The Book of Job and the 19th Psalm, which even the Church admits to be more ancient than the chronological order in… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
You find as you look around the world that every single bit of progress in humane feeling, every improvement in the criminal… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
But perhaps when you were too obedient, and did not do openly what others did, and were quiet in church and hard-working… — Alan Paton Copy Share Image
To a large extent, the American church has become merged with the world. It has adopted so many of the world's ideals… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
You are great young people. I have said again and again, we have the finest generation of young people ever in the… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
There's always the tendency to transform the Church into an ethical agency, and of measuring the Church by the yardstick of social… — Karl Lehmann Copy Share Image
“I left that church with rich and royal hatred of the priest as a person, and a loathing for the church as… — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
One of the promising indications of a renewal in the Church's missionary consciousness in recent decades, has been the growing desire of… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Inconsistency on the part of pastors and the faithful between what they say and what they do, between word and manner of… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Knowing that there is one Baptism, we who hold the head and root of the One Church know for certain that to… — Cyprian Copy Share Image
I am deeply Catholic and always will be, but I'm no longer a member of the church. I left in 2003 because… — Julianna Baggott Copy Share Image
I disagree strongly with the concept of separation of church and state. It was not written into the Constitution. — Ken Buck Copy Share Image
The press is the exclusive literature of the million; to them it is literature, church, and college. — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
I know that with consecration on the part of believers, separation from the world, disentanglement from enslaving sins, and a mighty baptism… — Abbott Eliot Kittredge Copy Share Image
“Liberalism is a creation of the seventeenth century, fathered by British philosopher John Locke (1632–1704). For Locke, liberalism means limited government, the… — Peter Boghossian Copy Share Image
It is necessary to obey a Pope in all things as long as he does not go against the universal customs of… — Pope Innocent III Copy Share Image
whatever devotion to something else there was in him had been made impure by church taken as a weekly, dutiful thing. — Kay Boyle Copy Share Image
It's a great responsibility before God, the judge who guides us, who draws us to truth and good, and in this sense… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Women should unite upon a platform of opposition to the teaching and aim of that ever most unscrupulous enemy of freedom--the Church. — Matilda Joslyn Gage Copy Share Image
Men who hold a theory of the Church which excludes from communion those whom they admit to have the Spirit of Christ… — Roland Allen Copy Share Image
When a married person uses pornography, or is unfaithful, it compromises not just his (or her) purity, but also compromises the spouse's… — Christine O'Donnell Copy Share Image
When we see the many grave-stones which have fallen in, which have been defaced by the footsteps of the congregation, which lie… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image