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Christianity in the suburb is cheerful. The church is a centre of social activity and those who go to church need never be lonely.
The wonderful thing about the black church for me is that it forces you to come to terms with the centrality of love in the world.
I grew up in church and it's always been important to me. I've always had a sense of calling to do life and faith-affirming media.
On the ordination of women, the church has spoken and said no. John Paul II, in a definitive formulation said that door is closed.
It is better to have a Church that is wounded but out in the streets than a Church that is sick because it is closed in on itself.
If there is anyone who's living the work of the New Testament, it's the nuns of the Catholic church and not the Catholic hierarchy.
I was brought up as a Catholic and went to church every week and took the sacraments. It never really touched the core of my being.
Did something happen to the sanctity of your church again?" My eye twitched. "Newt broke it so she could look in my closet." Again.
Vatican II was a force that seized the mind of the Roman Catholic Church and carried it across centuries from the 13th to the 20th.
I never went to church a day in my life. The dominant religion (influence) in my family was my grandfather who was a Scientologist.
Missionary work is an identifying feature of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Always has it been; ever shall it be.
God bless the Methodist Church - bless all the churches - and blessed be God, Who, in this our great trial, giveth us the churches.
Dr. Boice's commentary series is a treasure for the church and for her pastors. No expository preacher can afford to be without it.
The hippopotamus's day Is passed in sleep; at night he hunts; God works in a mysterious way- The Church can sleep and feed at once.
Trains are wonderful.... To travel by train is to see nature and human beings, towns and churches and rivers, in fact, to see life.
If the church is to impress the world with the deathless hope of the everlasting Gospel, she must be animated by that hope herself.
Each individual Christian and each new age of the Church has to make this rediscovery, this return to the source of Christian life.
Standards of conduct appropriate to civil society or the workings of a democracy cannot be purely and simply applied to the Church.
Wherever the bishop shall appear, there let the multitude also be; even as, wherever Jesus Christ is, there is the Catholic Church.
For myself I think that one wrong does not right the other, and forgiveness cannot be won with useless tears or alms to the Church.
There is an innocence or purity that we see in renewals and in the Mennonite church and a new an invigorated civil rights movement.
The Church alone, being the Bride of Christ and having all things in common with her Divine Spouse, is the depository of the truth.
Among all the devotions approved by the Church none has been so favored by so many miracles as the devotion of the Most Holy Rosary
Galileo was challenged because he declared a theory to be a fact and argued with the Church about the genuine meaning of the Bible.
When anyone has the power to destroy the whole human race in a matter of hours, it becomes a moral issue. The church must speak out.
If men are wont to play with swearing anywhere, can we expect they should be serious and strict therein at the bar or in the church.
I always wanted to solo at the church and they didn't ever give it to me. But eventually they did and I froze. But then I killed it.
I know Dan Reynolds from Imagine Dragons. We went to the same church. I'm pretty sure he's still Mormon. I left the church long ago.
The greatest burden in the world is superstition, not only of ceremonies in the church, but of imaginary and scarecrow sins at home.
The church is not an institution forcing us to follow rules but a community inviting us to still our hunger and thirst at its table.
I love church buildings, particularly cathedrals, and I like living in spaces that remind me of music or evoke that creative energy.
The more I know about business, the more I'm convinced that it is conducted in homes and churches far more than in office buildings.
The Christians were the first to make the existence of Satan a dogma of the church. What is the use in a Pope if there is no Devil ?
Just in relation to women, it's not that huge an imaginative leap to see the connection between the Taliban and the Catholic Church.
Trinity Park lies directly across from the library, Trinity Church rising like a midieval thought amidst the glass and steel towers.
Every church needs to be able to answer two questions. First, what is our plan for making disciples? And second, does our plan work?
Church reminded me very much of going to shul. It was a bunch of men wearing long robes, speaking in a language I didn't understand.
We all want to feel spiritually vigorous, and we hurt when we don't. This pain is intensified for people who lead church ministries.
The operation of the Church is entirely set up for the sinner; which creates much misunderstanding among the smug.” (August 9, 1955)
From the time I can remember my mother kept me in church. I think my first recollection of any place, being anywhere was in a church.
She say, Celie, tell the truth, have you ever found God in church? I never did. I just found a bunch of folks hoping for him to show.
If you have to give a carnival to get people to come to church, then you will have to keep giving carnivals to keep them coming back.
Women should unite upon a platform of opposition to the teaching and aim of that ever most unscrupulous enemy of freedom--the Church.
Today, on our own turf, we face pagan ignorance about God every bit as deep as that which the early church faced in the Roman Empire.
I don't think there are any churches that have "Thou shalt not believe in climate change" written in their actual statement of faith.
Christians often want to hide behind the walls of the church, where we are comfortable, but sometimes we have to come out of the box.
Look not to legislatures and churches for your guidance, nor to any soulless incorporated bodies, but to inspirited or inspired ones.
Christ bears the wounds of the church, his body, just as he bore the wounds of crucifixion. I sometimes wonder which have hurt worse.
My religion is my whole life. I love sharing it with people and clearing up any misunderstandings people might have about our Church.
The Church had the words reason and liberty on her lips when the inalienable rights of the human race were threatened with shipwreck.