I'm not condemning the Catholic Church - it's too big, it's like condemning a nation and that would be prejudiced. — David LaChapelle Copy Share Image
Every local church has a leader but it seems so few local churches are being led. — Andy Stanley Copy Share Image
The church also does not condone a broken immigration system in the U.S., one that too easily can lead to the exploitation,… — Roger Mahony Copy Share Image
The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I do isometrics in church so while I'm doing my soul some good, I'm doing my body some good, too. — Grace Kelly Copy Share Image
The call of the gospel is for the church to implement the victory of God in the world through suffering love. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
the separation of church and state grew out of a desire, not so much to protect government from religion, but to protect… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Every trip I made to Atlanta was crucial because it was so hard to get away from family and church duties. — Trip Lee Copy Share Image
The church is: a conspiracy of love for a dying world, a spy mission into enemy occupied territory ruled by the powers… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
While I have no problem with the church adapting to the culture, we must ensure that we remain painstakingly true to the… — Jerry Falwell Copy Share Image
[As a young man ] I came to the conclusion that the church was just a bunch of fascists that supported Franco.… — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
The schools would fail through their silence, the Church through its forgiveness, and the home through the denial and silence of the… — Simon Wiesenthal Copy Share Image
Officially, the New Testament church at an early stage took seriously their responsibility for widows who lacked family or other resources. The… — Carolyn Custis James Copy Share Image
“For centuries after Christ, the church and other religions that use cruciform symbols have misrepresented the physical nature of Christ's death with… — nwaocha ogechukwu Copy Share Image
Perhaps one day, all these conflicts will end, and it won't be because of great statesmen or churches or organisations like this… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
In the largest sense, every work of art is protest... A lullaby is a propaganda song and any three-year-old knows it... A… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
“The story that the church has been telling for two thousand years is an outrageous tale about a man who was executed… — Emmanuel Katongole Copy Share Image
It was a strange feeling going into a church I did not know for a service that I did not really believe… — Michael Palin Copy Share Image
What does Christianity mean today? National Socialism is a religion. All we lack is a religious genius capable of uprooting outmoded religious… — Joseph Goebbels Copy Share Image
The churches rose to power on the income from tax-free property. What earthly -or heavenly- right have they got to enjoy a… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
But the most heinous crime of the Church has been perpetrated not against churchmen but against churchgoers. With its poisonous concepts of… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
[The church] is in its major part an opponent still of progress and improvement in all the ways that diminish suffering in… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I did make several trips to the very wonderful [Georgia] O'Keeffe museum. Besides the art (my favorite paintings are from her Pelvis… — Liza Campbell Copy Share Image
I owe my nurture to evangelicalism. The evangelical wins hands down in the history of the church when it comes to nurturing… — Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk Copy Share Image
If churches want to play the game of politics, let them pay admission like everyone else. — George Carlin Copy Share Image
He that is more frequent in his pulpit to his people than he is in his closet for his people, is but… — John Owen Copy Share Image
Today, as it was 2,000 years ago, the Kingdom of God is within each of us. It is not within a church,… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The glory of the gospel is that when the church is absolutely different from the world, she invariably attracts it. — Martyn Lloyd-Jones Copy Share Image
It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
God received from me something He didn't have on His own. My sin. I received something from God I didn't have on… — Johnny Hunt Copy Share Image
The aim of the Church is to help the people to help themselves. Work is to be re-enthroned as the ruling principle… — Heber J. Grant Copy Share Image
There's nothing more political than sex. The church has had its hand on our crotch for more than 2,000 years, and the… — Larry Flynt Copy Share Image
It's not how high we jump off our feet in church, it's what we do with them when we hit the ground! — Tom Ridge Copy Share Image
The teaching of the church, theoretically astute, is a lie in practice and a compound of vulgar superstitions and sorcery. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm tied of hearing about temperance instead of abstinence, in order to please the cocktail crowd in church congregations. — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
You cannot train yourself. I feel the same way about Christianity and about what the church is: The church is the gym… — Sylvester Stallone Copy Share Image
It is my belief that everything you need to know about the world can be learned in a church choir. — Connie Willis Copy Share Image
We must re-grasp the idea of church membership as being the membership of the body of Christ and as the biggest honour… — Martyn Lloyd-Jones Copy Share Image
My mom and I weren't that close when I was growing up because she was gone seven days of the week; she… — Goldlink Copy Share Image
Will turned around slowly, wiping blood from his face. "You're glaring at me," he said to Magnus. "You look like Church before… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
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![“[The church] is in its major part an opponent still of progress and improvement in all the ways that diminish suffering in the world, because it has chosen to label as morality a certain narrow set of rules of conduct which have nothing to do with human happiness; and when you say that this or…” quote by Bertrand Russell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bb2/bertrand-russell-69_certain_the-church-is-in-its-major-part-an-oppon_1591489.jpg)
![“I did make several trips to the very wonderful [Georgia] O'Keeffe museum. Besides the art (my favorite paintings are from her Pelvis series) my favorite thing about the museum is the architecture. I love how enormously tall the doors are - it is like going into a church. There is also something…” quote by Liza Campbell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5f5/liza-campbell-17930_architecture_i-did-make-several-trips-to-the-very-won_1436393.jpg)
