Famous Quotes & Sayings

Simon Jenkins

We collect them partly out of mischief, ... but also to encourage churches to stop making an ass of themselves.

To some extent, every church in the valley, to my knowledge, has gay and lesbian participation, and some are in a level of conflict,

Wendell Phillips

Write on my gravestone: ''Infidel, Traitor.''--infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor to every government that oppresses the people.

There is nothing that stops them, except the separation of church and state -- you can't be proselytizing.

Pat Robertson

...There is no such thing as ... separation of state and church ... in the Constitution. It's a lie of the left.

We also hope to send out a clear message to gay-lesbian-bisexual-transgender students that God loves them as they are. Today, it's gay and lesbian people who are the outcasts of the church, and later the church will have to repent from it.

David Bergen

We at this church will not perform the civil unions of same-sex couples because it would be un-Biblical to do so.

Marvin Sapp

We as preachers/teachers/pastors have to figure out things to do in order to garner the attention of individuals and also keep them at our churches by making sure that we reinvent ourselves on a consistent basis.

Billy Graham

You need to be in fellowship of a church...If you separate a live coal from the others, it will soon die out. However, if you put a live coal in with other live coals, it will be a glow that will last for hours.

Billy Graham

One of the greatest priorities of the church today is to mobilize the laity to do the work of evangelism.

Ignatius of Antioch

I am writing to all the churches to let it be known that I will gladly die for God if only you do not stand in my way... Let me be food for the wild beasts, for they are my way to God.

Frederica Mathewes-Green

My mother was an unbeliever - and still is. My father was a nominal Catholic. We would go in to church at the last minute before the gospel reading, take Communion, and walk right out again.

This replacement is extremely important because it's my view that John Roberts was a one-for-one replacement for the chief. Justice O'Connor held the middle in the court, and on many social issues, like separation of church and state, she was the crucial vote there.

Dario Fo

We thought the church had withdrawn from interfering in Italian politics ... but instead there is a terrible resurgence. These are ugly signs for freedom of expression.

There is no more important word in church planting than relationships.

Our church was the big, huge suburban church that thought they could get things done by only using money.

Our church taught us not to be prejudiced.

Our church is putting some seed money into it.

Our five churches have paired together to help support (Louisiana Memorial), sending money,

Dave Parker

Out of 500 deals I've done, this is how I've done all of them, ... Ours is a straight deal. I just finished a similar deal with a national church organization. I'm really surprised.

Heywood Broun

I might resume the habit of going to church if the preacher would be honest enough to stand up some morning and say, "Perhaps next Sunday, but not today," and then sit down

Carrie Underwood

I grew up in church, and I have a wonderful family that always supported that.

Bernadette Devlin

But I make a distinction between the doctrines of the Church, which matter, and the structure invented by half a dozen Italians who got to be pope and which is of very little use to anybody.

It is a personal tragedy. This happened with our pastor's family and we as a church are uplifting him and being as much of an encouragement as we can to him at this time.

David Wallace

People have the misconception that churches have deep pockets. What they don't realize is that we are a nonprofit and we rely on the items to conduct our services. It's not just robbing an institution; it's robbing people.

Some have been put in contact with local church groups from contacts back home, some have family members in Arizona; it runs the gamut.

Some GPSS employees were not clear on the policies regarding church and state issues so (the memo) was just a matter of guidance. This is the same policy that all state and federally funded school districts throughout the nation follow.

Robert Ingersoll

That church teaches us that we can make God happy by being miserable ourselves;

Pope John

My thoughts are always on the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, where the religious community and many other people remain under siege after more than 22 days,

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Looking back, I am grateful for so many friends who helped me in my youth to gain a testimony of the restored Church of Jesus Christ. First, I exercised simple faith in their testimonies, and then I received the divine witness of the Spirit to my mind and to my heart.

I think it would be silly to not have a chat. He fits our criteria. He's just captained a grand final-winning side, he just won the Clive Churchill medal, he's been on a Kangaroo tour, he's a north Queenslander and he's played at our club before.

I thought I wouldn't like church as much as I did.

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