I was raised in a working class family of Baptist faith, and I went to college on a church scholarship where early teachings were reinforced. Abortion was wrong, I was taught.
Lots of Orthodox go to church every Sunday but don't know much about the faith. Yet they know that there is something that they don't know much about.
I believe that for lots of churches and religious institutions, their main focus on the development of faith among parishioners needs to spread to the community.
He was of the faith chiefly in the sense that the church he currently did not attend was Catholic.
The separation of church and state is a source of strength, but the conscience of our nation does not call for separation between men of state and faith in the Supreme Being.
Hold firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this, and you dissolve the unity of the Church.
I'm a pastor. I say, 'Let the church say amen,' and that settles it. Everything has been said, you know; it's like we have to agree with God.
The Church's note must be a supernatural note which distinguishes incarnation from immanence, redemption from evolution, the Kingdom of God from mere spiritual process.
I definitely believe in a God and in a higher power, and I definitely take from many different religious cultures. I go to church.
The Seventh Day Adventist Church believes that it was specially chosen by God to prepare the world for the Second Coming of His Son Jesus.
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.
Indeed, in the present climate of mistrust of institutions, many people who yearn for a more meaningful and fulfilling life would regard the church as an unlikely place to go for guidance.
Inconsistency on the part of pastors and the faithful between what they say and what they do, between word and manner of life, is undermining the Church's credibility.
Well, to take me from where I was, and the life I was leading, to the life I lead now with the church and with the Lord and with Jesus Christ, it's a total, total turn-around.
I'm still Christian. I was not raised in a Christian church to hate people. I was taught to love people and accept people. I know what I believe.
Every church is a stone on the grave of a god-man: it does not want him to rise up again under any circumstances.
Church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back.
The Church doesn't censor. It tries to guide its faithful through catechism.
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.
I have a group of people, about 40, in a local church in Surrey in England, who pray for me regularly.
You can change your pastor, you can change your church as well but you can't change your God
