe manner which suggests that women are not likely to… — Peter Roebuck Copy Share Image
Sometimes I go back and listen to the very first day I went to church. I listen to that sermon all the… — Robert Covington Copy Share Image
“Unfortunately, we often have shallow relationships because we have paper towel friends. We use them up and then throw them away when… — Jayce O'Neal Copy Share Image
Nigerian nun Bernadette Duru says the African church hierarchy is indifferent to people in rural areas. — Sylvia Poggioli Copy Share Image
We had a few calls saying election precincts had closed early. But it turned out that the callers were in the wrong… — Jane Anderson Copy Share Image
Christians well know that the much-decorated statue of the Church, as it now stands, is not of pure chiseled marble, but of… — Virchand Gandhi Copy Share Image
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