Famous Quotes & Sayings

When we went through it, we had nowhere to turn, no one to talk to who had a similar experience. Small, rural churches usually have no money and little or no insurance to rebuild. So we helped form an organization that gives guidance to pastors whose churches have burned.

Many of these individuals and families may well decide to become our neighbors, ... We need to welcome them into our community, our churches and our schools.

We have really expanded within the past month. We have around 15 regulars now. We learn new songs, and sing at various churches on Saturdays and Sundays. We have already learned about twelve songs; we will probably learn four or five more before the end of the school year.

I think it is true that this is the earliest in an election year that we've seen so much use of churches and religion for partisan purposes in states like Ohio, Texas, Alabama, Pennsylvania.

I think that if there is a large number of people here that it will get the churches talking. I think it is going to be an opportunity for straight people to see with gays and lesbians think about the church.

I also encourage our borough's businesses, churches and synagogues to replicate their wonderful efforts after the tsunami to now do what they can to support victims of what has been described as one of the worst natural disasters in our nation's history.

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

Our message is about Revival in our Churches and the Restoration of Godly principles in our daily lives.

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.

Elaine Chao

We are going to try to find you. We have teams of people canvassing neighborhoods and visiting churches and relief centers.

Phil Jackson

My father was the superintendent of the churches in the state of Montana. He was content in his beliefs. He befit the term 'true Christian.' He would turn the other cheek. He was truly a man of peace.

Tourists as well as natives want to see cultural achievements - whether it's the Banaue Terraces, the old churches or museums.

Billy Graham

Many churches today have special programs for people who are grieving, and these can be very helpful.

Rick Warren

Churches know more about poverty than any government will ever know, because we're dealing with the poor every day.

Rodney Stark

Most churches are run by preachers who went to seminaries, who decided to be preachers when they were 18, 19, 20 years old. These preachers never met a payroll. They don't know how the world works.

We do hereby command the Leaders of the Hebrew, Catholic and Protestant Churches to sanctify and have us crowned Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico.

Glen Cook

We're coordinating with local churches to deliver this stuff and get it out to people who need it.

Jim Wallis

No, we are not the master of the state, said King. We are not the servant of the state. We are the conscience of the state. The churches or the religious community should be, I think, the conscience of the state. We're not just service providers.

Aaron Smith

We started to market through the existing network out there: learning centers, churches and community centers.

We understand that not all churches can pull off canceling or relocating a service, ... We still consider some of those churches very supportive.

Simon Jenkins

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

Tom DeLay

There are about a thousand churches right here in Houston, and a lot of them are helping people with housing, but FEMA says they can't reimburse faith-based organizations,

Michel Faber

For years, I was quite a militant atheist. I wanted to burn down all the churches or turn them into second-hand record emporiums.

Through the help of local churches service organizations, businesses, and generous individuals, the students and classmates hope to raise $30,000 by March 1.

We will also need lunches on Saturdays. I need to be in touch with churches in Worthington to see if they can help.

Bob Brown

It's a fun thing and it's a good way to get a flavor for how the other churches are.

The (black) churches that have come forward have done a wonderful job of filling the cultural vacuum that existed.

As of essential importance in town churches which are not at all equally necessary in the country.

Jon Huntsman

At home -- and in churches or synagogues -- I would hope they could hear different ideas about creation,

A lot of churches out there don't think through the use of the Internet as a strategic tool. They simply think, 'We need an Internet site -- put something up.' So that, I think, really lends itself to an incomplete use of what the Internet does have to offer.

Gary Hamel

If organized religion has become less relevant, it's not because churches have held fast to their creedal beliefs - it's because they've held fast to their conventional structures, programs, roles and routines.

Even churches are wanting to do backgrounds now.

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.