If you compare the United States with Europe, my view is that what happened in Europe is that the church became deeply… — John Rawls Copy Share Image
“The Church insists on teaching that my—along with so many other’s—homosexual inclination is intrinsically disordered and my homosexual acts—even with my husband—are… — Charles Benedict Copy Share Image
The one thing that the Catholic Church desires, and that I seek as Bishop of Rome, “the Church which presides in charity”,… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
We wrote about having five kids and bringing them to church. A journalist at The Washington Post wrote this article where the… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
We are so used to multi-tasking. 2014 was probably the most productive year of my life...But I noticed during the last couple… — Francis Chan Copy Share Image
One area where American Jews have something to teach Israel is religious pluralism, something that living in a democracy with a separation… — Bari Weiss Copy Share Image
“God has always been about the business of shattering expectations, and in our culture, the standards of leadership are extroverted. It perfectly… — Adam S. McHugh Copy Share Image
I fancy it must be the quantity of animal food eaten by the English which renders their character insusceptible to civilization. I… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, too, when their spiritual masters, such as confessors and superiors, do not approve of their spirit and behavior (for they are… — Juan de la Cruz Copy Share Image
If the church says we will not accept you here or that we will expose you if you are stealing the resources… — Yemi Osinbajo Copy Share Image
Re-examine all you have been told in school or church or in any book,and dismiss whatever insults your own soul... It is… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
We in the United States, above all, must remember that lesson, for we were founded as a nation of openness to people… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
There is a big difference between an honest mistake made in a moment of spiritual weakness and a willfull decision to disobey… — M. Russell Ballard Copy Share Image
The immense wealth of doctrine and institutions can become a handicap if we are trying to present all of that to a… — Raniero Cantalamessa Copy Share Image
The Roman Catholic Church has the unique power of keeping remote control over human souls which have once been part of her.… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
White guilt is more of a sanctioned social convention than a genuine emotional experience. It’s a form of theatrical empathy that’s socially… — Jack Donovan Copy Share Image
The church acknowledges some Scientologists choose to sever communications with family members who leave. The church says it is a fundamental human… — John Sweeney Copy Share Image
I hate it when someone of authority can just take church from you. Church keeps people in God's hands, and can keep… — Stephenie C Bryant Copy Share Image
I spent a lot of time in churches. If you go to a synagogue, someone is always asking if you're alone, if… — Peter Malkin Copy Share Image
Hip hop, this is church. Church, this is hip-hop. Y'all need to meet. I know you have some misconceptions about them, I… — LeCrae Copy Share Image
The Church therefore has one inescapable task: To lift up Christ. When she seeks to lift herself up she becomes weak, but… — Avery Dulles Copy Share Image
“It is too easy to call the church political. The nature of fallen people is political. And they happen to make up… — Mea McMahon Copy Share Image
I grew up in a Southern Baptist-style church with a choir, a band, and music, but I've been asking myself my whole… — Roger Ross Williams Copy Share Image
It was in this year, 1828, that the standard of "the Christian Party in Politics" was openly unfurled... This was an evident… — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
“The church is missionary by nature because God through the Spirit calls, creates, and commissions the church to communicate to the world… — Craig Van Gelder Copy Share Image
Church is the textured context in which we grow up in Christ to maturity. But church is difficult. Sooner or later, though,… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
If your songs connect with the fans and they pump their fists in the air and go "Yeah!!" that's when a song… — Gene Simmons Copy Share Image
The most urgent need in the Christian Church today is true preaching; and as it is the greatest and most urgent need… — Martyn Copy Share Image
Even Martin Luther and John Calvin believed that the Roman Catholic church, up to the Council of Trent, was basically orthodox -… — Norman Geisler Copy Share Image
This is the number one responsibility of the Latter-day Saints - to get in the struggle to preserve freedom. Everywhere that Communism… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
I used love like money, but love doesn't work like money. It is not a commodity. When we barter with it, we… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
Should it be prohibited for private entities such as a church, bed-and-breakfast or retirement neighborhood that doesn't want noisy children? Absolutely not.… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
The words of musicals were the moral codes that I lived by. I found meaning and messages in musicals that I didn't… — Rosie O'Donnell Copy Share Image
We help immigrants because we are an immigrant nation, and we are an immigrant church. We've always done that; this is nothing… — Blase J. Cupich Copy Share Image
Like, you can have church at your house. I feel like as long as you're giving Him praise, you can do it… — Tee Grizzley Copy Share Image
God is punishing America for the way they have persecuted us at Westboro Baptist Church, and worse and more of [the Virginia… — Fred Phelps Copy Share Image
How can you have order in a state without religion? For, when one man is dying of hunger near another who is… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
You can see in our churches most of the males are pastors. Most of the deacons are males. But if the woman… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
This is the church's job. This is who we are as the body of Christ to reach out to people who are… — Alan Chambers Copy Share Image
The preaching of the Church truly continues without change and is everywhere the same. It has the testimony of the Prophets and… — Irenaeus of Lyons Copy Share Image
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