I also admire my pastor, John K. Jenkins Sr. (First Baptist Church of Glenarden). My pastor taught me the importance of tithing… — Michelle Singletary Copy Share Image
[Pope Francis] is a humble man. He lives the faith out in his own personal life. ... He's here to be a… — Rick Santorum Copy Share Image
My grandmother went to church, but my mother had been inundated with church and decided that when she had children, she would… — Gloria Gaynor Copy Share Image
A pastor can teach you on TV, but he can't pastor you on TV. There's so much to gain by belonging to… — Chris Oyakhilome Copy Share Image
We are shaped by stories from the first moments of life, and even before. Stories tell us who we are, why we… — Daniel Taylor Copy Share Image
I was aware of it, but I grew up in a very a-religious family. My mother never went to church, she never… — Donald Johanson Copy Share Image
I don't assign myself to the names of any religious or non religious groups I prefer my actions and beliefs to be… — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
“The church has a very narrow commission. It is not called to be an alternative neighborhood, circle of friends, political action committee,… — Michael S. Horton Copy Share Image
Reader! To whatever visible church, synagogue, or mosque you may belong! See if you do not find more true religion among the… — Moses Mendelssohn Copy Share Image
Sola scriptura means at least this: that the church's proclamation is always subject to potential correction from the canon. It is for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We must not falter nor weary in well-doing. We must lengthen our stride. Not only is our own eternal welfare at stake,… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
It is a very rare church indeed that encourages its members to think for themselves in religious matters, or even tolerates this,… — Anne Roe Copy Share Image
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I'm saying that the leaders of the church have locked the sacred cow called science in the stable and they won't let… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
For me, and maybe for many religious kids of the '60s, the church lost relevance the more it became a surrogate in… — Mike McCurry Copy Share Image
And I think my sexuality was heavily repressed by the church, by the, you know, the design of the mortal sins. — Thomas Keneally Copy Share Image
In a long meter hymn, a singer - they call it 'lays out a line.' And then the whole church joins in… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The church was first established and organized with a world-wide mission for a world-wide work. — Roland Allen Copy Share Image
It is not that the Church hasn't been trained in evangelism; it is not a lack of instruction or information. The fact… — Reinhard Bonnke Copy Share Image
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Marches work, rallies work, civil disobedience works, direct action works, voting works, writing letters works, speaking to churches and schools works, rioting… — Cleve Jones Copy Share Image
But it seems that something has happened that has never happened before; though we know not just when, or why, or how,… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
I think my criticism of the Pentecostal tradition that I heard with my sister's church was that it wasn't always audible. You… — David C. Driskell Copy Share Image
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“Culture cannot be a monolithically universal phenomenon without some kind of demonic imposition of one culture over the rest of cultures. Nor… — John D. Zizioulas Copy Share Image
The cash register did more for human morality than the Congregational Church. It was a really powerful phenomenon to make an economic… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
We follow the rules laid out in the Bible for running our church. — William Brewster Copy Share Image
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If kids got raped at Denny's as often as they get raped at church it would be illegal to take your kids… — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
I never really liked the Gospel of John because I never could find the humanity of Jesus in it. I thought it… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
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The Church therefore has one inescapable task: To lift up Christ. When she seeks to lift herself up she becomes weak, but… — Avery Dulles Copy Share Image
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Gentlemen, no one objects to the husband being the head of the wife as Christ was the head of the church--to crucify… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
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