The African American's relationship to Africa has long been ambivalent, at least since the early nineteenth century, when 3,000 black men crowded… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
A false religion out of the church will not hurt the church, any more than weeds in the wilderness hurt an enclosed… — Roger Williams Copy Share Image
I am worried by the Blessed Virgin’s messages to Lucy of Fatima. This persistence of Mary about the dangers which menace the… — Pope Pius XII Copy Share Image
Currently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries. — Alan Hirsch Copy Share Image
Nobody sees the obvious, nobody observes the ordinary. There are more miracles in a square yard of earth than in all the… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
The Spirit of God first imparts love; He next inspires hope, and then gives liberty; and that is about the last thing… — Dwight L. Moody Copy Share Image
To those who have no personal experience of this revolutionary aspect of Christian truth, but who see only the outer crust of… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Religion does a lot of good, especially the loving kind, like at Grace Church. I know people who went to a more… — Jerry DeWitt Copy Share Image
The most important part of religion isn't in any church. It's down in your own heart. Religion is in your thoughts, and… — Maud Hart Lovelace Copy Share Image
It is glorious to be a member. It is glorious to have any office or calling in the Church, no matter how… — Henry D. Moyle Copy Share Image
The only place I've found peace in my life is in church. I owe my life to God. — Darryl Strawberry Copy Share Image
I've been singing all my life. I've always wanted this. I sang in church, in school plays, and my parents gave me… — Aaliyah Copy Share Image
It’s the strangest thing about this church - it is obsessed with sex, absolutely obsessed. Now they will say we, with our… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
One night I walked out of the church when the priest said that we should never have fought the Revolutionary war and… — Wesley Clark Copy Share Image
I have written many works to accompany Old Church Slavonic texts. — Krzysztof Penderecki Copy Share Image
The church, inserted and active in human society and in history, does not exist in order to exercise political power or to… — Claudio Hummes Copy Share Image
One of the challenges of the church is to accept humanity for all it is. — Tom Shadyac Copy Share Image
In time, the church will actually be organized more as a military force with an army, navy, air force, etc. — Rick Joyner Copy Share Image
A great deal of what is being published by writers in the religious tradition is a scandal and is actually turning people… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The passion for art is, as for believers, very religious. It unites people, its message is of common humanity. Art has become… — Francois Pinault Copy Share Image
Everybody knows that really intimate conversation is only possible between two or three. As soon as there are six or seven, collective… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
My earliest memories about music are connected with going to church and listening to organ music. I am not from a musical… — Rafal Blechacz Copy Share Image
I think I just knew in my head there was something special about 'My Church,' and getting to accept a Grammy for… — Maren Morris Copy Share Image
Today's widespread relegation of religion to merely something people do only in the privacy of their homes or churches would have been… — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
I, like, prayed inside of my head as a little kid. I didn't grow up in a religious home, but we went… — John 5 Copy Share Image
“The end product of the successful preacher's input is transformation.” — Christian Michael Copy Share Image
If the average church should suddenly take seriously the notion that every lay member man or woman is really a minister of… — D. Elton Trueblood Copy Share Image
Spirituality and faith are at the core of who I am. I was born to deeply religious parents who were able to… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
The North American Church is at a critical juncture. The gospel of grace is being confused and compromised by silence, seduction, and… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
The words "Think and Thank" are inscribed in many of the Cromwellian churches of England. These words ought to be inscribed in… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
Then Jesus introduced Himself to me. Though my birth certificate reads 1983, I reckon I was born in 1999, when I met… — Brooke Fraser Copy Share Image
That I am not a member of any Christian church is true; but I have never denied the truth of the Scriptures,… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Standards of conduct appropriate to civil society or the workings of a democracy cannot be purely and simply applied to the Church. — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Sometimes we can think it would be great to live around the time of Christ in order to be very close to… — Devlin Hodges Copy Share Image
The separation of church and state is necessary partly because if religion is good then the state shouldn't interfere with the religious… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
When we talk about values, I think of rationality in solving problems. That's something I value. Fairness, kindness, generosity, tolerance. That's different.… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
I have devoted my energies to the study of the scriptures, observing monastic discipline, and singing the daily services in church; study,… — Venerable Bede Copy Share Image
The idea of America's religious groups fighting over the limited public money to be made available takes us down the road towards… — David Saperstein Copy Share Image
![“When we talk about values, I think of rationality in solving problems. That's something I value. Fairness, kindness, generosity, tolerance. That's different. When they [Conservative right wing Republicans] talk about values, they're talking about things like going to church, voting for Bush, being…” quote by Bill Maher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/307/bill-maher-211_church_when-we-talk-about-values-i-think-of-rat_1042837.jpg)
