On social welfare the Church does so much good around the world - nuns running schools and homeless shelters, priests ministering to… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I’d rather be in the mountains thinking of God, than in church thinking about the mountains. — John Muir Copy Share Image
I was raised a Christian. I'd like to think I have Christian values. I don't attend church. — Gary Johnson Copy Share Image
The Church gives more time, thought, and money to recreation and sport than to prayer. — Samuel Chadwick Copy Share Image
“We need to get to the heart of each heart issue—and we can’t do it. Only the Maker can. The world needs… — Eric Samuel Timm Copy Share Image
As a matter of fact my, my very first time singing when I was two and a half, three, was in church.… — Teddy Pendergrass Copy Share Image
In an unconstitutional partnership with the state, the church can impose the most irresistible, if covert, controls conceivable. — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
I came to know Christ at the age of 13 during church camp at Glorieta, New Mexico. — Bart Millard Copy Share Image
I grew up a Catholic and I dont want to talk badly about the Catholic Church but theres a lot of routine… — Bernhard Langer Copy Share Image
“Discipleship is messy. There are seasons of growth followed by seasons of pruning. Some seasons burst forth with rapid change, and others… — Curtis Ferrell Copy Share Image
Never was the victory of patience more complete than in the early church. The anvil broke the hammer by bearing all the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I believe in an America ... where no public official either requests or accepts instructions on public policy from the Pope, the… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
The most stupendous system of organized robbery known has been that of the church towards woman, a robbery that has not only… — Matilda Joslyn Gage Copy Share Image
Churches provide a place of gathering for people who share common beliefs, support and encouragement for each other in faith, a place… — Mary C. Neal Copy Share Image
People like Clyde McPhatter who came out of the black churches - like Sam Cooke and Aretha Franklin - were all church… — Ahmet Ertegun Copy Share Image
It is not permitted for a woman to speak in the church, nor is it permitted for her to teach, nor to… — Tertullian Copy Share Image
I don't care if the Bible says it. It's wrong. It's wrong to divide people on the basis of sexual preference, of… — Alan M Dershowitz Copy Share Image
In a world torn by every kind of fundamentalism - religious, ethnic, nationalist and tribal - we must grant first place to… — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
Dear Isabelle, Alec is about to have a nervous breakdown. If you do not immediately desist planing my wedding to your brother,… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
So you didn’t tell me it was a messed-up idea to keep this all a secret because. . .” “Because experience is… — Chris Crutcher Copy Share Image
I heard the bells from the future churches, the children playing and laughing in the schoolyards [...] and here was an almond… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
Jim Jones used highly-edited videos and photos of Jonestown, showing what a supposed Eden it was. People were interviewed smiling and working… — Julia Scheeres Copy Share Image
My beloved church misunderstood me. It preached the corruptibility of humanity when I came to demonstrate its potential for incorruptibility. It propounded… — Barbara Marx Hubbard Copy Share Image
When we talk about values, I think of rationality in solving problems. That's something I value. Fairness, kindness, generosity, tolerance. That's different.… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
We live in a time of crisis in the secular culture and in the church with regard to the beautiful. — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
The priests are debarred from female society, nor is any woman permitted to enter the religious houses. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Your right of religious freedom ends where my right of religious abstinence begins...” — T. Rafael Cimino Copy Share Image
I'm not knocking the poor homosexual, I'm not. They need salvation just like anybody else. — Jimmy Swaggart Copy Share Image
I was never interested in singing in the church choir or in school. I was more interested in becoming a musician. — Cassandra Wilson Copy Share Image
You have no idea, right now, what some young person in your church will mean for the cause of Christ. Lean in,… — Albert Mohler Copy Share Image
Adoption should be an empowering option for young women in crisis, knowing that the people around them - family, friends, church -… — Nina Easton Copy Share Image
I seem to have this need to belong to some church. I get worried on Sunday mornings. — John Updike Copy Share Image
In every growing church you will find leadership that is not afraid to believe God. — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
Dear Mother, dear Mother, the Church is cold, But the Ale-house is healthy and pleasant and warm. — William Blake Copy Share Image
On the ordination of women, the church has spoken and said no. John Paul II, in a definitive formulation said that door… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
It is our boast, that a man's religious tenets will not forfeit the protection of the Laws. — George Washington Copy Share Image
Religion is a set of social and political institutions and spirituality is a private pursuit which may or may not take place… — D. Patrick Miller Copy Share Image
The Church can't be a religious theater where paid men perform for the religious amusement of the people who pay them. — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If a preacher tells you how God says you are, I don't see how you can say that's bad preaching. — Johnny Hunt Copy Share Image
In our house, the name for all athletic shoes - any that weren't dress or 'church' shoes - was 'tennis shoes,' or… — Steve Rushin Copy Share Image
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![“I heard the bells from the future churches, the children playing and laughing in the schoolyards [...] and here was an almond tree in bloom before me: I must reach out and cut a flowering branch. For, by believing passionately in something which still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent…” quote by Nikos Kazantzakis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/50f/nikos-kazantzakis-1116_almonds_i-heard-the-bells-from-the-future-church_2527567.jpg)
![“When we talk about values, I think of rationality in solving problems. That's something I value. Fairness, kindness, generosity, tolerance. That's different. When they [Conservative right wing Republicans] talk about values, they're talking about things like going to church, voting for Bush, being…” quote by Bill Maher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/307/bill-maher-211_church_when-we-talk-about-values-i-think-of-rat_1042837.png)
