The church is like a swimming pool. Most of the noise comes from the shallow end. — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
The aim of the Church is to help the people to help themselves. Work is to be re-enthroned as the ruling principle… — Heber J. Grant Copy Share Image
God received from me something He didn't have on His own. My sin. I received something from God I didn't have on… — Johnny Hunt Copy Share Image
It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The glory of the gospel is that when the church is absolutely different from the world, she invariably attracts it. — Martyn Lloyd-Jones Copy Share Image
Today, as it was 2,000 years ago, the Kingdom of God is within each of us. It is not within a church,… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I'm tied of hearing about temperance instead of abstinence, in order to please the cocktail crowd in church congregations. — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
The teaching of the church, theoretically astute, is a lie in practice and a compound of vulgar superstitions and sorcery. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Conservative party's always been a broad church, and I can appeal better than any of the other candidates to the centre… — Matt Hancock Copy Share Image
Whatever oppressions man has suffered, they have invariably fallen more heavily on woman. Whatever new liberties advancing civilization has brought to man,… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Some women will spend thirty minutes to an hour preparing for church externally (putting on special clothes and makeup, etc.). What would… — Leonard Ravenhill Copy Share Image
Although I respect the Judeo-Christian ethic, as well as the Eastern philosophies, and of course the teachings of Muhammad, I find that… — Danny Masterson Copy Share Image
Music was fundamental in my family. Sang at bars, all the way to church on Sunday. Music in school, played guitar pulls… — Jamey Johnson Copy Share Image
Lutheranism restricted itself to an exclusively ecclesiastical and theological character, while Calvinism put its impress in and outside the church upon every… — Abraham Kuyper Copy Share Image
If we are so holy and so perfect and never interact with people that may not go to church or may not… — Kirk Franklin Copy Share Image
The essence of idolatry is the entertainment of thoughts about God that are unworthy of Him. The heaviest obligation lying upon the… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
I became very aware of what I was used to relying on, almost tricks. It's funny because I could feel myself creating… — Zach Condon Copy Share Image
God calls us to worship, but in many instances we are in entertainment, just running a poor second to the theaters. That… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
The constantly recurring question must be: What shall we unite with and from what shall we separate? The question of coexistence does… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
“Nosey gossiping church members were sucking out my passion for life leaving me an irritable shell of what I felt called to… — Anna Aquino Copy Share Image
A church must be more deeply and practically committed to deeds of compassion and social justice than traditional liberal churches and more… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Neither your life nor my life, nor the future of this country, will be affected in the slightest by whether Linda Tripp… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
There are times when the gospel just seems to be powerfully at work in a nation, and thousands upon thousands are converted.… — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
Now, where a man in this church says, 'I don't want but one wife, I will live my religion with one,' he… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
It's not how high we jump off our feet in church, it's what we do with them when we hit the ground! — Tom Ridge Copy Share Image
There's nothing more political than sex. The church has had its hand on our crotch for more than 2,000 years, and the… — Larry Flynt Copy Share Image
When I was a little kid going to Methodist church, I actually envisioned one day that I would become a minister but… — Skip Bayless Copy Share Image
We find not in the Gospel, that Christ hath anywhere provided for the uniformity of churches, but only for their unity. — Roger Williams Copy Share Image
I certainly respect other people's opinions, but I would not vote for a woman to be the pastor of a church. — Charles Stanley Copy Share Image
He that is more frequent in his pulpit to his people than he is in his closet for his people, is but… — John Owen Copy Share Image
If churches want to play the game of politics, let them pay admission like everyone else. — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Every trip I made to Atlanta was crucial because it was so hard to get away from family and church duties. — Trip Lee Copy Share Image
I do isometrics in church so while I'm doing my soul some good, I'm doing my body some good, too. — Grace Kelly Copy Share Image
The call of the gospel is for the church to implement the victory of God in the world through suffering love. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
the separation of church and state grew out of a desire, not so much to protect government from religion, but to protect… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The church also does not condone a broken immigration system in the U.S., one that too easily can lead to the exploitation,… — Roger Mahony Copy Share Image
I'm not condemning the Catholic Church - it's too big, it's like condemning a nation and that would be prejudiced. — David LaChapelle Copy Share Image
Every local church has a leader but it seems so few local churches are being led. — Andy Stanley Copy Share Image
We must not reduce the bosom of the universal church to a nest protecting our mediocrity. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
