The Bill of Rights decoupled religion from the state, in part because so many religions were steeped in an absolutist frame of… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
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I always liked church. I was one of those kids who was desperate for the statue of Mary to talk to me,… — Carrie Coon Copy Share Image
if the devil can get the church to withdraw from prayer by believing reasonable excuses, the church is under his dominion. — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
Voices that say the age of the church is over are voices who haven't listened to Jesus. — Robert Godfrey Copy Share Image
A cloud of incense was rising on high; the people suddenly all bowed low; what could it mean? The truth flashed on… — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
Let the fires go out in the boiler room of the church and the place will still look smart and clean, but… — Leonard Ravenhill Copy Share Image
There is a study that shows that people who were asked their political opinions, when there was a picture of the American… — Robert Cialdini Copy Share Image
Too often [the Church] is weighted down and burdened with the sins and failings of her children; too often she appears disfigured… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Singing in church is a very different approach to music. It's very much about transcending the idea of self. It's about finding… — Lizz Wright Copy Share Image
Solid scriptural theology should be valued in the church. Books in which Scripture is reverently regarded as the only rule of faith… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Those who closely watched the campaign should not be surprised by Obama's hostility toward Israel, given his relations with pro-Palestinian, virulent critics… — David Limbaugh Copy Share Image
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I was in New York for a little while, doing some really bad theater. I did some great stuff, too, but there… — Silas Weir Mitchell Copy Share Image
In the United States, if one family out of every four churches adopted a child, there would be no orphans in the… — Kay Warren Copy Share Image
Church was never intended to be a place where we serve God to the exclusion of meeting with Him. — James MacDonald Copy Share Image
I collect church collapses, recreationally. Did you see the recent one in Sicily? Marvelous! The facade fell on sixty-five grandmothers at a… — Thomas Harris Copy Share Image
What if the church should be less concerned with creating saints than creating a world where we do not need saints? A… — Peter Rollins Copy Share Image
If ever there were a true "just as I am" church, if ever there were a community where everybody could bring all… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
That's why I believe in a Constitution which separates church from state. I've seen what happens when they get in cahoots. — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
No church property is taxed and so the infidel and the atheist and the man without religion are taxed to make up… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
No God and no religion can survive ridicule. No political church, no nobility, no royalty or other fraud, can face ridicule in… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There's no tradition of scientists knocking down the Sunday school door, telling the preacher, That might not necessarily be true. That's never… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
When I was a small boy, my father told me never to recommend a church or a woman to anyone. And I… — Edmund G. Love Copy Share Image
Churches are more prosperous than at any time within the past several hundred years. But the alarming thing is that our gains… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
One of the most persistent fallacies about the Christian Church is that it kept learning alive during the Dark and Middle Ages.… — Margaret E. Knight Copy Share Image
When you create a church, an institution, and you create a dogma. When you create an ideology, that's the danger. Communism, too,… — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
Catholic liturgical music, it would seem, is everywhere but in the Catholic Church itself. — Richard Morris Copy Share Image
The devil is perfectly willing that the Church should multiply its organization and its deftly contrived machinery for the conquest of the… — R. A. Torrey Copy Share Image
“This is a paradox of Whitefield's legacy: evangelicalism draws people of different churches while dividing those within the same denomination.” — Melanie Ross Copy Share Image
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In many churches Christianity has been watered down until the solution is so weak that if it were poison it would not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
In two areas above all others the Christian demonstration of love and communication stands clear: in the area of the Christian couple… — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
My parents are pretty religious, devout, but did they force it on me? No, I don't think so. I still think of… — Kristen Schaal Copy Share Image
Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not. The church is going to have to become the conscience… — Bono Copy Share Image
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