I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, thus building a wall of separation between church and state.
Thomas Jefferson
The church was not merely a thermometer that recorded the ideas and principles of popular opinion; it was a thermostat that transformed the mores of society.
Martin Luther King Jr.
The observances of the church concerning feasts and fasts are tolerably well kept, since the rich keep the feasts and the poor the fasts.
Sir Philip Sidney
In the Church of Jesus Christ there can and should be no non-theologians.
Karl Barth
People go to church for the same reasons they go to a tavern: to stupefy themselves, to forget their misery, to imagine themselves, for a few minutes anyway, free and happy.
Mikhail Bakunin
So much blood has been shed by the Church because of an omission from the Gospel: 'Ye shall be indifferent as to what your neighbor's religion is.' Not merely tolerant of it, but indifferent to it. Divinity is claimed for many religions; but no religion is great enough or divine enough to add that new law to its code.
Mark Twain
If there were no ministers and no priests, how long would there be any churches? Lemuel K.
Lemuel K. Washburn
..nor did he pause to reflect that hereditary aristocracies have always been short lived where as adoptive organizations such as the Catholic Church sometimes lasted for hundreds or thousands of years.
George Orwell
Now I understand why Henry VIII started his own church.
John F. Kennedy
A man who could build a church, as one may say, by squinting at a sheet of paper.
Charles Dickens
Baseball is like church. Many attend, few understand.
Leo Durocher
Until they put that sand and dirt in my face I will not sit in church all day.
Alberta Hunter
There is absolutely nothing wrong with honoring her. It's a big church.
Jerome Hames
We should always be prepared so as never to err to believe that what I see as white is black, if the hierarchic Church defines it thus.
Saint Ignatius Of Loyola
A good example is like a bell that calls many to church.
Danish Proverb
In the middle of church.
Don Anderson
Going to church does not make you a Christian anymore than going to the garage makes you a car.
Dr. Laurence J. Peter
She would wave to me on her way to church. She was very friendly.
Barry Hebert
They realize that church members are just like us, but they have something we don't.
Tim Knopps
I collect Cat's Meows and I did one before on my church, Trinity Lutheran.
Angie Jaynes
God is with us, God will bring us through this, ... This church has been through this before and we will rise again.
Harold Roberts
There should be absolutely no "Separation of Church and State" in America.
David Barton
There's a certain spiritual quality being in a church.
Joe Hurwitz
This is the little church that could.
Jessica Brown
This is an excellent teaching moment for the Catholic Church.
Matthew Pinto
Well, I'm glad they got them. I was worried about the church, and I was afraid they would slip back.
William Wilson
Christ never existed, but is an invention of the Church.
Luigi Cascioli
Becoming Catholic involves entering into a relationship with the Catholic Church.
Carl Olson
There's never any intention to satirize the church or poke fun at religion in any way.
Jack Kenny
I believe with all my heart that the Church of Jesus Christ should be a Church of blurred edges.
George Carey
Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God.
Lenny Bruce
First United Methodist Church has a van that's taking us to Birmingham.
Crystal Hawkins
The goal all along is to match church with church, government leader with government leader.
Steve Wingfield
If the Church is right, then people have some serious questions to answer.
Jeff Cavins
The local church is awakening to become a force that we have not seen before.
Tom Minnery
They'll go God knows where. This is the church washing its hands.
John Salveson
Connecticut is blending church and state.
Cynthia Brust
Church: A place in which gentlemen who have never been to Heaven brag about it to people who will never get there.
Henry Louis Mencken
They don't let everyone stay there. But we're a church group.
Steve Huff
They said they have no intelligence and I don't believe that. I think that the Catholic Church has the most advanced intelligence services.
Carla Del Ponte
Ours began in 1938 in the Methodist church for the Boy Scouts.
Ross Miller
Political theater is not uncommon in the black church culture.
Robert Franklin
Hollywood is more forgiving than the church.
Richard Rossi
We're disappointed at what we've heard today that this person will be back in charge of the church.
Anthony Wilson
It doesn't say anywhere in the Constitution this idea of the separation of church and state.
Sean Hannity
There's never a dull moment in the Episcopal Church these days.
Susan Russell
We are not replacing church, we are adding really.
Simon Jenkins
We do believe that the church has a visionary role for reconciliation, beyond that of any government.
Richard Harris
Our coaches are very personal. We go to church with them. They pray with us. They are men of character.
Jordan Neal
We want to make a stand that we always welcome anyone into our church.
Gloria Lopez
It was kind of a sad day in Leavenworth when that church burned down.
Joe Manthe
The church which ceases to be evangelistic will soon cease to be evangelical.
Alexander Duff
We follow the rules laid out in the Bible for running our church.
William Brewster
I can't even imagine not observing Christmas in an Episcopal (Anglican) Church.
Robert Williams
Anybody can build a church. But the process is just as important as the product.
Todd Brown
I can't think of a worse place to put a church.
Jeff Johnson
This church has been through this again, ... And we will rise again.
Harold Roberts
The Lord called me to plant a church.
Bobby Rush
Church has been one of the most important parts of my life.
Dr. Steven Dunton
The sand and the dirt is destroying the church.
Charles Mathis
She was a church lady -- very intelligent lady.
Phyllis Miller
The Episcopal Church has been hijacked by the revisionist leadership.
Cynthia Brust
This was intended to be about the Catholic Church.
Rep. Cory Gardner
The separation of church and state was a myth.
William Buckingham
Absolute in his love for the church.
Adam Maida
I want you to know you aren't going to church with a crook.
Bernard J. Ebbers
The church has 35 different ministry teams.
Jeff Miner
They will not be able to build the road easily. This community will not stand for it coming through this church, and we will not stand for it.
Jane Lareau
The church was at 78th and Wolcott.
Harry Kampenga
We should always be disposed to believe that that which appears white is really black, if the hierarchy of the Church so decides.
Saint Ignatius Of Loyola
We want this to happen. The church wants this to happen. It's time for it to happen.
Primus Wheeler
They didn't pay any more than it cost us. It's my church. I'm not going to make a profit off them.
Ben Kugler
On such questions, the church has clearly defined positions.
Richard John Neuhaus
A lot of people don't realize (the church is here). They drive by here all the time.
Ada Summers
It becomes a different mentality when you're on church grounds.
Gurpal Samra
To be sure, they are a very important part of the church.
Sean Dolan
Had to go to church. Mother made us.
Harry Kampenga
It is common for those that are farthest from God, to boast themselves most of their being near to the Church.
Mathew Henry
God is moving outside the church walls.
Cameron Strang
I would encourage everyone to join their church choirs.
Barb Vanderleest
The Roman Church has never erred, and, according to the scripture, never shall err.
Pope Gregory Vii
This doesn't give us much notice and it's a church night.
Rubie Jenkins
A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.
Abigail Van Buren
I guess I was naive. I had no idea it would be a black church. I guess I should have put two and two together.
Gary Green
A Church which has lost its memory is in a sad state of senility.
Henry Chadwick
Many black members remained in the church.
Harry Davis
His wife wears them to church.
Don Meyers
There was leadership in the African American community within the church.
Yvonne Johnson
Is this a church meeting or is this a bar? Make some noise!
Tyra Banks
The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
Lynn Lavner
We didn't sit together, go to church together or attend school together.
Shirlene Mercer
It is for sure the earliest church in Israel that we know of.
Yotam Tepper
Running is my church.
Joan Van Ark
First, the church helped runaway slaves.
Ted Talbert
The church was the center of her life.
Patricia Bryant
Life Is A Church.
David Phelps
I belong to a church and I try to do my Christian duty, so I am against alcohol, ... But we need the tax money.
Walter Allen
It's been a really strong bond. We have a lot of kids who go to Grace Church.
Heather Evans
The church is always going to build back.
Antonio Jeremiah
I thought I wouldn't like church as much as I did.
Jeanna Mastrodicasa
The church reaction was, they were just stunned.
Mary Sampietro
We didn't bring this church to the United States to be another Nigerian church.
Ajibike Akinkoye
You need to go to church!
Antonio Jeremiah
Contacts with the church will be numerous.
Michael Senyko
A red brick Presbyterian church... captured by kudzu vines as surely as a butterfly in a net.
Barbara Lazear Ascher
The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.
Quintus Septimius Tertullianus
We loaned the money to the church, not to him.
Michael Holland
Every church gave us a history for the association's Centennial Book. That book will be in the archives, and it will have a history of each church and each auxiliary in the association.
Ollye Ward
We can't justify it until the church is complete.
David Floyd
If you can get a spiritual connection without going to church, why go to church?
Brian Kenny
I think in church you're raised like God is God and you are here.
Charles Kingsley
If somebody can do this to a church, then God help them.
Cindy Jolley
Now the Anglican church is saying that you can be gay but must not do it. It is completely absurd.
Gilbert Proesch
We were there on Sunday morning after church and the amount of children walking by the Ben Franklin building was amazing.
Lana Stanley
Our church is putting some seed money into it.
Dee Tidwell
Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.
Marquis De Sade
Even church songs, it's Johnny Cash singing.
Don Blalock
The sale helps the church with outreach programs.
Sue Clabby
If the Church of England were to fail, it would be found in my parish.
John Keble
The neighborhood butcher wouldn't have sold meat to you. You would be shunned at church.
Robert Bruno
One church. One day. Three thousand letters. It was overwhelming.
Susanne Villarreal
The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women's emancipation.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
She firmly believed in raising her kids through the church. Even through cancer and chemotherapy, she had them there.
Laronda Bullard
A good man, is a good man, whether in this church, or out of it.
Brigham Young
She lived on Bullock behind the Holt Street Baptist Church.
Richard Bailey
I said, 'Yes, you do.' But he says, 'What will the devil do to me?' I said to him, 'You command the devil to go if he's there. In the name of the church, as archbishop, I command you to go and do it.'
Henry D'souza
I miss church, but I'm so glad you're all safe.
Diane Phillips
I was so tired I didn't call anyone, I didn't go to church.
Helen Hukari
We believe what we are singing about. Our church has also been so supportive and so good to us.
Blair Mays
We don't see it as a law of the Church but as a law of God.
Francis Arinze
The whole family sings together at church.
Michelle King
The way to preserve the peace of the church is to preserve its purity.
Matthew Henry
Because secular artists participate, somebody coming might not even go to church.
Dottie Peoples
My grandmother was a Baptist. You volunteered in the church whether you wanted to or not.
Marion Gibbs
Of course we're Christian. The very name of the church declares that.
Gordon B. Hinckley
This is a place we can socialize. We can't go to Hooter's. We can't go to Church Street.
Juan Fernandez
We do as much as we possibly can for our community and church.
Sandy Buerk
They wanted to help us out, one Christian church to another. That is what touched me so much.
Debbie Power
If fishing is a religion, fly fishing is high church.
Tom Brokaw
Our church is very pro-life. It is not, however, a test of membership.
Barry Mccarty
The church is just business as usual.
Scott Trotter
Where Peter is, there must be the Church.
St. Ambrose
We go to church together over here.
Frances Anders Dansby
Everyone in the church is just devastated.
Tamila Swiger
We're set up now just like church and we're going on from there.
Mary Hawkins
I thought, man, this would be a great place to do a church.
Greg Sampson
You're fanning like you're in church in Alabama, back in the day.
Ginger Baber
I love what the church does during Holy Week.
Donna Baker
The Church, I think, realizes this is not 1986.
Alex Magno
She (Church) doesn't seem to have any airs.
Hayley Westenra
The Church offers the real meal.
Jeff Cavins
If there was no church I wouldn't know where to go.
Celeste Kekoolani
I think they emptied all they had in the church.
Buster Carter
After this, I will be going to church more often. I have become very religious through this whole situation.
Scott Rush
I believe in the Church of Baseball.
Ron Shelton
Some buddies from church went out playing and they asked me to come.
Andrew Davis
The church doesn't do this speedily.
Sister Maria Giuseppe
The only thing that stands in the way of the legalization of same-sex marriage in Minnesota is the church.
Chuck Darrell
The bottom line is he is allowed to worship in any Catholic church. Any Catholic is welcome.
Sean Nolan
His two favorite things were his wife and the church.
Brad Bailey
To those who may not agree with the teachings of the Church, you are still in our hearts, you are still in our love.
John O'connor
You could certainly say that she is a very dedicated and active member of a conservative, evangelical Christian church.
Barry Mccarty
The church is going to help once again this weekend.
Julie Bailey
The Church became both more accessible and less imposing. It threw itself open to risk.
Lance Morrow
This is, in Israel for sure, the earliest church.
Yotam Tepper
One of the things we had been asking for all along is a church vote, and we had one today.
Deborah Seagle
I wanted to study more because I knew I wanted to work at the Church.
Amy Schlatterbeck
Our church taught us not to be prejudiced.
Louise Hall
We are disappointed in the official announcement to close our beloved St. Augustine church.
Edward Flynn
And they want the church to show them a better way in which to live.
Edna Smith
At the end of the night, we are able to give them an invitation to church. It's fun. It's exciting.
Eric Hutchinson
It's like a little city within a church.
Fred Nelson
I can tell you the church will be full.
Elizabeth King
We're not just a church, we're an international corporation.
Eddie Long
We realized pretty soon after we started that we didn't have a church choir, we had a community choir.
Elizabeth Goldstein
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