In a word, the free Church in a free State has been the programme which led me to my first efforts, and… — Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour Copy Share Image
This doctrine of Christ and of the apostles, from which the true faith of the primitive church was received, the apostles at… — Martin Chemnitz Copy Share Image
I do quite like sightseeing. I like churches, museums, galleries and all that stuff. I love the smell of a church in… — Ashley Jensen Copy Share Image
Don't imitate: imitation creates falsity, pseudo-ness, inauthenticity. Just feel your own way and don't bother about what others say. It is nobody… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
How little chance the Holy Ghost has nowadays. The churches and missionary societies have so bound Him in red tape that they… — Charles Studd Copy Share Image
Every sufferer who bears pain, or slander, or loss, or personal unkindness for Christ’s sake, is filling up that amount of suffering… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Do not fancy, as too many do, that thou canst praise God by singing hymns to Him in church once a week,… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
“I'm not a religious believer, yet despite that I go to church. I love the architecture, the music, the words of the… — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
Organizer is kind of a grand term for what I was doing. I answered an ad that the Presbyterian Church of Chicago… — Sara Paretsky Copy Share Image
I hated being typecast in those roles. It was personally limiting, only playing stereotyped heavies. But I got those roles because I… — Harry Dean Stanton Copy Share Image
If same-sex relationships are really sinful, then why do they so often produce good fruit-loving families, open homes, self-sacrifice, commitment, faithfulness, joy?… — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
One of our great allies at present is the Church itself. Do not misunderstand me. I do not mean the Church as… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Some president wishes to be re-elected, and thereupon speaks about the Bible as "the corner-stone of American Liberty." This sentence is a… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“A person's faith goes at its own pace. The trouble with church is the service. A service is conducted for a mass… — John Irving Copy Share Image
“We may say, in a broad way, that Greek philosophy down to Aristotle expresses the mentality appropriate to the City State; that… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
We live in a relativistic culture, where people are more con- cerned with being liked than being truthful. In A Sweet and… — Francis Chan Copy Share Image
I remember being in church. We would do the live nativity in my little town and I remember pulling the sheep. I… — Chris Tomlin Copy Share Image
The Church is her true self only when she exists for humanity. As a fresh start, she should give away all her… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Church was the thing for me. The fellowship and the message that was given and singing in the choir and singing the… — DeLisha Milton-Jones Copy Share Image
I don't have a religion. I ain't nothing wrong with church as long as they selling chicken. Cause I read the Quran,… — Kevin Gates Copy Share Image
The gospel does not prompt you to mere reflection; the gospel requires a response. In the process of hearing Jesus, you are… — David Platt Copy Share Image
“I believe in love. I believe in the love Lucy shows me, the kind I'll try hard to give back to her… — Katie Henry Copy Share Image
Although the church has often been far too slow to follow his lead, Jesus' insistence that women, as well as men, bear… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
“We know many among ourselves who have given themselves up to bonds, in order that they might ransom others. Many, too, have… — Clement of Rome Copy Share Image
Today many politicians suggest that where the federal government does not act, there must be anarchy. That view is odd, blinkering out… — Amity Shlaes Copy Share Image
The Catholic Church is an institution I am bound to hold divine - but for unbelievers a proof of its divinity might… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
Writers around the world protested when two Communist writers, Siniavski and Daniel, were sentenced to prison by their own comrades. But not… — Richard Wurmbrand Copy Share Image
We're quite different from each other. Camila is the pop girl, Lauren likes the indie sound, Normani and I love R&B, and… — Dinah Jane Copy Share Image
I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough… — George Carlin 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
The church is ever in peril-and never more so than now-of the disaster which must follow when she allows men of distinction… — Lewis Sperry Chafer Copy Share Image
I grew up in rural Alabama, 50 miles from Montgomery, in a very loving, wonderful family: wonderful mother, wonderful father. We attended… — John Lewis Copy Share Image
If therefore our houses be houses of the Lord, we shall for that reason love home, reckoning our daily devotion the sweetest… — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image
There're lots of musicians in my family, too. My mother sings incredibly well. I've got to make a record with my mother's… — Grace Jones Copy Share Image
Love without courage and wisdom is sentimentality, as with the ordinary church member. Courage without love and wisdom is foolhardiness, as with… — Ammon Hennacy Copy Share Image
The Bill of Rights decoupled religion from the state, in part because so many religions were steeped in an absolutist frame of… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
I do think in the present state of both the Church and society we have a long way to go toward accepting… — Ricardo Sanchez Copy Share Image
The Church of England hasn't often produced great men in modern times. But I have long believed that George Bell, Bishop of… — Peter Hitchens Copy Share Image
The Church must take right ground in regard to politics... Politics are a part of a religion in such a country as… — Charles Grandison Finney Copy Share Image
Since the Icelandic volcano obviously needs a virgin sacrifice and the Catholic Church obviously needs new leadership the Pope must volunteer to… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
