I condemn polygamy, yes, as a practice, because I think it is not doctrinal. It is not legal. And this church takes… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
That's why I believe in a Constitution which separates church from state. I've seen what happens when they get in cahoots. — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
[R]eligion cannot share the material strength of the rulers without being burdened with some of the animosity roused against them. — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
If there is anything that has broken the church's relationship with families, it is the global sexual abuse scandal. — Anthea Butler Copy Share Image
A sign in the yard of a church next door said CHRIST IS THE ANSWER. (The question, of course, is: What do… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
The true Church preaches REGENERATION; not reformation, not education, not legislation, but regeneration. — M. R. DeHaan Copy Share Image
I think the strength of the Catholic church is that when it does finally identify a problem, it works to resolve it. — Donald Wuerl Copy Share Image
I want young people to realize that they don't have to go to the world to find joy and peace, they can… — Kirk Franklin Copy Share Image
I support non-discrimination for homosexuals, but I think, or at least I have the right to think - without saying whether I… — Rocco Buttiglione Copy Share Image
A church is not a Fortune 500 company. It's not simply another nonprofit organization, nor is it a social club. In fact,… — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
I tried to give some warnings early on to a lot of my Christian followers that mixtape really wasn't targeted at the… — LeCrae Copy Share Image
There is one God and one Christ, and one Church, and one chair founded on Peter by the word of the Lord.… — Cyprian Copy Share Image
The history of the church has been largely a history of "believers" refusing to believe in the way of the crucified Nazarene… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
“the New Testament holds up the model of a church whose activities exist primarily for the sake of outsiders. What keeps us… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
Let those who think that the Church pays too much attention to Mary give heed to the fact that Our Blessed Lord… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“If you are looking for verses with which to oppress women, you will find them. If you are looking for verses with… — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
The decline of witch-belief was . . . entirely the product of religious skepticism. . . . The Catholic Church did not… — S. T. Joshi Copy Share Image
The Earth is indeed a precious gift of the Creator who, in designing its intrinsic order, has given us bearings that guide… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
“Worship gatherings are not always spectacular, but they are always supernatural. And if a church looks for or works for the spectacular,… — Matt Chandler Copy Share Image
The crucified but risen Jesus appears in the believing, assembled community of the church. That this sense of the risen, living Jesus… — Edward Schillebeeckx Copy Share Image
Popular piety is one of our strengths because it consists of prayers deeply rooted in people's hearts. These prayers even move the… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
If I have renounced the search of truth, if I have come into the port of some pretending dogmatism, some new church,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
On Saturday night, I would see men lusting after half-naked girls dancing at the carnival, and on Sunday morning when I was… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To accept the story of the Arab destruction of the library of Alexandria, one must explain how it is that so dramatic… — Bernard Lewis Copy Share Image
The utter folly of our time is lamentable, that men should think to assist God with human help and to protect the… — Hilary of Poitiers Copy Share Image
The history of the Church of Christ from the days of the Apostles has been a history of spiritual movements. — Henry Parry Liddon Copy Share Image
One of the people I heard early on in his career was Eric Church. I liked him and his music. — Marty Stuart Copy Share Image
Commercial rock 'n' roll music is a brutalization of the stream of contemporary Negro church music an obscene looting of a cultural… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
“The word miracle, as pronounced by Christian churches, gives a false impression; it is a monster. It is not one with the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In all my eleven years of itinerant ministry I cannot recall any growing church which does not encourage small groups — Eddie Gibbs Copy Share Image
Before a big event, I usually go to church and light a candle for St. Sebastian, who is the patron saint of… — Simone Biles Copy Share Image
“Somewhere along the line, "Church" became a weekly event rather than a gathering of people who did life together.” — Todd Stocker Copy Share Image
The reason we're here today is because years ago God broke Reggie Joiner's heart over the state of children. — Andy Stanley Copy Share Image
Our biggest problem is that we have an entire culture shaped by a misunderstanding of the gospel. That so-called gospel is deconstructing… — Scot McKnight Copy Share Image
“The world does not give money to those who spend 24hrs church everyday praying for financial miracles.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Neither the Church nor modern public opinion condemns petting, provided it stops short at a certain point. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I was in my dad's church, his Baptist church, and I think the first song I ever performed was 'Jesus Be a… — Aretha Franklin Copy Share Image
We'd just go to church and sing. My dad would get me and my sister Doris, and we would sing together. I… — George Jones Copy Share Image
Whenever an important event, a revolution, or a calamity turns to the profit of the church, such is always signalised as the… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
There's a coffin in the back of the church as the wedding is going on ... Look, I'm a romantic. I like… — George Clooney Copy Share Image
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