The Church is not the building, its the people, its not just the gathering, its also the scattering... — John Wimber Copy Share Image
There's no distinction. A teacher is a preacher. The teachers in public schools are preachers, and the preachers in church are teachers. — KRS-One Copy Share Image
The Christians were the first to make the existence of Satan a dogma of the church. What is the use in a… — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
My mom and dad sang in the church choir. They also had a local group. They loved music, especially my dad. — Gladys Knight Copy Share Image
The task of the Church after Jesus' resurrection and ascension was to proclaim the forgiveness of sins to all nations. — Charles Stanley Copy Share Image
We need to be skilled into knowing God and His Word, then act as excellent translators of these things to the people… — Vicky Beeching Copy Share Image
I love singing. You know, my mother always used to encourage me, 'Sing, sing,' and I was in a choir in church,… — Tab Hunter Copy Share Image
Every church is flawed. Still, you'd better learn to love it since it's the only group Jesus said he's taking to Heaven. — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
It doesn't really matter how much of the rules or the dogma we accepted and lived by if we're not really living… — Martin Sheen Copy Share Image
In my growing-up years in Germany, I attended church in many different locations and circumstances - in humble back rooms, in impressive… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
We have need to be as sturdy pioneers still as Miles Standish, or Church, or Lovewell. We are to follow on another… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“We must help young women immerse themselves in a selfless work, perhaps receiving little public praise or attention. Instead, they must feel… — Neill F. Marriott Copy Share Image
I always start my New Year at church with my family. I see it as a fresh beginning - like a new… — Nivin Pauly Copy Share Image
The Church was as concerned with this world as the next: I saw that virtually all of the achievements of Africans seemed… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Sports teams, people who follow sports teams, religion, churches, work - any company, I find that people just generally have a need… — Sean Durkin Copy Share Image
There were only two things I knew in a Christian framework that I could do. One would be the pastor of a… — Gary Chapman Copy Share Image
Our society trains us to think of marriage as a contractual arrangement. If one party fails to fulfill his or her end,… — Michael Horton Copy Share Image
For some reason, which I believe I can guess, the churches/mosques want control of people when or while they are the most… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I think back to when I was growing up in Fort Worth, Texas, in the 1950s, during the [John] McCarthy era, with… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
“The Rochester group [of VOTF], however, was met with some concern as they found it hard to believe my account as it… — Charles L. Bailey Jr Copy Share Image
We must work to change in our hearts and minds what it looks like to be undocumented. It is the high schooler… — Nico Santos Copy Share Image
I was raised in a little church, the Grundy Methodist Church, that was very straight-laced, but I had a friend whose mother… — Lee Smith Copy Share Image
“I remember an answer which when quite young I was prompted to make to a valued adviser who was wont to importune… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I go to a church here in New Jersey that is just a very exciting place, and I just love to be… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
We're not opposed to Catholics having pride in their church, but that doesn't mean that every church that doesn't join them isn't… — Pope Shenouda III Copy Share Image
It's time for a new Reformation in the Church--to call the Church back to the authority of the Word of God, beginning… — Ken Ham Copy Share Image
“There is an important distinction between what is necessary to the being of a church, and what is necessary to its well-being” (55).” — Ryan M. McGraw Copy Share Image
My first instrument was the piano; I played in the church, and before that I sang in church. I didn't learn the… — Chuck Brown Copy Share Image
What church I go to on Sunday, what dogma of the Catholic Church I believe in, is my business; and whatever faith… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
The Church and only the Church has been given the keys to the kingdom, so we have unique access to God that… — Tony Evans Copy Share Image
The opinion formulated by the Church has more value in my eyes than human reasons, whatever they may be. — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
Church is not an organization you join; it is a family where you belong, a home where you are loved and a… — Nicky Gumbel Copy Share Image
The question of souls is old—we demand our bodies, now. We are tired of promises, god is deaf, and his church is… — Voltairine de Cleyre Copy Share Image
That very church which the world likes best is sure to be that which God abhors. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
God has lots of children in the church today; I'm honestly not sure He has many friends. — Mike Pilavachi Copy Share Image
A wife is to submit graciously to the servant leadership of her husband even as the church willingly submits to the headship… — Mike Huckabee Copy Share Image
The church, inserted and active in human society and in history, does not exist in order to exercise political power or to… — Claudio Hummes Copy Share Image
Nearly all the evils in the Church have arisen from bishops desiring power more than light. They want authority, not outlook. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The church is the only mechanism for mass mobilization. That's why the civil rights movement came out of the church. — Tony Evans Copy Share Image
In no other arena is the church at greater risk of losing its calling than in the public square — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
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