What the church most needs is not heroes of faith, but faithful followers of Jesus. — Scot McKnight Copy Share Image
The very word baptize, however, signifies to immerse; and it is certain that immersion was the practice of the ancient church. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
The church that can't worship must be entertained. And leaders who can't lead a church to worship must provide the entertainment. — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
Everyone agrees the celibacy rule is just a Church law dating from the 11th century, not a divine command. — Hans Kung Copy Share Image
Where I can preach I do preach and where I can't I still preach with love but just not the normal words… — Nick Vujicic Copy Share Image
Few things are more pleasant than a village graced with a good church, a good priest and a good pub. — John Hillaby Copy Share Image
The world has lost the power to blush over its vice; the Church has lost her power to weep over it. — Leonard Ravenhill Copy Share Image
Worship is at the center of everything that the church believes, practices, and seeks to accomplish — Robert Wiebe Copy Share Image
Growing up, Catholic church really was such an incubator for my imagination, because all of those mysteries felt embedded in this insanely… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
Birth control appeals to the advanced radical because it is calculated to undermine the authority of the Christian churches. I look forward… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
The Church is always in trouble because the Church walks into the trouble in which mankind is trying to resolve itself. There… — Dolores Hart Copy Share Image
So, the emerging church is about a re-imagining: re-imagining our preaching, our evangelism, and our worship services. A re-imagining of new types… — Dan Kimball Copy Share Image
Earlier in my political career, I had the opportunity to read the speech, and I almost threw up. (http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/post/santorum-says-he-almost-threw-up-after-reading-jfk-speech-on-separation-of-church-and-state/2012/02/26/gIQA91hubR_blog.html) — Michael C. Burgess Copy Share Image
To me, I like and understand ritual and I think it is important. Things that we do that give us comfort are… — Steve Coogan Copy Share Image
The Church of Reason, like all institutions of the System, is based not on individual strength but upon individual weakness. What's really… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
The church as a whole has strayed quite far from biblical evangelism; that is, sharing the Gospel in the way that Jesus… — Kirk Cameron Copy Share Image
But it seems that something has happened that has never happened before; though we know not just when, or why, or how,… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
I remember that after that teaching given to me as a young man, as a boy, almost, by the President of the… — Heber J. Grant Copy Share Image
The true Church has never sounded out public expectations before launching her mission. Her leaders heard from God, they knew their Lord's… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
I've always been interested in miracles, or the miraculous of the unexplained. I don't scoff at what makes people believe or want… — John Irving Copy Share Image
The late Rev. Peter Gomes at The Memorial Church at Harvard was a true mentor to me when I was in college.… — Seth Moulton Copy Share Image
Bro Snow said I would live to see the time when brothers and sisters would marry each other in this church. All… — Abraham H. Cannon Copy Share Image
No individual has done more to help me pursue a career in science than my wife of forty-five years. I met Enid… — Robert Fogel Copy Share Image
The church is like any large corporation in one respect. In its early days, either the early church or the early years… — Chris Lowney Copy Share Image
Most Religions are Social Clubs with expensive Entertainment Cheap Wine and Stale Crackers — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
I love church buildings, particularly cathedrals, and I like living in spaces that remind me of music or evoke that creative energy. — Laura Mvula Copy Share Image
It's not the job of government to help the poor. The church is the mechanism that God put on earth to help… — Rich Mullins Copy Share Image
We are dealing in a day and time when the courts are defining sin different than the church. — Johnny Hunt Copy Share Image
The crisis in black America is threefold...economic...political...and spiritual. — Cornel West Copy Share Image
“The church is the chief place for spiritual edification and growth (Acts 20:32; Eph. 4:11-16; 2 Tim. 3:16-17; 1 Pet. 2:1-2; 2 Pet. 3:18).” — Ed Stetzer Copy Share Image
You don't have to go to church to be spiritual, but there are certain times in your life that you know there… — Tom Watson Copy Share Image
A Church that has lost its voice for justice is a Church that has lost its relevance in the world. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I think it's very important for people who are serving (in office) to make sure there's a separation of church and state. — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
The right of the people to a substantive part in the government of the Church is recognized and sanctioned by the apostles… — Charles Hodge Copy Share Image
My mom is the piano player in my dad's church - she's also the choir director - and she's just a musician… — Marc Martel Copy Share Image
My mother was very, very Protestant. I grew up Presbyterian, and I went to church every Sunday until I was 18. I… — Rob Corddry Copy Share Image
I figured anybody who talked about church as much as she did was using it a little like cocaine anyhow. — Keith Ablow Copy Share Image
I think for far too long the Church has concluded that Christians don't need the gospel, it's simple what non-Christian people need… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
Clearly the person who accepts the Church as an infallible guide will believe whatever the Church teaches. — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
By the time I was about ten, I had started to lose faith with church ways. I was educated in some ways… — Ronee Blakley Copy Share Image
