Famous Quotes & Sayings

Billy Graham

Many churches today have special programs for people who are grieving, and these can be very helpful.

Ellen G. White

It is labor that keeps the strong man strong. And spiritual labor, toil and burden-bearing, is what will give strength to the church of Christ.

David A. Bednar

I will go where the Lord and the leaders of His Church want me to go, I will do what they want me to do, I will teach what they want me to teach, and I will strive to become what I should and must become.

The only cure for seasickness is to sit on the shady side of a church in the country.

E. B. White

The politicians have focused so much on the mega-churches in the county from a land use perspective until they have not looked at the contributions being made by the smaller churches. Our church has a partnership with Longfields Elementary where we provide textbooks, school supplies and even shoes for the children.

The pastor at my church says that in everything you say or do you're teaching someone else.

Nancy Gibbs

The 1950s felt so safe and smug, the '60s so raw and raucous, the revolutions stacked one on top of another, in race relations, gender roles, generational conflict, the clash of church and state - so many values and vanities tossed on the bonfire, and no one had a concordance to explain why it was all happening at once.

The world looks at preachers out of church to know what they mean in it.

Rick Pitino

Football is only once a week. NASCAR is once a week. Those sports are insanely popular. Horse racing is oversaturated. Unless tracks cut back to three days a week of full fields, a lot of people will really hurt down the road. Horse racing, to survive, has to go to that. Let's face it: Churchill Downs only does well on Derby Week.

Carrie Underwood

I grew up in church, and I have a wonderful family that always supported that.

Bernadette Devlin

But I make a distinction between the doctrines of the Church, which matter, and the structure invented by half a dozen Italians who got to be pope and which is of very little use to anybody.

Bertrand Russell

Neither the Church nor modern public opinion condemns petting, provided it stops short at a certain point.

The alternative is a tower or some facility you can see. We often see other towns recommending church steeples. This is a win-win situation.

We can't justify it until the church is complete,

We can't have a nation committed to the separation of church and state and then have it compulsory ... especially when it comes to small children, to pledge 'one nation under God,'

Rick Warren

The role of the church and the government are fundamentally different. The church must always show compassion - always.

Rick Warren

Churches know more about poverty than any government will ever know, because we're dealing with the poor every day.

Rodney Stark

Most churches are run by preachers who went to seminaries, who decided to be preachers when they were 18, 19, 20 years old. These preachers never met a payroll. They don't know how the world works.

Winston Churchill

You are drunk Sir Winston, you are disgustingly drunk. 'Yes, Mrs. Braddock, I am drunk. But you, Mrs. Braddock are ugly, and disgustingly fat. But, tomorrow morning, I, Winston Churchill will be sober.

Aaron Gray

We've got our church clothes ready for Sunday morning. You can write that down.

We've had church and civic groups, like the Lion's Club, that have found the festival helpful either as a fund raiser or for public service to the community. Several churches have given away free cold water at the festival as an outreach effort.

My church is in Hammond, my daughter and her family is in Hammond, my doctors are in Munster. Most everything I do is east of here.

When the church has a position, it tends to be categorical. Lawmakers want their interest groups to take half a loaf and the church isn't eager to bargain. They want it their way.

You can get something really really fabulous. I just tasted the Pol Roger Winston Churchill 1998 and my god, it's so delicious. And if you want to have a special celebration, you know, that's the way to go if money is no object.

I think it would be silly to not have a chat. He fits our criteria. He's just captained a grand final-winning side, he just won the Clive Churchill medal, he's been on a Kangaroo tour, he's a north Queenslander and he's played at our club before.

I thought I wouldn't like church as much as I did.

joining the society is a great way to continue learning about Churchill and further hone skills that can be learned from him.

Rick Warren

I'm Southern Baptist, our church is Southern Baptist, and we cooperate in SBC missions support at every level,

Heywood Broun

I might resume the habit of going to church if the preacher would be honest enough to stand up some morning and say, "Perhaps next Sunday, but not today," and then sit down

Marvin Sapp

My church has a health and fitness ministry to encourage our members to take care of spiritually and physically; how could I not?

Robert Green Ingersoll

Our fathers founded the first secular government that was ever founded in this world. Recollect that. The first secular government - the first government that said every church has exactly the same rights and no more; every religion has the same rights, and no more.

We are increasingly not just going out to solve the outbreak related to the contaminated potato salad at the church picnic, but we are on the front line of global challenges.

Joanna Lumley

I think I'm a spiritual person. I don't really go to church often when services are on, but I like going in when they are empty and quiet, and just sitting there and thinking for a little while.