“I personally believe, as church law sets out, that sanctions are an absolute last resort, particularly penal sanctions of depriving people of the sacraments.” PeopleBelieveLastsLawChurchAbsolutesSacramentsResortsSanctionsDepriving Author:Roger Mahony
“The passion for art is, as for believers, very religious. It unites people, its message is of common humanity. Art has become my religion - others pray in church. It's a banality, but you don't possess art, it possesses you. It's like falling in love.” PeopleArtHumanityFallPassionChurchReligiousCommonPrayingMessagesArt IsFalling In LoveBelieverBanalityCommon HumanityPassion For Art Author:Francois Pinault
“The biggest cause of society's change today is that people no longer believe in orthodox religion. They go to church, but they no longer believe in God.” PeopleBelieveGodTodayCausesChurchOrthodoxBelieve In God Author:Li Hongzhi
“I think there's an awful lot of noise about the Church being persecuted but there is a more real issue that the conventional churches face - that the people who are really driving their revival and success believe in an old-time religion which, in my view, is incompatible with a modern, multi-ethnic, multicultural society.” PeopleThinkingBelieveRealFacesChurchViewsIssuesModernDrivingNoiseAwfulConventionalRevivalPersecutedMulticulturalOld TimeMulticultural Society Author:Trevor Phillips
“The thing that brings people to wail at a wall, or face Mecca, or to go to church, is a search for that feeling of purity.” PeopleFeelingsFacesChurchWallPurityMecca Author:Michael J. Fox
“I think people often come to the synagogue, mosque, the church looking for God, and what we give them is religion.” PeopleThinkingGivingChurchMosquesSynagogue Author:Gene Robinson
“We could say that people who eat grits, listen to country music, follow stock-car racing, support corporal punishment in the schools, hunt 'possum, go to Baptist churches and prefer bourbon to Scotch are likely to be Southerners.” PeopleCountrySchoolChurchSupportCarPunishmentRacingHuntsGritBaptistsScotchSouthernerBourbonCar RacingCorporal PunishmentPossumsStock Car Racing Book:My Tears Spoiled My Aim, and Other Reflections on Southern Culture Source: My Tears Spoiled My Aim, and Other Reflections on Southern Culture
“We remember a few people who've been enlightened. We build churches and edifices in their name. But few people, if any, feel that they could ever be like that; and if that's how they feel - that's how it will be.” PeopleIfsFeelsRememberHumanityNamesChurchBuddhismEnlightenedEdifice Author:Frederick Lenz
“I've known a lot of very religious people. My mother is very religious, but she was also very - is very private about it. She - when I was growing up, she never went to church. She just prayed and read her Bible and kept it to herself. So I'm not from a background of flamboyant believers. It's much more a personal issue.” PeopleMotherChurchReligiousKnownGrowing UpIssuesGrowingBelieverBackgroundsFlamboyantPersonal Issues Author:Michael Shannon
“In our ecclesiastical region there are priests who don't baptize the children of single mothers because they weren't conceived in the sanctity of marriage. These are today's hypocrites. Those who clericalize the church. Those who separate the people of God from salvation.” PeopleChildrenTodayMotherChurchSalvationRegionsPriestsHypocriteSanctitySingle MotherSanctity Of Marriage Author:Pope Francis
“The Church is or should go back to being a community of God's people, and priests, pastors and bishops, who have the care of souls, are at the service of the people of God.” PeopleShouldSoulCareCommunityChurchPriestsPastorBishops Author:Pope Francis
“Hubbard set up the Church of Scientology in Hollywood in 1954 for a reason. He understood that celebrity was increasingly a feature of American public life, and celebrities themselves were going to be worshipped as minor deities were in the ancient world. The idea was: if you could get them, think how many people would follow.” PeopleIfsThinkingWorldIdeasReasonChurchUnderstoodHollywoodAncientFeaturesMinorsDeitiesPublic LifeScientologyAncient World Author:Lawrence Wright