Church Quotes

• 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
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Wife

• I didn't have to do paper routes. I'd sing for 5 bucks a crack at weddings and church functions; I'd have four or five on some Saturdays.

  

  Len Cariou
  • Church

• There are some who invoke separation of church and state - to try to get the government out of the business of morality - but this is antithetical to what the founders wanted. The founders wanted to keep theology out of government so that government could focus on the proper business of morality.

  

  Dinesh D'Souza
  • Business
  • Church
  • Focus

• Just very practically, pastors need to be careful that while they have a right to call people to absolute allegiance to the Word of God, we don't have the right to call people to absolute allegiance to our programs or every ministry we have at the church.

  

  Kevin DeYoung
  • People
  • God
  • Church

• I just followed my parents' example and advice on living, which was to leave the world a better place than you found it. They were professional do-gooders, ministers of the church, social workers, teachers, and missionaries, that sort of thing.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • World
  • Parents
  • Advice

• You ain't gotta go to church to find your God.

  

  Jay-Z
  • God
  • Church

• I hear people say all the time, "I'm not really religious, but I consider myself spiritual." I definitely have always been spiritual, being raised by my grandmother on that little acre in Mississippi, indoctrinated, born into the church and the ways of the church.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • People
  • Time
  • Religious

• I did grow up poor. My mom managed to get a job as a custodian at our church, and it was really just a favor for her, and my dad's an electrician - just a blue-collar family, and the house was usually falling apart.

  

  Crystal Bowersox
  • Up
  • Family
  • Job

• Becoming Catholic involves entering into a relationship with the Catholic Church.

  

  Carl Olson
  • Relationship
  • Church
  • Catholic

• I grew up in eastern Kentucky, and we would sing in the churches, and there's lots of good mountain church singers out there. Like a lot of folks who turn out to be secular music artists, that's a lot of the training you put in, whether you know it or not.

  

  Chris Stapleton
  • Up
  • Good
  • Music

• It's because Jesus spoke so frequently about hell that the church should take the concept seriously.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Jesus
  • Hell
  • Spoke

• I was sent to a nice Church of England girls' school and at that time, after university, a woman was expected to become a teacher, a nurse or a missionary - prior to marriage.

  

  Kate Adie
  • Time
  • School
  • Nice

• I don't want to just preach to the church. I feel like I have a broader message.

  

  Joel Osteen
  • Church

• I saw a photograph of a wedding conducted by Reverend Moon of the Unification Church. I wanted to understand this event, and the only way to understand it was to write about it.

  

  Don DeLillo
  • Church
  • Moon
  • Wedding

• The Protestant theologian replaced the church’s feudal cosmology with a worldview centered on the personal relationship of each believer with Christ. The democratization of worship fit well with the new communication/energy matrix that was empowering the new burgher class.

  

  Jeremy Rifkin
  • Energy
  • Relationship
  • Communication

• 'I'm not optimistic,' he said. 'The issue clearly flies in the face of the First Amendment. People have a right to tell kids whatever they want about religion.''Do they have a right to push human sacrifice?''Of course not, Mac. But this isn’t human sacrifice. It’s just a church school.''I'm not sure the effect isn’t similar.'

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • People
  • School
  • Kids

• If God can't get the attention of the church house, He's certainly not going to stop by the White House.

  

  Tony Evans
  • God
  • House
  • Attention

• There's a little bit of gospel in everything I do. But I don't know if I will ever do a gospel album. There's a big universe out here, and I don't want to just sing to the church. I want to sing to the world and bring them a message of love. I love going to church and singing gospel songs, but right now there's a message that the world needs.

  

  El DeBarge DeBarge
  • World
  • Universe
  • Singing

• When you think about your relationship with Christ, it really just affects every aspect of your life. I think a lot of people try to segment off, like, 'This is church, so this is God, this is my daily life, this is my job,' but I think true faith is when it manifests itself in every single aspect of your life.

  

  Jeremy Lin
  • People
  • Life
  • God

• The Church in England is the Church of England.

  

  Joseph Barber Lightfoot
  • Church

• It is hard to tell where the MCC ends and the Church of England begins.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • Church

• My grandmother was a church organist, but we only went on Easter and Christmas Eve sometimes.

  

  Zach Anner
  • Sometimes
  • Christmas
  • Grandmother

• Counter-Reformation, or whatever it be called, did attempt to save the Church from the scandals of the past, and to a certain extent succeeded. But it did so by increased centralisation, and a hardening of temper, alien from earlier movements of reform.

  

  Neville Figgis
  • Church
  • Reform
  • Scandals

• Before the Beatles, America was musically a very conservative country. You can see film footage of people at a baseball game, they all had hats and ties on, and the women were dressed up like they were going to church. That was the America that I started getting interested in musically.

  

  Don McLean
  • People
  • Up
  • Women

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