Bill Bright Quotes
Show me a church or a Christian organization that emphasizes prayer, and I'll show you a ministry where people are excited about Jesus Christ and are witnessing for Him.Bill Bright
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There's an interesting contrast between born Catholics and converts. Converts are often much more rule-directed. Catholicism isn't something that they breathed in from their childhood, so they think that if you don't toe the line on abstract doctrine you can't be part of the Church.
Garry Wills -
This also is a part of the teaching of the Church, that there are certain angels of God, and certain good influences, which are His servants in accomplishing the salvation of men.
Origen -
I like the Kardashians, but I do keep them on the top of my prayer list.
Tamar Braxton -
The early Church had nothing but the Old Testament. The New Testament lies hidden in the Old; the Old Testament lies open in the New.
Randall Terry -
Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation, the source of strength is one's self. When one prays, he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.
Madame de Stael -
Sunday, I go to church; I take the day off. I rest.
Paige VanZant
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We're living in what I like to call the 'Thank You Economy,' because only the companies that can figure out how to mind their manners in a very old-fashioned way - and do it authentically - are going to have a prayer of competing.
Gary Vaynerchuk -
The history of the Church of Rome is a constant leakage of members into such breakaway cults, which go on splitting.
Mary Douglas -
Religion is no more possible without prayer than poetry without language, or music without atmosphere.
James Martineau -
I didn't want to be an actress; I never thought of being an actress because, as children, there were three of us - I was the middle child - and we spent our time in church from Sunday morning to Saturday night.
Cicely Tyson -
That's just my family's mentality. We are a very loving, hugging and kissing kind of family. And we grew up in a church atmosphere and still have that atmosphere. There is no negativity.
Eric Davis -
I am a Catholic, not so committed to the church, but to the idea of the Virgin, the female face of God.
Paulo Coelho
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Since politics fundamentally should be a moral enterprise, the church in this sense has something to say about politics.
Pope Benedict XVI -
I grew up in eastern Kentucky, and we would sing in the churches, and there's lots of good mountain church singers out there. Like a lot of folks who turn out to be secular music artists, that's a lot of the training you put in, whether you know it or not.
Chris Stapleton -
Well, I've never left my faith - but have I made a lot of mistakes? But was I fortunate that I was brought up in that Pentecostal church, where I heard about God's love and God's forgiveness.
Billy Ray Cyrus -
Just as Cardinal Bernardin proposed that an of ethic of life be consistently applied to unite all the life issues, we need in our day to mine the church's social teaching on solidarity.
Blase J. Cupich -
I really started to get into reading the Bible and I started to look for a church to go to. Every Sunday I was going to like three or four churches, I was just looking for the right church.
Angus T. Jones -
My parents were in the local church choir, and I used to go along and sing and play the organ at all the weddings and christenings.
Dolores O'Riordan The Cranberries
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The Gospel of Judas is a kind of protest literature. It's challenging leaders of the church.
Elaine Pagels -
I have said in many interviews that God had a better plan for me than I ever anticipated. I still firmly believe that, and I am grateful for a prayer answered.
Phyllis Smith -
For millions of men and women, the church has been the hospital for the soul, the school for the mind and the safe depository for moral ideas.
Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. -
Hey, if pi == 3, and three == 0, does that make pi == 0?
Larry Wall -
Show me a church or a Christian organization that emphasizes prayer, and I'll show you a ministry where people are excited about Jesus Christ and are witnessing for Him.
Bill Bright