My dad is a preacher. Growing up, I went to church every time the doors were open. — Morgan Wallen Copy Share Image
I can say a prayer while washing my teeth, but that does not mean I should wash my teeth in church. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
My head was a condemned church with a ceiling of bats, but I swung from this dark mood to euphoria when I… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
My parents got my sister and I to go to church and have piano lessons. We were keen and they could see… — Gordon Lightfoot Copy Share Image
The church is a major bureaucracy, and major bureaucracies are disobedient to the gospel. — Philip Berrigan Copy Share Image
The Church is the place where the incompetent, the unfinished, and even the unhealthy are welcome. I believe Jesus agrees. — Mike Yaconelli Copy Share Image
According to Christian belief, man exists for the sake of God; according to the liberal church, in practice if not in theory,… — John Gresham Machen Copy Share Image
There's a special place in hell for what some people have done but there's also a special place in God's heart for… — Johnny Hunt Copy Share Image
I already knew, from church, that this place was raped and pillaged by Spaniards and the Pilgrims. "Don't sit here and try… — Michelle Rodriguez Copy Share Image
In many cases students are never exposed to competing ideas within their families, churches, or Christian schools, and as a result they… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
“Many millions of pregnancies—many if not most of which have each led to the birth of at least one child—were each used… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Some people in the church, like Martin Luther King, Jr., came out against segregation. But if you look at the bulk of… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
It takes all sorts to make a world; or a church. This may be even truer of a church. If grace perfects… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I wouldn't say I'm die-hard religious, but I have my beliefs. I grew up right on the beach. We would wear flip-flops… — Ryan Zimmerman Copy Share Image
For here the religion that languishes in crowded cities or steals shame-faced to hide itself in dim churches, flourishes greatly, filling the… — William Henry Hudson Copy Share Image
We indeed did and do own our own minds and bodies, and anything from church or state that limits that is inappropriate… — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
Habit must play a larger place in our religious life. We worship when we feel like it, we pray when we feel… — Ralph Washington Sockman Copy Share Image
Such then in number and importance are the precious ties belonging to the Christian name which keep a believer in the Catholic… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
That's why the virgin birth never gets rid of the human mother. The story only gets rid of the human father. So… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
The United States has adventured upon a great and noble experiment . . . of total separation of Church and State. .… — John Tyler Copy Share Image
For some reason, which I believe I can guess, the churches/mosques want control of people when or while they are the most… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Our society trains us to think of marriage as a contractual arrangement. If one party fails to fulfill his or her end,… — Michael Horton Copy Share Image
“In post-Christendom, the church is that community of people who look to discover what God is actively doing in the world around… — Tim Keel Copy Share Image
Here, the churches seemed to shrink away into eroding corners. They seem to have ceased to be essential parts of American life.… — Sean O'Casey Copy Share Image
Democracy, I do not conceive that ever God did ordain as a fit government either for church or commonwealth. If the people… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Many believe it is possible to be a "good Christian" without joining (or even attending) a local church, but God would strongly… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
The founding fathers of the U.S. were right when they erected that wall between church and state. — Jim Starlin Copy Share Image
It is not the church we want, but the sacrifice; not the emotion of admiration, but the act of adoration; not the… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
I was brought up a Roman Catholic, so when I was a child I was frogmarched to church every Sunday. — Harry Enfield Copy Share Image
The problem in the church today is not the profession of faith, but it's possession. — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
All my life, my church, my family, my friends have always told me to have high self-esteem... to think well of myself.… — Shawn Bradley Copy Share Image
No one goes to heaven by parroting a prayer, being baptized, or joining a church, but by believing in Jesus Christ with… — Steven J Lawson Copy Share Image
History showed that many people had lost their respect for any religion that had relied upon the support of government to spread… — Hugo Black Copy Share Image
I grew up in San Francisco in the 1970s. We were part of a church that belonged to the California Jesus movement. — Sara Zarr Copy Share Image
If the church would only be the church- if Christians would only be Christians- nothing could halt our onward march. — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
The chiefest sanctity of a temple is that it is a place to which men go to weep in common. — Miguel de Unamuno Copy Share Image
Buddha says: "Do not flatter your benefactor!". Let one repeat this saying in a Christian church : it immediately purifies the air… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
When anyone has the power to destroy the whole human race in a matter of hours, it becomes a moral issue. The… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
While I cannot be regarded as a pillar, I must be regarded as a buttress of the church, because I support it… — William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne Copy Share Image
The Church has failed to be a positive influence for good in our nation and our world. — Tony Evans Copy Share Image
