The church is not primarily a political organisation. We're a religious organisation. There's a much greater opportunity. — George Pell Copy Share Image
If you want to get rich with a tax free enterprise that sells nothing, start a church. — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
The first organization structure in the modern West was laid down in the canon law of the Catholic Church eight hundred years… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Becoming Catholic involves entering into a relationship with the Catholic Church. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Going to church doesnt make you a Christian, anymore than standing in your garage makes you a car. — Hannah Copy Share Image
Through my music teaching and my not absolutely irregular attendance at church, I became acquainted with the best class of colored people… — James Weldon Johnson Copy Share Image
The preaching is part of the reason I don't go to church. Plus, I don't know, it was never part of my… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
Why should we not enter into our inheritance in the church as well as the concert hall? — Ralph Vaughan Williams Copy Share Image
As a preacher I just feel like I have to be honest; I couldn't live with myself if I wasn't. I think… — Jay Bakker Copy Share Image
At age 11, I went to a Jewish school. I speak Yiddish. I'm Church of England Protestant. My father was Catholic, and… — Michael Caine Copy Share Image
When you create a church, an institution, and you create a dogma. When you create an ideology, that's the danger. Communism, too,… — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
I believe those passages in the New Testament, not by Jesus, but by Paul, that say women should not adorn themselves, they… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Psychoanalysis was from the start, still is, and perhaps always will be a well-constituted church and a form of treatment based on… — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
If you will accept every call that comes to you within the Church, you will grow in a remarkable and marvelous and… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
Working-class families in the north of England used to hear the 1611 Bible regularly at church and at home ... for us,… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
The Church's foundation is unshakable and firm against the assaults of the raging sea. Waves lash at the Church but do not… — Ambrose Copy Share Image
It is useless saying that we do not accept the gods of the primitive world. In form, no; in essence, yes. The… — Chapman Cohen Copy Share Image
What's sometimes called the 'browning' of the American Catholic church is very much on the minds of many U.S. bishops - and… — Anthea Butler Copy Share Image
If the British march By land or sea from the town to-night, Hang a lantern aloft in the belfry-arch Of the North-Church-tower,… — Paul Revere Copy Share Image
When, for example, in the name of non-discrimination, people try to force the Catholic Church to change her position on homosexuality or… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
I lived in a little working-class town that had no black neighborhoods at all - one high school. We all played together.… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
All Catholics must make themselves felt as active elements in daily political life in the countries where they live. They must penetrate,… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
Both learned and unlearned young men seldom go to church, and in general do not attend to their spiritual education, looking upon… — John of Kronstadt Copy Share Image
Trains are wonderful… To travel by train is to see nature and human beings, towns and churches and rivers, in fact, to… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
New York is full of abandoned churches. A Godless city, but full of superstitions on every subject--art, money, sex, food, health. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false sentiment, I could never stay there five minutes. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I think of the church often. Not because religion was closing in on me, but because for a long time my ass… — W. C. Fields Copy Share Image
Hate is a grand, a strong quality! It makes nations, it builds up creeds! If men loved one another what should they… — Marie Corelli Copy Share Image
If we lose the spirit of 'go,' we have lost the very Christian spirit itself. A disobedient church will become a dead… — S. D Gordon Copy Share Image
In a church of my own we're perfect together I recognize you in the stained glass. — Heather Nova Copy Share Image
If the whole church goes off into deception, that will in no way excuse us for not following Christ. — Leonard Ravenhill Copy Share Image
We take in more a week now than we did in two years when I first came to the church. — Johnny Hunt Copy Share Image
I don't believe in an America where the separation of church and state are absolute. — Rick Santorum Copy Share Image
Many believe one can be a "good Christian" without joining (or even attending) a local church, but God would strongly disagree. — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
Church architecture describes visually the idea of the sacred, which is a fundamental need of man. — Mario Botta Copy Share Image
The Lord judgeth not as man judgeth; better to be cast out of the church than to deny Christ. — Anne Hutchinson Copy Share Image
A church is disaffected when it is persecuted, quiet when it is tolerated, and actively loyal when it is favored and cherished. — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
When there was a disaster, it used to be that people went to church and all held hands. Now the minute anything… — Don Hewitt Copy Share Image
The task of the church is to make the invisible Kingdom visible through faithful Christian living and witness-bearing . — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
