Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Alda

I was brought up as a Catholic, and I'm no longer a Catholic. I don't talk about my beliefs too much in public probably because I feel very strongly that it's something personal - more than personal, it's private.

Alan Alda

I used to be a Catholic. I left because I object to conversion by concussion. If you don't agree with what they teach, you get clobbered over the head until you do. All that does is change the shape of the head.

Arthur Peacocke

In the nineteenth century, many Anglican theologians, both evangelical and catholic, embraced positively the proposal of evolution.

Antony Gormley

I was educated by monks - I thank them dearly for the education they gave me, but I am no longer a Catholic.

Denis McDonough

I grew up in Stillwater, Minnesota in a proud Catholic family.

Denis Leary

I'm a lapsed Catholic in the best sense of the word.

Bill Maher

I don't understand why the police are infallible. They remind me a lot of the Catholic Church.

Bernard of Clairvaux

Persecution shows who is a hireling, and who a true pastor.

Bernard of Clairvaux

Hell is full of good wishes or desires.

Charles Spurgeon

The moment the church of God shall despise the pulpit, God will despise her.

Charles Spurgeon

Persecution is the heirloom of the church, and the ensign of the elect.

Charles Spurgeon

The doctrines some now preach could not build a mouse-trap.

Charles Spurgeon

The most useful members of a church are usually those who would be doing harm if they were not doing good.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

What has the church gained if it is popular but there is no conviction, no repentance, no power?

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Go to church once a week and nobody pays attention. Worship God seven days a week and you become strange!

Aiden Wilson Tozer

In the conduct of our public worship where is the authority of Christ to be found? The truth is that today the Lord rarely controls a service, and the influence He exerts is very small. We sing of Him and preach about Him, but He must not interfere; we worship our way, and it must be right because we have always done it that way, as have the other churches in our group.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The creeping wilderness will soon take over that church that trusts in its own strength and forgets to watch and pray.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The meetings least attended in our churches today are the ones whose only attraction is God.

David Draiman

I would like to thank a world that never understood or accepted me, family and friends that never believed in me, and a God with one hell of a sense of humor. You have all made me what I am today. Let that weigh heavily on your consciences.

Antonio Tabucchi

I live quietly at home among my family and friends.

Luke Bracey

I've still got to go and see the world, but I will come back to Australia in the end, when I have my family, in many moons to come.

Sizwe Kupelo

The outbreak response team is also providing members of her family with prophylactic treatment.

Mark Allen

We are providing a good place for everybody. We are trying to keep family units together and give them some privacy. They've had enough shellshock as it is.

Kristinn Taylor

We are preparing for as many as 20,000 people, just to be on the safe side. People have been fired up over the past month, especially military family members, and they want to be heard.

Kim Adams

We are praying for them and their family.

Lisa Stanford

We are a very close-knit family. Sara was worried about her grandpa, not herself.

Joe Leveroni

We strongly oppose the pending project. Our family has lived on and ranched this property for 85 years. Our property is not for sale.

Charles Dickens

I wear the chain I forged in life....I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it.

C. S. Lewis

The grave and the image are equally links with the irrecoverable and symbols for the unimaginable.

Eben Alexander

Communicating with God is the most extraordinary experience imaginable, yet at the same time it's the most natural one of all, because God is present in us at all times. Omniscient, omnipotent, personal-and loving us without conditions. We are connected as One through our divine link with God.

David Mitchell

There's a link between bigotry and bad spelling.

Arthur Conan Doyle

So all life is a great chain, the nature of which is known whenever we are shown a link of it.

Jane Hamilton

It's all a big old chain. There isn't one unconnected link.

Edward Young

Distinguisht Link in Being's endless Chain! Midway from Nothing to the Deity!

Eduardo Chillida

What comes from oneself is nearly from no one. There is only me as a link.

Abraham Lincoln

If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it.

Jim Calhoun

We have no one like Brandon Roy. Nobody does.

Neve McIntosh

With some writers, the script looks beautiful on the page, but nobody actually speaks like that.

Carolina Herrera

Any business is the same in the beginning because nobody knows where it's going to ride.

Cliff Carrier

We've got it pretty well covered. The numbers out here don't matter, though. It's the numbers inside, and there's nobody in there.

Pete Summerbell

We got to the state championship game. Nobody can take that away from us.

Bobby Cox

With two outs and nobody on you feel like you're going to win a ballgame, ... We just did not get big hits.

Andre Cook

We're just here to play basketball. When we were 2-5, nobody was protesting, so that's just how it is.

Rick Cornett

We're really cornered. Nobody wants our season to end in three games. We just have to keep working.

Mitch Daniels

A survey shows that nobody would pay a toll to go to Evansville.

Alan Moore

If you're going to have any kind of political opposition in the 21st century, then it has to be as fundamentally liquid as the rapidly changing society we're living in.

Eartha Kitt

I don't wear my political feelings on my sleeve. However, if I'm asked, I will answer honestly.

David Remnick

Not all political prisoners are innocents.

David Hume

A too great disproportion among the citizens weakens any state. Every person, if possible, ought to enjoy the fruits of his labour, in a full possession of all the necessities, and many of the conveniences of life. No one can doubt, but such an equality is most suitable to human nature, and diminishes much less from the happiness of the rich than it adds to that of the poor.

David Brinkley

Numerous politicians have seized absolute power and muzzled the press. Never in history has the press seized absolute power and muzzled the politicians.

David Brin

Only a knowledgeable, empowered and vocal citizenry can perform well in democracy.

Benazir Bhutto

I'm not into smoke-filled rooms. I don't have the time for byzantine political intrigues.

Beatrice Webb

That part of the Englishman's nature which has found gratification in religion is now drifting into political life.

Asne Seierstad

There are personal reasons, psychological reasons, but there could also be political reasons for becoming a terrorist.

Charles Dickens

The Northern onslaught upon slavery was no more than a piece of specious humbug designed to conceal its desire for economic control of the Southern states.

Fred Coan

We've got kids, I'm sure, who have never been out of South Carolina.

Belle Boyd

The secession of the Southern States, individually or in the aggregate, was the certain consequence of Mr. Lincoln's election.

Charles Kuralt

A true Southerner will never say in 2-3 words what can better be said in 10-12.

David Sibley

They talk about Southern hospitality, but Southern hospitality has nothing on this place,

Jimmy Barros

It's tough to come back in on that ledge when the ocean's flat. With today's 3-foot south swell and the easterly wind swell, it was even more dangerous.

Randy Julander

Southern Utah is having a terrible year, unbelievably bad.

Ryan Holmes

South America's most populous country, Brazil, is also emerging as one of the region's most social-media savvy.

Larry Coker

There's always been talent in South Florida, it just didn't stay here.