Church attendance is as vital to a disciple as a transfusion of rich, healthy blood to a sick man. — Dwight L. Moody Copy Share Image
I do not want church groups controlling the schools of our country. They must remain free. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I want a church service with New Orleans funeral jazz music. I'd like people to say a few words about me and… — Paul Young Copy Share Image
I'm not sure if the shame/guilt distinction resonates for me. I just know that shame is a debilitating emotion that is perpetuated… — Marilyn Dumont Copy Share Image
The Lord takes care of his own, but church trustees still put lightning rods on the steeple. — Evan Esar Copy Share Image
Sportsmanship...what a load of crap, don't preach your morality to me. Steve Austin doesn't have any mercy... you want mercy? Take your… — Stone Cold Steve Austin Copy Share Image
The Catholic Church has a tough new policy on child molestors: three strikes and you're a cardinal. — David Letterman Copy Share Image
I'm sick and tired of (only) reading about church history; let's make (some) by the grace of God — Leonard Ravenhill Copy Share Image
In vain do we seek to awaken our churches to zeal in evangelism as a separate thing. To be genuine it must… — Archibald Alexander Copy Share Image
If you read back in the Bible, the letter of the apostle Paul to the church of Thessalonia, he said that in… — Pat Robertson Copy Share Image
The Bible does not say we should aim at numbers but rather urges us faithfully to proclaim God's message in the boldness… — Jim Cymbala Copy Share Image
To try to turn Iraq into a liberal democracy is absolutely crazy. Islam has no understanding of the separation between church and… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
I hope the Church will examine what is good and what is ill, and what good could be achieved by getting the… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
We must put aside all judgment of our own, and keep the mind ever ready and prompt to obey in all things… — Ignatius of Loyola Copy Share Image
Jesus Christ rose from the grave.' With this proclamation, the Christian church began. This may be the fundamental element of Christian faith;… — Elaine Pagels Copy Share Image
Today's widespread relegation of religion to merely something people do only in the privacy of their homes or churches would have been… — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
“I remember an answer which when quite young I was prompted to make to a valued adviser who was wont to importune… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I was raised in a little church, the Grundy Methodist Church, that was very straight-laced, but I had a friend whose mother… — Lee Smith Copy Share Image
We must work to change in our hearts and minds what it looks like to be undocumented. It is the high schooler… — Nico Santos Copy Share Image
“The Rochester group [of VOTF], however, was met with some concern as they found it hard to believe my account as it… — Charles L. Bailey Jr Copy Share Image
I think back to when I was growing up in Fort Worth, Texas, in the 1950s, during the [John] McCarthy era, with… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
To me the church's problem would be a hundred times worse if you felt everyone has written the church off, they don't… — Chris Lowney Copy Share Image
When I think of the Savior, I often picture Him with hands outstretched, reaching out to comfort, heal, bless, and love. And… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
There is a study that shows that people who were asked their political opinions, when there was a picture of the American… — Robert Cialdini Copy Share Image
Gay people don’t actually try to convert people. That’s Jehovah’s Witnesses you’re thinking of. — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
It is a remarkable fact that all the heresies which have arisen in the Christian Church have had a decided tendency to… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
At the time of Galileo the Church remained much more reasonable than Galileo himself. The process against Galileo was reasonable and just. — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
If you miss someone too much you turn into them... though it doesn't seem to work for the Christian Church. — Robyn Hitchcock Copy Share Image
“Most priests wish they were as righteous as they seem to most members of their congregations.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
What has the church gained if it is popular but there is no conviction, no repentance, no power? — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If there's any place where you would express your deepest doubts, it would be church. — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
I don't need a church to tell me I'm wrong where I already know I'm wrong; I need a Church to tell… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Americans practice different faiths in churches, synagogues, mosques and temples. And many good people practice no faith at all. — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
When I started out as a cover band, I was obsessed with Keith Urban and Jason Aldean and Eric Church; those are… — Chris Lane Copy Share Image
“When you are close to Christ, you are enclosed in liberty. You can never be intimidated by man if you are intimate… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
The Church, therefore, has two constant needs; instruction in the truths by which it must live, and correction of the shortcomings by… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
They kicked me out of the church when I'm a little girl because they said I'm singing like a dog. They didn't… — Concha Buika Copy Share Image
I've tried them all, I really have, and the only church that truly feeds the soul, day in, day out, is the… — Susan Sarandon Copy Share Image
Lots of Orthodox go to church every Sunday but don't know much about the faith. Yet they know that there is something… — Frederica Mathewes-Green Copy Share Image
Without the gospel, a gathering of people, though they claim otherwise, cannot be an authentic church. — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
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