The entire range of human experience is present in a church choir, including, but not restricted to jealousy, revenge, horror, pride, incompetence… — Connie Willis Copy Share Image
The church is only the church when it exists for others. To make a start, it should give away all its property… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
The Church was redeemed at the price of Christ's blood. Jew or Greek, it makes no difference; but if he has believed,… — Ambrose Copy Share Image
This Church is true. It will weather every storm that beats against it. It will outlast every critic who rises to mock… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
The biblical assertion that women are created in God's image and Boaz's advocacy for Ruth and Naomi necessarily mean women, then and… — Carolyn Custis James Copy Share Image
“A woman has never been able to become a priest—she cannot even be a deacon, nor yet a chorister—but a woman can… — Sigrid Undset Copy Share Image
The Church was resolved to have a New Testament, and as, after the lapse of more than three hundred years, no handwriting… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
When you're mired in the depths of depression, it's impossible to believe that anything can get better, but it can and it… — Sara Benincasa Copy Share Image
“I think more people would stay active in church, if they didn't get so offended by the actions of members. Sometimes, you… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
We must not falter nor weary in well-doing. We must lengthen our stride. Not only is our own eternal welfare at stake,… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
A church that suffers no persecution but enjoys the privileges and support of the things of the earth - beware! - is… — Oscar Romero Copy Share Image
The use of rock, folk, or pop music serves a purpose. It gets people into the church. But an inexperienced guitar player… — Dave Brubeck Copy Share Image
A church that does not exist to reclaim heathenism, to fight evil, to destroy error, to put down falsehood, a church that… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
There's been a false and negative distinction that's been made between joy and happiness. Unfortunately, the message we send to those both… — Randy Alcorn Copy Share Image
My first heartbreak devastated me, but it was the support of my family and my second family, my church family, that helped… — Michael Ealy Copy Share Image
Encourage free schools and resolve that not one dollar appropriated for their support shall be appropriated to the support of any sectarian… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
The library was home away from home to my mom, and my family. We had spent every Sunday afternoon there since I… — Kami Garcia Copy Share Image
In coming to an appreciation of the Mormon Church, one of the things that has been most compelling to me is the… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
If complex organisms demand an explanation, so does a complex designer. And it's no solution to raise the theologian's plea that God… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
It is Mind which determines the change of Society, and it was because the mind at work was a Catholic mind that… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
Christians are to be salt and light in everything they do, be it in their church, in their business, in their school,… — Frank Turek Copy Share Image
The key to maturity is time and community. Discernment and godly wisdom develop in a community that spans generations. The church is… — Michael Horton Copy Share Image
I talked to my mother about it a lot. I asked her what it was like to grow up in New York… — Denzel Washington Copy Share Image
The church exists primarily for two closely correlated purposes: to worship God and to work for his kingdom in the world ...… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you had told me 28 years ago that the largest organization in the world touching the lives of gays and lesbians… — Troy Perry Copy Share Image
It would be easy to show that at our present rate of progress the kingdoms of this world never could become the… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
"Religion" can no more be equated with what goes on in churches than "education" can be reduced to what happens in schools… — Harvey Cox Copy Share Image
I love monsters. If I go to a church, I'm more interested in the gargoyles than the saints. I really don't care… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
When you are in the temple, remember that you are in the living presence of the Lord God, that you stand before… — John of Kronstadt Copy Share Image
And all the world is football-shaped It's just for me to kick in space And I can see, hear, smell, touch, taste… — Andy Partridge Copy Share Image
We stink more of the world than we stink of sack cloth and ashes. A lot of contemporary churches today would feel… — Nicky Cruz Copy Share Image
I'm an ex-Catholic priest. I have such a complex relationship to Catholicism. On the one hand, if I called myself a Catholic… — Benjamin Alire Saenz Copy Share Image
Whoever isolates himself from the church, i.e., from Christianity as a whole, from the history of dogma in its entirety, loses the… — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
So, you want to be like Christ? Me too. But that kind of godliness won't just happen by hanging around a church… — Charles R. Swindoll Copy Share Image
I could scarcely reconcile myself at first to this strange way of preaching in the fields, of which Whitfield set me an… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
The Church has been and now is unalterably opposed to gambling in any form whatever. It is opposed to any game of… — Heber J. Grant Copy Share Image
It is manifest therefore that they who have sovereign power, are immediate rulers of the church under Christ, and all others but… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Women are afraid. It is unpopular to question the bible. They are creatures of tradition. They fear to question their position in… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
I believe in an America that is officially neither Catholic, Protestant nor Jewish; where no public official either requests or accepts instructions… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
To the Baptist Churches on Neal's Greek on Black Creek, North Carolina I have received, fellow-citizens, your address, approving my objection to… — James Madison Copy Share Image
![“The Church was redeemed at the price of Christ's blood. Jew or Greek, it makes no difference; but if he has believed, he must circumcise himself from his sins [in baptism (Col. 2:11-12)] so that he can be saved . . . for no one ascends into the kingdom of heaven except through the sacrament of…” quote by Ambrose](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0f3/ambrose-9220_baptism_the-church-was-redeemed-at-the-price-of_2194608.jpg)
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