If I just think of the churches in my little town here because I've been to every one of them, there are… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
There is something childish and legalistic about churches in which all of the saints observe precisely the same standards. When all lives… — Walter J Chantry Copy Share Image
There are good, humanitarian people everywhere - occasionally even in the Church. — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
Has God no living church? He has a church, but it is the church militant, not the church triumphant. We are sorry… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
For the millions that suffer unjustly, the Confessing Church does not yet have a heart. — Karl Barth Copy Share Image
I remember I started isolating myself. I stopped going to church and believing in God. People would say to me 'Be happy,'… — Bianca Belair Copy Share Image
The wonderful thing about the black church for me is that it forces you to come to terms with the centrality of… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Most mainline Protestant churches are, to one degree or another, post-Christian. If they no longer seem disposed to converting the unbelieving to… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
He will be the best Christian who has Christ for his Master, and truly follows Him. Some are disciples of the church,… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
The Church has not yet touched the fringe of the possibilities of intercessory prayer. Her largest victories will be witnessed when individual… — John Mott Copy Share Image
I think that together the church has learned a lot, and as we know from our own oversight board, the involvement of… — Roger Mahony Copy Share Image
Mission is not primarily an activity of the church, but an attribute of God. — David Bosch Copy Share Image
When we place our faith in Christ, God becomes our Father, we become his children, other believers become our brothers and sisters,… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
[M]an has been accustomed, ever since he was a boy, to having a dozen incompatible philosophies dancing about together inside his head.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The law known as Marchetta, or Marquette, compelled newly married women to a most dishonorable servitude. They were regarded as the rightful… — Matilda Joslyn Gage Copy Share Image
Early man recognised these lines of force and marked them out on the landscape with, well, any old thing, really standing stones,… — Stephen R. Lawhead Copy Share Image
The priestly vocation is essentially a call to sanctity, in the form that derives from the Sacrament of Holy Orders. Sanctity is… — Pope John Paul I Copy Share Image
The contemporary quarrel over church and state is not really about whether a wall of separation of church and state should exist… — James Davison Hunter Copy Share Image
The English Established Church... will more readily pardon an attack on 38 of its 39 articles than on 1/39 of its income. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
I'm happiest in an empty church. I love the smell of a church. — Michael Patrick King Copy Share Image
Each heartfelt prayer, each Church meeting attended, each worthy friend, each righteous decision, each act of service perfomed all precede that goal… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
And all the world is football-shaped It's just for me to kick in space And I can see, hear, smell, touch, taste… — Andy Partridge Copy Share Image
Parasitism is the only practice of the church; with its ideal of anaemia, its holiness, draining all blood, all love, all hope… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Just because you don't go to church Sunday morning doesn't mean you forfeit your right of having any help or guidance from… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The "wall of separation between church and State" is a metaphor based on bad history. — William Rehnquist Copy Share Image
“The word miracle, as pronounced by Christian churches, gives a false impression; it is a monster. It is not one with the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The history of the Church has been a history of divisiveness, repression and reaction. For almost 2000 years, Christianity has held mankind… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
I believe strongly in the Constitutional principle of separating church and state. Our founders were right in fearing that religious freedom would… — Sargent Shriver Copy Share Image
One of the loveliest things about being grown up is the knowledge that never again will I have to go through the… — Peg Bracken Copy Share Image
Since the Icelandic volcano obviously needs a virgin sacrifice and the Catholic Church obviously needs new leadership the Pope must volunteer to… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
What the church most needs is not heroes of faith, but faithful followers of Jesus. — Scot McKnight Copy Share Image
I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I've grown so much since 1996. I think that was the turning point of when I started to go to church every… — Lisa Leslie Copy Share Image
If the Christian church is to move responsibly towards the future, it must restore or renew its ties with its past. Contemporary… — Ronald H. Nash Copy Share Image
Well, I think that Catholicism's basic foundation of faith is personal conscience. I think it's between you and God, not you and… — Martin Sheen Copy Share Image
Is it possible that I am not alone in believing that in the dispute between Galileo and the Church, the Church was… — Stephen Vizinczey Copy Share Image
There's a little bit of gospel in everything I do. But I don't know if I will ever do a gospel album.… — El DeBarge Copy Share Image
Do not fancy, as too many do, that thou canst praise God by singing hymns to Him in church once a week,… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
Only the Muslims defend their beliefs by burning down churches, killing people and destroying embassies. This path will not yield any results.… — Wafa Sultan Copy Share Image
At stake are two different visions of faith, the Church of Caesar, powerful and rich; and the Church of Christ - loving,… — Penny Lernoux Copy Share Image
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