The very word woman in the writings of the church fathers stood for the basest of temptations... As women were lowered in the moral scale because of their identification with her at the very bottom of the pit, so they cannot rise themselves save as they succeed in lifting her with whose sins they are weighed. Votes: 5
Fierce invectives against women form a conspicuous and grotesque portion of the writings of the Church fathers. Votes: 3
If I repeated some passages from the homilies of the Church Fathers, in the second or third century, about how we must treat the poor, some would accuse me of giving a Marxist homily. Votes: 3
The Christian test was a willingness to believe in the one Jesus Christ and His Message of salvation. What was demanded was not criticism but credulity. The Church Fathers observed that in the realm of thought only heresy had a history. Votes: 3
The Holy Apostolic See and the Roman Pontiff have primacy in the entire world. The Roman Pontiff is the Successor of Blessed Peter, the Prince of the Apostles, true Vicar of Christ, Head of the whole Church, Father and Teacher of all Christians. Votes: 3
My father started me singing in church. Votes: 2
In fact, my parents were church people; my father was a deacon in the church. Votes: 2
I attended Sunday School and then church with my father and mother throughout my childhood. Votes: 2
I was raised Catholic, but my father's people were Methodist, so we went to both churches. Votes: 2
My father was strict, but he recognised my ability and got a lot of flak from the church for supporting me. Votes: 2
I was raised in the Baptist church... but I didn't really have a real committed experience with Christ until my father died. Votes: 2
When my father died, I had a real experience with Christ, a real conversion with Christ and I had it in a Oneness church. Votes: 2
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. Votes: 2
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. Votes: 2
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. Votes: 2
Conversion is a very, very important part of what you are doing. We will have a responsibility to report to Heavenly Father regarding those we bring into the Church. Votes: 2
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. Votes: 2
At age 11, I went to a Jewish school. I speak Yiddish. I'm Church of England Protestant. My father was Catholic, and my mother was Protestant. My wife is a Muslim. Votes: 2
I rebelled against all form of authority, against my grandfather, my step-father, the Church, the police, the government, the bosses. Everything male that was there, and was determining my life. Votes: 2
My father was Catholic, my mother was Protestant, and because of that I got Christened in both churches, so I've got all these names... but my Dad always called me Mick. Votes: 2
My first memories of religion were being taken to Episcopal church. My father was Catholic, but my mother, I believe, was Episcopal. So I sort of veered off into the watered-down version of Catholicism. Votes: 2
We lived on a farm outside a town of about 900 people. My father was the principal of the elementary school. It was a typical Southern town - there are a lot of churches, and it's dry. Votes: 2
My mother was an unbeliever - and still is. My father was a nominal Catholic. We would go in to church at the last minute before the gospel reading, take Communion, and walk right out again. Votes: 2
My father was the superintendent of the churches in the state of Montana. He was content in his beliefs. He befit the term 'true Christian.' He would turn the other cheek. He was truly a man of peace. Votes: 2
My parents were terrific - mother was a church organist and my father was probably the most respected person in our church outside of the minister and sometimes maybe that much. The neighbors all called him - a gentleman. Votes: 2
I hate Science. It denies a man's responsibility for his own deeds, abolishes the brotherhood that springs from God's fatherhood. It is a hectoring, dictating expertise, which makes the least lovable of the Church Fathers seem liberal by contrast. Votes: 2
I urge the husbands and fathers of this church to be the kind of a man your wife would not want to be without. Votes: 0
Thomas Jefferson declared, stating that he was speaking on behalf of the other founding fathers, ...(that) we should build a wall between the church and state. Votes: 0
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. Votes: 0
I would beg the wise and learned fathers [of the church] to consider with all diligence the difference which exists between matters of mere opinion and matters of demonstration. Votes: 0
Mainstream rabbis essentially closed the book on dreams by the sixth century, and Church fathers established that only certain saints have the discernment to determine which dreams are from God. The dream is exiled. Votes: 0
The True Church can never fail. For it is based upon a rock. Votes: 5 T. S. Eliot
Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life. Votes: 4 Oscar Wilde