I was raised in the Baptist church... but I didn't really have a real committed experience with Christ until my father died. — T. D. Jakes Copy Share Image
Wherever we see the Word of God purely preached and heard, there a church of God exists, even if it swarms with… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
The Lord has placed next to me many people, who, with generosity and love for God and the church, have helped me… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
All Church activities, advancements, quorums, and classes are means to the end of an exalted family. — Russell M. Nelson Copy Share Image
I knew then that the Christian Church thrives on hypocrisy, and that man's carnal nature will out! — Anton Szandor LaVey Copy Share Image
When the church takes affairs of the state more seriously than they do Jesus, Pax Romana becomes its gospel and the president… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
Every story of change there is always someone who didn't have the resources or the network they needed and did something anyway. — Andy Stanley Copy Share Image
It's not so much that the church has a mission, it's that the mission of God has a church. — Alan Hirsch Copy Share Image
The Church is the safe place to be. I can safely believe everything the Church teaches. It will not harm me, and… — Frederica Mathewes-Green Copy Share Image
No church that panders to the zeitgeist deserves respect, and very shortly it will not get respect, except from those who find… — Robert Bork Copy Share Image
I rebelled against all form of authority, against my grandfather, my step-father, the Church, the police, the government, the bosses. Everything male… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“The problem that we are facing in the church today is that we have so many Christians who have made a decision… — Tyler Edwards Copy Share Image
It is not scientific doubt, not atheism, not pantheism, not agnosticism, that in our day and in this land is likely to… — Francis Chan Copy Share Image
My friends, nothing in all the world is so much worth thinking of as God, Christ, the Bible, sin and salvation, the… — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
In the Church, when we talk about 'the world', we often create an us and them situation and end up planting the… — Steve Scott Copy Share Image
“An institution theoretically devoted to providing comfort to those in need (the church) is in trouble because it has embraced the same… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
“The religious literature handed out by the earnest young missionaries in Temple Square makes no mention of the fact that Joseph Smith--still… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
I was called before the head matron, a tall woman with a stolid face. She began taking my pedigree. What religion? was… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Brothers and sisters, this is a divine work in process, with the manifestations and blessings of it abounding in every direction, so… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
Institutional Christianity has had clear secular benefits to American life for hundreds of years. It's played both a prophetic role in terms… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
There needs to be an order of office, but in every single office that is presented in the Scriptures there is the… — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
The holy mystery of the day of the Holy Spirit, Pentecost, is to be understood in the following manner: the spirit of… — Justin Popovic Copy Share Image
The world could not long ignore a holy church. The church is not despised because it is holy: it is despised because… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
“When Jesus was wrapping up his days on earth, he didn't tell us to go to church. He didn't tell us to… — Richard Dahlstrom Copy Share Image
For years I had been disillusioned by the Church of England's compromising on everything. The Catholic Church doesn't care if something is… — Ann Widdecombe Copy Share Image
I sang in church at 5. When I saw the reaction, I knew what I wanted to do with my life. — Jenifer Lewis Copy Share Image
The church is precisely that against which Jesus preached -- and against which he taught his disciples to fight. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Fewer and fewer people are attracted to the church service and more and more people are attracted to the service of the… — Reggie McNeal Copy Share Image
Just because you go to church doesn't mean you're a Christian. I can go sit in the garage all day and it… — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
“Authentic leaders are often accused of being "controlling" by those who idly sit by and do nothing” — John Paul Warren Copy Share Image
I built my church on Easter services, Christmas Eve services, and Norman Vincent Peale. — Robert H. Schuller Copy Share Image
The Church offers the medicine of the divine mercy so that healed souls can grasp the truth that will liberate them in… — George Weigel Copy Share Image
“For his own unfathomable reasons, God chooses to disguise himself when he comes to this planet, and there have been few disguises… — Mark Galli Copy Share Image
Religion should be about your relationship with God, not what the church says you can and can't do. — Eddie Guerrero Copy Share Image
Teenagers who do not go to church are adored by God, but they don't get to meet some of the people who… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
The name of the new religion," said Rumfoord, "is The Church of God the Utterly Indifferent. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
(The Catholic Church must) clean out the pedophiles, break up the gay cliques, tighten up the seminary, and restore the good name… — Andrew Greeley Copy Share Image
...[T]oday's Washington is about as attentive to the Tenth Amendment as the Unitarian Church is to the Book of Revelation. — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
“Referring to the church as a building is like referring to people as two-by-fours.” — Don Everts Copy Share Image
Neglect of private prayer is the locust which devours the strength of the church. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image