I do feel that federation, loose parallel processes, are less than we’ve got, less than we could have and, in the very long run, less than what God wants in the Church. – Rowan Williams
Every minister knows it’s harder to get the guys to church than the women. We ought to be asking why this is. – Rodney Stark
I built my church on Easter services, Christmas Eve services, and Norman Vincent Peale. – Robert H. Schuller
The more I started studying the historical Jesus, the man who lived 2,000 years ago… the more I started to realize that there was this chasm between the historical Jesus and the Jesus that I had been taught about in church. – Reza Aslan
My eyes are wide open to the conflicts within the Church, but I don’t think you can call it schism. – Richard John Neuhaus
Of course the case of the Christian Church planted among the nations must differ, in various ways, from that of any sect forming in connection with religious awakening in a territory of professing Christianity. – Robert Rainy
Defend the church. Defend the family. Defend the non-profit community. Defend them against a government that wants to weaken them. – Rick Santorum
We are not the Westboro Baptist Church. We are a church that embraces the tenants of historic Christianity – there’s nothing hateful about our members at all. – Robert Jeffress
When I go to Rome, I fast on Saturday, but in Milan I do not. Do you also follow the custom of whatever church you attend, if you do not want to give or receive scandal. – Saint Ambrose
In my family, we were on again off again Unitarians, partly because my father, raised Roman Catholic, had had enough of church. – Stacey D’Erasmo
My father was a preacher in Maryland and we had crab feasts – with corn on the cob, but no beer, being Methodist – outside on the church lawn. – Tori Amos
Well, I think Barkley and I were the only two who were working with Church for a Ph.D. – Stephen Cole Kleene
And what I learned in Church’s course. He trained us intensively in his new system, which he was just developing. Two papers were presented. I think the second paper wasn’t published until well after the course was finished. – Stephen Cole Kleene
I am a Congregationalist with Catholic sensibilities. Which probably explains how I ended up in a Episcopal church. – Stanley Hauerwas
When the Bible was first published, bathhouses were mandatory, no one could read, and only the people in the Church could write. – Taylor Negron
I am an enthusiastic participant in a church, but I have never been particularly concerned with denominational identity. – Stanley Hauerwas
I go to wherever God calls me, wherever the church calls me to come to minister and preach the word of God. – Vanity
And I definitely wanted to be a writer, but I felt a duty now, having used up those educational resources, I felt a duty to the church and my parents to become a priest. – Thomas Keneally
