A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.

Religion, like water, may be free, but when they pipe it to you, you've got to help pay for piping. And the Piper!

Loneliness is the ultimate poverty.

People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes.

True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.

Never give a golfer an ultimatum unless you're prepared to lose.

A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.

It is a sad commentary of our times when our young must seek advice and counsel from "Dear Abby" instead of going to Mom and Dad.

The less you talk, the more you're listened to.

If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.

There are two kinds of people in the world. Those who walk into a room and say, "There you are" and those who say, "Here I am"

If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.

If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we'd all be millionaires.

It is true that I was born in Iowa, but I can't speak for my twin sister.

The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.

If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them and half as much money.

If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money.

A bad habit never disappears miraculously its an undo it yourself project.

The lack of faith is not doubt. It is certainty.

The best index to a persons character is how he treats people who cant do him any good and how he treats people who cant fight back.

If you want children to keep their feet on the ground put some responsibility on their shoulders.

It is almost impossible to throw dirt on someone without getting a little on yourself.

It is almost impossible to throw dirt on someone without getting a little on yourself

If you want your children to turn out well spend twice as much time with them and half as much money.

While forbidden fruit is said to taste sweeter it usually spoils faster.

Its true some wine improves with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.

If it came to saving the life of one priest or sacrificing the life of an entire congregation, the church would save the life of the priest. Which is backwards, of course.

I remember going to church about four times a week. I liked it a lot.

You get a heck of a sound from the church. Can't you hear it in my voice?

Every true prayer is a prayer of the Church; by means of that prayer the Church prays, since it is the Holy Spirit living in the Church, Who in every single soul 'prays in us with unspeakable groanings'.

I think my election is one of several indications that gay and lesbian folk are being brought more into the center of things. I'd like to think that my election signals my bringing of gay and lesbian folk into the center of the church.

So, not only am I panicking over the weekend if I need to know my lines, but also if can I get the kids to the zoo. Can I even go to church? I was asking for certain things that would allow me to plan my life a little better.

The more I do bookstores, the more people come up to me from church groups. I spoke at Pittsburg State College and had 2 or 3 ministers and book groups from a couple of churches.

My father started me singing in church.

Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and state forever separate.

A lot of victims, for example, have become addicted to alcohol and drugs. It seems to me that the church's healing ministry is going to be enhanced through this in much broader strokes. That's good, it's all positive.

The intelligence investigation under the leadership of Senator Church, which I know has helped cause this investigation by you, points out that the agencies did not disclose certain facts to us and that certain plots were going on.

Yesterday I had a Shaker visitor, and today a Catholic; and the more I see and hear, the less do I care about church doctrines.

Some hypocrites and seeming mortified men, that held down their heads, were like the little images that they place in the very bowing of the vaults of churches, that look as if they held up the church, but are but puppets.

If all Church power vests in the clergy, then the people are practically bound to passive obedience in all matters of faith and practice; for all right of private judgment is then denied.

Mom and Dad would stay in bed on Sunday morning, but the kids would have to go to church.

It doesn't say anywhere in the Constitution this idea of the separation of church and state.

When I'm on stage, I'm trying to do one thing: bring people joy. Just like church does. People don't go to church to find trouble, they go there to lose it.

There are enormously gifted Episcopal priests around this church who are gay and lesbian, some of whom are partnered, who would make wonderful bishops and they're going to be nominated and they're going to be elected.

Nationalism - in other words, the dividing of the church into bodies - consisting of such and such a nation, is a novelty, not above three centuries old, although many dear children of God are found dwelling in it.

Both state and church have as their object actions as well as convictions, the former insofar as they are based on the relations between man and nature, the latter insofar as they are based on the relations between nature and God.

The artistic taste of the Catholic priests is appalling and I am most anxious to have a Catholic church in which everything is genuine and good, and not tawdry and ostentatious.

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.

Others don't want to listen to viewpoints that members of the church have.