It's kind of scary making a faith-based film.
A Bible reading laity is a nation's surest defence against error.
Why create churches for 50-year-olds and let culture have the students?
Yes, I'm a Pastor of a church called Understand Principles for Better Living Church, in Los Angeles, CA.
Nothing lasts but the Church.
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.
I even agree that the concept of god helps some people lead better lives. That does happen. Don't ever forget it. I just think there are better ways to help people lead better lives.
What is any religion? A little ritual, a little superstition, and some magic. It's not a strictly spiritual affair; it has psychological roles to fulfill. You might not want it to be a religion based on your own experience but that's like wanting to clean up your dreams
Another way of judging the value of a prophet's religious experience, therefore, would be to examine the type of manhood that he has created, and the cultural world that has sprung out of the spirit of his message.
It is not the fact that we are united in common goals or purposes that makes us a community. Rather, it is the fact that we share a common life in Christ.
The thought of the word church and the word marketing in the same sentence makes me sick.
I grew up quite poor, and the Mormon church was always there for us as a family.
Be to the world a sign that while we as Christians do not have all the answers, we do know and care about the questions.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints sends forth to you an earnest appeal. Open your doors to the missionaries. Open your minds to the words of God. Open your hearts, even your very souls, to the sound of that still, small voice which testifies of truth.
Formal religion was organized for slaves: it offered them consolation which earth did not provide.
Women, children, Tyroleans and preachers want to create a new kingdom of God, but the God of their kingdom looks like women, children, preachers, and Tyrolians.
A church must grow larger and smaller at the same time. Larger through worship and smaller through small groups.
Religion is intended to facilitate hope and faith. Much like a path is intended to facilitate a journey.
A lot in the faith-based community, a lot of fundamentalist groups are - are now saying, you know, the Earth is the lord and the fullness there of, and we have an obligation to be good stewards of the planet.
It is the religious impulse which supplies the cohesive force which unifies a society and a culture... A society which has lost its religion becomes sooner or later a society which has lost its culture.
We are constantly learning and growing and changing. We are really an experiment. We are endeavoring to discover if a community of faith can exist purely for the good of others.
Five days a week I drive from our home to the Episcopal Cathedral Center of Los Angeles where I have an office, my computer, and a wonderful sense of community - especially nurtured by the presence of several younger gay men and women who are good friends.
I'm about as Baptist as you get in Hollywood.
Sometimes we go so focused on bringing people to the meetinghouse that we forget we are supposed to be bringing them to Christ.
To me, anything that is a church is really just far too close minded.
