It is not difficult to understand why the great God of heaven has reserved these special spirits for the final work of… — Vaughn J Featherstone Copy Share Image
There is some Eighties music that is just timeless. The melodies, the lyrics... I called it church. Church in club. You can… — Grace Jones Copy Share Image
“Non-churchgoers tend to see Christians as takers rather than givers. When Christians sacrifice and give wildly to the poor, that is truly… — Francis Chan Copy Share Image
When I'm sitting in the church alone, I can hear singing of the old people. I can hear their singing and I… — Ernest Gaines Copy Share Image
The birth of the church was during a prayer meeting, not preaching, not singing, but prayer. — Jim Cymbala Copy Share Image
I'm afraid I haven't become a born-again Christian. I'm sort of 'Church of England, lapsed' is about as far as I go. — David Gilmour Copy Share Image
Christ is still in Christmas, and for one brief season the secular world broadcasts the message of Christ over every radio station… — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
'Amoris Latetia' reiterates that Pope Francis is interested in changing both the tone and reception of people and families in the church… — Anthea Butler Copy Share Image
Our own theological Church, as we know, has scorned and vilified the body till it has seemed almost a reproach and a… — Eliza Farnham Copy Share Image
For example, I was a White House intern the summer before I dropped out of law school. Everybody knew about it. I'd… — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
If you were good enough, there would be no need of confessing Christ at all. It is just because you are not… — Washington Gladden Copy Share Image
We do not want churches because they will teach us to quarrel about God. We do not want to learn that. We… — Chief Joseph Copy Share Image
I was not in the church, but we claim, like so many people, 'Yeah, I grew up in the church.' Well yeah,… — Lou Brock Copy Share Image
People forget that the church is bigger than China. It speaks more languages than the United Nations. It has more volunteers than… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
We merely want to live in peace with all the world, to trade with them, to commune with them, to learn from… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
The Reformation did not directly touch the question of the true character of God's church. — John Nelson Darby Copy Share Image
From you we have learned what we, at least, value, to separate Church and State; and from you we gather inspiration at… — Seth Low Copy Share Image
Where do you think you would be now if Jesus would not have saved you when He did. — Johnny Hunt Copy Share Image
The greatest obstacle in the apostolate of the Church is the timidity or rather the cowardice of the faithful. — Pope Pius X Copy Share Image
Where older religions promised heaven, the church of yoga promises quicker, more practical, earthly gratification, in the form of better heart rates… — Hanna Rosin Copy Share Image
The wisest man could ask no more of fate Than to be simple, modest, manly, true, Safe from the many, honored by… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
The Church responds to antiquated social realities, and those realities remain much more current in Utah precisely because of the Church. — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
We admit of no government by divine right, believing that so far as power is concerned the Beneficent Creator has made no… — William Henry Harrison Copy Share Image
I don't mind saying, you know, that I don't take a salary from the church, and God has blessed me with more… — Joel Osteen Copy Share Image
When you grow up in the church, the only translation in that insular world that people understand is preaching. You're supposed to… — Billy Porter Copy Share Image
A church is disaffected when it is persecuted, quiet when it is tolerated, and actively loyal when it is favored and cherished. — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
In His discourses, His miracles, His parables, His sufferings, His resurrection, He gradually raises the pedestal of His humanity before the world,… — Edward Thomson Copy Share Image
When a church manipulates the law to say, "These people are lesser," it takes a lot of resilience to hold your head… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
After 'The Hurt & The Healer', we kind of hit a wall. I grew up in a somewhat legalistic church and it… — Bart Millard Copy Share Image
Without a common loyalty to either a state or a church they have nevertheless a vast deal in common. — Emily Greene Balch Copy Share Image
The true Church has never sounded out public expectations before launching her mission. Her leaders heard from God, they knew their Lord's… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
The clerical system of church management is exceedingly popular, but the whole thought is foreign to Scripture. In a church all the… — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
Let us labor for the security of free thought, free speech, pure morals, unfettered religious sentiments, and equal rights and privileges for… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
The Missional church always thinks of the long haul rather than the quick fix — Michael Frost Copy Share Image
It is useless saying that we do not accept the gods of the primitive world. In form, no; in essence, yes. The… — Chapman Cohen Copy Share Image
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