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I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.
Khalil Gibran

Love, Religion, Spirit

The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make - not just on your wedding day, but over and over again - and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.
Barbara de Angelis

Marriage, Wedding, Husband

I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.
George Carlin

Death, Together, Two

Really I feel less keen about the Army every day. I think the Church would suit me better.
Winston Churchill

Less, Army, Suit

My family, frankly, they weren't folks who went to church every week. My mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew but she didn't raise me in the church, so I came to my Christian faith later in life and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead.
Barack Obama

Life, Faith, Family

I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Before, Service, Silent

An Atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a church. An atheist believes that deed must be done instead of prayer said. An atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death. He wants disease conquered, poverty vanished, war eliminated.
Madalyn Murray O'Hair

Life, War, Death

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

Cannot, Christ, Committed

Every church is a stone on the grave of a god-man: it does not want him to rise up again under any circumstances.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Him, Again, Rise

When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives.
Robert A. Heinlein

Government, End, May

Prayer is a strong wall and fortress of the church; it is a goodly Christian weapon.
Martin Luther

Strong, Christian, Prayer

Anyone who is to find Christ must first find the church. How could anyone know where Christ is and what faith is in him unless he knew where his believers are?
Martin Luther

Faith, Him, Find

The church saves sinners, but science seeks to stop their manufacture.
Elbert Hubbard

Science, Stop, Sinners

I get asked a lot why Apple's customers are so loyal. It's not because they belong to the Church of Mac! That's ridiculous.
Steve Jobs

Why, Ridiculous, Asked

For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel.
Martin Luther

God, Devil, Build

I was raised in a Baptist household, went to a Catholic church, lived in a Jewish neighborhood, and had the biggest crush on the Muslim girls from one neighborhood over.
Will Smith

Crush, Muslim, Lived

Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family - a domestic church.
Pope John Paul II

Marriage, Family, Act

Most people already know what they're doing wrong. When I get them to church I want to tell them that you can change.
Joel Osteen

Change, Wrong, Tell

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.
James Madison

Keep, Purpose, State

Hypocrites in the Church? Yes, and in the lodge and at the home. Don't hunt through the Church for a hypocrite. Go home and look in the mirror. Hypocrites? Yes. See that you make the number one less.
Billy Sunday

Home, Hypocrite, Through

Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile.
Billy Sunday

Christian, Makes, Automobile

A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.
H. L. Mencken

Place, Heaven, Gentlemen

I don't mind saying, you know, that I don't take a salary from the church, and God has blessed me with more money than I could imagine from my books.
Joel Osteen

Money, God, Mind

I don't want to just preach to the church. I feel like I have a broader message.
Joel Osteen

Message, Preach, Broader

I'm a reverend and a pastor. A pastor of the church. I go by usually pastor.
Joel Osteen

Pastor, Reverend

My dad had a church of 90 people when I was born. It was just, over the years it continued to grow.
Joel Osteen

Dad, Born, Grow

There's pros and cons of a big church. Cons is I don't get to know everybody, I don't get to go to their ballgame, I don't get to marry everybody, but the pros are you get all this community, 800 ushers come in to serve, getting there at 7 in the morning on their day off and coming in on Saturday to make all those wafers.
Joel Osteen

Morning, Big, Off

The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.
Henry Ward Beecher

Education, School, Imperfect

My mind is my own church.
Thomas Paine

A church debt is the devil's salary.
Henry Ward Beecher

Devil, Debt, Salary

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