The union of Church and State is not to make the Church political, but the State religious. — John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon Copy Share Image
I believe in a wall between church and state so high that no one can climb over it. — Sam Ervin Copy Share Image
The Church of TED is very optimistic. Bulgarians are some of the most pessimistic in the world. There are the Happy, the… — Ivan Krastev Copy Share Image
Jesus, could you please rapture the charismaniac lady who brings her tambourine to church? — Mark Driscoll Copy Share Image
Once I started first grade, I started going to Emmanuel Baptist Church regularly. I went to Sunday school. We had Bible readings… — Wesley Clark Copy Share Image
Nature is my church. The wind in the trees and the bugs and the frogs. All those things are comfort to me. — Sissy Spacek Copy Share Image
When you listen to my music, you hear that there are all these voices going on in different parts of the song.… — Valerie June Copy Share Image
Sunday, if I'm lucky, I'll go to church or listen to some good spiritual advice on the television or on the radio.… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The Bible is not the light of the world, it is the light of the Church. But the world does not read… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
When I went to college is really when it became my own. I had to get up out of that dorm room… — Philip Rivers Copy Share Image
God is dethroned; and although the incognizant masses are tardy in realizing the event, they feel the icy draught caused by that… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
The Church expects that each of us carry a share of the burden of leadership. There is no paid clergy. The work… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
The Roman Catholic Church and its rituals were so much part of life that, although my parents would often question a small… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
I was raised in the Seventh-Day Adventist Church so I grew up around music a lot, singing harmonies and stuff like that,… — Koffee Copy Share Image
The church must be reminded that it is not the master or the servant of the state, but rather the conscience of… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Imagine, to become a priest there are eight years of study and preparation, and then if after a while you can't do… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Most Americans instinctively recoil from the claim that there is an antireligious bias running through the underlying assumptions with which their society… — Stephen V Monsma Copy Share Image
The Church even now is the kingdom of Christ and the kingdom of heaven. Accordingly, even now His saints reign with Him,… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Anyone who is outside this Church ... is walking a path not to Heaven but to Hell. He is not getting closer… — Fulgentius of Cartagena Copy Share Image
The problem with our churches today is that the lead pastor is some sissy boy who wears cardigan sweaters, has The Carpenters… — Mark Driscoll Copy Share Image
Around me the moonlight glittered on the pebbles of the llano, and in the night sky a million stars sparkled. Across the… — Rudolfo Anaya Copy Share Image
In our own country, we have seen America pay a terrible price for any form of discrimination, and we have seen us… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
Some go to Church, proud humbly to repent, And come back much more guilty than they went: One way they look, another… — Edward Young Copy Share Image
[Whenever the average intellect of the clergy declines in the balance with the average intellect of the people] the churches will be… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Marriage is the real vocation crisis in the United States... We have a vocation crisis to life-long, life-giving, loving, faithful marriage. If… — Timothy M. Dolan Copy Share Image
My father had played cornet, although I never saw him play it. I found his mouthpiece when I was a kid. I… — Johnny Griffin Copy Share Image
The Catholic Church is an innately conservative rock - they call themselves the 'rock of Peter' - and its resistance to change… — Gabriel Byrne Copy Share Image
Jesus was not sent here to teach the people to build magnificent churches and temples amidst the cold wretched huts and dismal… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Usually in church, when the congregation is overcome by the Holy Spirit for a moment, the people will interrupt the sermon to… — Daniel Caesar Copy Share Image
The woman pastor would often be, especially for women and children, a better minister than the clergyman; for them also, the woman… — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
Since the primary motive of the evil is disguise, one of the places evil people are most likely to be found is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Within evangelicalism is a distressing drift toward accepting a Christianity that does not demand a life-changing walk with God. Many evangelicals (today)… — Erwin W. Lutzer Copy Share Image
The day will come, however, when they will truly know the Unification Church and me. The day will come when the truth… — Sun Myung Moon Copy Share Image
I was born and raised Catholic, so it's in my blood. I don't go to church... I was born and raised Catholic,… — Tom Araya Copy Share Image
Given that sexual orientation is innate and that we are all, in theological terms, children of God, to deny access to some… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
Why go to a church to worship God? A church is man made. God never said, "And let there be aluminum siding."… — Tim Allen Copy Share Image
Thank God, under our Constitution there was no connection between Church and State, and that in my action as President of the… — James K. Polk Copy Share Image
The declared enemies of God and His Church, heretics and schismatics, must be criticized as much as possible, as long as truth… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
We'd only speak Korean at home. They wouldn't let us have sleepovers and sent us away to Korean church camp during the… — Jamie Chung Copy Share Image
The Church is built on the rock of Peter, and he who eats the Lamb outside this holy dwelling is reprobate ..… — Pope Pius IX Copy Share Image
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