Famous Quotes & Sayings

He invited me to go to church with him after the stand-ins.

Harry Lewis

He got them Sunday night or Monday. He and his wife have this computer and she can see him. So she's talking to him and he's eating the doughnuts. He is very thankful to the church group, all those involved and to Krispy Kreme.

Arthur Middleton

Gladstone, at the end of the 19th century, said that the task of the priest had become much more difficult than it had ever been. Today it has worsened rather than improved, in a Church that is divided and in a culture where God has been pushed out of many lives and is not given the opportunity to influence scores of others.

I get very impatient with church people who say there's something wrong with having doubts, because let's be honest: There's every reason to have doubts.

If the Church is right, then people have some serious questions to answer,

He was a simple man. He liked simple things. He loved to deer hunt when he was able. He went to church on Sundays.

Anton Chekhov

He was a rationalist, but he had to confess that he liked the ringing of church bells.

Cory Booker

I was raised in a very religious home with two parents who were deeply involved in the black church. When I was young, I went to a small black AME church in New Jersey.

E. B. White

If we had one person from every church and every business, we would have a good volunteer base.

I got up and told everyone thanks for their support. I was a little nervous at first. But I speak at my church sometimes, so it wasn't too bad.

Win Butler

I grew up in a somewhat religious family. My dad's family isn't religious at all, but my mom's side of the family is, so I was exposed to church a bit.

James Redfield

I grew up in a little Methodist church that was very rural, very community support-oriented, made up of great people who talked about love and grace and the spiritual experience, but only in rhetorical terms.

If they (the audience) are Jewish, they can express their identity without going to church or praying. It is not about beliefs, it's about music.

Gary Hamel

If organized religion has become less relevant, it's not because churches have held fast to their creedal beliefs - it's because they've held fast to their conventional structures, programs, roles and routines.

Francis Chan

Being around a church culture, even leading a gathering of believers, I've gotten pretty good at predicting what's going to happen in a church service.

Cherie Blair

As a Catholic, I am proud of the social mission of the church and its concerns for the poor and dispossessed, but I still personally would support women priests.

Enrico Caruso

I had always sung, as far back as I can remember, for the pure love of it. My voice was contralto, and I sang in a church in Naples from fourteen till I was eighteen.

Meryl Streep

I follow no doctrine. I don't belong to a church or a temple or a synagogue or an ashram.

Robert H. Schuller

The concept of the megachurch - some have attributed that to me. Whatever people want to buy, they can get it in the shopping center. It's one-stop shopping. Churches should be that way.

Bailey Chase

I went to church as a kid, but it was as much a social thing as anything going to the youth group with the other kids and whatnot. It wasn't until I got out of college that I got on my own religious trip and started finding other things out there as well as philosophies. I've kinda been on my own spiritual path since then.

And what always struck me about that war period was how even Churchill had to talk socialism to keep up people's morale.

Anthony Hamilton

I'm a church boy. I got whuppin's. So I'm afraid at any moment my grandmother could just swing down from heaven with a switch.

The government should not become the church and the church should not become the state, ... We've seen the consequences of that. Just look at the Taliban.

Yes, we've had people join because of the music programming, but long term I don't know if a music program would keep people in a church if that's the only reason they were there.

Julie Brown

We wanted to give (local Hispanics) a church home away from home. We thought we'd offer something so they can pray in their own language. I understand that pull to pray in your own language.

Larry Allen

There are actually people there starting to try to rebuild and they need as much support as they can get, ... We wanted to go where there are smaller towns that were hit hard and are depending on church groups.

Tom DeLay

There are about a thousand churches right here in Houston, and a lot of them are helping people with housing, but FEMA says they can't reimburse faith-based organizations,

What's in a church bulletin has become more important than what's in the New York Times in terms of getting some members of Congress' attention.

The only reason the church is still standing is because the city ran out of money in that program and no longer had funds to tear it down.

We will move forward as a church. I don't know how, when, why, where, or what's going to happen, but we will continue as a church in the community, because that is what Kyle would have wanted.

Jai Rodriguez

When Queer Eye hit, the church told my mom they were praying for me. She said, God loves him too. And I support him 100 percent.

Alan Green

We consider them a sponsoring church if they're doing that.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

We come to church not to hide our problems but to heal them.