I think it's been hard for people to understand how Islam can be a good religion, and yet the Islamists are evil.… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
On that gray street, with the smell of industrial smokes in the air and the afternoon bleeding away to evening, downtown Derry… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Now who can hear Christ declare, that his kingdom is, not of this world, and yet believe that this blending of church… — Isaac Backus Copy Share Image
For example, this, what I said about the bishops who move pedophile priests, the best thing they can do is resign. This… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Far more books get written about how to get more people in your church than how to get the people already in… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
Although I myself don't go to church or synagogue, I do, whether it's superstition or whatever, pray every time I get on… — Barbara Walters Copy Share Image
Katherine of Aragon was speaking out for the women of the country, for the good wives who should not be put aside… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
God is punishing America for the way they have persecuted us at Westboro Baptist Church, and worse and more of is coming… — Fred Phelps Copy Share Image
The fact is, what I hated in the Church was what I hated in society. Namely, authoritarians. Power freaks. Rigid dogmatists. Those… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
In the urban community, the church doesn't just take people to Heaven; it feeds, clothes, and houses them. It teaches them how… — Tony Evans Copy Share Image
Charles Finney, the great 19th-century revivalist and evangelical, would have had a hard time preaching a revival in America today. Finney's brand… — Anthea Butler Copy Share Image
The Second Way in which a wife can be separated from her husband, while he continues to be faithful to his God… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
I remember my mother saying to me on one occasion, 'Mel, I know that I can count on you.' I resolved that… — F. Melvin Hammond Copy Share Image
...the only thing that makes the Church endurable is that it is somehow the body of Christ and that on this we… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
For someone whose roots in America were strong but only inches deep, and who had no experience, such as a Catholic child… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
“How to love is the real question. We all know to love and to keep loving more, but man's confusion comes from… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
A heck of a lot more accountability comes from individuals or the church doing it than the government, that signs off on… — Doug LaMalfa Copy Share Image
Keep to the ancient way and custom of the Church, established and confirmed by so many Saints under the inspiration of the… — Angela Merici Copy Share Image
I was born into a religious cult in Indianapolis, straight up. They had an apartment complex in this one area, and there… — Adrianne Lenker Copy Share Image
'Amoris Latetia' reiterates that Pope Francis is interested in changing both the tone and reception of people and families in the church… — Anthea Butler Copy Share Image
Evangelism was not a program in the Jerusalem church; it was a way of life. The believers' lives and behaviors created such… — David Jeremiah Copy Share Image
I think poetry has started to take on a supplementary role of prayer for some people. The churches, I think, including my… — Kevin Hart Copy Share Image
As a mother in the 1950s, she did not impose the same strict religious routine on myself and my brother, Mark, though… — Carol Thatcher Copy Share Image
Women today leave the house in animal prints and six inch stilettos, what does that say? I'm going to church? They're saying… — Andrew Dice Clay Copy Share Image
Faith is the door to the full inner life of the Church, a life which includes not only access to an authoritative… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Growing up Mormon was very different from the way I live my life now. I wasn't allowed to show anything above my… — Rubi Rose Copy Share Image
The more I do bookstores, the more people come up to me from church groups. I spoke at Pittsburg State College and… — Anita Diament Copy Share Image
It is a significant fact that, of all the Christian countries, in those where the church stands highest, and has most power,… — Helen H. Gardener Copy Share Image
Yet this is trash that the Church imposes upon the world as the Word of God; this is the collection of lies… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
God tries you in certain, certain ways. Some people are rich, and they believe in God. They lose the money, things get… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
I was not in the church, but we claim, like so many people, 'Yeah, I grew up in the church.' Well yeah,… — Lou Brock Copy Share Image
There needs to be a place in the church or just outside - there needs to be a place where people feel… — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
Bad theology dishonors God and hurts people. Churches that sever the root of truth may flourish for a season, but they will… — John Piper Copy Share Image
You have suffered grievously and I am truly sorry. I know that nothing can undo the wrong you have endured. Your trust… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
We cannot insist only on issues related to abortion, gay marriage and the use of contraceptive methods. The teaching of the church… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
I was raised in an evangelical Methodist church. Evangelical meant that though you had been baptized and made a member of the… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
I want to see the church get closer to the people. I want to get rid of clericalism, the mundane, this closing… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
No one church has all the answers or the perfect map to the Promised Land, and I prefer to work out my… — Charley Pride Copy Share Image
"If any man thirst, let him come and drink from the rivers of living water" (cf. John 7:38). Where shall he who… — Cyprian Copy Share Image
Martin Luther King Jr. really understood the role of the churches when he said, 'The church is not meant to be the… — Jim Wallis Copy Share Image
