I envision a day when every city and town has front and back yards, community gardens and growing spaces, nurtured into life… — Greg Peterson Copy Share Image
Institutional Christianity has had clear secular benefits to American life for hundreds of years. It's played both a prophetic role in terms… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
I looked in temples churches and mosques. But I found the Divine within my heart. — Rumi Copy Share Image
It takes a long time for women to feel it's alright to be chingona. To aspire to be a chingona!...You are saying,… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
Even the street, the sunshine, the very air had a special Sunday quality. We walked differently on Sundays, with greater propriety and… — Rose Wilder Lane Copy Share Image
“The Church is going to have to recognise that secularisation is not the cause of their decline, it is the result of… — Keith Porteous Wood Copy Share Image
The church is an organisation that institutionalises an aversion to homosexuality, it institutionalises gender inequality and it speaks from a place of… — Hozier Copy Share Image
I could hear rain still pouring from the gutters and a thin branch scraping against one of the windows; but the church… — Dodie Smith Copy Share Image
And where are we told in the Scriptures that we are to keep the first day at all? We are commanded to… — Isaac Williams Copy Share Image
It was in that bubble after Vatican II when it seemed like the best time ever to grow up Catholic. It was… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
This doctrine (justification) is the head and the cornerstone. It alone begets, nourishes, builds, preserves, and defends the church of God and… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
He who has spent billions on churches, on mosques and on every kind of sanctuaries is guilty of not giving that money… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
We are now standing in the face of the greatest historical confrontation humanity has gone through. I do not think that wide… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Constantine, the Emperor, saw something in the religion of Christ's people which awakened his interest, and now we see him uniting religion… — George W Truett Copy Share Image
The Catholics have a Pope. Protestants laugh at them, and yet the Pope is capable of intellectual advancement. In addition to this,… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I was pretty young when I decided I wanted to, well, more so be a singer. I started singing in church in… — Naturi Naughton Copy Share Image
I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Nightclubs are the equivalent of a Catholic Church in a poor country. You hear a lot of stuff about churches filled with… — Oscar Hijuelos Copy Share Image
The Lord never had - and never will have to the end of time - a church on the earth without prophets,… — Wilford Woodruff Copy Share Image
The duty of the church is to comfort the disturbed and to disturb the comfortable. — Michael Ramsey Copy Share Image
At a grand evening service in a church, my concerto created such a furor that the worshippers rushed out to keep the… — Niccolo Paganini Copy Share Image
I have faith that the Constitution will be saved as prophesied by Joseph Smith. It will be saved by the righteous citizens… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
I have never pretended to be the best Scientologist, but I openly and vigorously defended the church whenever it was criticized, as… — Paul Haggis Copy Share Image
The Chicago Declaration on Women in the Catholic Church, drafted in July of 2015 by Catholics for Choice, stated that it imagined… — Anthea Butler Copy Share Image
I have been judged vehemently suspect of heresy, that is, of having held and believed that the sun in the centre of… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
You go to a lot of small communities in rural Alberta and you'll find a degree of diversity that probably hasn't existed… — Jason Kenney Copy Share Image
“Most of the church landscape in my lifetime has been heavily invested in trying to do something for Jerry or Sherri or… — James MacDonald Copy Share Image
I became very aware of what I was used to relying on, almost tricks. It's funny because I could feel myself creating… — Zach Condon Copy Share Image
“The Church was not left in this world to perfume the dung-heap of fallen humanity, but to take out, one by one,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For several centuries, the Celtic church of Ireland was spared the Greek dualism of matter and spirit. They regarded the world with… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
We, the women and men of the Church, we are in the middle of a love story: each of us is a… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“Your Heavenly Father’s love elevates you to a place where you can dream big dreams— where you can live with purpose, unafraid.” — Gregory Dickow Copy Share Image
When I look back at the church I grew up in, I realise that nothing about its behaviour was very Christian. It… — James Corden Copy Share Image
The more members of the clergy that are out there working to expand their congregations, the more people will go to church. — Rodney Stark Copy Share Image
Here, the churches seemed to shrink away into eroding corners. They seem to have ceased to be essential parts of American life.… — Sean O'Casey Copy Share Image
The church that can't worship must be entertained. And leaders who can't lead a church to worship must provide the entertainment. — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
Furthermore, in this one Church of Christ no man can be or remain who does not accept, recognize and obey the authority… — Pope Pius XI Copy Share Image
When you go to church, if the pastor at some point doesn't make you laugh, he probably ain't gonna make you join. — R. Kelly Copy Share Image
