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We need revelation for the calling of officers in the Church. Men should not be called merely through impression.
It's not like we did something wrong. We just burned down the church while the choir within sang religious songs.
We had a church together. We co-founded and co-pastored the ministry, but Randy [White] was really a strong part.
I contend that whatever does not raise the moral standard of the church or community has been a revival from God.
I grew up in San Francisco in the 1970s. We were part of a church that belonged to the California Jesus movement.
I disagree strongly with the concept of separation of church and state. It was not written into the Constitution.
Do what your momma tells you to do, go to sunday school, go to church, and when you die, you'll go to Statesboro.
When Pat Robertson says there is no constitutional doctrine of separation of church and state, I say he is wrong.
If I was president of the good old U.S.A., I'd turn the churches into strip clubs and watch the whole world pray.
The National Catholic Register's coverage of the Church universal, and the Church in our own country, is splendid.
Churches and trains they all look the same to me now they shoot you some place while we ache to come home somehow.
I was just a kid then. But I won't forget. Nor will others. There's lots of people with reason to hate the Church.
We do not need to wait for the Holy Spirit to come: he came on the day of Pentecost. He has never left the church.
I think people often come to the synagogue, mosque, the church looking for God, and what we give them is religion.
To those who have separated themselves from the Church, I say, my dear friends, there is yet a place for you here.
In the long, fierce struggle for freedom of opinion, the press, like the Church, counted its martyrs by thousands.
People are funny. They want the front of the bus, the middle of the road and the back of the church. —Mrs. Miracle
It's a very common belief [among Mormons] that the Constitution will hang by a thread and the Church will save it.
I believe in the separation of church and state, but I do not believe in the separation of politics from religion.
I was a virgin. People find that hard to believe, but when you're raised in a church, that was just the way it is.
The architect Borromini's Quattro Fontane, a little church in Rome, is one of the most beautiful rooms in history.
I’d smack you over the head with it so hard your bell would still be ringing for Church next Saturday night. ~ Jaz
Went to church but don't understand it, they underhanded. God gave me these commandments, the world is scandalous.
I'm not condemning the Catholic Church - it's too big, it's like condemning a nation and that would be prejudiced.
The catholic church has a lot more money than any Colombian cartel and they leave a lot more bodies in their wake.
The Church of England is the only church in the world that interferes neither with your politics nor your religion
Oh, there was a wedding all right. Did I mention that my sister didn't show up at the church either, Mr. Clayborne?
If kids got raped at Denny's as often as they get raped at church it would be illegal to take your kids to Denny's.
I do not think the devil cares how many churches you build, if only you have lukewarm preachers and people in them.
The Spirit is the reason we can build a church and have confidence that we will get it at least a little bit right.
The only way a church is going to be relevant is to get out of its comfort zone and connect with unchurched people.
Remember: Christ is calling you; the Church needs you; the Pope believes in you and he expects great things of you.
I am a Congregationalist with Catholic sensibilities. Which probably explains how I ended up in a Episcopal church.
If...we do not think that a local church is worthy of joining, why should we be considered worthy of serving in it?
The Catholic Church [with Pope John Paul II] has lost its shepherd. The world has lost a champion of human freedom.
It's obvious throughout secular and church history that significant legislation follows only after dramatic action.
I had stopped going to church the moment I joined the Regiment. No more could my mother nag me into God's presence.
In a way that somebody else converts to Judaism or becomes a Hare Krishna, I belong to the church of fried chicken.
My ordination in the Church of God in Christ was at age 9, and I later became a Baptist minister, which I am today.
I don't attend any particular church now. I don't believe in denominations, nor do I believe in organized religion.
God wants every local church to be the first place people think to go when they've really messed up...not the last.
God requires to be represented by a fiery Church... two things are intolerable to Him-insincerity and lukewarmness.
(on asparagus) Europeans of the Renaissance swore by it as an aphrodisiac, and the church banned it from nunneries.
The glory of the gospel is that when the church is absolutely different from the world, she invariably attracts it.
Evangelism and the local church are inseparable. It's like the Good Samaritan seeking an inn for the one he rescued.
Artists have been very good at working for the church and for the state; communicating the aspirations of a society.
If the church would only be the church- if Christians would only be Christians- nothing could halt our onward march.
For where the church is, there is the Spirit of God, and where the Spirit of God, there is the church and all grace.
It's not the job of government to help the poor. The church is the mechanism that God put on earth to help the poor.
Worship is not about personality, temperament, personal limitations, church background, or comfort. It is about God.