I was in the ministry for some time. All my family is immersed in a black church in Memphis. — Merle Dandridge Copy Share Image
The Gospel of Judas is a kind of protest literature. It's challenging leaders of the church. — Elaine Pagels Copy Share Image
I don't think we should focus on what church that person walks into .. I think we need to focus on what… — Nikki Haley Copy Share Image
Most people can't bear to sit in church for an hour on Sundays. How are they supposed to live somewhere very similar… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“The church should not be an assembly of the self-righteous but an assembly of people who admit that they are not righteous… — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
He strode over to the ruined church. This, Blue had discovered, was how Gansey got places - striding. Walking was for ordinary… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
What makes books - and with them writers - so dangerous that church and state, politburos and the mass media feel the… — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
Historically speaking, institutions are slow to change and usually resistant to any sudden moves - churches especially so. — Gene Robinson Copy Share Image
When you decide to be something, you can be it. That's what they don't tell you in the church. When I was… — Frank Costello Copy Share Image
To accept with unquestioning faith, or to refuse to reconsider any particular view held by the Church in the past, is as… — George Trumbull Ladd Copy Share Image
“Fear not, brothers and sisters, God, who is full of grace and abounding in steadfast love, meets us in our sin and… — Nadia Bolz-Weber Copy Share Image
Every European goes on the streets and sees medieval churches. Not if you live in Indianapolis. The most exciting letters I received… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
I meet almost no one that goes to an African-American church or thinks, "I'm going to do that." Now there are whites… — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
The ministers argue that within the context of scripture there's a requirement given by God that you've got to give ten percent… — Anthony B Pinn Copy Share Image
Surely that little pseudo-gothic church on Broadway, hidden amongst the skyscrapers, is symbolic of the age! On the whole face of the… — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
Pastor Saeed Abedini is coming home. Held for three and a half years, his unyielding faith has inspired people around the world… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
All live by seeming. The beggar begs with it, and the gay courtier Gains land and title, rank and rule, by seeming;… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
What I try to do is narrow the sermon series down to one big question. In this case the question is: What… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
I feel like we're so limited by the context at which we look at life. The way we look at who we're… — Jeff Mangum Copy Share Image
I think my criticism of the Pentecostal tradition that I heard with my sister's church was that it wasn't always audible. You… — David C. Driskell Copy Share Image
I didn't have a clue. I grew up Protestant in Connecticut at the Saugatuck Congregational Church. We didn't talk about the devil.… — Linda Blair Copy Share Image
The Holy Spirit gives us joy. And he is joy. Joy is the gift in which all the other gifts are included.… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
The Catholic church, once all her assets have been put together, is the most formidable stockbroker in the world. The Vatican, independently… — Avro Manhattan Copy Share Image
“Those who love their dream of a Christian community more than they love the Christian community itself become destroyers of that Christian… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
I have a church background. I've been playing piano and keyboard and organ all my life in church. — Zaytoven Copy Share Image
Neither the true faith nor eternal salvation is to be found outside the Holy Catholic Church. — Pope Pius IX Copy Share Image
Hierarchy, as in the Catholic Church, has to do with power, and vertical attention has to do with longing. — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
The Spirit is the reason we can build a church and have confidence that we will get it at least a little… — Lauren F. Winner Copy Share Image
My eyes are wide open to the conflicts within the Church, but I don't think you can call it schism. — Richard John Neuhaus Copy Share Image
My mom juggled working as a home health care aide with managing her own hair salon, often working every day except Sunday,… — Karine Jean-Pierre Copy Share Image
Servants think of ministry as an opportunity, not an obligation. They enjoy helping people, meeting needs, and doing ministry. — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
As we consider the causes of depression, those of us in the church must face the ways we might be responsible for… — Tony Campolo Copy Share Image
“Women have more to offer the church than mad decorating skills or craft nights.” — Sarah Bessey Copy Share Image
Church attendance may be dipping, but God can survive the Internet age. After all, He knows a thing or two about resurrection. — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
Anytime you commit sin and God deals with you, you have the opportunity to confess it. If you don't confess it, you… — Johnny Hunt Copy Share Image
“Christian women also, at one time, covered their heads—not just nuns but all women when they entered churches, until quite recently.” — Alaa Alghamdi Copy Share Image
Avoid kneeling in unheated stone churches. Ecclesiastical dampness causes prematurely grey hair. — John Cheever Copy Share Image
Our church has been legal since late 1960s. I've been involved since 1972. I was ordained in 1975. — Sally Kirkland Copy Share Image
I attend the greatest of all Churches. I put a capital N on Nature, and call it my Church. — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
Reformed theology belongs to this confessional tradition, and Reformed theologians and churches continue to write confessions even today. — Oliver D. Crisp Copy Share Image
