First met Quote by John Grisham

“That Church according to Church is too brave, too cunning, and too good to be true is beside the point. America was destined to…

— Nathaniel Philbrick

“Prayer, to the patriarchs and prophets, was more than the recital of well-known and well-worn phrases. It was the outpouring of the heart. Beset…

— Herbert Lockyer

“Turned to religion in times of temptation.”

— James Lear

On his deathbed he asked for a priest and became a Catholic. That was his wife's religion. It was his own business and none…

— Charles Portis

“Note how this was not usual in the church. All of them were deeply sad because one had committed sin. Jesus never compromised his…

— Ana Mendez Ferrell

“The whole history of religion is the history of the failure of preaching. Preaching is moral violence.”

— Alan W. Watts

“His preaching was incisive, direct and forceful, and he used to say he knew when he had delivered a good sermon by the number…

— Kathrine Kressmann Taylor

“Men in prayer give greater license to their unlawful desires than if they were telling jocular tales among their equals.”

— John Calvin

“Organized religion was not important to him, he said. It was more important how people behaved in their daily lives than what they did…

— Diane Chamberlain

“His consistent banging on the drums of God’s unconditional love sounded at a time when many of us had about “had it up to…

— Brennan Manning

“He believed that all forms of government were spiritually bankrupt, that the only true way to follow Jesus was to be radically self-reliant –…

— Catherine Lacey

“[T]hat his cheating and his bitterness and his cruelty were the revolt of his will ... against a deep-rooted instinct of holiness, against a…

— Somerset Maugham Blanchet