Pastor

🇺🇸Martin Luther King Jr.

Social Activism

civil rights movement

1929–1968

"I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant."

🇺🇸John Calvin

Religion

Calvinism

"The supreme and only Judge of the universe stands before the tribunal of an earthly judge."

Henry Alford

Literature

1810–1871

"Truth does not consist in minute accuracy of detail; but in conveying a right impression."

"Big Tech is censoring Experts and suppressing the CURE. I will not be silenced."

🇺🇸Craig Groeschel

Religion

b. 1967

"Across the board, almost every with-it church I've observed is virtually obsessed with reaching those who don't know Christ."

🇺🇸Raphael Warnock

Literature

b. 1969

"Because this is America, the 82-year-old hands that used to pick somebody else's cotton went to the polls and picked her youngest son to be a United States senator."

🇺🇸John F. MacArthur

Religion

1939–2025

"You would be better off, frankly, to use the name of Jesus Christ or God in an occasional curse word than to live an ongoing, hypocritical life that blasphemes His name from beginning to end."

🇺🇸Albert Barnes

Science

1798–1870

"Life is great if properly viewed in any aspect; it is mainly great when viewed in connection with the world to come."

🇺🇸James Waddel Alexander

Politics

1804–1859

"There are regions beyond the most nebulous outskirts of matter; but no regions beyond the Divine goodness. We may conceive of tracts where there are no worlds, but not of any where there us no God of mercy."

"There is much to weep about. But it is a sin to permit our tears to drown out our song of gratitude and joy in the gift of creation."

🇺🇸Jesse Jackson

Politics

civil rights movement

1941–2026

"When we divide, we cannot win. We must find common ground as the basis for survival and development and change, and growth."

🇺🇸Washington Gladden

Literature

1836–1918

"Every one of us may know what is the ruling purpose of his life; and he who knows that his ruling purpose is to trust and follow Christ knows that he is a Christian."

🇩🇪Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Religion

1906–1945

"When all is said and done, the life of faith is nothing if not an unending struggle of the spirit with every available weapon against the flesh."

🇺🇸Cori Bush

Politics

b. 1976

"Representative Cori Bush, official U.S. House website"

Jan Hus

Religion

1370–1415

"The only law that a Christian should listen to and read is the law of God's Commandments. And it is not right to comply with, implement or observe any other law."

🇺🇸William Mackergo Taylor

Politics

1829–1895

"It is better to have a plain, substantial building, with no extravagance about it, but without a debt, than to have the most splendid specimen of Gothic architecture that is overlaid by a mortgage."

Richard Wurmbrand

Religion

1909–2001

"Montefiore's impression of Jesus was wrong. Jesus loved the Pharisees, although He denounced them publicly. And I love the Communists, as well as their tools in the Church, although I denounce them."

🇺🇸Fred Phelps

Law

1929–2014

"This evil nation has smeared fag feces blended with fag semen and dyke feces on the Bible!"

🇺🇸Robert H. Schuller

Religion

1926–2015

"Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines."

🇸🇪Ulf Ekman

Religion

b. 1950

"We charismatics love to say we're going back to the Christianity of the Book of Acts. And at that time, there was only one Church."

🇺🇸Francis Schaeffer

Philosophy

Modernism

1912–1984

"Schaeffer's Papers at the Presbyterian Church in America Historical Center"

🇬🇧Richard Watson

Religion

1781–1833

"Faith is the vital artery of the soul. When we begin to believe, we begin to love. Faith grafts the soul into Christ, as the scion into the stock, and fetches all its nutriment from the blessed Vine."

🇺🇸Billy Graham

Politics

1918–2018

"Monroe Billington, Oral History Interview with Billy Graham, , transcript, Lyndon Baines Johnson Library"

🇬🇧William Buckland

Science

1784–1856

"I have eaten many strange things, but have never eaten the heart of a king."

🇺🇸Billy Graham (wrestler)

Politics

1918–2018

"I am the women's pet, the men's regret. What you see is what you get. And what you don't see is better yet."

🇵🇱Maximilian Kolbe

Literature

1894–1941

"Hate is not a creative force. Love is a creative force."

🇺🇸Warren W. Wiersbe

Literature

1929–2019

"Truth without love is brutality, and love without truth is hypocrisy."

🇬🇧Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Religion

1834–1892

"Faith goes up the stairs that love has built and looks out the windows which hope has opened."

🇺🇸Bill Hybels

Literature

b. 1951

"Sin is plenty strong enough to create an ever-widening gap in one's relationship with God. The wider the gap, the less likely we are to pray. And the less we pray, the wider the gap becomes."

🇨🇭Johann Kaspar Lavater

Literature

1741–1801

"Happy the heart to whom God has given enough strength and courage to suffer for Him, to find happiness in simplicity and the happiness of others."

🇩🇪Joachim Gauck

Politics

b. 1940

"When the ultimate case is discussed — deployment of the German military — it should be Germany can neither answer ‘no’ out of principle or give an automatic ‘yes.’"

🇺🇸John Shelby Spong

Religion

1931–2021

"The Great Resurrection Debate on YouTube with William Lane Craig at Bethel College"

🇺🇸John Hagee

Literature

b. 1940

"Do you know the difference between a woman with PMS and a snarling Doberman pinscher? The answer is lipstick. Do you know the difference between a terrorist and a woman with PMS? You can negotiate with a terrorist."

🇺🇸Rick Warren

Entertainment

b. 1954

"Without God, life has no purpose, and without purpose, life has no meaning. Without meaning, life has no significance or hope."

🇺🇸A. J. Muste

Social Activism

1885–1967

"The problem after a war is the victor. He thinks he has just proved that war and violence pay. Who will now teach him a lesson?"

"A fantasy of mine is to have an orgy with about six young college guys ranging from 18 to 22 in age."

🇨🇭Karl Barth

Religion

1886–1968

"Karl Barth Reading Room Online Resources on and by Karl Barth"

"Injecting illegal drugs is NOT OK! Prison must be a place where prisoners can detoxify and have the chance to break the habit. This avenue should be addressed, rather than options which reinforce the addictive behaviour."