Is there a place in a church where you leave your brains when you enter? — Victor J. Stenger Copy Share Image
The Church is a perpetually defeated thing that always outlives her conquerers. — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
“It is very difficult sometimes to keep awake, especially at church, but there is no difficulty at all about sleeping.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
If the church is going to make a difference, it will need to go through the "big give-up" stage. Churches will need… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
The downfall of the church will not come from a lack of apologetic teaching; it will come from disintegration of the families… — Josh McDowell Copy Share Image
We all want to feel spiritually vigorous, and we hurt when we don't. This pain is intensified for people who lead church… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
Know thyself,’ said Socrates. Know thyself,’ said Sappho, ‘and make sure that the Church never finds out. — Jeanette Winterson 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
“-"I have kept the faith, Planchard." -"Then you are the only man who has" Planchard said, "and it is an heretical faith."… — Bernard Cornwell Copy Share Image
Free healthcare and free and equal education and peace are about the only things I passionately believe in, and I think if… — Robert Montgomery Copy Share Image
The main reason, Your Holiness, of why we are here today, is it is not the business of the church to stray… — Christopher Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley Copy Share Image
My desire as a Christian pastor is to see churches raised up as communities of grace ruled by Jesus and led by… — Mark Driscoll Copy Share Image
The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the Church. (Terullian) When she ceases to bleed, she ceases to bless. She… — L. E. Maxwell Copy Share Image
With others, I feel betrayed that those who had the authority in the Church to stop Brendan Smyth failed to act on… — Sean Brady Copy Share Image
Many church folk, in their self-conscious attempt to be overtly morally upright, emit all the wrong signals, thus messing with people's perception… — Alan Hirsch Copy Share Image
The president of the branch in Atlanta was a pastor of a church, the Reverend Sam Williams, a wonderful guy. He was… — Julian Bond Copy Share Image
There are those who ask what authority, what theological qualification, the Council intended to give to its teachings, knowing that it avoided… — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image
The Germans now seem the primary example of this [institutional-maintenance type] - which is another reason to scratch the head at their… — George Weigel Copy Share Image
A small number of temples was protected by the fears, the venality, the taste, or the prudence of the civil and ecclesiastical… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
It seems to me, and I am personally convinced, that the Church must never speak from a position of strength. [These are… — Anthony of Sourozh Copy Share Image
There is no religion in the world where there is a possibility of spiritual development outside of the context of that religion.… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
In the church is a memorial to Mrs. Sarah Hill, who bequeathed 1 pound annually, to be divided at Easter, between two… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
Worship at its best is a social experience with people of all levels of life coming together to realize their oneness and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
So what is the difference between someone who willfully indulges in sexual pleasures while ignoring the Bible on moral purity and someone… — David Platt Copy Share Image
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