The church wasn't an organization in the first century. They weren't writing checks or buying property. The church has matured and developed… — Andy Stanley Copy Share Image
It's interesting to speculate how it developed that in two of the most anti-feminist institutions, the church and the law court, the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching. How far off, how cool, how chaste the persons… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The clergy, by getting themselves established by law and in-grafted into the machine of government, have been a very formidable engine against… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Christ did not found an abstract religion, a mere school of religious thought. He setup a community of apostles, of teachers, with… — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image
Our Holy Father... is very clear that, of course, the teachings of the Church must be preserved and passed on. However, we… — Joseph Edward Kurtz Copy Share Image
Someone asked me, 'Do you pray for the dead?' I said, 'No, I preach to them! I think every pew in every… — Leonard Ravenhill Copy Share Image
The biblical framework limits the authority of each institution to its specific jurisdiction. The church does not have the right to meddle… — John MacArthur Copy Share Image
My father was very strict with me, and I kept seeing a disparity between their freedom and my lack of it, or… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
The Church is God's Bride. All the saints and mystics say the ultimate purpose of human life, the highest end for which… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
And where are we told in the Scriptures that we are to keep the first day at all? We are commanded to… — Isaac Williams Copy Share Image
When you eat, I want you to think of God, of the holiness of hands that feed us, of the provision we… — Shauna Niequist Copy Share Image
When we decided to marry, we had two ceremonies - one was more bureaucratic for the sake of the Swiss authorities,then a… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
It's curious that the Church has become the most tightfisted at the very time in history when God has provided most generously.… — Randy Alcorn Copy Share Image
I wouldn't have known anything about Catholicism if I hadn't been dating Gert. In those days, Catholics were much less ecumenical than… — Wesley Clark Copy Share Image
Between the scribe who has read and the prophet who has seen there is a difference as wide as the sea. We… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A church that doesn't provoke any crises, a gospel that doesn't unsettle, a word of God that doesn't get under anyone’s skin,… — Oscar Romero Copy Share Image
Above all, I declare that Jesus Christ is the center of our faith; I testify to you that he lives. He leads… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
I know whom we must fight...it is the Church. For all its history, it's tried to suppress and control every natural impulse.That… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Instead of seeming to impose new obligations, they should appear as people who wish to share their joy, who point to a… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
The slow-witted approach to the HIV epidemic was the result of a thousand years of Christian malpractice and the childlike approach of… — Derek Jarman Copy Share Image
I'm worried that a few people are confusing the ringing of a church bell with the ringing of a cash register, ..… — Chuck Grassley Copy Share Image
I've read stories of slave owners who were very generous. They didn't keep them in shackles, they didn't whip the slaves, they… — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
The future and the hope for the middle class church lies in the renewal of its lifeblood, which is only possible if… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
I see no faults in the Church, and therefore let me be resurrected with the Saints, whether I ascend to heaven or… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
It's kind of like some kind of church for me, playing live. Each show, good people from different pockets of the world… — Xavier Rudd Copy Share Image
The primary metaphor for the Easter season is the church as the resurrected people living a resurrected spirituality. Because of Easter we… — Robert E. Webber Copy Share Image
I been saying it for years: church is full of sneaky men posing as honest souls, and they are perpetuators our here… — Terry McMillan Copy Share Image
When I am at Rome I fast as the Romans do; when I am at Milan I do not fast. So likewise… — Ambrose Copy Share Image
God's desire is not for us to turn our churches and Christian gatherings into hideouts from the world. Rather, they're meant to… — Beth Moore Copy Share Image
If a young dog strays up the aisle during church no one says anything, no one does anything, but, none the less,… — Ethel Smyth Copy Share Image
The disciples worshipped the most high Lord Who had come down from heaven, made the earth into heaven and gone up again… — Gregory Palamas Copy Share Image
Me and my girlfriend don't have any family in Ipswich, so we were thinking of what we could do to fill our… — Tyrone Mings Copy Share Image
Those who closely watched the campaign should not be surprised by Obama's hostility toward Israel, given his relations with pro-Palestinian, virulent critics… — David Limbaugh Copy Share Image
If you were against slavery in 1840 and a white person, you would have been against the law, the Bible, your church,… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
Adulterers, in the first stages of the church, were excommunicated forever, and unqualified all their lives for bearing a part in Christian… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
I was raised in a very religious household - it wasn't dogma, but we were raised Christian; we went to church every… — Adrienne C. Moore Copy Share Image
Just as Cardinal Bernardin proposed that an of ethic of life be consistently applied to unite all the life issues, we need… — Blase J. Cupich Copy Share Image
I'm a Christian. I go to church when I can. I was raised Baptist. I went to a Lutheran school. I'm a… — Brittany Murphy Copy Share Image
I hope you will be benefitted by your churchgoing. Where the habit does not Christianize, it generally civilizes. That is reason enough… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
![“When we decided to marry, we had two ceremonies - one was more bureaucratic for the sake of the Swiss authorities,then a church service in Florence, and I wrote the music for the church service. The challenge in that was that Iman's [Abdulmajid] family are Muslim and mine are Protestant. I had to…” quote by David Bowie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d6b/david-bowie-508_authority_when-we-decided-to-marry-we-had-two-cere_1059978.jpg)
