Influences come from everywhere. I don't really feel like I had too many influences for the first record because I grew up… — Avril Lavigne Copy Share Image
The separation of church and state is necessary partly because if religion is good then the state shouldn't interfere with the religious… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
In every age the church is threatened by heresy, and heresy is bound up in false doctrine. It is the desire of… — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
We must protect the right of citizens to practice their religions freely. As president, I will support federal and state-level legislation like… — Carly Fiorina Copy Share Image
The early Christians rejoiced when they were deemed worthy to suffer for what they believed. In those days the Church was not… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Old churches must not simply stand as monuments to the past but as spiritual grandparents that have invested in the future by… — Eddie Gibbs Copy Share Image
There is good and bad in all of us and the Church uses the idea of original sin to control us by… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
[Concerning] the usual contempt with which an orthodox analytic group treats all outsiders and strangers ... I urge you to think of… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
The longer I live the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts.… — Charles R. Swindoll Copy Share Image
There is no necessity for going to the church and hearing the same story forever. Let the minister write what he wishes… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Force was the factor in the government of the world when Christ was born, and force was the source and exercise of… — Chauncey Depew Copy Share Image
Everybody is entitled to believe. Churches have exactly the same right to exist as a football club, a trade union or a… — A.C. Grayling Copy Share Image
When I speak at my local church, which I try to do 35 to 40 times a year, I try in every… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
A mission is not just a casual thing-it is not an alternative program in the Church. Neither is a mission a matter… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
President J. Reuben Clark, Jr., a modern prophet, said over and over again that the Lord would never let one of his… — A. Theodore Tuttle Copy Share Image
“Sabato ilianzishwa na Mungu siku ya saba ya uumbaji wake. Siku ya Sabato ni siku takatifu, iliyoko katika Amri Kumi za Mungu,… — Enock Maregesi Copy Share Image
Marches work, rallies work, civil disobedience works, direct action works, voting works, writing letters works, speaking to churches and schools works, rioting… — Cleve Jones Copy Share Image
The pope is an intelligent man and realizes that time marches on. He says the Church has a long way to go… — Janine di Giovanni Copy Share Image
The Enlightenment was an attempt to liberate myth and base truth claims on evidence, not just dogma. But when science threw out… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
The apostles were scattered, and even the leaders of the Church in Jerusalem had neither the power nor the means to impose… — Frederic G. Kenyon Copy Share Image
But the Church cannot be, in any political sense, either conservative or liberal, or revolutionary. Conservatism is too often conservation of the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our error today is that we do not expect a converted man to be a transformed man, and as a result of… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
I want you to know he's coming to the church before he comes FOR the church. He's gonna perfect the Church so… — Paul Cain Copy Share Image
I make a forceful and urgent call to the entire Catholic Church, and also to every Christian of other confessions, as well… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
I grew up in the church, and so I feel that God gave me certain things to do, and I'm lucky enough… — James McBride Copy Share Image
“In a system of full capitalism, there should be (but, historically, has not yet been) a complete separation of state and economics,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
No man should be alone when he opposes Satan. The Church and the ministry of the Word were instituted for this purpose,… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“The fact that you have a large sum of money in your wallet does not remove your responsibility from you before God… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
When you strip it of everything else, Pentecost stands for power and life. That's what came into the church when the Holy… — David Wilkerson Copy Share Image
By May, 1st, 1937, there should not be one single church left within the borders of Soviet Russia, and the idea of… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
God is preparing His Church to become an invincible, unstoppable, unconquerable, overcoming Army of the Lord that subdues everything under Christ's feet.… — Bill Hamon Copy Share Image
This is what the Church is said to want, not party men, but sensible, temperate, sober, well-judging persons, to guide it through… — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
I love you, Clary," he said without looking at her. He was staring out into the church, at the row of lighted… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
For a Christian to be a Christian, he must first be a sinner. Being a sinner is a prerequisite for being a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the… — Hans Kung Copy Share Image
“Fat Charlie wondered what Rosie’s mother would usually hear in a church. Probably just cries of “Back! Foul beast of Hell!” followed… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
There is a kind of thinking in the Church that wants to reduce the priest to a mere functionary, a managing director,… — Arthur Middleton Copy Share Image
Women will be saved by going back to that role that God has chosen for them. Ladies, if the hair on the… — Mark Driscoll Copy Share Image
Some speak of the public as if it were someone with whom they have had dinner at the Leipzig Fair in the… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
A few years ago, the liberal churches complained that the Calvinistic church denied to them the name of Christian. I think the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image