The theology of the average colored church is basing itself far too much upon Hell and Damnation-upon an attempt to scare people… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
If we go to church we are confronted with a system of begging so complicated and so resolute that all other demands… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
No one can fail to see that the power of the Church among large numbers in many communities is today diminishing, or… — Felix Adler Copy Share Image
I have a lot of memories of Falls Church. I went to grade school in Madison Elementary School. — Jim Fowler Copy Share Image
How can the Church be received as a trustworthy guide in the invisible, which falls into so many errors in the visible? — John William Draper Copy Share Image
Everything Hitler did to the Jews, all the horribly unspeakable misdeeds, had already been done to the smitten people before by the… — Dagobert D. Runes Copy Share Image
Today, Church policy in Ireland is to report allegations of abuse to the civil authorities. It recognises the Gardai and H.S.E. as… — Sean Brady Copy Share Image
The greatest block today in the way of woman's emancipation is the church, the canon law, the Bible and the priesthood. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Every home is a house of learning either for good or otherwise. Family members may learn to be obedient, honest, industrious, self-reliant,… — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
We have to have the Vision. And we have to form the Intention. And we have to adopt the Means. Vision. Intention.… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
We grow up as natural optimists as Americans. Catholic priests were so hopeful as we watched the Vatican II experience. Yet, it's… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
I used to go to church. I even went through a rather intense religious period when I was sixteen. But the idea… — Louis Auchincloss Copy Share Image
Dear Isabelle, Alec is about to have a nervous breakdown. If you do not immediately desist planing my wedding to your brother,… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
The task of the church is to make the invisible Kingdom visible through faithful Christian living and witness-bearing . — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
I have such happy memories of performing in a choir and I don't think I'd have got where I am today without… — Katherine Jenkins Copy Share Image
“People are not being reached in the context of the body of Christ--they're like newborn babies being left on a doorstep somewhere… — Peter E. Gillquist Copy Share Image
Jim Jones wanted his people to believe the establishment was trying to kill him because whites were threatened by his message of… — Julia Scheeres Copy Share Image
Our error today is that we do not expect a converted man to be a transformed man, and as a result of… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
My son, the Holy Church is on the right, but Jesus Christ was always on the left. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
The Church needs your faith, your idealism and your generosity, so that she can always be young in the Spirit. — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
I sought for the greatness and genius of America in her commodious harbors and her ample rivers, and it was not there;… — W. Cleon Skousen Copy Share Image
I solemnly declare that this spiritual kingdom of faith will move forward with or without each of us individually. No unhallowed hand… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
We need to avoid the spiritual sickness of a church that is wrapped up in its own world: when a church becomes… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
There's more than one mosque in the world that used to be a church and before that was a temple. Because it's… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
[Non-Catholic Christians are] in a gravely deficient situation in comparison with those who, in the [Roman Catholic] church, have the fullness of… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
A 100 years from now the consequences for standing for Jesus will be greater than the consequences of not standing for Jesus today. — Mike Huckabee Copy Share Image
I figured the songs wouldn't make much of a splash. I didn't think 'Take Me To Church' would play on the radio… — Hozier Copy Share Image
Make careful choice of the books which you read: let the holy scriptures ever have the pre-eminence, and, next to them, those… — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
It can have a secular purpose and have a relationship to God because God was presumed to be both over the state… — Roy Moore Copy Share Image
This is a great country, and it's a melting pot. People shouldn't judge other people by the color of their skin, their… — Jesse White Copy Share Image
Is the Church fulfilling a purely religious role when by its silence or friendly relationships it lends legitimacy to dictatorial and oppressive… — Gustavo Gutiérrez Copy Share Image
Encourage free schools and resolve that not one dollar appropriated for their support shall be appropriated to the support of any sectarian… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
God doesn't want you to go to church. He wants you to want to go to church. — Curtis Martin Copy Share Image
Truth is the silliest thing under the sun. Try to get a living by the Truth and go to the Soup Societies.… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
The church, the state, and the poor, are 3 daughters which we should maintain, but not portion off. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
In the reign of the Greek Emperor Justinian , and again in the reign of Phocas , the Bishop of Rome obtained… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
Instead of being just a church that welcomes and receives by keeping the doors open, let us try also to be a… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
You can look at anything as a cult. Churches are cults in their own way. — Philip Seymour Hoffman Copy Share Image
If the Church ever succeeds in doing that big thing, that great thing, that unspeakable thing that God purposes that we should… — John G. Lake Copy Share Image
I sang in the glee club and church choir, but I never sang a solo. I never thought of myself as a… — Jim Nabors Copy Share Image