Once involved in the school-prayer fight, I rapidly became aware of, and appalled by, the political and economic power of the Church… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
Stoning prophets and erecting churches to their memory afterwards has been the way of the world through the ages. Today we worship… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
We all want to feel spiritually vigorous, and we hurt when we don't. This pain is intensified for people who lead church… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
I go to church for the cultural element. It's where you go to see Greek people once a week. It's real important… — George Pelecanos Copy Share Image
We must learn to measure ourselves, not by our knowledge about God, not by our gifts and responsibilities in the church, but… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
I was raised as a Catholic, but I didn't like the Catholic Church at all. I thought the nuns were mean. — Francis Ford Coppola Copy Share Image
Well, we are Americans. I've always believed that you work with where you are - I am a Mormon woman who was… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
Yes, I'm a Pastor of a church called Understand Principles for Better Living Church, in Los Angeles, CA. — Della Reese Copy Share Image
After I graduated from college, while traveling around Europe, hitchhiking, doing the tourist thing, I went into a church in Dublin. — Frederica Mathewes-Green Copy Share Image
Superficial parallels were drawn between the Church and the Nazi Party, with its emphasis on active involvement by every member. The women's… — Fawn M. Brodie Copy Share Image
Religion and liberty are inseparable. Religion is voluntary, and cannot, and ought not to be forced. This is a fundamental article of… — Philip Schaff Copy Share Image
God exposes your sin...And you see yourself as small as you are in the presence of a holy God. — Johnny Hunt Copy Share Image
The Church of Christ is constituted in two orders, the clergy and the people, the one having the care of the Church… — Thomas Becket Copy Share Image
I think the Catholic and Protestant churches have become very stagnant. — Sally Quinn Copy Share Image
God tries you in certain, certain ways. Some people are rich, and they believe in God. They lose the money, things get… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
It is the Holy Ghost in us that is everything, and the Father is willing to bestow Him upon the weakest if… — Griffith John Copy Share Image
Why cast yourself over a cliff, deciding in your writings about things of which you are ignorant? Why do you not keep… — Eusebius Copy Share Image
The disciples worshipped the most high Lord Who had come down from heaven, made the earth into heaven and gone up again… — Gregory Palamas Copy Share Image
Great churches aren't built on the gifts or talents of a few, but on the sacrifice of many. — Brian Houston Copy Share Image
The bland assumption that the Church's life will continue to be fruitful so long as we go on praying and cultivating our… — Harry Blamires Copy Share Image
The fact that a Jewish state needs to exist at all - and it does need to exist - is an indictment… — Pat Condell Copy Share Image
The Christian churches and Christianity have nothing in common save in name: they are utterly hostile opposites. The churches are arrogance, violence,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We need to be more grateful. I think there is no true character without gratitude. It is one of the marks of… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
“I am an old man, and I here declare that I never knew them to be productive of any good in the… — Adam Clarke Copy Share Image
In a world where families are drowning on beaches to escape war, leaving the church because of sexual abuse, or denied access… — Anthea Butler Copy Share Image
When I was young, it was sort of built to intimidate. Even on this very local level in this very small church… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
Wherever thou goest, whatever thou dost at home, or abroad, in the field, or at church, do all in a desire of… — William Law Copy Share Image
God requires no person to spend his or her life reiterating the gospel to people who will not receive it. He wants… — A. B. Simpson Copy Share Image
No one has ever been accused for not providing ornaments, but for those who neglect their neighbour a hell awaits with an… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
But I must add that the U.S. government must not, as by this order, undertake to run the churches. When an individual,… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
If anyone dared to assert that the Pontiff had erred in this or that canonisation, we shall say that he is, if… — Pope Benedict XIV Copy Share Image
One of the major failures of the church is not a focus on building disciples but a focus on building members. — Tony Evans Copy Share Image
The Church needs more people willing to wash feet, not just point out they're dirty or complain that they smell. — Mark Hart Copy Share Image
I lost my faith in God when I lost my daughter to Cancer, the beast. I begged, I cried, I offered my… — Vince Neil Copy Share Image
According to Scripture, the invisible church includes everyone who has ever been genuinely born again for every age of church history. This… — Wayne Mack Copy Share Image
