My mom is the piano player in my dad's church - she's also the choir director - and she's just a musician… — Marc Martel Copy Share Image
“As a teenager, I began to question the Great Christian Sorting System. My gay friends in high school were kind and funny… — Nadia Bolz-Weber Copy Share Image
The only economic paradigm that movies have ever known is capitalism. There were no church sponsors or state patronage. The idea was… — Paul Schrader Copy Share Image
The Earth is indeed a precious gift of the Creator who, in designing its intrinsic order, has given us bearings that guide… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
My father was an itinerant preacher who traveled the country's heartland preaching from town to town and church to church. — Julia Butterfly Hill Copy Share Image
In the Eucharistic Sacrifice the Church venerates the memory of Mary the ever Virgin Mother of God and the memory of Saint… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
I do not love the Sabbath, The soapsuds and the starch, The troops of solemn people Who to Salvation march. I take… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
People like Clyde McPhatter who came out of the black churches - like Sam Cooke and Aretha Franklin - were all church… — Ahmet Ertegun Copy Share Image
Christian proclamation might make the gospel audible, but Christians living together in local congregations make the gospel visible (see John 13:34-35). The… — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
Universities are of course hostile to geniuses, which, seeing and using ways of their own, discredit the routine: as churches and monasteries… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If you claim to be a follower of Christ, I encourage you to consider your present commitment to a local church. — David Platt Copy Share Image
The things that I look at include Renaissance art. I'm obsessed with churches and paintings of saints. — Nan Goldin Copy Share Image
This new large-scale spiritual awakening is occurring primarily not within the confines of the established religions, but outside of those structures. Some… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
In the Church, when we talk about 'the world', we often create an us and them situation and end up planting the… — Steve Scott Copy Share Image
I was born in the summer of 1970, the last of five boys stretched over eight years. My parents were a struggling… — Charles M. Blow Copy Share Image
The first miracle after the baptism of the Holy Ghost was wroughtly upon a beggar. It means that the first service of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I go to church every Sunday, which is like going to the gas station once a week and really, really filling up. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I never meet a church that wishes they didn't do it. I never meet a leader that wishes they didn't do it.… — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
We'd just go to church and sing. My dad would get me and my sister Doris, and we would sing together. I… — George Jones Copy Share Image
Turn your churches into halls of science, and devote your leisure day to the study of your own bodies, the analysis of… — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
The new American, like the new European, was the servant of the powerhouse, as the European of the twelfth century was the… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
That wall is a one directional wall. It keeps the government from running the church but it makes sure that Christian principles… — David Barton Copy Share Image
The world can no longer be left to mere diplomats, politicians, and business leaders. They have done the best they could, no… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
And the angel said unto me: Behold the formation of a church which is most abominable above all other churches, which slayeth… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
