The leadership lost its nerve. Instead of taking the lead in the reform movement... they pulled the plug on it. They tried and are still trying to return the church to the dry ice of the previous century and a half.

In order to the existence of such a ministry in the Church there is requisite an authority received from God and consequently power and knowledge imparted from God for the exercise of such ministry and where a man possesses these although the bis.

The intelligence investigation under the leadership of Senator Church which I know has helped cause this investigation by you points out that the agencies did not disclose certain facts to us and that certain plots were going on.

I have taken this step because I want the discipline the fire and the authority of the Church. I am hopelessly unworthy of it but I hope to become worthy.

See my hope and dream is that people have a good time watching basketball. It's not church. It's not serious.

Praying privately in churches I began to discover that heaven was my true home and also that it was here and now woven into this life.

My grandmother always taught me 'If you don't have a home family and church you don't have anything.'

For example I was a White House intern the summer before I dropped out of law school. Everybody knew about it. I'd come home and go to church and everybody would say 'Oh my God. Demetri you're working at the White House.'

Hypocrites in the Church? Yes and in the lodge and at the home. Don't hunt through the Church for a hypocrite. Go home and look in the mirror. Hypocrites? Yes. See that you make the number one less.

History shows that when the church accommodates culture it weakens it.

The secular world looks to the church and to its chagrin finds no love no life no laughter no hope and no happiness.

I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.

The Left regards the Constitution as defective and outmoded - in part because it impedes the government's ability to control institutions like churches and families which stand between the state and individuals.

We need religion as a guide. We need it because we are imperfect. Our government needs the church because only those humble enough to admit they are sinners can bring to democracy the tolerance it requires in order to survive.

If marriage really is a sacred institution then why is the government controlling it especially in a nation that affirms separation of church and state?

The relationships that people have - that are sexual psychological emotional - these relationships are not open to supervision by parents schools churches or government. Nobody has any right to intervene at all in any kind of relationship like that.

When any government or any church for that matter undertakes to say to its subjects This you may not read this you must not see this you are forbidden to know the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives.

If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do chapels had been churches and poor men's cottage princes' palaces.

God Almighty never intended that the devil should triumph over the Church. He never intended that the saloons should walk rough-shod over Christianity.

It is better to go skiing and think of God than go to church and think of sport.

The style of God venerated in the church mosque or synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe.

If you love god burn a church.

Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God.

It is common for those that are farthest from God to boast themselves most of their being near to the Church.