I refused to teach Sunday school. When Archdeacon Henry Phillips, my last rector, died, I flatly refused again to join any church… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Unless the church is equipping believers to embrace the values and vision of the kingdom of God and turn away from the… — Alan Hirsch Copy Share Image
[A novel by Henry James] is like a church lit but without a congregation to distract you, with every light and line… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
Damn all false antitheses to hell, for they generate false gods, they perpetuate idols, they twist and distort our souls, they launch… — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
“I don’t go to church. Not anymore. I’m a lot of things, but a hypocrite really isn’t one of them. If you’re… — Emma Chase Copy Share Image
It's essential that we learn how to defend the Bible and the Christian faith for our sake and our children's. If we… — Ken Ham Copy Share Image
The responsibility of building leadership in the Church belongs to the father and the mother. . . . As youth grow and… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
Most of what I have seen, the churches that are growing are the best are those that are nondenominational. But I don't… — T. D. Jakes Copy Share Image
The most dangerous type of atheism is not theoretical atheism, but practical atheism -that's the most dangerous type. And the world, even… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The world may disagree with the Church, but the world knows very definitely with what it is disagreeing. In the future as… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
This new large-scale spiritual awakening is occurring primarily not within the confines of the established religions, but outside of those structures. Some… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
[T]he sprawl of government into every conceivable realm of life has caused the withering of traditional institutions. Fathers become unnecessary if the… — Mona Charen Copy Share Image
Advent's intention is to awaken the most profound and basic emotional memory within us, namely, the memory of the God who became… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Further strengthenings of the self-centered instinct for survival recruit even greater numbers of people into some sort of ring of fellowship (church… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
Since the early days, [the church] has thrown itself violently against every effort to liberate the body and mind of man. It… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Political organizations have slowly substituted themselves for the Churches as the places of believing practices, but for this very reason, they seem… — Michel de Certeau Copy Share Image
My mum was very glamorous, an incredible seamstress. She made up those Vogue, Givenchy and Yves St. Laurent patterns they used to… — Grace Jones Copy Share Image
Just as there are many Jews who keep the Friday ritual in their home despite describing themselves as atheists, I am a… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
Some people prefer not to commingle the functional, lambda-calculus part of a language with the parts that do side effects. It seems… — Guy Steele Copy Share Image
In the Mormon Church, we believe we can be married for all eternity, not till death do you part. As Mom was… — Clayton M. Christensen Copy Share Image
I need to find a church on Sunday. I need to say 'please' and 'thank you,' 'yes sir' and 'no ma'am.' Do… — Joe Nichols Copy Share Image
When the church encounters hardship, persecution, and suffering, then it is closest to its crucified Lord. Then there are fewer hypocrites and… — Gene Veith Copy Share Image
EVERY national church or religion has established itself by pretending some special mission from God, communicated to certain individuals. The Jews have… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Some of our strongest critics, especially inside the church, said we had turned our backs on traditional gospel music and were just… — Kirk Franklin Copy Share Image
The hope for life after death must be separated forever from the behavior control mentality of reward and punishment. The Church must… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace liminality and adventure or continue to remain… — Alan Hirsch Copy Share Image
I am not saying that the Renaissance in any way was a feminist movement - hardly. But the arts flourished, and in… — Kathryn Lasky Copy Share Image
Progress is born of doubt and inquiry. The Church never doubts, never inquires. To doubt is heresy, to inquire is to admit… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We live in the Bible Belt. I was born and raised in church. That's something that was really, really important to me,… — Jay DeMarcus Copy Share Image
Astronomers who do not draw theistic or deistic conclusions are becoming rare, and even the few dissenters hint that the tide is… — Hugh Ross Copy Share Image
Offers for me to play dances, society parties, even churches, were now coming in regularly. For most dates I was paid the… — Mary Lou Williams Copy Share Image
Following a meeting with Hitler, Cardinal Michael von Faulhaber, a man who had 'courageously criticized the Nazi attacks on the Catholic Church'… — Ian Kershaw Copy Share Image
Teach your children that many of the blessings of the Church are available to them because you and they give tithes and… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
Christians who have influence in political life must feel as individuals responsibility in front of their own faith. And the duty of… — Karl Lehmann Copy Share Image
I feel the same way about solitude as some people feel about the blessing of the church. It's the light of grace… — Peter Høeg Copy Share Image
I never wanted to be a wild kid. I respected my parents and I had great friends. I was lucky. We did… — Carrie Underwood Copy Share Image
The name of the new religion, said Rumfoord, is The Church of God the Utterly Indifferent. . . The two chief teachings… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
... our reality teaches us that, as Christians, we must create a Church of the poor, that we don't need a Church… — Rigoberta Menchu Copy Share Image
I just love all the music. My grandma was a church organist for 40 years, and she got me into jazz music… — Zach Anner Copy Share Image
I didn't want to go to college - I was bored by junior high. So I was in church one day, staring… — Brad Holland Copy Share Image
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