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The Roman Catholic Church isn't going to change its theologies. -- Robert H. Schuller
The first time I sang in the church choir; two hundred people changed their religion. -- Fred Allen
Only God is the same yesterday, today and tomorrow. The Church has always been changing. -- Gene Robinson
Historically speaking, institutions are slow to change and usually resistant to any sudden moves - churches especially so. -- Gene Robinson
Most people already know what they're doing wrong. When I get them to church I want to tell them that you can change. -- Joel Osteen
It's hard for the Catholic Church to accept change. When the mass was no longer said in Latin, loyalists went into mourning for years. -- Janine di Giovanni
The Catholic Church is one of the oldest, largest and richest institutions on earth, with a following 1.2 billion strong, and change does not come naturally. -- Nancy Gibbs
It is an absolutely unique success of the church community to have introduced such an epoch-making change, in just a few years, without having a serious division. -- Hans Kung
For me, and maybe for many religious kids of the '60s, the church lost relevance the more it became a surrogate in the movement for social and political change. -- Mike McCurry
The Catholic Church is an innately conservative rock - they call themselves the 'rock of Peter' - and its resistance to change is, ironically, what has kept it constant throughout the ages. -- Gabriel Byrne
There has always been a certain proportion of people who leave the Church on issues of authority and sex. That hasn't changed since we started doing research on it back in the early 1960s. -- Andrew Greeley
I realized that my truest passion was for helping people change through faith in a higher power. That meant, for me, belonging to the church. Using my abilities to bring Christian doctrine to a postmodern world. -- James McGreevey
The church wasn't an organization in the first century. They weren't writing checks or buying property. The church has matured and developed over the years. But for some reason, the last thing to change is the structure of leadership. -- Andy Stanley
I know at my church a lot of the times we sung from hymn books and as we got older we started to change with time. I can honestly say that I was never influenced to write for the church. -- Charles King
Can human hearts be changed? Why, of course! It happens every day in the great missionary work of the Church. It is one of the most widespread of Christ's modern miracles. If it hasn't happened to you - it should. -- Ezra Taft Benson
The Church has never changed its teaching on the sanctity of human life - it didn't make up a rule for the convenience of a particular time like a rule at a country club as the Governor would have us believe. -- Wellington Mara
From the beginning of church history, music, writing, literature, and the greatest works of art all came from the church. To change the culture and make it a force for good, you have to be in it and be a part of it. -- Patricia Heaton
I was born again. It happens to Episcopalians. Sometimes it doesn't hit you till you're 47 years old. It changed my whole life for the better... I spent a lot of time giving Christian witness all over the country to church groups and stuff. -- Ann B. Davis
I just find the evangelical church too, well, restrictive. But the School of Practical Philosophy is nonconfrontational. We believe there are many forms of Scripture. What is true is true and will never change, whether it's in the Bible or in Shakespeare. It's about oneness. -- Hugh Jackman
While attendance at traditional churches has been declining for decades... the evangelical movement is growing, and it is changing the way America worships. -- Tom Brokaw

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