“The holiest place on Earth, is not a temple or a church, but our relationship to one another.” — Dragos Bratasanu, Ph.D Copy Share Image
I've known a lot of religious people. My mother is very religious, but she also is very private about it. When I… — Michael Shannon Copy Share Image
I have met so many young people who do not see the church as relevant and do not consider the Bible a… — Ken Ham Copy Share Image
So vast a sum, receiving all the protection and benefits of the government, without bearing its proportion of the burdens and expenses… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
My grandmother took me to church on Sunday all day long, every Sunday into the night. Then Monday evening was the missionary… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The religious superstition is encouraged by means of the institution of churches, processions, monuments, festivities....The so-called clergy stupefy the masses....They befog the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Today many politicians suggest that where the federal government does not act, there must be anarchy. That view is odd, blinkering out… — Amity Shlaes Copy Share Image
I repeat that no greater immediate responsibility rests upon members of the Church, upon all citizens of this republic and of neighboring… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
Art always used to involve spirit. Painters painted spirit. They painted by commission things to go into churches, and that was painting… — Brian Froud Copy Share Image
Finally, I believe in an America where religious intolerance will someday end; where all men and all churches are treated as equal;… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
I have a very stylish mom, who is just like a beautiful Lord & Taylor queen, always wearing a '90s suit. She… — Ayo Edebiri Copy Share Image
A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I encounter many Christians who've been raised in the church but never realized that there's a cohesive storyline from Genesis to Revelation. — David Kim Copy Share Image
There's no doubt that the Christian right has gone to bed with the more conservative elements of the Republican Party. And there's… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
The name of the new religion, said Rumfoord, is The Church of God the Utterly Indifferent. . . The two chief teachings… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“While the system of institutional churches of various stripes has been well established, the recovery of the independent assembly in homes, house… — Henry Hon Copy Share Image
Literature was not promulgated by a pale and emasculated critical priesthood singing their litanies in empty churches, nor is it a game… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
The trouble is that neutrality is confused with hostility. We're not disrupting churches, or interrupting people's prayers. We're not fighting religion. — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
Now whether you like it or not, whether you want to admit it or not, whether you want to operate on it… — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
The church as a whole has strayed quite far from biblical evangelism; that is, sharing the Gospel in the way that Jesus… — Kirk Cameron Copy Share Image
In this life, such things as service in the Church, including missionary service, all of this is available to anyone who is… — Lance B. Wickman Copy Share Image
The artistic taste of the Catholic priests is appalling and I am most anxious to have a Catholic church in which everything… — Giles Gilbert Scott Copy Share Image
The people I grew up around, almost all of them had been born and raised in the South. And, you know, they… — Edward P. Jones Copy Share Image
“Baptism is one of those more effective rites that come in with the new covenant. The fact that baptism takes the place… — Peter Leithart Copy Share Image
Too many churches think being like Jesus means you stay the same yesterday today and forever. — Phil Waldrep Copy Share Image
Now, apparently strengthened as by a new spirit, with "might in the inner man," he labored with renewed energy and zeal; and… — Christmas Evans Copy Share Image
Church bells beyond the stars heard, the soul's blood, The land of spices; something understood. — George Herbert Copy Share Image
Books are good but they are only maps. Reading a book by direction of a man I read that so many inches… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I would recommend a free commerce both of matter and mind. I would let men enter their own churches with the same… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Pastor Saeed Abedini is coming home. Held for three and a half years, his unyielding faith has inspired people around the world… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The goal of this office will not be to favor one religious group over another - or even religious groups over secular… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
When we adopt—and when we encourage a culture of adoption in our churches and communities—we’re picturing something that’s true about our God.… — Russell D. Moore Copy Share Image
Religion is not the hero of the day, but the zero. In any exposition of the products of brains, the Sunday-School takes… — Marilla Ricker Copy Share Image
I think that the church has to develop its own agenda, and not allow itself to be consumed by either party to… — T. D. Jakes Copy Share Image
The task of evangelizing all people constitutes the essential mission of the Church. It is a task and mission which the vast… — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image
Anything that's outside the standard of the average black male is looked down upon. For me, I wasn't raised playing sports. I… — Ashton Sanders Copy Share Image
We must not reduce the bosom of the universal church to a nest protecting our mediocrity. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
