You can plant a church and grow a church. That's not that hard to do, but it's harder to be a viable… — Erwin McManus Copy Share Image
It didn't seem to have relevance, except in Central America or South America, countries where the church was connected to the fight… — Susan Sarandon Copy Share Image
I have always gone to nature, since I was a kid. I was brought up in the woods, I did not have… — David LaChapelle Copy Share Image
If churches want to play the game of politics, let them pay admission like everyone else. — George Carlin Copy Share Image
I'm not a practicing Catholic now. I didn't like what the church was doing with what Jesus had said, in a way.… — Pete Postlethwaite Copy Share Image
Christians don't tell lies, they just go to church and sing them. How many times have you stood and sang, “Take my… — Leonard Ravenhill Copy Share Image
I still went to church regularly every Sunday; that is we all went there together. I reverenced the family pew where we… — Pierre Loti Copy Share Image
A laboratory of natural history is a sanctuary where nothing profane should be tolerated. I feel less agony at improprieties in churches… — Louis Agassiz Copy Share Image
I've known a lot of very religious people. My mother is very religious, but she was also very - is very private… — Michael Shannon Copy Share Image
I think in a lot of network television, everyone's vaguely Protestant and doesn't really go to church so they can be 'relatable.' — Rachel Bloom Copy Share Image
On day one, the Church wasn't for church people because there weren't any church people. — Andy Stanley Copy Share Image
The very word woman in the writings of the church fathers stood for the basest of temptations... As women were lowered in… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
Did those nice church ladies come by again?" He nodded. "I asked them if a man died and then the woman remarried,… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
The Church is or should go back to being a community of God's people, and priests, pastors and bishops, who have the… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“It is important to think about the Church not as "over there" but as a community of struggling, weak people of whom… — Henri J.M. Nouwen Copy Share Image
If you choose to be obedient to God, God meets you with divine enablement. — Johnny Hunt Copy Share Image
The evangelical movement has become just a bit victimized by a success-oriented culture, wanting the church - like the corporation - to… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Will turned around slowly, wiping blood from his face. "You're glaring at me," he said to Magnus. "You look like Church before… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
We must stop this incessant victimhood mentality. Somebody else will not fix things. Somebody else will not make me healthy. Somebody else… — Joel Salatin Copy Share Image
I have a vision of the whole Church getting nearer to God by abiding by the precepts of the Book of Mormon. — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
We don't have a lot of churches in America; we have a lot of really nice brick buildings on finely manicured lawns!… — Paul Washer Copy Share Image
[The Drafters of the Constitution] were intent on avoiding more than 100 years of religious intolerance and persecution in American colonial history… — John M Swomley Copy Share Image
Jesus, could you please rapture the charismaniac lady who brings her tambourine to church? — Mark Driscoll Copy Share Image
“Don't compare yourself to other Christians. Compare yourself to Christ. He is the one you follow. He is the one other Christians… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
If I had a motto, it would be, 'Believe in God, fear the church'. — Margrethe Vestager Copy Share Image
I think it's already apparent that a good part of this Nation understands - if only instinctively - that anything which seems… — Mario Cuomo Copy Share Image
In fact, my parents were church people; my father was a deacon in the church. — Tina Turner Copy Share Image
The fact that we became a nation and immediately separated church and state - it has saved us from all the misery… — Dumas Malone Copy Share Image
The story goes that a public sinner was excommunicated and forbidden entry to the church. He took his woes to God. 'They… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
At the age of 13, I felt it was up to me to decide whether I wanted to go to church or… — Gareth Gates Copy Share Image
I was raised in the Methodist Church, which is a very Germanic, military kind of music they have there. I heard this… — Leon Russell Copy Share Image
Only the [Catholic] Church stood squarely across the path of Hitler’s campaign for suppressing truth. I never had any special interest in… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The Westboro Baptist Church is no more a church than Church's Fried Chicken is a church. — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
For millions of men and women, the church has been the hospital for the soul, the school for the mind and the… — Gerald R. Ford Copy Share Image
Faith is the door to the full inner life of the Church, a life which includes not only access to an authoritative… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
You know that when Irving puts the dog in the car, it is no longer in the yard. When Edna goes to… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
I know the celestial criteria measure service, not status; the use of our talents, not the relative size of our talent inventories.… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
We have to learn how to control our minds. We have to learn self-control. — Francis Chan Copy Share Image
Many survivors refuse to talk about what they went through but I've never been ashamed to have been in one of those… — Mary Norris Copy Share Image
![“It didn't seem to have relevance, except in Central America or South America, countries where the church was connected to the fight of the people for economic justice. That's why it was so interesting to find myself back with Sister Helen [in Dead Man Walking], this new breed of nuns who were…” quote by Susan Sarandon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/621/susan-sarandon-2799_america_it-didn-t-seem-to-have-relevance-except_3022821.jpg)
![“[The Drafters of the Constitution] were intent on avoiding more than 100 years of religious intolerance and persecution in American colonial history and an even longer heritage of church-state problems in Europe.” quote by John M Swomley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/257/john-m-swomley-49727_avoiding_the-drafters-of-the-constitution-were-in_3029233.jpg)
![“Only the [Catholic] Church stood squarely across the path of Hitler’s campaign for suppressing truth. I never had any special interest in the Church before, but now I feel a great affection and admiration because the Church alone has had the courage and persistence to stand for intellectual truth…” quote by Albert Einstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/52c/albert-einstein-33_admiration_only-the-catholic-church-stood-squarely_3034392.jpg)
