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I'm ashamed to say, but as a teen, there were times when I had to go to the church and get help.

Quotes by John Rzeznik

The church is in the hope business.

Quotes by John Ortberg

Pastors have historically understood their primary battle to be not the battle to build a big church, but the battle against the power of sin.

Quotes by John Ortberg

The Reformation did not directly touch the question of the true character of God's church.

Quotes by John Nelson Darby

I add, that those who are bent on restoring the whole church ought to be well instructed in the word, and to abstain from doing anything under the pretext of simplicity.

Quotes by John Nelson Darby

God is sufficient in all ages for His church.

Quotes by John Nelson Darby

I belong to the middle class that grew up very influenced by the Catholic church. The people of the novel are from a more pagan and practical world in which the Christianity is just a veneer.

Quotes by John McGahern

Yes, though I have nothing but gratitude for my upbringing in the church.

Quotes by John McGahern

I am, I think the only surviving member of the original Battle Creek church. The church was disbanded, with the exception of thirteen members, in 1870.

Quotes by John Harvey Kellogg

I think I am the oldest member and have been in good standing longer than any other member of this church.

Quotes by John Harvey Kellogg

I grew up singing in a church choir.

Quotes by John Grant

The first persecution of the Church took place in the year 67, under Nero, the sixth emperor of Rome.

Quotes by John Foxe

My aunt Geraldine was the unofficial historian and storyteller. She had all the information about family members and the gossip that came out of the church because we were very much part of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church. At family gatherings, the older folk had the floor, had pride of place, and it was their stories I remember.

Quotes by John Edgar Wideman

When one is required to preside over the Church, and be entrusted with the care of so many souls, the whole female sex must retire before the magnitude of the task, and the majority of men also.

Quotes by John Chrysostom

Is it faith to understand nothing, and merely submit your convictions implicitly to the Church?

Quotes by John Calvin

It is sufficient to say, what everybody knows to be true, that the Irish population is Catholic, and that the Protestants, whether of the Episcopalian or Presbyterian Church, or of both united, are a small minority of the Irish people.

Quotes by John Bright

I make a sincere effort to do some form of exercise every day, except for Sunday. That's church and hang out day.

Quotes by Johanna Braddy

You can be committed to Church but not committed to Christ, but you cannot be committed to Christ and not committed to church.

Quotes by Joel Osteen

My Methodist upbringing was very formative in my politics. I was born in 1969, and there was all this ecumenical 'we're in this together' sensitivity that was part of the United Methodist Church in the 1970s.

Quotes by Joel Burns

I need to find a church on Sunday. I need to say 'please' and 'thank you,' 'yes sir' and 'no ma'am.' Do the little things because that's part of being an adult.

Quotes by Joe Nichols

At the end of 1795 and beginning of 1796, I was ordered to write to the Church ministers.

Quotes by Joanna Southcott

I'm Presbyterian and I don't go to church very much.

Quotes by Joan Van Ark

Running is my church.

Quotes by Joan Van Ark

About Jesus Christ and the Church, I simply know they're just one thing.

Quotes by Joan of Arc

I grew up in the church and had always questioned what they were telling me.

Quotes by Jimmy Cliff

From the time I sang my first solo in church when I was probably 12 years old, I was bitten by the bug. From that point on, I never wanted to do anything else.

Quotes by Jimi Westbrook

The founding fathers of the U.S. were right when they erected that wall between church and state.

Quotes by Jim Starlin

I believe in the separation of church and state, absolutely. But I don't believe in the separation of public life from our values, our basic values, and for many of us, our religious values.

Quotes by Jim Wallis

I sang in the glee club and church choir, but I never sang a solo. I never thought of myself as a singer, and that might have crossed your mind, too.

Quotes by Jim Nabors

But I'll tell you what, there was a lot of farmland between Falls Church and Washington.

Quotes by Jim Fowler

I have a lot of memories of Falls Church. I went to grade school in Madison Elementary School.

Quotes by Jim Fowler

I dare not stay home while Quichuas perish. What if the well-filled church in the homeland needs stirring? They have the Scriptures, Moses, and the prophets, and a whole lot more. Their condemnation is written on their bank books and in the dust on their Bible covers.

Quotes by Jim Elliot

My grandmother and my upbringing filled me with the spirit of the church and the spirit of the faith brought by Africans to the new land during slavery.

Quotes by Jewell Parker Rhodes

I kept quiet for eight years. I did not want to hurt the church.

Quotes by Jessica Hahn

Church is great, but I found my church here. Hugh Hefner has been nothing but a gentleman.

Quotes by Jessica Hahn

I consider myself a non-denominational Christian. I grew up in a Bible church and still hold those beliefs very close to me.

Quotes by Jensen Ackles

Obviously, a big part of the American Revolution was there would be no Church of England the way there was in England. There was a specific attempt not to have an established church.

Quotes by Jeffrey Toobin

I would bring a $100 bill, and I would say, 'Alright, first person' - and everybody has their iPhone - and I would say, 'First person to find in the Constitution the phrase 'separation of church and state' gets this $100 bill'... And you know what - and everybody knows that, right? - that phrase isn't in the U.S. Constitution. It's nowhere.

Quotes by Jeffrey C. Mateer

Growing up doing those Kiwanis Clubs, doing those Cub Scout banquets, doing those church shows, I learned to find that sensibility that most people could laugh at - that all ages and demographics could laugh at.

Quotes by Jeff Dunham

That is simply that Marxism has been tremendously fashionable in our time, so it has infected a very large number of major institutions in many countries of the world. So I suppose that we shouldn't be too surprised that it should infect the church as well.

Quotes by Jeane Kirkpatrick

I grew up singing in the church choir, but I've not really had any training.

Quotes by Jayma Mays

Obviously, you're trying to peel through 20 centuries of theology, speculations, church doctrine and storytelling. I'm trying to get back to the absolute basic story of who was Jesus, what did he say, what was he teaching, and what did he do.

Quotes by Jay Parini

Our public schools began as ministries of the church; now it is time to return them to the Lord.

Quotes by Jay Alan Sekulow

Every time the Catholic Church takes one step forward, it seems to take one giant step back.

Quotes by Janine di Giovanni

It's hard for the Catholic Church to accept change. When the mass was no longer said in Latin, loyalists went into mourning for years.

Quotes by Janine di Giovanni

I ground my faith upon God's word, and not upon the church.

Quotes by Jane Grey

The faith of the church must be tried by God's word, and not God's word by the church; neither yet my faith.

Quotes by Jane Grey

Mum was a tremendous Anglo-Catholic. Very impressive, actually. She made me go to church for years - I still don't want to because of that.

Quotes by Jane Gardam

Behold how Christ is the foundation of the church and the apostles are the foundations! Christ is by a figure of speech - antonomastice - the foundation because the edifice of the church begins from him and is finished in him and through him. But the prophets and apostles are the foundations because their authority bears up our weakness.

Quotes by Jan Hus

Indeed, no one does more injury in the church than he who acts perversely and yet has the name and order of sanctity.

Quotes by Jan Hus

Through my music teaching and my not absolutely irregular attendance at church, I became acquainted with the best class of colored people in Jacksonville.

Quotes by James Weldon Johnson

The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe with blood for centuries.

Quotes by James Madison

The number, the industry, and the morality of the priesthood, and the devotion of the people have been manifestly increased by the total separation of the church from the state.

Quotes by James Madison

The black church will accept anybody.

Quotes by James McBride

There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.

James Joyce

Why does the Church grow and flourish? It does so because of divine direction to the leaders and members.

Quotes by James E. Faust

The holy scriptures as well as the local and General Authorities of the Church provide a safety net of counsel and guidance for the people of the Church.

Quotes by James E. Faust

The President of the Church will not lead the people of the Church astray. It will never happen.

Quotes by James E. Faust

The teachings of the Church line up more with the Democratic Party than the Republican Party.

Quotes by James Carville

Every day Catholics prove that you can be a good Catholic and a good Democrat and have a different position from the Church on abortion.

Quotes by James Carville

My church has an historical emphasis on peace, but we can't enjoy peace without honoring the blood our soldiers shed for it.

Quotes by James A. Forbes

Well, traditionally, how I grew up, I grew up in the Baptist Church, always going to church every Sunday, Sunday school, vacation Bible school.

Quotes by Jameis Winston

I was baptized when I was younger because I grew up in the church.

Quotes by Jameis Winston

I never went to church. The priests couldn't scare me with all that crap about hell, but somehow I knew, inside of me somehow, I knew that I'd pay for it.

Quotes by Jake LaMotta

I take the teachings of the Catholic Church seriously.

Quotes by Jacob Rees-Mogg

Marriage is a sacrament, and the decision of what is a sacrament lies with the Church, not with Parliament.

Quotes by Jacob Rees-Mogg

The Catholic Church's teachings are authoritative. There is a moral absolute on abortion - that it is wrong.

Quotes by Jacob Rees-Mogg

Kennedy believed in religious liberty and the separation of church and state. He did not believe in the right of elected officials to impose their religious views on others. He was the first Catholic ever elected president, and he spent much of the 1960 campaign defending his religion and assuring voters he would not take orders from the Vatican.

Quotes by Jack Schlossberg

In early church polemics, Jews are deemed no longer worthy of their own Scriptures because they have failed to accept Christ as the Messiah.

Quotes by Jack Schwartz

I can't speak to the differences within the Catholic Church.

Quotes by Jack Lew

The Catholic Church is a weird church. Much mysticism is sown broadspread from its ritual mysteries till it extends into the very lives of its constituents and parishoners.

Quotes by Jack Kerouac

There were theoretical elements in the subjection of women and it is not possible to avoid the conclusion that a large contribution was made to them by the Church. In part this was a matter of its hostile stance towards sexuality.

Quotes by J. M. Roberts

My first real experience with worship, I was 19. I was playing drums in the church band at a church in Phoenix, and they asked me to be the worship leader.

Quotes by Israel Houghton

The public school has become the established church of secular society.

Quotes by Ivan Illich

If men are wont to play with swearing anywhere, can we expect they should be serious and strict therein at the bar or in the church.

Quotes by Isaac Barrow

As the Supreme Governor of the Church of England, the Queen feels she cannot be seen to smile in church - and her natural reaction is to combat mirth by putting on a stern face.

Quotes by Ingrid Seward

Wherever the bishop appears, there let the people be, even as wheresoever Christ Jesus is, there is the catholic church.

Quotes by Ignatius of Antioch

When I was really, really young, I wanted to be a cook at Bob Evans because my parents would always go there every Sunday after church.

Quotes by iJustine

There are a few Irish writers who have a very strong influence on me, especially on the 'Take Me to Church' EP.

Quotes by Hozier

The way I did the first album... the way I wrote 'Church'... was just to trust my instincts with the music and let it kind of do what it does.

Quotes by Hozier

It sounds like I'm joking when I say it, but when I wrote 'Take Me To Church' and a lot of these things, I didn't think they would be hits. I thought I was writing for a potentially smaller audience.

Quotes by Hozier

I figured the songs wouldn't make much of a splash. I didn't think 'Take Me To Church' would play on the radio or get in the charts, and I didn't think about dealing with a global audience.

Quotes by Hozier

I grew up in the United Methodist Church, and church was always a very big part of my growing up.

Quotes by Hilarie Burton

There are fully forty towers, which are lofty and well built, the largest of which has fifty steps leading to its main body, and is higher than the tower of the principal tower of the church at Seville.

Quotes by Hernan Cortes

My whole damn family was nice. I don't think I've imagined it. It's true. Maybe it has to do with being brought up as Christian Scientists. Half of my relatives were Readers or Practitioners in the church.

Quotes by Henry Fonda

A Church which has lost its memory is in a sad state of senility.

Quotes by Henry Chadwick

The evangelical movement has become just a bit victimized by a success-oriented culture, wanting the church - like the corporation - to be successful.

Quotes by Henri Nouwen

How the early priests came into possession of these secrets does not appear, and if there were ever any records of this kind the Church would hardly allow them to become public.

Quotes by Harry Houdini

When the problems in Northern Ireland started, it was not a question of Protestantism or Catholicism, because the Catholic church was the only church at that time-it was a nationalist conflict.

Quotes by Harri Holkeri

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.

Quotes by Harold B. Lee

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.

Quotes by Hans Kung

My mother played the organ in church at Georgiana, and I sat on the seat beside her.

Quotes by Hank Williams

It is only the forcible propagation of conventional Christianity that makes the agnostic so bitter toward the church. He knows that all the doctrines cannot possibly be true, but he would view them with toleration if he were asked merely to let them alone for the benefit of the masses whom they can help and succour.

Quotes by H. P. Lovecraft

I was brought up Catholic and know the stench of the Catholic Church. I moved away from religion early, but the impression remains.

Quotes by Gunter Grass

Growing up in Jamaica, the Pentecostal church wasn't that fiery thing you might think. It was very British, very proper. Hymns. No dancing. Very quiet. Very fundamental.

Quotes by Grace Jones

Humanity is not a church made of stone, in which vault after vault lies open.

Quotes by Goran Persson

Every individual in the church is free to think as he pleases.

Quotes by Gordon B. Hinckley

You need to remember that being rejected by church is not the same as being rejected by God. God did not kick you out of church, honey. The church kicked God out of church.

Quotes by Glennon Doyle Melton

If these hands, used to fighting, would be acceptable to His Holiness, we most thankfully dedicate them to the service of him who deserves so well of the Church and of the fatherland.

Quotes by Giuseppe Garibaldi

I have a choir in my church, and we travel all over the world.

Quotes by Gladys Knight

We were married in Capri almost two years ago and we have made a pact with each other to visit the beautiful island and the church where we were married every year for the rest of our lives.

Quotes by Giuliana Rancic

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