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Creeds have been the bane of the Christian church ... made of Christendom a slaughter-house. — Thomas Jefferson

No one can have God for his Father, who has not the Church for his mother. — Cyprian

A righteous father protects his children with his time and presence. — Howard W. Hunter

In my family, we were on again off again Unitarians, partly because my father, raised Roman Catholic, had had enough of church. — Stacey D'Erasmo

I attended Sunday School and then church with my father and mother throughout my childhood. — Leverett Saltonstall

The Church knows nothing of a sacredness of war. The Church which prays'Our Father'asks God only for peace. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The church's final word is not 'church' but the glory of the Father and the Son in the Spirit of liberty — Jurgen Moltmann

Just as a father hates cancer, because of what it does to his child, so God hates divorce, because of what it does to His children. — Kyle Idleman

He who does not have the church as his mother, does not have God as his father. — Saint Augustine

We need to get to the heart of each heart issue - and we can't do it. Only the Maker can. The world needs #Jesus. — Eric Samuel Timm

If Jesus didn't do it, don't say the Father does. If Jesus did do it, don't say the Father doesn't. — D.R. Silva

The church is not a brick-and-mortar structure. The church is made of flesh & blood. Followers of #Christ are the church. — Eric Samuel Timm

People who say we are just preaching "extreme grace" must not understand how extremely gracious our Father is. — D.R. Silva

My father went on a legendary drinking binge. My mother went to church every single day. It was all booze and God, booze and God, booze and God. — Sherman Alexie

Since God will have us leave father and mother for his sake, certainly he will have us leave lords (governors) for his sake. — Martin Luther

A monk was told that his father had died. He said to the messenger, "Do not blaspheme. My Father cannot die. — Benedicta Ward

Lord, I'll embrace whatever it is you want me to do, but please, please let me know what it is." - Father Kevin Thrall. — Peter J. Tanous

You won't be giving me away, father,' she had said before they went to church; 'you'll only be taking Aaron to be a son to you. — George Eliot

He cannot have God for his Father who will not have the Church for his mother. — Augustine Of Hippo

Our wives, our families, and our churches need godly men who have discernment
discernment to deal with life and life-issues on a spiritual level. — Jim George

Our fellowship with our Father must not be restricted in any manner to a church, room or building. — Sunday Adelaja

Spirituality means to me living the ordinary life extraordinarily well. As the old-church father said, 'The glory of God is a human being fully alive. — William Sloane Coffin

My father's a deacon, my mother's a choir director, so I grew up in the church and singing in the choir, begging my mom if I could have a solo. — Keke Palmer

My father was a preacher in Maryland and we had crab feasts - with corn on the cob, but no beer, being Methodist - outside on the church lawn. — Tori Amos

Fierce invectives against women form a conspicuous and grotesque portion of the writings of the Church fathers. — William Edward Hartpole Lecky

To all fathers and mothers of the Church, tell your children that you love them and that you are so happy to have them in your family. — Patricia P. Pinegar

In God's eyes the church is like a family circle where each one feels the warmth of the Father's love. — Sunday Adelaja

My mother told me once that she and my father agreed that I would not be brought up Jewish in Chicago. She had me going to a Methodist church. — Wesley Clark

My father started me singing in church. — DeForest Kelley

My father was strict, but he recognised my ability and got a lot of flak from the church for supporting me. — Tori Amos

I was raised in the Baptist church ... but I didn't really have a real committed experience with Christ until my father died. — T.D. Jakes

I grew up in the Southern Baptist Church, where my father was a minister at music, so I sang in the church all the time. — Missi Pyle

In fact, my parents were church people; my father was a deacon in the church. — Tina Turner

Last winter when I was coming home from church one Thursday evening, I saw somebody run around the house again. I told my father of that. — Lizzie Andrew Borden

Don't let hard lessons harden your heart. — Carlos A. Rodriguez

Overheard in a Washington D.C. church confessional: "Bless me Father, for sins have been committed." — Robert Breault

When my father died, I had a real experience with Christ, a real conversion with Christ and I had it in a Oneness church. — T.D. Jakes

Father, look upon us in Your goodness and kindness, we pray as a church. Help us to love each other. — Alistair Begg