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
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
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
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
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
My daughter, Grace, was not killed by a gun. She died suddenly at age 5 from a virulent form of strep. As… — Ann Hood Copy Share Image
I believe there is complete equality between men and women. And I believe those passages in the New Testament, not by Jesus,… — Jimmy Carter 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
You can't go to church without praying ten or fifteen times for God to have mercy on you. You can't sing "Amazing… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
I had known David Ham and Marco Santiago from having met and worked with them on The Cross and the Switchblade which… — Patricia Mauceri Copy Share Image
When called to the Council of the Twelve, October 4, 1963, he said in the Salt Lake Tabernacle: I think of a… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
I love New York. It's made me realize that God's a lot bigger than I thought he was. It's a really interesting… — Jay Bakker Copy Share Image
People sometimes focus on the red button hot topic issues and I'm, like, you know, who cares about priestly celibacy? I'm thinking… — Lino Rulli Copy Share Image
Without repeating everything that we have already mentioned, it is appropriate first of all to emphasize the following point: for the Church,… — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image
“Unless a person can give reasons, there is, literally, no reason why anyone else should take that person seriously. But without reasons,… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
My favorite story about O'Connor - one of them - is I was in Toronto at a pro-life conference.I had a session… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
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“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
I have no respect for the right-to-life position. But when you legislate personal belief, you're in violation of freedom of religion. The… — John Irving 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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
The world can no longer be left to mere diplomats, politicians, and business leaders. They have done the best they could, no… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
“The task of liturgy is to order the life of the holy community following the text of Holy Scripture. It consists of… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
“Hence it's funny to read in the New York Times that liberal Catholic activists are pushing for a change in Church teaching… — John Zmirak Copy Share Image
There are various methods by which you may achieve ignominy and shame. By murdering a large and respected family in cold blood… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
It is frightfully hard to explain to Protestants that if you give Roman Catholics a good job and a good house, they… — Terence O Neill of the Maine Copy Share Image
Compared with other Americans, journalists are more likely to live in upscale neighborhoods, have maids, own Mercedes and trade stocks, and less… — John Leo Copy Share Image