Church Quotes
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I was never taken to a play or concert or church. Yet I was a show-off, a dreamer, a storyteller.
Ralph Waite
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The history of the Church of Rome is a constant leakage of members into such breakaway cults, which go on splitting.
Mary Douglas
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The Church has little idea how unorthodox it is at any given moment. If a church can't yet be perfectly orthodox, it can, with the Holy Spirit's help and by the grace of God, be perpetually reformable.
Brian D. McLaren
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We realize there is no political party or politician who fully takes into consideration the issues the church is about. This is nothing new to us.
Blase J. Cupich
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If I don't go to mass, necessarily, every day, but I definitely go to the church every day. That's how I start my day. I like to get in there for about 15 to 20 minutes and say my prayers.
Mark Wahlberg
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I was raised Presbyterian, but I'm not really going to church. I think the experience in meditation is pretty much where it's at for me.
David Lynch
The Platters
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Liturgy, in truth, is an event by means of which we let ourselves be introduced into the expansive faith and prayer of the Church. This is the reason why the early Christians prayed facing east, in the direction of the rising sun, the symbol of the returning Christ.
Pope Benedict XVI
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Following a meeting with Hitler, Cardinal Michael von Faulhaber, a man who had 'courageously criticized the Nazi attacks on the Catholic Church' - went away convinced that Hitler was deeply religious.
Ian Kershaw
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I'm not a Baptist in any formal way. I go to the Baptist church, where my wife plays the piano, on days of bad weather. On days of good weather, I ramble off into the woods somewhere. I am a person who takes the Gospel seriously, but I have had trouble conforming my thoughts to a denomination.
Wendell Berry
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If I start going back to church, I'd have to stop the smoking and drinking, and I wouldn't be able to curse any more.
Katherine Heigl
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I had to come out to my mother three times over a twelve-year period, but I first came out to her when I was sixteen. It didn't go over so well, because I grew up in the Pentecostal Church. It was a very strict environment. She has since done a lot of work and has really blown my mind. She has learned about my life and has changed her mind.
Billy Porter
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People take sides on political things, such as the Vietnam War. War is immoral and war is wrong, but I don't think the clergy ought to bring it before the Church.
Warren Giles
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Regrettably, we've made it acceptable to sit in church week after week & do nothing & still call yourself a 'Christian.'
Ed Stetzer
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At the end of 1795 and beginning of 1796, I was ordered to write to the Church ministers.
Joanna Southcott
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A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.
Pauline Phillips
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Robertsons love Sundays! The most important thing we do is gather together with our church family for worship, teaching, and fellowship. After church, we like to have a nice lunch of roast, vegetables, and definitely rolls or biscuits. And I love catching a nap when I can.
Kay Robertson
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Although I myself don't go to church or synagogue, I do, whether it's superstition or whatever, pray every time I get on a plane. I just automatically do it. I say the same thing every time.
Barbara Walters
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The message of some churches today seems to be, "Only sing if it appeals to your sense of style, or your demographic." Yet when we look at heaven, we see that every tribe and every nation will sing together.
Keith Getty
