Church Quotes - Page 35

• I just pray. And I'm not very religious at all - I was raised Catholic, but probably haven't gone to church since my Holy Communion, when I was about 6 or 7.

  Lynsey Addario

  Religious, Catholic, Gone

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• I do think that the legacy of the Norman conquest is still strong in Britain. Our hereditary monarchy, our established church, our ancient county structures, though hollowed out in many ways, are a direct result of what happened in 1066.

  Paul Kingsnorth

  Strong, Thinking, Way

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Because I know that the early Greeks and Romans and the early Europeans at that age did not see racism as we see it now - because racism was created to justify slavery to build the capital for capitalism - and back in the day they respected talent over race. We had an African Pope in the late 5th century, we had an African Emperor of Rome, and early church Fathers were black.

  Immortal Technique

  Father, Race, Rome

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• I remember being in church. We would do the live nativity in my little town and I remember pulling the sheep. I was the shepherd, so I was pulling the sheep around town, down Main Street. I thought that was the most awesome, coolest thing ever.

  Chris Tomlin

  Sheep, Shepherds, Littles

  FaceBook post by Chris Tomlin from Aug 21, 2016

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• Most people think that God wants us to demonstrate our love for God by having churches and by having symbols - and I think that's a huge error.

  Wayne Dyer

  Thinking, Errors, People

  "The Power of Intention with Dr. Wayne Dyer". Interview with Tim Miejan, www.edgemagazine.net. September 1, 2004.

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• Spirituality and faith are at the core of who I am. I was born to deeply religious parents who were able to give me that rock solid foundation in the church and in my faith which really has served me so well.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Religious, Rocks, Who I Am

  Source: aalbc.com

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• The churches had left me cold, but I thought there's got to be a God. I remember going out, this is in Charleston, South Carolina, and my desire then was to be a playwright, and I was studying theater, and I went out one night, late at night, and I asked, "What can God be if there is a God?" I wasn't sure there was a God, but if there is a God, what must he be? Well, he can't be a judge, who's up there just waiting for us to make a mistake so he can clap us into hell. There's got to be something more than that.

  Goswami Kriyananda

  Mistake, Night, If There Is A God

  Source: www.lotusguide.com

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• Religion is organized, and spirituality is what the individual feels in his relationship with truth and with God. And although spirituality may be expressed in a religion, many people are spiritual and never go to church. They aren't religious in the sense that they practice a certain type of discipline.

  Goswami Kriyananda

  Spiritual, Religious, Practice

  Source: www.lotusguide.com

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• Perhaps people need to understand some history here. Rene Descartes, in the late 16th, early 17th century, postulated that body, mind, physicality and spirituality belonged to different realms of reality that didn't interact. On a positive side, it got the Inquisition off the backs of the intellectuals and they quit burning them at the stake for disagreeing with the Church.

  Edgar Mitchell

  Reality, People, Mind

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• If you were against slavery in 1840 and a white person, you would have been against the law, the Bible, your church, your pastor, your parents, common sense, tradition, everything. You would have been against everything.

  Bill Ayers

  Law, White, Common Sense

  "The Rumpus Long Interview with Bill Ayers". Interview with Scott Hutchins, therumpus.net. February 20, 2009.

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• I was brought up singing gospel, and I really enjoy getting the church up on their feet, their hips swaying, their hands clapping, it's a great feeling to evoke that energy for the Lord.

  Jennifer Hudson

  Feet, Hands, Feelings

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• Music was fundamental in my family. Sang at bars, all the way to church on Sunday. Music in school, played guitar pulls at the house, go to other people's houses and break out the guitars, it was fun. It was always there, I've just been a part of it.

  Jamey Johnson

  Fun, School, Sunday

  "Exclusive: Jamey Johnson Interview". Interview with Matt Bjorke, roughstock.com. July 28, 2008.

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• You are just one idea away from what you sow in your brains, in your prophecies that God spoke over your life. You're one idea away. You are not waiting on God - God is waiting on you! I'm sorry, I didn't mean to go on and on about that. I have this stuff in me and I have no place to release it to you because sometimes church people are so spiritual they make me nauseous, because they expect God to do everything.

  T. D. Jakes

  Spiritual, Sorry, Mean

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• God's dream still remains unfulfilled. It was not fulfilled 2,000 years ago, or in the home of any religious leader or any American home, and today the Unification Church is here to pledge to fulfill that dream. We don't want to confine that fulfillment to our Church, but to expand it all over the world. Wouldn't that be the Kingdom of God on earth?

  Sun Myung Moon

  Dream, Religious, Home

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• In Revelation 12, we see a pure, holy woman giving birth to a son - a corporate son who brings victory by the blood of Jesus, their testimony and sacrifice. My vision is to see that kind of church moving in the authority, the sacrifice and love of Jesus.

  John Noble

  Jesus, Moving, Sacrifice

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• I really do feel that these people are brothers and sisters in God's family. I am looking to build bridges with the Orthodox Church, looking to build bridges with the Catholic Church, with the Anglican church.

  Rick Warren

  Brother, Bridges, People

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• When a human body is out of balance we call that disease, which indicates dis-ease of the body. Likewise, when the body of Christ becomes unbalanced, disease occurs... Health will occur only when everything is brought back into balance. The task of church leadership is to discover and remove growth-restricting diseases and barriers so that natural, normal growth can occur.

  Rick Warren

  Growth, Balance, Tasks

  "The Purpose Driven Church: Growth Without Compromising Your Message and Mission". Book by Rick Warren, 1995.

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• Having a clear faith, based on the creed of the church is often labeled today as fundamentalism. Whereas relativism, which is letting oneself be tossed and Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method. Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like.

  Walter Benjamin

  Book, Writing, People

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• The irony is I stopped going to church a few weeks later.

  Martin Luther

  Going To Church, Irony, Week

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• Churches have given us great treasures such as music and architecture. Whether that pays for the harm they have done is another matter.

  Daniel Dennett

  Done, Treasure, Pay

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• I'm really an honorary Jew, you know; all the best people are. I really do feel Jewish, even though I'm a Catholic. The way the Church has been behaving, I'm happy to be Jewish.

  Nathan Lane

  People, Catholic, Way

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Liberals don't have to emerge from the hot tub and start attending NASCAR races or - God forbid - church, but it would be nice if they'd stop lying all the time.

  Ann Coulter

  Nice, Lying, Race

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• Nothing makes people in the church more angry than grace. It's ironic: we stumble into a party we weren't invited to and find the uninvited standing at the door making sure no other uninviteds get in.

  Mike Yaconelli

  Party, Doors, People

  Mike Yaconelli (2009). “Messy Spirituality”, p.35, Harper Collins

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• For God so loved the world, that whosoever believes in him will, from that point on, be considered weired by the rest of the world, which means the church should be more like a zoo than a tomb of identical mummies.

  Mike Yaconelli

  Zoos, Believe, Mean

  Mike Yaconelli (2009). “Messy Spirituality”, p.54, Harper Collins

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• The church, by and large, has had a poor record of encouraging freedom. She has spent so much time inculcating in us the fear of making mistakes, that she has made us like ill-taught piano students: we play our songs, but we never really hear them because our main concern is not to make music to avoid some flub that will get us in dutch.

  Robert Farrar Capon

  Song, Mistake, Play

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