One should not go into churches if one wants to breathe pure air. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I think that if you can't be loyal to the Church, it's best to get out. — A. N. Wilson Copy Share Image
Before Christ comes, it is useless to expect to see the perfect church. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Richard Hadlee has the appearance of a rickety church steeple and a severe manner which suggests that women are not likely to… — Peter Roebuck Copy Share Image
Marriage is a civic matter. It is really not, together with all its circumstances, the business of the church. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
If our church is not marked by caring for the poor, the oppressed, the hungry, we are guilty of heresy. — Ignatius of Loyola Copy Share Image
The questions of today's average young person, who is the product of America's intellectual bastions, have been virtually unaddressed by the church. — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
New York is to the nation what the white church spire is to the village - the visible symbol of aspiration and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sweetheart," Bill said formally, "I have always loved you, and I will be proud to die in your service. When I'm gone,… — Charlaine Harris Copy Share Image
I was raised Catholic and I have a lot of respect for the good in the Catholic Church. But I don't go… — Dolores O'Riordan Copy Share Image
That is the power of the Eucharist. At the communion table you have rich and poor together in the early church and… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
The church would betray its own love for God and its fidelity to the gospel if it stopped being . . .… — Oscar Romero Copy Share Image
“The church's primary purpose is not to make America more Christian, but to make American Christians less American and Rwandan Christians less… — Emmanuel Katongole Copy Share Image
I must be mad, or very tired, When the curve of a blue bay beyond a railroad track Is shrill and sweet… — Amy Lowell Copy Share Image
The men to whom Jesus Christ committed the fortunes and destiny of His Church were men of prayer. To no other kind… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
The apostolic church thought more about the Second Coming of Jesus Christ than about death and heaven. The early Christians were looking,… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
I'm Catholic, and my wife is Catholic. We're very religious. We go to church. We pray every night. We pray at dinner.… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
Most churches make the mistake of selecting as leaders the confident, the competent, and the successful. But what you most need in… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Maybe you've attended church for five, ten, or even twenty years, but you've never cracked open the Bible to prepare yourself for… — Howard G. Hendricks Copy Share Image
There's a mindset in other countries that if you're an American, you're a Christian. Well, those people are sadly misled; they don't… — Tim Conway Copy Share Image
Combativeness was, I suppose, the dominant trait in my grandmother's nature. An aggressive churchgoer, she was quite without Christian feeling; the mercy… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
In Europe, the Enlightenment of the 18th century was seen as a battle against the desire of the Church to limit intellectual… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Give heed to the cause of the holy Roman Church, mother of all churches and teacher of the faith, whom you by… — Pope Leo X Copy Share Image
In New York, I'm playing in a church, solo, doing instrumental stuff. There's talk of doing more, like, installation-type things with some… — Andrew Bird Copy Share Image
I don't think literature would be possible in a determined world. We might go through the motions but the heart would be… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
What is this?” he went on now, spearing an unfortunate object on a fork and raising it to eye level. “This… this…… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
This doctrine ['that the condition of man cannot be ameliorated, that what has been must ever be, and that to secure ourselves… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
All these new methods of how to build the church has left me confused. — David Wilkerson Copy Share Image
We follow the rules laid out in the Bible for running our church. — William Brewster Copy Share Image
Let's be clear, I'm one of the thicker bishops in the Church of England. — Justin Welby Copy Share Image
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