I read the Bible, I speak through issues, I see what I think is hypocrisy in the church and things that are… — Tony Campolo Copy Share Image
I was raised in the church, and there's still a fire burning inside me. I definitely don't ever want to be preachy.… — Brandon Flowers Copy Share Image
When I am dead, let it be said of me: he belonged to no school, to no church, to no institution, to… — Gustave Courbet Copy Share Image
You don't need organized religion to connect with the universe. Often a church is the only place you can go to find… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
The church is not meant to call men and women out of the world into a safe religious enclave but to call… — Lesslie Newbigin Copy Share Image
I loved every second of Catholic church. I loved the sickly sweet rotting-pomegranate smells of the incense. I loved the overwrought altar,… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
And we find from Church history that the primitive Christians thus understood it; for that women did actually speak and preach amongst… — Catherine Booth Copy Share Image
In our ecclesiastical region there are priests who don't baptize the children of single mothers because they weren't conceived in the sanctity… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“Building upon this early conception of the Church, Christians came to think of it as having a double aspect. Insofar as it… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
If he loves, he wants to make a relationship out of it immediately! He wants to get married. He wants to create… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The real long term objective of the Welfare Plan is the fulfilling of character in the members of the Church, givers and… — J. Reuben Clark Copy Share Image
Most of my library consists of books on the Catholic faith: conversion stories, books on saints and Early Church Fathers, Apparitions of… — Gail Buckley Copy Share Image
On politics I strive as much as possible to let my passions be for God and for the Church and for others… — Scot McKnight Copy Share Image
It is indolence... Indolence and love of ease; a want of all laudable ambition, of taste for good company, or of inclination… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
In the middle-class United States, a veneer of "alternative lifestyles" disguises the reality that, here as everywhere, women's apparent "choices" whether or… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Only the [Catholic] Church stood squarely across the path of Hitler’s campaign for suppressing truth. I never had any special interest in… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Open your hearts to the Lord. The Lord is waiting for you and the Church will welcome you if your willingness to… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
In Bolivia there are Catholic, Evangelical, Methodist, Baptist churches, and so on. In Bolivia there are indigenous religious beliefs like the rite… — Evo Morales Copy Share Image
With so much effort being poured into church growth, so much press being given to the benefits of faith, and so much… — Barbara Brown Taylor Copy Share Image
It can have a secular purpose and have a relationship to God because God was presumed to be both over the state… — Roy Moore Copy Share Image
Our society is divided by the culture wars into the Left and Right, and the United Methodist Church has always stood historically… — Adam Hamilton Copy Share Image
Our ultimate aim in this welfare work is to help Church members to become self-supporting, and to obtain work they can do… — Henry D. Moyle Copy Share Image
If we look back into history for the character of the present sects in Christianity, we shall find few that have not… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I believe there is no doctrine more dangerous to the Church today than to convey the impression that a revival is something… — Billy Sunday Copy Share Image
I enjoy art, architecture, museums, churches and temples; anything that gives me insight into the history and soul of the place I'm… — Cherie Lunghi Copy Share Image
We were married in Capri almost two years ago and we have made a pact with each other to visit the beautiful… — Giuliana Rancic Copy Share Image
The traitor to Humanity is the traitor most accursed; Man is more than Constitutions; better rot beneath the sod, Than be true… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
I plead guilty to that when I was young pastor. In one of my churches I changed so much, one old wag… — Jerry Vines Copy Share Image
After playing so many songs in churches for eight or nine years, I've learned what songs people react to. Then I just… — John Tesh Copy Share Image
Even from when I was in grade school or church or wherever, I was always like: we're one, and we should respect… — Valerie June Copy Share Image
A person with homosexual inclinations, where they're kept under control, or, if yielded to are appropriately repented of, is eligible to do… — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
How can we call ourselves a church and not believe in healing and in miracles? I cannot read four pages anywhere in… — T.L. Osborn Copy Share Image
We are forbidden to neglect the assembling of ourselves together. Christianity is already institutional in the earliest of its documents. The Church… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Church and State, Soul and Body, God and Man, are all one at Mont Saint Michel, and the business of all is… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
I grew up very heavily involved in a United Methodist Youth organization. I grew up going to church camp for years. I… — Tracy Lawrence Copy Share Image
In the polls, over 80% support the right to die and have done for the last 25 years. Even 80% of practising… — Polly Toynbee Copy Share Image
Our church was a very spiritual church, and we were a very chosen people. The body was small, but the spirit was… — Marvin Gaye Copy Share Image
“What did you say, Gram? About there being no church out here?" "I said that the sky was the roof of my… — Terri Farley Copy Share Image
The Typical American? He is sent to school Little or much, where he imbibes the rule Of safety first and comfort; in… — Edgar Lee Masters Copy Share Image
Most of my memories are of softball games in Falls Church with my sister, yard sales across town on the weekends with… — Christina Tosi Copy Share Image