Church Quotes - Page 30

• The black church is dormant, much of the community is dormant. If the black church is leaning toward the right, much of the community is leaning toward the right. If it is leaning in the left wing direction having repercussions.

  Cornel West

  Wings, Community, Black

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I do believe that not just the churches but strong communities, strong trade unions, strong families can make a difference in terms of producing persons much more virtuous than what one usually finds in a gangster culture.

  Cornel West

  Strong, Believe, Differences

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• I didn't have a clue. I grew up Protestant in Connecticut at the Saugatuck Congregational Church. We didn't talk about the devil. That's Catholicism. And so, that was my safety net. And I always say, it's probably a good thing they didn't hire a Catholic child, who may have heard about the devil, the things that were in the closet. And no one wanted to discuss them.

  Linda Blair

  Children, Safety, Catholic

  "Interview with The Exorcist Linda Blair". Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. September 17, 2000.

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• I'm trying to make the case that the church can indeed, from within its own resources, move out of a false, and often a hateful, characterization of and set of attitudes toward gay and lesbian people.

  James Alison

  Attitude, Moving, Gay

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• The silence of those in positions of influence in the church who know, or have a strong suspicion, that being gay is a nonpathological minority variant in the human condition drives me crazy, far crazier than I am driven by any loud-mouthed purveyor of hateful nonsense.

  James Alison

  Strong, Crazy, Gay

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• From the time I can remember my mother kept me in church. I think my first recollection of any place, being anywhere was in a church.

  Teddy Pendergrass

  Mother, Thinking, Firsts

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• As a matter of fact my, my very first time singing when I was two and a half, three, was in church. So, ahm, church is very, very much a part of who I am.

  Teddy Pendergrass

  Who I Am, Two, Singing

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• The catholic church has a lot more money than any Colombian cartel and they leave a lot more bodies in their wake.

  Doug Stanhope

  Catholic, Body, Cartels

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• Separation of Church and State is the perineum of America and the episiotomy didn't hold.

  Doug Stanhope

  America, Separation, States

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• We all claim to worship the same God, so why don't we fellowship together? ... The only thing that keeps us from fellowshiping together are the church buildings, the organizations.

  Donnie McClurkin

  Organization, Together, Fellowship

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• I have always felt that my work is religious, not sacrilegious. I would say that there are many individuals in the Church who appreciate it and who do not have a problem with it. The best place for Piss Christ is in a church.

  Andres Serrano

  Religious, Appreciate, Problem

  "Blasphemy and Public Funding of the Arts" by Jacques Berlinerblau, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 22, 2012.

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• How do we help the church get their respect back? I have a plan: pedophile crucifixions.

  Christopher Titus

  Respect, Helping, Plans

  "5th Annual End of the World Tour". www.imdb.com. 2007.

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• [I]t is contrary to the economy of God for any member of the Church, or any one, to receive instruction for those in authority, higher than themselves . . . if any person have a vision or a visitation from a heavenly messenger, it must be for his own benefit and instruction; for the fundamental principles, government, and doctrine of the Church are vested in the keys of the kingdom.

  Sam Smith

  Keys, Government, Vision

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• We do not worship the Prophet. We worship God our Eternal Father and the risen Lord Jesus Christ. But we acknowledge the Prophet; we proclaim him; we respect him; we reverence him as an instrument in the hands of the Almighty in restoring to the earth the ancient truths of the divine gospel, together with the priesthood through which the authority of God is exercised in the affairs of His Church and for the blessing of His people.

  Sam Smith

  Jesus, Father, Blessing

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• Every Sunday my dad calls to ask if I went to church. And every Sunday I lie and say: Sorry. Wrong Number.

  Anthony Jeselnik

  Sorry, Dad, Lying

  Twitter post from Aug 10, 2010

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• I was an altar boy in the Roman Catholic Church and no priest ever laid a hand on me. That's me, always the bridesmaid.

  Dana Gould

  Boys, Hands, Catholic

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• Catholic Church reasserts its moral authority on contraception: If God believed in birth control, altar boys would have a uterus.

  Dana Gould

  Boys, Catholic, Uterus

  FaceBook post by Dana Gould from Feb 10, 2012

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• The decision to leave [the church] is you're giving up everything you've worked for your whole life. I feel that people need to understand this has been my whole life. As time goes on, you start to lose touch with the real world. The mindset becomes us against them.

  Leah Remini

  Giving Up, Real, People

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• My mother's side of the family is Methodist, which is how I was raised. It was conservative in that I had strong values - sitting down and eating with the family every day, listening to authority and going to church every week and having perfect attendance at Sunday school.

  Jonathan Groff

  Mother, Strong, School

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• A red brick Presbyterian church... captured by kudzu vines as surely as a butterfly in a net.

  Barbara Ascher

  Butterfly, Vines, Red

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• Photographers represented occasions once. You dressed for them as you might for church; they cost money, they recorded important moments.

  Michael Lesy

  Important, Might, Cost

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• It becomes part of a person's second nature; he belongs to the church, like he belongs to his family, and he does not quit his family because someone in it turns out to be a rascal.

  Sterling M. McMurrin

  Doe, Quitting, Turns

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• Mormonism is not simply a commitment to a theology or a church practice, but a social-cultural order.

  Sterling M. McMurrin

  Commitment, Order, Practice

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• Are we to have a church in which everyone's judgment is equal to everyone else's? That's not a church, it's chaos. Common sense dictates that you keep the fox out of the chicken coop.

  John Joseph O'Connor

  Common Sense, Foxes, Chaos

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• Photography is, and has been since its conception, a fabulously broad church. Contemporary practice demonstrates that the medium can be a prompt, a process, a vehicle, a collective pursuit, and not just the physical end product of solitary artists' endeavors.

  Charlotte Cotton

  Photography, Artist, Practice

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