Churches are not museums that display perfect people. They are hospitals where the wounded, hurt, injured and broken find healing. — Nicky Gumbel Copy Share Image
In academia, I discovered that issues and insights, commonplace among the scholars, are viewed as highly controversial and even as 'heresy' in… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
Although most Christian churches advocate some sort of mission to non-Christians, no Jewish group advocates a mission to non-Jews. Proselytization seems to… — David Novak Copy Share Image
I spent a lot of time in churches. If you go to a synagogue, someone is always asking if you're alone, if… — Peter Malkin Copy Share Image
Most problems in contemporary churches can be explained by the fact that members have never decided to follow Christ. — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
Evangelical churches are weaker than we realize because we don't teach the confessions and doctrine. — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
I know that those who esteem these little organised associations to be the churches of God, see nothing but mere meetings of… — John Nelson Darby 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
St. Paul was making it impossible to be Jewish and Christian at the same time. What is very striking about those early… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
I not only play at the prestigious classical concert halls like Carnegie Hall and Kennedy Center, but also hospitals, churches, prisons, and… — Ji-Hae Park Copy Share Image
The Left regards the Constitution as defective and outmoded - in part because it impedes the government's ability to control institutions, like… — Gary Bauer Copy Share Image
My father was the superintendent of the churches in the state of Montana. He was content in his beliefs. He befit the… — Phil Jackson Copy Share Image
When I board an airplane these days, all the middle-aged men are dressed like me - when I was an 8-year-old. They're… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
It teaches us how to run our lives individually. How to run our families, how to run our churches. But it teaches… — Paul Broun Copy Share Image
“Not a minister," he said, "but I do like churches. The way it feels inside. It feels good when you just sit… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
Churches that should be talking about the work of Christ on the cross and the grace of God for sinners are stuck… — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share Image
Every good gospel singer you can hear is a scat singer; they're just using different syllables. There are a lot of jazz… — Al Jarreau Copy Share Image
We lived on a farm outside a town of about 900 people. My father was the principal of the elementary school. It… — Robert Boswell Copy Share Image
Churches are wonderful and beautiful, and they are vehicles for religion, but no Church can have more than a very little of… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
In L.A., my house is surrounded by churches, and there are no cars, so it's really nice to just walk around before… — Jordi Molla Copy Share Image
Nightclubs are the equivalent of a Catholic Church in a poor country. You hear a lot of stuff about churches filled with… — Oscar Hijuelos Copy Share Image
I was raised in Austin, Texas, around trial lawyers. My friend and I - we were 14 - would go and watch… — Julie White Copy Share Image
I knew there would be some controversy over the 'Potter' series between religious people and secular-minded people - that was inevitable -… — Michael O'Brien Copy Share Image
Jesus is why women have traveled continents, spent decades learning a strange language so they could translate the Gospel, planting churches, caring… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
“The problem with churches of all sorts,” he continued, “is that so often they ignore the key teachings of the Sermon on… — David Holdsworth Copy Share Image
The fault seems to me to have been that men have taken ancient country churches as their models and have failed to… — George Edmund Street Copy Share Image
“Go to church to learn about forgiveness; come back to become a forgiver! Go to church and learn about kindness; come back… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
“Shetani naye anamtumia Mungu kama wakala wake wa kutoa adhabu kwa binadamu kwa sababu Shetani siku hizi anaishi makanisani na misikitini. Anamtumia… — Enock Maregesi Copy Share Image
“People think we didn't have theatres in Scotland for centuries because the Church suppressed them. Well, perhaps. But you could also argue… — James Robertson Copy Share Image
As a preacher who has spent significant time in churches and houses of worship all across the country, I can tell you… — Al Sharpton Copy Share Image
I'm in love with corrugated iron buildings, especially chapels and churches. — Keith Allen Copy Share Image
As of essential importance in town churches which are not at all equally necessary in the country. — George Edmund Street Copy Share Image
