Jake LaMotta Quotes

I never went to church. The priests couldn't scare me with all that crap about hell, but somehow I knew, inside of me somehow, I knew that I'd pay for it.

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• But when one identifies the Church with a cultural and political bloc, there is the danger of making difficult the Church's contact with all those outside the bloc.

  

  Karl Lehmann
  • Political
  • Church
  • Outside

• I was baptized a Baptist, but I'm just Christian, as far as I'm concerned. I could go in any church, doesn't matter if it's Baptist, Protestant, Episcopal, or Catholic.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Church
  • Christian
  • Catholic

• The imminent demise of the church has been predicted since the middle of the 18th century. This is the regular secular mantra if churchgoing declines. I could take you to plenty of churches that are full to bursting and new churches being built.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • You
  • Church
  • New

• I didn't go to church, I didn't go to synagogue; I went to temple, Hindu temple, where I prayed to my Hindu gods - whether or not I believe in it is another story.

  

  Utkarsh Ambudkar
  • Believe
  • Church
  • I Believe

• I had actually gone to a church-related college, but I went on a football scholarship, not because of any interest in the church.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • College
  • Church
  • Football

• The limitless loving devotion to God, and the gift God makes of Himself to you, are the highest elevation of which the heart is capable; it is the highest degree of prayer. The souls that have reached this point are truly the heart of the Church.

  

  Edith Stein
  • God
  • Heart
  • Church

• I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Church
  • Service
  • Better

• Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Rich
  • Poor
  • Without

• It was a real surprise to me to come across the evidence that Christianity might once have been a danced religion. Certainly, some of the early church leaders thought this was great and spoke of what seems to have been circle dancing, perhaps around an altar.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Great
  • Real
  • Me

• I don't go to church any more, but I think that Catholicism is rather like the brand they use on cattle: I feel so formed in that Catholic mould that I don't think I could adopt any other form of spirituality. I still get feelings of consolation about churches.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Think
  • Church
  • Feelings

• The early Church had nothing but the Old Testament. The New Testament lies hidden in the Old; the Old Testament lies open in the New.

  

  Randall Terry
  • Church
  • Lies
  • Old

• I read a lot on the subject and had many conversations, and I have come to the conclusion that the Catholic Church is a force for evil.

  

  Gabriel Byrne
  • Church
  • Evil
  • Catholic

• I do believe in the separation of church and state. But I don't think separation of church and state means you have to be free from your faith.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Believe
  • Free
  • Faith

• My first church had seven members in it, and I have to remember, the rent was $225 a month and I worked for Union Carbide and took the check I made from work to pay for the rent to keep the church open.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • Work
  • Remember
  • Church

• Too many church services start at eleven sharp and end at twelve dull.

  

  Vance Havner
  • Church
  • End
  • Start

• I've spent more time in hospitals than some fellows ever spend in church.

  

  Rabbit Maranville
  • Time
  • Church
  • More

• People have to do what they want to do.

  

  J Mascis
  • People
  • Want

• Every true prayer is a prayer of the Church; by means of that prayer the Church prays, since it is the Holy Spirit living in the Church, Who in every single soul 'prays in us with unspeakable groanings'.

  

  Edith Stein
  • True
  • Soul
  • Single

• Real love is not based on attachment, but on altruism. In this case, your compassion will remain as a humane response to suffering as long as beings continue to suffer.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Long
  • Real
  • Suffering

• Finally, ultimately, you write music for yourself. I mean, I need a public, I need people to play, I need everything else. I'm not working in isolation. But finally the man that writes the music is alone. And I have to respond to those criteria which are almost like inner needs or inner responses.

  

  Philip Glass
  • People
  • Music
  • Alone

• My love is thaw'd; Which, like a waxen image 'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Love
  • Like
  • Image

• Republicans in Congress boosted the economy by cutting taxes and ending programs that don't work.

  

  Zach Wamp
  • Work
  • Cutting
  • Taxes

• Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.

  

  Jean de la Bruyere
  • Life
  • Grief

• I never went to church. The priests couldn't scare me with all that crap about hell, but somehow I knew, inside of me somehow, I knew that I'd pay for it.

  

  Jake LaMotta
  • Church