The union of church and state put the church under a political control... The church was thoroughly subordinated to the state. — H. J Eckenrode Copy Share Image
“Without vision, a church devolves into a lukewarm, aimless organization characterized by infighting, budget grabbing and a dead heart for the lost.” — Todd Stocker Copy Share Image
Before 'Music and Lyrics,' I was just doing high school plays and singing in my church choir and my school choir. — Haley Bennett Copy Share Image
This is why we give up on things that break our heart because it requires change. — Andy Stanley Copy Share Image
I don't go to church much anymore, but Methodist values still wind me up and send me ticking into my daily life. — Mem Fox Copy Share Image
Singing actually came first. As a kid, I grew up singing in church and around the house. — Tink Copy Share Image
We as a church need to decide whether we'll seek the Anointing of God or the God of the Anointing — Paul Cain Copy Share Image
It is a tragedy when the church saves money instead of saving souls. We MUST spend to save. — Reinhard Bonnke Copy Share Image
I've been able to sleep with my eyes open ever since I started watching baseball." "Drinking is such a necessity to human… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
I had to get rid of any idea of hell or any idea of the afterlife. That's what held me, kept me… — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
I grew up in the Methodist church and taught Sunday school, and one of my favorite passages of scripture is, 'in as… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
Every true prayer is a prayer of the Church; by means of that prayer the Church prays, since it is the Holy… — Edith Stein Copy Share Image
“How can we pick and choose which parts of the Bible to follow? One thing is God’s will and another is just… — Trevor D. Richardson Copy Share Image
Does the church have all kinds of problems? You bet, because it's made up of people like me, so I get that… — Bob Goff Copy Share Image
Every Christian church has tried to impose a code of morals of some kind for which it has claimed divine sanction. As… — John B. S. Haldane Copy Share Image
Indeed, in the present climate of mistrust of institutions, many people who yearn for a more meaningful and fulfilling life would regard… — Hugh Mackay Copy Share Image
“The authority of the Church was thrown over by the authority of the state. Twenty years only have passed, and the authority… — Lucy Beckett Copy Share Image
“Are you kidding I was raised Catholic, my mom just came back from a Saint Francis Pilgrimage in Italy and bought a… — Laurie Notaro Copy Share Image
“That line of reasoning, however, is patently bogus. Discussion of women’s ordination among Adventists predated the “women’s lib” movement by 70 or… — William G. Johnsson Copy Share Image
When you go to a church and you see the pastor of that church with a philosophy and a program that's designed… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
“Like a great waterwheel, the liturgical year goes on relentlessly irrigating our souls, softening the ground of our hearts, nourishing the soil… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
On the rare occasions when I spend a night in Oxford, the keeping of the hours by the clock towers in New… — A. N. Wilson Copy Share Image
Our bishops storehouses are not intended to stock enough commodities to care for all the members of the Church. Storehouses are only… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
One of the things that I'm doing and I'm - we have the Johnson Amendment. You know what that is. That Lyndon… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
The greatest obstacle in the apostolate of the Church is the timidity or rather the cowardice of the faithful. — Pope Pius X Copy Share Image
The upright, honest-hearted man Who strives to do the best he can, Need never fear the church's ban Or hell's damnation. — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
If a leader goes with their gut, it should be after listening first to people they trust. — Andy Stanley Copy Share Image
“THE Holy Spirit has never left the Church. Neither have His gifts, miracles and manifestations.” — Jeff Doles Copy Share Image
This room is a testimony that there are men who want to be a man for God and a man of God. — Mike Huckabee Copy Share Image
The true Church of England, at this moment, lies in the Editors of the newspapers. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The church can have light only as it is full of the Spirit, and it can be full only as the members… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
The secular world looks to the church and to its chagrin, finds no love, no life, no laughter, no hope and no… — Rod Parsley Copy Share Image
The blues to me is like being very sad, very sick, going to church, being very happy ... it's sort of a… — Billie Holiday Copy Share Image
I tell priests to flee from clericalism because clericalism distances people. May they flee from clericalism and I add: it's a plague… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
I grew up in a family that went to church every Sunday and then I went to youth group during the week… — Edi Patterson Copy Share Image
Too many churches think being like Jesus means you stay the same yesterday today and forever. — Phil Waldrep Copy Share Image
I love acting. I was one of those dudes that was always in the plays in the church and at school. — Lil Rel Howery Copy Share Image
Christmas, as a practicing Catholic child, was seen as a reward for lots and lots and lots of church. — Jenny Colgan Copy Share Image
The true church is not an organization controlled by the rules of men but a holy collection of living stones with Jesus… — Brother Yun Copy Share Image
Kinsey thought that Freud in his own way was as dangerous as the Catholic Church. — Bill Condon Copy Share Image
