The church is a sort of hospital for men's souls and as full of quackery as the hospital for their bodies. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
People don't come to church for preachments, of course, but to daydream about God. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Faithful attendance at Church meetings brings blessings you can receive in no other way. — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
The Church has its problems, but the older I get, the more comfort I find there. — Edward de Bono Copy Share Image
I just want Christians to embrace the fact that music is made not just for the church, but it's also for the… — Anthony Evans Copy Share Image
I challenge you to show me where the saloon has ever helped business, education, church, morals or anything we hold dear. — Billy Sunday Copy Share Image
We have a priest at Inter Milan and a chapel at the training ground. That is where I was baptised and confirmed… — Wesley Sneijder Copy Share Image
The custom of the Church has very great authority and ought to be jealously observed in all things. — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
All the men of the Old Testament were polygamists, and Christ and Paul, the central figures of the New Testament, were celibates,… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Once, John and I were coming form a concert that he had played, and it was late in the morning. We heard… — Alice Coltrane Copy Share Image
“There’s no stronger bulwark of sound conservatism than the evangelical church, and no better place to make friends who’ll help you to… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
I feel like the Church should have the most amazing entertainment and the best music, because we know the author and the… — Danny Gokey Copy Share Image
The forest is the first cathedral. I felt that from the time I was a child. I credit my mother with that.… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
We in the church have humility and contrition to offer the world, not a formula for success. Almost alone in our success-oriented… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
I've always had God, but now I want to go back to church for the sense of community and that feeling of… — Julianne Hough Copy Share Image
The Church no longer contends that knowledge is in itself sinful, though it did so in its palmy days; but the acquisition… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
God's dream still remains unfulfilled. It was not fulfilled 2,000 years ago, or in the home of any religious leader or any… — Sun Myung Moon Copy Share Image
Brad got me this great thing for Christmas. It's a bookshelf that has a book on every religion. That's how we plan… — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
I write about this in The Last Temple, the early church knew that Christ has risen from the dead, and so they… — Hank Hanegraaff Copy Share Image
On Saturday night, I would see men lusting after half-naked girls dancing at the carnival, and on Sunday morning when I was… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If I have renounced the search of truth, if I have come into the port of some pretending dogmatism, some new church,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Popular piety is one of our strengths because it consists of prayers deeply rooted in people's hearts. These prayers even move the… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
The crucified but risen Jesus appears in the believing, assembled community of the church. That this sense of the risen, living Jesus… — Edward Schillebeeckx Copy Share Image
“Worship gatherings are not always spectacular, but they are always supernatural. And if a church looks for or works for the spectacular,… — Matt Chandler Copy Share Image
You can latch onto theological ideas that are, in fact, not accurate, and refuse to let them go. I think we've seen… — Frederica Mathewes-Green Copy Share Image
“It was a lovely church - one of those places which look as though God might be about to give a marvellous… — Eva Ibbotson Copy Share Image
God promised by the mouth of Isaiah that queens should be the nursing mothers of the church. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
The goal of a church is not to have a bigger building or budget but to see the word of God increase… — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share Image
I encounter many Christians who've been raised in the church but never realized that there's a cohesive storyline from Genesis to Revelation. — David Kim Copy Share Image
The reconciling gospel is always at the forefront of the church’s social action, because a full belly is not better than a… — Matt Chandler Copy Share Image
The prime duty of help to the poor by the Church is not to bring temporal relief to their needs, but salvation… — Marion G. Romney Copy Share Image
You can fall in the area of your strength as easily as you could fall in the area of your weakness. — Johnny Hunt Copy Share Image
I’d smack you over the head with it so hard your bell would still be ringing for Church next Saturday night. ~… — Jennifer Rardin Copy Share Image
Before I moved to the city I spent every Saturday sitting in church wishing I could be living on my own, doing… — Daniel Caesar Copy Share Image
We are far too good at analyzing what is wrong with the culture and far too myopic at analyzing what is wrong… — Sinclair B. Ferguson Copy Share Image
My first instrument was the piano; I played in the church, and before that I sang in church. I didnt learn the… — Chuck Brown Copy Share Image
I think the church needs to be much more countercultural than that and invite people into slowing down, into a "Be-still-and-know-that-I-am-God" mindset. — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
The missional church is not a new trend or the latest new technique for reaching postmodern people. — Alan Hirsch Copy Share Image
God's headache is not the decaying society but the church that is in the state of coma. — Justice Ogali Copy Share Image
I'm actually the fourth generation in my family to have no practical use for the church, or God, or religion. My children… — Adam Savage Copy Share Image
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