What is a literary festival? Imagine a sort of cross between school and church. There are no actual festivities; what there are… — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
If you've ever left a bag of clothes outside the Salvation Army or given to a local church drive, chances are that… — George Packer Copy Share Image
Clearly a big challenge for Christianity is how to remain in contact with the millions of people who look for God but… — Timothy Radcliffe Copy Share Image
I'm Catholic and Mum taught me the comfort that you can get from going to church. But I'm an a la carte… — Patsy Kensit Copy Share Image
We attended stables, as we attended church, in our best clothes, thereby no doubt showing the degree of respect due to horses. — Osbert Sitwell Copy Share Image
I have to move away from organized religion. The toxic confusion and anger I was feeling in church had become too great. — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
In the normal life of an actor or director, running around, there's not much time to go to church. But there's other… — Dolph Lundgren Copy Share Image
My sense is if the Episcopal Church can't stand challenge within its own ranks, then it is not a church I would… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
I was raised on a farm in Kansas where we lived next door to my Grandma Dew, and I was her shadow.… — Sheri L. Dew Copy Share Image
Hollywood is finally waking up to the fact that people who go to church also go to the movies. I'm not sure… — Tyler Perry Copy Share Image
Be a woman of Christ. Cherish your esteemed place in the sight of God. He needs you. This church needs you. The… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
The host of 'Face The Nation,' Bob Schieffer, was an important figure in my childhood years. Every Sunday in the fall, he… — Chris Borland Copy Share Image
There are many in the Church as well as out of it who need to learn that Christianity is neither creed nor… — Josiah Strong Copy Share Image
Under the sacred and compelling trust we have as members of the Church of Jesus Christ, ours is a work of redemption,… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
When the power, prestige, and financial support of government is placed behind a particular religious belief, the indirect coercive pressure upon religious… — Hugo Black Copy Share Image
Should the Catholic Church find itself discriminated against by the Obama administration on key delivery of services because of the bias and… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
Today courts wrongly interpret separation of church and state to mean that religion has no place in the public arena, or that… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
The whole world is a theatre for the display of the divine goodness, wisdom, justice, and power, but the Church is the… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Classically, there are three ways in which humans try to find transcendence--religious meaning--apart from God as revealed through the cross of Jesus:… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
I thought that perhaps if the sky was truly free of clouds and any other distractions (birds, kites, skywriting), we could see… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
When I was little, I went to a Catholic school and was required to go to church every morning and with my… — Danielle Trussoni Copy Share Image
The North American system only wants to consider the positive aspects of reality. Men and women are subjected from childhood to an… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
Whether or not you believe in God, you must believe this: when we as a species abandon our trust in a power… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
In specific terms I don't think I could make any suggestions, but in general terms I believe that it is because Canadians… — Pierre Trudeau Copy Share Image
No matter how corrupt the Church may become, it carries within it the seeds of its own regeneration. — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
It is the whole business of the whole church to preach the whole gospel to the whole world. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
The church is challenging such negative cultural elements as superstition, rugged individualism, materialism, hedonism, permissiveness and utilitarianism. — Francis Arinze Copy Share Image
If a volunteer can help us with an immediate need, we can put them in a place to make their greatest contribution. — Andy Stanley Copy Share Image
“There is an obsession in the Church with sin management. People think more about their sins than about their redemption through Jesus” — John Paul Warren Copy Share Image
The contemporary church is so often a weak, ineffectual voice with an uncertain sound. It is so often the arch supporter of… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Most of my family is still active in the Mormon Church. They live in Utah and Provo and Orem and Salt Lake… — Dustin Lance Black Copy Share Image
Everybody takes what they life from the teachings of the church, and ignores the parts that don't suit them. — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
There is only one Church, and the responsibility for missionary work is universal. 'Every member a missionary.' — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
It is the church's responsibility, the government's responsibility, and the personal responsibility of every one of us to love. — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
The real ecumenical crisis today is not between Catholics and Protestants but between traditional and experimental forms of church life. — Harvey Cox Copy Share Image
I had come out of a church that was filled with petty arguments and hatred. I just wanted to meet with some… — Francis Chan Copy Share Image
“Standing in fron of the doors of a cCatholic church when service is over is a good way to die young.” — Dia Reeves Copy Share Image
It is the deepest desire of my heart to have every member of the Church worthy to enter the temple. — Howard W. Hunter Copy Share Image
“If we would spend as much time with the world as we spend going to church, the church would grow.” — Alin Sav Copy Share Image
Until Jesus comes, his resurrection glory in the church is a matter of strength made perfect in suffering. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
