For the Baul, life is not a serious thing. It is fun, it is laughter, it is joy. So you cannot find… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
It is odd that neither the Church nor modern public opinion condemns petting, provided it stops short at a certain point. At… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Let us pray for the Catholic Church; for the Churches throughout the whole world; that is, for their truth, unity, and stability;… — Lancelot Andrewes Copy Share Image
“Most of the church landscape in my lifetime has been heavily invested in trying to do something for Jerry or Sherri or… — James MacDonald Copy Share Image
These self-anointed intellectuals are people who think that those who believe in God and Jesus Christ, those who 'cling to their guns… — Burt Prelutsky Copy Share Image
My audience is made up of two groups of people. The first group includes people whose roots are deep in the Christian… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
We do not worship the Prophet. We worship God our Eternal Father and the risen Lord Jesus Christ. But we acknowledge the… — Sam Smith Copy Share Image
Well, we are Americans. I've always believed that you work with where you are - I am a Mormon woman who was… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
“Once I am sure there's nothing going on I step inside, letting the door thud shut. Another church: matting, seats, and stone,… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
One cannot walk down an avenue, converse with a friend, enter a building, browse beneath the sandstone arches of an old arcade… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
“How often do we hear from the local diocesan people—the bishop, the communications director, the victim assistance coordinator, and others—that this abuse… — Charles L. Bailey Jr Copy Share Image
If church prelates, past or present, had even an inkling of physiology they'd realize that what they term this inner ugliness creates… — Sean O'Casey Copy Share Image
I have been advised that you have decided to move forward with your story without my interview. This, despite the fact confirmed… — David Miscavige Copy Share Image
The separation of church and state is extremely important to any of us who holds to the original traditions of our nation.… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The shooter's choice of Emanuel AME was most likely deliberate, given the church's storied history. It was the first African Methodist Episcopal… — Anthea Butler Copy Share Image
We can understand that the Fathers of the Church in the East wanted Apocalypse left out of the New Testament. But like… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Do the Pentecostals look back with shame as they remember when they dwelt across the theological tracks, but with the glory of… — Leonard Ravenhill Copy Share Image
One night I walked out of the church when the priest said that we should never have fought the Revolutionary war and… — Wesley Clark Copy Share Image
For a few years all I listened to was The Smiths, Things Fall Apart by The Roots, Love Is Dead by The… — Chris Gethard Copy Share Image
I was pregnant with my youngest child at the time, writing about mass death while I'm growing this precious little life inside… — Julia Scheeres Copy Share Image
Urge all of your men to pray, not alone in church, but everywhere. Pray when driving. Pray when fighting. Pray alone. Pray… — George S. Patton Copy Share Image
The condition of the church may be very accurately gauged by its prayer meetings. So is the prayer meeting a grace-ometer, and… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
On many occasions I have been asked if I think persecution will come to the Western church. My answer might surprise you.… — Brother Yun Copy Share Image
He went to church, and walked about the streets, and watched the people hurrying to and fro, and patted children on the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“What would have become of the people five hundred years ago if they had followed strictly the advice of the doctors? They… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
If conservatives come to control the White House and both Houses of Congress, there will be very little change in Hollywood, the… — Robert Bork Copy Share Image
Church, the spiritual power, and the executive power are working today united in a system that confronts people. This alliance or cooperation… — Andrey Zvyagintsev Copy Share Image
The idea that God will pardon a rebel who has not given up his rebellion is contrary both to the Scriptures and… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
Our government has become too responsive to trivial or ephemeral concerns, often at the expense of more important concerns or an erosion… — William A. Niskanen Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, most of the major denominations still practice segregation in local churches, hospitals, schools, and other church institutions. It is appalling that… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
It's a cultural disability in America that we worship pleasure, leisure, and affluence. I think the church is doubly damned when they… — Rich Mullins Copy Share Image
The atheist, agnostic, or secularist ... should guard against the encroachment of religion in areas where it has no place, and in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“A missionary church cannot rely on the professional ministry for the primary work of mission. The role of the laity is critical… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The best attitude to receive the Pope's teachings is to understand that he is a religious leader and the essence of his… — Marcelo Sanchez Sorondo Copy Share Image
“It is not possible to understand the NT concept of the church if we overlook the numerous metaphors used to portray it.… — David Ewert Copy Share Image
I am writing to all the Churches and I enjoin all, that I am dying willingly for God's sake, if only you… — Ignatius of Antioch Copy Share Image
People just sticking names on places, so that no one could see those places properly any more. Every time they looked at… — John Marsden Copy Share Image
Suddenly you're at church and you hear someone pray, "For gays and lesbians, that they might realize their [sins]…" That's happening less… — Stephen Karam Copy Share Image
What we really have to do is take a day and sit down and think. The world is not going to end… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
We don't teach from Books of the Bible because it gets in the way of evangelism. We don't offer different kinds of… — Steven Furtick Copy Share Image
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