Church Quotes - Page 38

• I grew up in the church, singing in choirs, and I went to a performing arts school, and I had a gospel group, so music has always been in my blood.

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  Art, School, Blood

  Source: youknowigotsoul.com

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• I felt like I was at that breaking point. I just prayed and took my mind off of dreams - I went to church. I felt like a lot of things came together. I'm not perfect but I strive to be.

  Boi-1da

  Dream, Point Break, Perfect

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• I think on the things - the issues that Pope Francis cares about - not just remaking the Church and in just sort of a more compassionate visage, but really on trying to move real policy.

  Joy-Ann Reid

  Real, Moving, Thinking

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• One of the most important parts of the civil rights movement that people don't talk about was these mass meetings. It's like "Movement Church." It's a combination of the music of the movement and the church. Those mass meetings are where people got the energy to go on to the next day.

  Stanley Nelson Jr.

  Rights, Next Day, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Instead of feeling like there's two or three of us in this town of hostile crackers, I'm in a big church filled with people who believe the same thing I believe and the power of song is raising what we're trying to do, raising it up to the rafters.

  Stanley Nelson Jr.

  Song, Believe, Two

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Non-mainstream people seem to balk at the idea of 12-step. A lot of us think 12-step recovery means sitting in a church basement full of Republicans and Christians who drink to much.

  Bucky Sinister

  Christian, Mean, Recovery

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I used to think, "I can't go to these meetings because they'll make me believe in God. Make me go to church." I knew it wasn't right for me before I ever tried it. I was suspicious of anything outside my realm of experience. That same kind of attitude carries over into 12-step programs, because they are programs. There's this feeling that you don't need this bullshit, you can quit on your own. People that don't know anything about it seem to have a better idea. They haven't even been.

  Bucky Sinister

  Attitude, Believe, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I happen to know at least a hundred Sudanese refugees in the United States, all of whom were taken in by white families and white churches, and they all tell me''Naima, you were blessed to be raised by Black Americans.'

  Kola Boof

  Blessed, Taken, White

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• We need to look beyond the obvious. Yes, there are minstrel images in hip-hop. Yes, there are demeaning, anti-racist, misogynistic and homophobic representations. We could make the same case about the church and our government. But hip-hop, like society, isn't one dimensional.

  Bakari Kitwana

  Government, Hip Hop, Needs

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• Local churches are ten times more segregated than the neighborhoods they are in and they are twenty times more segregated than the schools than the nearby schools.

  Derwin L. Gray

  School, Twenties, Neighborhood

  "The Gospel and Multiethnic Churches: An Interview with Derwin Gray". Interview with Preston Sprinkle, www.patheos.com. January 11, 2016.

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• Only 13.7% of churches in America are consider multiethnic. This means that 86.3 % of churches are homogenous.

  Derwin L. Gray

  Mean, America

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• I coach church planters to look at the ethnic diversity of schools and neighborhoods they are near. This will be an indicator how ethnically diverse their congregation can become.

  Derwin L. Gray

  School, Diversity, Looks

  "The Gospel and Multiethnic Churches: An Interview with Derwin Gray". Interview with Preston Sprinkle, www.patheos.com. January 11, 2016.

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• I grew up in newsrooms. I've been in newsrooms since I was 17 years old. Journalism has been like my church; it's been like my identity.

  Jose Antonio Vargas

  Years, Identity, Journalism

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I don't think there are any churches that have "Thou shalt not believe in climate change" written in their actual statement of faith.

  Katharine Hayhoe

  Believe, Thinking, Climate

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• We have to reach out to churches and schools and help people understand science, and we have to build rapport between scientists and people of faith. Then once we get that understanding and rapport built, then everyone will be on board with climate change.

  Katharine Hayhoe

  School, People, Understanding

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• When I talk to my neighbor, or to someone at church who doesn't accept that the planet is changing, I know that they don't know any better. They've been told this information by somebody they trust and it's not their fault. They've just never heard otherwise.

  Katharine Hayhoe

  Information, Faults, Neighbor

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The first thing we can do as individuals and as communities, like a school or a university or a church, is cut our energy use. Do an energy audit or measure our carbon footprint using online carbon calculators that are free, easy, and cheap. Get a list of the ways that we can stop wasting so much energy and save money.

  Katharine Hayhoe

  School, Cutting, Carbon Footprint

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• When I look around, the biggest way in which we are failing to care for those in need is through ignoring climate change and acting like it doesn't exist. As a Christian, I believe that is something the church needs to know.

  Katharine Hayhoe

  Christian, Believe, Acting

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Growing up, Catholic church really was such an incubator for my imagination, because all of those mysteries felt embedded in this insanely green, tropical landscape: the ocean nearby, the giant banyan trees. It all felt part of one seamless mystery to me.

  Karen Russell

  Growing Up, Ocean, Imagination

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I think it's funny how people get confused when they think about church music, because a lot of times there is a soloist who stands out, but my church wasn't like that at all.

  Valerie June

  Confused, Thinking, Church Music

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Even from when I was in grade school or church or wherever, I was always like: we're one, and we should respect each other and grow as one. And respect each other's diversity, of course.

  Valerie June

  School, Diversity, Should

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I went every Sunday to church when I was growing up, and I think that music had an affect on me before my memory can recall.

  M. Ward

  Growing Up, Memories, Sunday

  Interview with Steven Hyden, music.avclub.com. May 10, 2007.

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• I was brought up in the Christian church and I studied in the teachings of Jesus. I believed in caring for others and trying to be kind. It's something I still have to work on every day.

  Ronee Blakley

  Christian, Jesus, Teaching

  Source: therumpus.net

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• By the time I was about ten, I had started to lose faith with church ways. I was educated in some ways by my high school government and history teachers.

  Ronee Blakley

  Teacher, School, Government

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I grew up raised in church, my parents are both traveling ministers. They blocked out MTV which was fine, but I'd find myself figuring out who New Kids On The Block were.

  Katy Perry

  Block, Kids, Mtv

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