Houses Of Worship Quotes:

In this country of the bountiful harvest, everyone can have enough to eat - we have it! We grow enough for everyone. Let's share it by supporting our local foodbanks, houses of worship and organizations who help people.

- Catherine Hicks

topic: Country, Organization, People, Houses Of Worship

Whatever you may think of the proposed mosque and community center, lost in the heat of the debate has been a basic question: Should government attempt to deny private citizens the right to build a house of worship on private property based on their particular religion?

- Michael Bloomberg

topic: Thinking, Government, House, Community Centers, Houses Of Worship

Religions contradict one another-on small matters, such as whether we should put on a hat or take one off on entering a house of worship, or whether we should eat beef and eschew pork or the other way around, all the way to the most central issues, such as whether there are no gods, one God, or many gods.

- Carl Sagan

source: Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan (2011). “Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space”, p.71, Ballantine Books

topic: Houses Of Worship

Megachurches. I can't be the only one frightened when our houses of worship sound like they could take on Godzilla.

- Jon Stewart

source: "The Daily Show". www.imdb.com. 1996.

topic: House, Sound, Worship, Godzilla, Houses Of Worship

Many seducers clutter the simple message of the gospel with legalistic additions, with convoluted attempts to legitimize moral compromise, and with psychological theories that turn churches into relational support groups instead of houses of worship.

- Charles R. Swindoll

source: Charles R. Swindoll (2007). “So, You Want To Be Like Christ?: Eight Essentials to Get You There”, p.33, Thomas Nelson Inc

topic: Simple, House, Support, Support Groups, Convoluted

There's a difference between freedom of worship and freedom of religion. Worship is an event that happens inside the house of worship. Religion is a lifestyle. It is a way of living.

- Rick Warren

topic: Differences, House, Events, Freedom Of Religion, Houses Of Worship

After Hiram Bingham built the first church on Oahu the student recalls, "When it was completed some of the natives said among themselves, 'That house of worship built by the haoles is a place in which they will pray us all to death. It is meant to kill us."

- Sarah Vowell

topic: Atheist, House, Church, Houses Of Worship

My mother took us to services at the Episcopal church. Yet she always said that God was not just inside the four walls of a house of worship, but everywhere - in the rising sun over Camelback Mountain in Phoenix, a splash of water along the nearby Salt or Verde rivers, or clouds driving over the Estrella Mountains, south of downtown. I've always thought of God in those terms.

- Barry Goldwater

topic: Mother, Wall, Clouds, Four Walls, Houses Of Worship

It was the hard work of our people, the freedom they enjoyed and their faith in God that built this country and made it the envy of the world. In all of our great cities and towns evidence of the faith of our people is found: houses of worship of every denomination are among the oldest structures. While never willing to bow to a tyrant, our forefathers were always willing to get to their knees before God. When catastrophe threatened, they turned to God for deliverance. When the harvest was bountiful the first thought was thanksgiving to God.

- Ronald Reagan

topic: God, Country, Hard Work, Cities And Towns, Great Cities

People have an absolute right to believe what they want to believe and to say what they want to say, and churches have an absolute protection to preach and do and not do whatever they choose to do within their houses of worship. But nondiscrimination laws apply to the commercial marketplace and they do protect all of us.

- Chris Christie

source: Source: www.foxnews.com

topic: Believe, Law, People, Houses Of Worship

Once again decent citizens will be able to enter this house of worship, kneel down in front of a nearly-naked man hanging from a wooden apparatus by a series of gruesome body piercings, and engage in their bizarre practices of ritualized blood-drinking and cannibalism without being assaulted by graphic images of attractive young women with bare breasts.

- A. Whitney Brown

topic: Drinking, Men, Practice, Young Women, Cannibalism

We hear about the successful "Texanisation" of the Republican party. And doesn't Texas sometimes seem to resemble a country like Saudi Arabia, with its great heat, its oil wealth, its brimming houses of worship, and its weekly executions?

- Martin Amis

source: "Palace of the end" by Martin Amis, www.theguardian.com. December 29, 2003.

topic: Country, Texas, Oil, Saudi Arabia, Saudis