I challenge you to show me where the saloon has ever helped business, education, church, morals or anything we hold dear.
It is an absolutely unique success of the church community to have introduced such an epoch-making change, in just a few years, without having a serious division.
Artists like Bach and Beethoven erected churches and temples on the heights. I only wanted... to build dwellings for men in which they might feel happy and at home.
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.
The secular world looks to the church and to its chagrin, finds no love, no life, no laughter, no hope and no happiness.
At the first general meeting of this Corporation in 1820, his Lordship presided; a circumstance, which may well be considered an era in the history of the Church of Upper Canada.
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.
Every good gospel singer you can hear is a scat singer; they're just using different syllables. There are a lot of jazz singers out there, and more coming out of the churches.
We have this idea in our minds that there's this separation of church and state in America, which I think is a good thing.
In the Church, and in the journey of faith, women have had and still have a special role in opening doors to the Lord.
I've been speaking at churches for years, as well as juvenile jails, rehabs and hospitals, and I always talk about my faith. That is a declaration of my relationship with God.
God Almighty never intended that the devil should triumph over the Church. He never intended that the saloons should walk rough-shod over Christianity.
I think people often come to the synagogue, mosque, the church looking for God, and what we give them is religion.
And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.
The laws of God given to mankind are embodied in the gospel plan, and the Church of Jesus Christ is made responsible for teaching these laws to the world.
It is common for those that are farthest from God, to boast themselves most of their being near to the Church.
My life goal is to see the world's one billion people with disabilities embraced and encouraged by the church.
I sang in church choir all my life, through elementary school, junior high and high school.
I take the kids to church and Sunday school. They love it. I really think it's important for a child to feel that there are things that are bigger than your life out there.
If it came to saving the life of one priest or sacrificing the life of an entire congregation, the church would save the life of the priest. Which is backwards, of course.
I always felt that church is where I'm going to find my community and people to live my life with.
