Enthusiasm is as good a thing in the Church as fire is in a cook stove. — Billy Sunday Copy Share Image
I think that one of the things that Christianity really needs, and the church really needs, is credibility. People need to be… — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
A society like the Church, which claims to be Divine is perhaps more dangerous on account of the ersatz good which it… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
In the Church of Jesus Christ there can and should be no non-theologians. — Karl Barth Copy Share Image
I am not a religious man. I have not attended a service for many years. But I do believe in God. My… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I love the spiritual side of religion, but the church, for me, is a place where I feel very repressed. — Julia Davis Copy Share Image
SACERDOTALIST, n. One who holds the belief that a clergyman is a priest. Denial of this momentous doctrine is the hardest challenge… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I certainly think so, and I argue so, and I give talks on that. Are there risks by putting people together? Absolutely.… — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
It is the custom of the Roman Church which I unworthily serve with the help of God, to tolerate some things, to… — Pope Gregory VII Copy Share Image
I didn't grow up in the Catholic church, but I went to a Catholic high school and a Catholic college, and the… — Chris Sullivan Copy Share Image
And so one may be without connection with any church, and even without connection with any established religion, and yet be in… — Ralph Waldo Trine Copy Share Image
You must not count much upon what I can do or learn in New York.... Everything there disappoints me but the crowd;… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The bells are a very good investment. They never break if they are maintained. I can teach the kids the basics. They… — Dan Gable Copy Share Image
I think that the churches do a better job in many respects than the government does in various kinds of things. Extending… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
Always keep your eye on the President of the church, and if he ever tells you to do anything, even if it… — Marion G. Romney Copy Share Image
I don't know of any authentically evangelical church where people would be excluded or even disrespected because of their ethnicity or skin… — John MacArthur Copy Share Image
Christians tend to motivate others with guilt. We tend to say: You would do this if you were really committed Christians, indicating… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“I can never endorse sin any more than when I tell people it's their nature to do it.” — D.R. Silva Copy Share Image
When I was little, I went to church with my family to get baptized, and the choir was singing and I just… — Doechii Copy Share Image
I have a body and I have a soul. And my body belongs to the faith - in fact, the church -… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
There are ten church-members by inheritance for one by conviction. — Austin O'Malley Copy Share Image
But I like going to church. If you've been brought up in the Church of England, it feels like visiting an elderly… — Jack Dee Copy Share Image
[The church's] job is to provide permanent solace and spiritual leadership to the people as a whole, whatever their government at the… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
I grew up loving music and being super involved in church choir and school musicals and such, but when I started writing… — Kelsea Ballerini Copy Share Image
The Church is not a political power, nor a political party, but rather a moral reality, a moral force. — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
“At present, a good many men engaged in scientific pursuits, and who have signally failed in gaining recognition among their fellows, are… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I hate dogma in any form. I hated it in the Catholic Church and Girl Scout troops of the 1950s, and I… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
The goal was not only to teach people the Bible and minister to people personally and spiritually, but also to build a… — Tony Evans Copy Share Image
What is dangerous about the far right is not that it takes religion seriously - most of us do - but rather… — Barbra Streisand Copy Share Image
The nearest my parents came to alcohol was at Holy Communion and they utterly overestimated its effects. However bad the weather, Dad… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
If my duty does involve heralding His law in every arena, then the Church in America is failing radically today. — Randall Terry Copy Share Image
Some of our strongest critics, especially inside the church, said we had turned our backs on traditional gospel music and were just… — Kirk Franklin Copy Share Image
“One Tree is of life, the other is of death. Do our fruits hang from the bad tree, or the good? Only… — Ted Roberts Copy Share Image
I've done three short films with 'The Chosen' creator Dallas Jenkins, staged a passion play at my local church and even as… — Jonathan Roumie Copy Share Image
Every Christian church has tried to impose a code of morals of some kind for which it has claimed divine sanction. As… — John B. S. Haldane Copy Share Image
These then are the marks of the ideal Church - love, suffering, holiness, sound doctrine, genuineness, evangelism and humility. They are what… — John Stott Copy Share Image
The Church has been foreordained of God to become that people who will become so glorified that we can bring Christ back… — Earl Paulk Copy Share Image
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