Certainly, no church should be involved in trying to set the affairs of the nation. — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
For me, I listened to a lot of female jazz artists. And of course, the Motown and Philly sounds, all that stuff… — Philip Bailey Copy Share Image
I definitely believe in a God and in a higher power, and I definitely take from many different religious cultures. I go… — Jane Seymour Copy Share Image
I did not grow up in the church. I'm not a church-goer now. I'm a very spiritual person. — Malcolm D. Lee Copy Share Image
“If you life is an example of glorifying God, others won't see your good works and glorify YOU, because they'll know what… — Charles R. Swindoll Copy Share Image
When the church finds its members falling into gross and scandalous sins, then it is time for the church to awake and… — Charles Grandison Finney Copy Share Image
I was brought up as a Catholic and went to church every week and took the sacraments. It never really touched the… — Sting Copy Share Image
We believe in separation of church and state, that there should be no unwarranted influence on the church or religion by the… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
The parents, the society, the state, the church, the educational system, they all depend on lies. As the child is born they… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
It sounds like a cliche, but it... you do sing about what you know about. And I grew up in a small… — Kenny Chesney Copy Share Image
To say that we are able by our own efforts to think good thoughts or give God spiritual obedience before we are… — John Owen Copy Share Image
I've definitely seen huge shifts, but the church is a little afraid of hip-hop, and hip-hop is a little afraid of the… — Trip Lee Copy Share Image
The Church has a special duty to safeguard and strengthen the sacredness of the Eucharist. In our pluralistic and often deliberately secularized… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
I was raised in a very religious home with two parents who were deeply involved in the black church. When I was… — Cory Booker Copy Share Image
“as Barbara Tuchman, author of Distant Mirror, put it, “clerical celibacy was a joke.” Despite the previous ban on clerical marriages, nuns,… — Charles River Editors Copy Share Image
I go farther, and say, that it is plainly our duty to desire pastors and teachers to take the care of such… — John Nelson Darby Copy Share Image
The wearing of fabric head coverings in worship was universally the practice of Christian women until the twentieth century. What happened? Did… — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
Society,--the only field where the sexes have ever met on terms of equality, the arena where character is formed and studied, the… — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
The central problem of our age is not liberalism or modernism, nor the old Roman Catholicism or the new Roman Catholicism, nor… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Mr. Brown had thought of nothing but numbers. He should have known that the kingdom of God did not depend on large… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
“Those who love their dream of a Christian community more than they love the Christian community itself become destroyers of that Christian… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
The Catholic church, once all her assets have been put together, is the most formidable stockbroker in the world. The Vatican, independently… — Avro Manhattan Copy Share Image
The Holy Spirit gives us joy. And he is joy. Joy is the gift in which all the other gifts are included.… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
I didn't have a clue. I grew up Protestant in Connecticut at the Saugatuck Congregational Church. We didn't talk about the devil.… — Linda Blair Copy Share Image
The Church should be a place of forgiveness and grace and all too often it turns into a place of judgement and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I had said to some pastor that I was having thoughts, and the church turned on me. They went to my mom… — Jai Rodriguez Copy Share Image
Marriage is a civil right. If you don't want gay people to marry in your church, good for you. But you can't… — Julian Bond Copy Share Image
Defend the church. Defend the family. Defend the non-profit community. Defend them against a government that wants to weaken them. — Rick Santorum Copy Share Image
There is a great need to rally the women of the Church to stand with and for the Brethren in stemming the… — Howard W. Hunter Copy Share Image
At the end of 1795 and beginning of 1796, I was ordered to write to the Church ministers. — Joanna Southcott Copy Share Image
Once there was a time when all people believed in God and the church ruled. This time is called the Dark Ages.… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
We believe that this time of transition will make for a more dynamic Revolution Church, and will help us focus and expand… — Jay Bakker Copy Share Image
The Catholic men are more upset about women not being able to be priests than are Catholic women. — Andrew Greeley Copy Share Image
I've been stuck on John Eldredge lately. He's all about being a warrior outside of the church. I hate to think about… — John Tesh Copy Share Image
One side of the street is a Church; across the road is a liquor store. Both of 'em keepin us poor. — Chuck D Copy Share Image
The church lives because it witholds the results of the historical Jesus-research from you — Hans Conzelmann Copy Share Image
Black women have not historically stood in the pulpit, but that doesn't undermine the fact that they built the churches and maintain… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The church is the last place we want to be sold another product, the last place we want to be entertained. — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
I do object to the sensationalism or even the voyeurism of doing things in church or out of church. — Pierre Trudeau Copy Share Image
Clea and I were touring one of the cathedrals in Italy, and in front of the whole tour I go 'That's so… — Hilary Duff Copy Share Image
