The church doesn’t have a mission; there is a mission, and it has the church. — James Emery White Copy Share Image
The purpose of the church is to make bad men good and good men better. — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
The church's job is to equip the saints for works of service in the world. — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
We'd just go to church and sing. My dad would get me and my sister Doris, and we would sing together. I… — George Jones Copy Share Image
I was in my dad's church, his Baptist church, and I think the first song I ever performed was 'Jesus Be a… — Aretha Franklin Copy Share Image
“There is an obsession in the Church with sin management. People think more about their sins than about their redemption through Jesus” — John Paul Warren Copy Share Image
No matter how corrupt the Church may become, it carries within it the seeds of its own regeneration. — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
It is the whole business of the whole church to preach the whole gospel to the whole world. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
The church is challenging such negative cultural elements as superstition, rugged individualism, materialism, hedonism, permissiveness and utilitarianism. — Francis Arinze Copy Share Image
If a volunteer can help us with an immediate need, we can put them in a place to make their greatest contribution. — Andy Stanley Copy Share Image
My sense is if the Episcopal Church can't stand challenge within its own ranks, then it is not a church I would… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
It is foolish in the extreme not only to resort to force before necessity compels, but especially to madly create the conditions… — Benjamin Tucker Copy Share Image
Along that straight and true path there are other goals: missionary service, temple marriage, Church activity, scripture study, prayer, temple work. There… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
Some 'separation' zealots would expunge any vestige of religious observance in public schools. Many of the same anti-religious fanatics would like to… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
I saw a photograph of a wedding conducted by Reverend Moon of the Unification Church. I wanted to understand this event, and… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
The cinema has done more for my spiritual life than the church. My ideas of fame, success and beauty all originate from… — John Updike Copy Share Image
[On Christianity:] Its lip-service and its empty rites have made it the easiest of all tasks for the usurer to cloak his… — Ouida Copy Share Image
You know how the church has been hit so hard by the sexual misconduct by clergy, and what's that's done to Catholics,… — William P. Leahy Copy Share Image
If added power attends the united prayer of two or three, what mighty triumphs there will be when hundreds of thousands of… — John Mott Copy Share Image
“If Harvey had not been taken from us 30 years ago, I think he would want me to say to all the… — Dustin Lance Black Copy Share Image
Edden called the church first,” she said by way of greeting, her thin eyebrows high as she spotted Ford’s arm linked in… — Kim Harrison Copy Share Image
I was interested in the question of the power of religious organizations to effect public policy in a negative way. When I… — Barry W. Lynn Copy Share Image
During the ages of faith the Church argued, not illogically, that any degree of cruelty towards sinners and heretics was justified, if… — Margaret E. Knight Copy Share Image
I have known a great many men who have left this Church for whom there is no chance whatever for exaltation, but… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
The science of the church is neglected for the study of geometry, and they lose sight of Heaven while they are employed… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Many of us regard ourselves as mildly liberal or centrist politically, voice fairly pleasant sentiments about our poor children, contribute money to… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
Ninety-nine percent of everything that goes on in most Christian churches has nothing whatsoever to do with the actual religion. Intelligent people… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
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