Is the Church fulfilling a purely religious role when by its silence or friendly relationships it lends legitimacy to dictatorial and oppressive… — Gustavo Gutiérrez Copy Share Image
I read a lot of G.K. Chesterton. It was a fairly conventional intellectual path to the Catholic church, I would say. — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
I grew up in church. My mom's a minister, and my grandmother was an ordained minister. I was always very mindful of… — Mahershala Ali Copy Share Image
I am not a spokesperson for the church and the church is not a spokesperson for the United States of America. — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none… — King David Copy Share Image
The narrow sectarian cannot read astronomy with impunity. The creeds of his church shrivel like dried leaves at the door of the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Marriage is a civil right. If you don't want gay people to marry in your church, good for you. But you can't… — Julian Bond Copy Share Image
Defend the church. Defend the family. Defend the non-profit community. Defend them against a government that wants to weaken them. — Rick Santorum Copy Share Image
The primary message of the Christian Church is that we were born in sin and we need to be rescued; we cannot… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
The church is a sort of hospital for men's souls, and as full of quackery as the hospital for their bodies. Those… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The Church welcomes technological progress and receives it with love, for it is an indubitable fact that technological progress comes from God… — Pope Pius XII Copy Share Image
The purpose of revival is to fire the church with divine energy for her divine assignment. Revival will tear us away from… — David Shibley Copy Share Image
This is criterion by which the Church is to be judged, not by the forms of its doctrine or ritual, but by… — Bede Griffiths Copy Share Image
The world has a thousand creeds, and never a one have I; Nor church of my own, though a million spires are… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
If the Church is a living body united to the same head, governed by the same laws, and pervaded by the same… — Charles Hodge Copy Share Image
“A church leadership that cannot provide members with business ideas should stop demanding tithe from them. Plant greatness in the members and… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
I have faith that the Constitution will be saved as prophesied by Joseph Smith. It will be saved by the righteous citizens… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
One of the most persistent fallacies about the Christian Church is that it kept learning alive during the Dark and Middle Ages.… — Margaret E. Knight Copy Share Image
I ain't going to lie: I was happy, man. Me and my sisters and my brother was mad cool. We all did… — Fetty Wap Copy Share Image
Nor can We predict happier times for religion and government from the plans of those who desire vehemently to separate the Church… — Pope Gregory XVI Copy Share Image
When any church will inscribe over its altar, as its sole qualification for membership, the Savior's condensed statement of the substance of… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The church persecuted is the church pure, and the church pure is the church powerful. I believe that Americans by and large… — Adrian Rogers Copy Share Image
I don't know how you feel, but I'm pretty sick of church people. You know what they ought to do with churches?… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
“Finally, it is wrong to say that "nothing" is more basic to the identity of the church than suffering. Nothing is more… — Keith A. Mathison Copy Share Image
There is a great need to rally the women of the Church to stand with and for the Brethren in stemming the… — Howard W. Hunter Copy Share Image
Once there was a time when all people believed in God and the church ruled. This time is called the Dark Ages.… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
At the end of 1795 and beginning of 1796, I was ordered to write to the Church ministers. — Joanna Southcott Copy Share Image
We believe that this time of transition will make for a more dynamic Revolution Church, and will help us focus and expand… — Jay Bakker Copy Share Image
The Catholic men are more upset about women not being able to be priests than are Catholic women. — Andrew Greeley Copy Share Image
I've been stuck on John Eldredge lately. He's all about being a warrior outside of the church. I hate to think about… — John Tesh Copy Share Image
One side of the street is a Church; across the road is a liquor store. Both of 'em keepin us poor. — Chuck D Copy Share Image
The church lives because it witholds the results of the historical Jesus-research from you — Hans Conzelmann Copy Share Image
The church is the last place we want to be sold another product, the last place we want to be entertained. — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
Black women have not historically stood in the pulpit, but that doesn't undermine the fact that they built the churches and maintain… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I do object to the sensationalism or even the voyeurism of doing things in church or out of church. — Pierre Trudeau Copy Share Image
Clea and I were touring one of the cathedrals in Italy, and in front of the whole tour I go 'That's so… — Hilary Duff Copy Share Image
Some say you forgive and forget. Not true. You can't forget but you walk forward in forgiveness. — Johnny Hunt Copy Share Image
Creeds have been the bane of the Christian church ... made of Christendom a slaughter-house. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I was an altar boy in the Roman Catholic Church and no priest ever laid a hand on me. That's me, always… — Dana Gould Copy Share Image
Some people have a fear of rejecting all the security that comes with family, church and state. They become fundamentalists. — Harold Ramis Copy Share Image
