Preaching the Word is the primary task of the Church, the primary task of the leaders of the Church, the people who… — Martyn Lloyd-Jones Copy Share Image
Spiritually, we have marginalized the Bible. We've trivialized marriage, and we've neutralized the church. America today is in great turmoil. It feels… — David Jeremiah Copy Share Image
I have Hurt Myself over and over, ensure confusion and distraction as my way of living with my Pitied self.. I fear… — Samara Visser Copy Share Image
If you talked or laughed in church, told lies, had impure thoughts or conversations, you were bad; if you obeyed your parents… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
“We don’t find God in temples and cathedrals. We don’t find Him by standing on a prayer rug or sitting in a… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
Our contexts are foreign. They derive from church tradition that is thousands of years removed from the people who wrote Scripture and… — Michael S. Heiser Copy Share Image
The legendary missionary journey of St. Paul, which led to the foundation of the British church, presupposes the existence of a Jewish… — Cecil Roth Copy Share Image
It's hard to know how many rank-and-file nineteenth-century church members accepted the idea that Jesus was married to multiple women and fathered… — John Turner Copy Share Image
I think you've got good people and bad people in everything you do. If you start making a big deal of it,… — Master P Copy Share Image
Current Catholic worship often ignores the essential connection between truth and beauty, body and soul, at the center of the Catholic worldview.… — Dana Gioia Copy Share Image
In matters of religion, I have considered that its free exercise is placed by the Constitution independent of the powers of the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Peter erred in life and in doctrine. Paul might have dismissed Peter's error as a matter of no consequence. But Paul saw… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
There's this morbid side to the way many represent Christianity today, where you don't smile, because it's too serious, and you can't… — George Harrison Copy Share Image
“The Church is always God hung between two thieves. Thus, no one should be surprised or shocked at how badly the church… — Ronald Rolheiser Copy Share Image
But it seems that something has happened that has never happened before; though we know not just when, or why, or how,… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
I remember that after that teaching given to me as a young man, as a boy, almost, by the President of the… — Heber J. Grant Copy Share Image
I go to a Calvary Chapel church out here in Los Angeles. I had been here about two years at the time.… — Tiffany Dupont Copy Share Image
The bells are a very good investment. They never break if they are maintained. I can teach the kids the basics. They… — Dan Gable Copy Share Image
It (a baseball box score) doesn't tell how big you are, what church you attend, what color you are, or how your… — Branch Rickey Copy Share Image
I would like it to be known that I have decided not to marry Group Capt. Peter Townsend. Mindful of the church's… — Princess Margaret Copy Share Image
That phrase "hocus-pocus" started out as "hocus-pocus dominocus", and was, in the beginning, a mocking imitation of the holy incantations of the… — L. M. Boyd Copy Share Image
Put bluntly, the American church today accepts grace in theory but denies it in practice. We say we believe that the fundamental… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
I was never forced to go to church, and there is a lot of beauty in Christianity that I take in my… — Emily Saliers Copy Share Image
My first memory of Umbro was when I refused to take off my orange and purple Umbro checkerboard shorts for church at… — Ashlyn Harris Copy Share Image
The longer we are members of the Church, the better we understand the gospel, the more we will be inclined to be… — Theodore M. Burton Copy Share Image
Many people get what they need from church attendance because the Word is preached, and the rituals are carried on, and God… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
And the angel said unto me: Behold the formation of a church which is most abominable above all other churches, which slayeth… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
Just as the divine Redeemer, dying on the Cross, offered Himself as Head of the whole human race to the eternal Father,… — Pope Pius XII Copy Share Image
But all the other frenzies of passions-impious both toward the bodies and toward the sexes-beyond the laws of nature, we banish not… — Tertullian Copy Share Image
When I walk into an Orthodox Church... one is immediately aware that one has stepped into the presence of what St. Paul… — Thomas Howard Copy Share Image
If you are called upon to play a church service, it is a greater honor than if you were to play a… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
This concern for the poor is in the Gospel, it is within the tradition of the Church, it is not an invention… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Religious institutions should have religious freedom on this issue. No church or minister should ever have to conduct a marriage that is… — Kay Hagan Copy Share Image
“It is important to think about the Church not as "over there" but as a community of struggling, weak people of whom… — Henri J.M. Nouwen Copy Share Image
Facebook has more than 1 billion members, which by population makes it the third largest country in the world—somewhere between India and… — Phil Cooke Copy Share Image
This old aristocracy and Church-ridden, and tradition-ridden country will never grow wiser. Whilst we are fighting for supremacy in Europe, the [United]… — John Bright Copy Share Image
The mere change of custom, even though it may be of advantage in some respects, unsettles men by reason of the novelty:… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
I know in the Christian church the old ladies use to say "what the devil meant for bad God meant for good."… — Kwame Kilpatrick Copy Share Image
The Church has never changed its teaching on the sanctity of human life - it didn't make up a rule for the… — Wellington Mara Copy Share Image
If I believe the Bible, then I don't believe that a gay lifestyle or a homosexual lifestyle is the right way to… — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
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