“The end product of the successful preacher's input is transformation.” — Christian Michael Copy Share Image
If there were no ministers and no priests, how long would there be any churches? Lemuel K — Lemuel K Washburn Copy Share Image
My father was a first reader in the Christian Science Church, which is similar to being a preacher. There was no drinking,… — Ellen DeGeneres Copy Share Image
Today, on our own turf, we face pagan ignorance about God every bit as deep as that which the early church faced… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
“Church, in the New Testament sense of the word, is not a meeting we attend, but a group of which we are… — Keri Wyatt Kent Copy Share Image
It's an obvious thing to say the church should be the most joyful assembly of human beings on the planet, right? Because… — John MacArthur Copy Share Image
The whole idea of going out to a movie was really a secularized version of going to church. — David Milch Copy Share Image
She say, Celie, tell the truth, have you ever found God in church? I never did. I just found a bunch of… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
“The tradition of going to church every day of the week is not an indicator of greatness.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“...people who've been hit with the gospel respond naturally with radically changed lives and hearts. The church and the ministries of the… — Daniel Montgomery Copy Share Image
Always moved by religious motives, the Church has condemned the various forms of Marxist Socialism; and she condemns them today, because it… — Pope Pius XI Copy Share Image
Having small group once a week gives me a lot of encouragement and accountability. Even though I go to church, I dont… — Jeremy Lin Copy Share Image
Of course we're Christian. The very name of the church declares that. The more people see us and come to know us,… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
“Going to the extreme of inviting and welcoming people into your church in order to hear you condemn them or to know… — Christina Engela Copy Share Image
Remove the centrality-of-Jesus-Christ message from ministry and meetings, and you can forget church life or organic meetings. He must be the center… — Gene Edwards Copy Share Image
Alas! those good old days are gone, when a murderer could wipe the stain from his name and soothe his trouble to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The coronation is a symbol of power, but it's not a symbol for us the people. It's a symbol for that person,… — Claire Foy Copy Share Image
Church wealth are moving into everything-gas stations, banks, television stations, supermarket chains, hotels, steel mills, resort areas, farms, wine factories, warehouses, bottling… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
“Beyond the family or particular Christian tradition, how much effort do we make to consider what the Mennonites or the Episcopalians, the… — John G. Stackhouse Jr Copy Share Image
We ought to be cautious in taking even the best ascertained opinions and practices of the primitive Church for our own. If… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When young Galileo, then a student at Pisa, noticed one day during divine service a chandelier swinging backwards and forwards, and convinced… — Hermann von Helmholtz Copy Share Image
It was an odd relationship, but then she was an extraordinary woman: a prioress who doubted much of what the church taught;… — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
As we mature personally, as our families mature, and as our churches mature, we need the doctrine of sin more, not less;… — C. J. Mahaney Copy Share Image
I try to practice my religion in a very devout way and follow the teachings of my church in my own personal… — Tim Kaine Copy Share Image
Bowing down in blind credulity, as is my custom, before mere authority and the tradition of the elders, superstitiously swallowing a story… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I didn't go to church all the time, just 'cause I was an antsy kid. — Michael Keaton Copy Share Image