You can't show up at a church every 4 October and say, 'Vote for me,' and call that persuasion. — Tom Perez Copy Share Image
My family took me to church when I was like 4 years old, and I had to be in a pageant, and… — David Walton Copy Share Image
We have to assess: Are we making disciples along the way as we draw people to our churches? — Ed Stetzer Copy Share Image
That was an interesting aspect: to go to war with the Church to fight for the very thing that the Church was… — Mark Ruffalo Copy Share Image
I grew up Methodist and went to church until my parents gave up on religion when I was nine. — Alex Grey Copy Share Image
I have two nexuses of sadness about the Mormon Church. The first is the effect the Church's position on homosexuality has on… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
At stake are two different visions of faith, the Church of Caesar, powerful and rich; and the Church of Christ - loving,… — Penny Lernoux Copy Share Image
The church is not an institution forcing us to follow rules but a community inviting us to still our hunger and thirst… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
I think it is very clear that, though great difference remained, evangelicals moved closer to Catholics, mainline Protestants and evangelical Protestants moved… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
Scripture urges and warns us that whatever favors we may have obtained from the Lord, we have received them as a trust… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
I live my life not to please my pastor or my church or fellow Christians. I live my life according to my… — Anjelah Johnson Copy Share Image
“Like caterpillars our metamorphosis begins with what comes from our mouth. Caterpillars spin silk cocoons from the mouth. We speak life or… — Brandi L. Bates Copy Share Image
Church gives people a sense of community, a sense of how to behave... social support when times get tough. In a world… — J. D. Vance Copy Share Image
No church group that knows spiritual warfare has wiener roasts or even passion plays. There is a real warfare. I have said… — Leonard Ravenhill Copy Share Image
From the beginning, what I was connecting with in the gym was a universal energy source. I would just feel it flowing.… — Shawn Phillips Copy Share Image
The mission of Tom Peterson and Catholics Come Home to bring souls home to Jesus and the church is critically important during… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
We sometimes get so caught up in one or another aspect of the teaching, we forget that if a person hasn't been… — Donald Wuerl Copy Share Image
“Wasn’t I allowed at least one nervous breakdown a year? Maybe next year Jon and I could pencil it into our calendar.… — Anna Aquino Copy Share Image
(After getting out of another treatment center) I came home one Sunday morning. I sat on the edge of my bed. I… — Jay Haizlip Copy Share Image
Comics, which are really best described as an arrangement of images in a sequence that tell a story - an idea -… — Will Eisner Copy Share Image
After a few days in hospital, I was thinking, Oh, gee - I raised in a church, Protestant upbringing which I'd rejected… — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can't readily accept… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
We went to a church that had missionaries who'd come back once a year from Fiji & give talks. I remember one… — Brian Andreas Copy Share Image
I decided that if nobody else was going to do anything to rectify this colossal inequity in taxation, I'd have to do… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
“Repentance seemed like too loose of a word. I knew I’d been wrong, but that didn’t soften the blow.” — Anna Aquino Copy Share Image
I started singing in church with my sister Maria when I was four, and I've been pretty much singing ever since. There's… — Imelda May Copy Share Image
The laws of God given to mankind are embodied in the gospel plan, and the Church of Jesus Christ is made responsible… — Harold B. Lee Copy Share Image
Life treads on life, and heart on heart; We press too close in church and mart To keep a dream or grave… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
My plan is to not be leading (worship) at any church until I really feel like I'm supposed to be somewhere else. — Crowder Copy Share Image
(on asparagus) Europeans of the Renaissance swore by it as an aphrodisiac, and the church banned it from nunneries. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
One of my good friends is Christian, goes to church every Sunday, very religious. I'm fine with that and I will never… — Amber Tamblyn Copy Share Image
It's no secret that in New York during the last 30 years there has been a tragic exodus from the churches into… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
I do not condone hostility toward any church simply to vent personal malice or umbrage. — Roger Williams Copy Share Image
Much of today’s church relies more on a book the early church didn't have, than the Holy Spirit they did. — Bill Johnson Copy Share Image
The thing that makes me really outraged, is the idea that the Mormon Church would presume to get involved in decisions that… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
The bishops will govern the Church, the priests will do all the work and the deacons will have all the fun. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It has always been difficult to get very close to the spirit of the Sistine Chapel; now that it is cleaned, it… — Nigel McGilchrist Copy Share Image
Marriage is a living sign that truly communicates the love of Christ and the Church. — Christopher West Copy Share Image
I want to be around people smart enough to know God created the heavens and the earth. — Mike Huckabee Copy Share Image
Don't make of your religion an obsession, otherwise your trips to church will mean nothing but obligation; and your prayers will result… — Jean Paul Malfatti Copy Share Image
