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• When I started going to church, my first memories are of the minister getting up and accusing us of being full of sin, though he didn't say why; then they would pass the collection plate, and I got it in my mind that this had to do with purification of the soul, that we were being invited to buy expiation from our sins. So I gave it all up. It was too nonsensical.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Memories, Soul, Mind

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• But I like going to church. If you've been brought up in the Church of England, it feels like visiting an elderly relative. And I think it's important that part of the kids' education is knowing about the Bible.

  Jack Dee

  Kids, Thinking, Elderly

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• To be spiritual is not by praying and going to church. Spiritualism is the understanding of the universe so that it can be a better place to live in.

  Fela Kuti

  Spiritual, Understanding, Church

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• We have no idea who we really are. Whatever glory bestowed, whatever glory is being restored, we thought the whole Christian thing was about... something else. Trying not to sin. Going to church. Being nice. Jesus says it is about healing your heart, setting it free, restoring your glory. A religious fog has tried to veil all that, put us under some sort of spell or amnesia, to keeup us from coming alive.

  John Eldredge

  Christian, Religious, Jesus

  John Eldredge (2008). “Eldredge 3 in 1 - Sacred Romance , Waking the Dead, Desire”, p.260, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I am a person that believes in different emotions with music. Music can bring about different vibes on the field, off the field, urban life, going to church, leaving church. Everything the world may bring, there's a song for it to put you in the right frame of mind.

  Cam Newton

  Song, Believe, Leaving

  Source: www.vibe.com

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• What he says, even on his knees, about his own sinfulness is all parrot talk. At bottom, he still believes he has run up a very favorable credit-balance in the Enemy's ledger by allowing himself to be converted, and thinks that he is showing great humility and condescension in going to church with these 'smug', commonplace neighbors at all.

  C. S. Lewis

  Running, Believe, Humility

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• But I don't necessarily define my faith by going to church every Sunday.

  Miley Cyrus

  Sunday, Church

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• I was always going to church with my mom, dad and sister. I was literally raised under the godly influence both at home and church. There was no alcohol and no smoking at our house. That was the way a Bowden was supposed to live. My dad always told me to represent the Bowden name in a respectful manner.

  Bobby Bowden

  Mom, Dad, Home

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• What it is coming down to is who runs the country. It's us against them. It's the good guys versus the bad guys. It's the God-fearing people against the pagans, and some of the pagans are going to church.

  Randall Terry

  Running, Country, People

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• My earliest memories about music are connected with going to church and listening to organ music. I am not from a musical family, actually, and I remember my first musical fascination to be for organ music. I wanted to become an organist and not a pianist.

  Rafal Blechacz

  Memories, Musical, Listening

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• I was raised Presbyterian, but I'm not really going to church. I think the experience in meditation is pretty much where it's at for me.

  David Lynch

  Thinking, Meditation, Church

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• The roughest thing was learning the realities of the world at such a young age. I was 10 or 11, going to church, hearing the adults standing on the podium talking about world affairs, about history, about war, and how America was founded.

  Michelle Rodriguez

  War, Reality, Talking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• You don't have to be in the habit of going to church to listen to such a literary minister; you don't have to be a believer to be moved by Mr. Buechner's faith.

  John Irving

  Church, Habit, Ministers

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• If I'm going to see my mom, I'm going to church!

  Antoine Fuqua

  Mom, Church, Ifs

  "Denzel Washington on Equalizer: 'We had Navy Seals train us'". Interview with Steve Rose, www.theguardian.com. September 25, 2014.

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• When we talk about values, I think of rationality in solving problems. That's something I value. Fairness, kindness, generosity, tolerance. That's different. When they [Conservative right wing Republicans] talk about values, they're talking about things like going to church, voting for Bush, being loyal to Jesus, praying. These are not values.

  Bill Maher

  Jesus, Kindness, Thinking

  "Real Time with Bill Maher", November 5, 2004.

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• The blues to me is like being very sad, very sick, going to church, being very happy ... it's sort of a mixed up thing. You just have to feel it.

  Billie Holiday

  Sick, Church, Very Sad

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• I remember going to church about four times a week. I liked it a lot.

  Victoria Jackson

  Church, Four, Remember

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• I like going to Church for aesthetic reasons, rather than spiritual ones.

  Andres Serrano

  Spiritual, Church, Reason

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• Anyone who feels that they're in some way plugged into a meaningful, cosmic system is given a greater psychological balance as a result-whether or not they believe it contains a god-like figure at the control panels. Lots of people have this beneficial sense of being plugged into something bigger, even if they're not religious in the going-to-church-regularly sense.

  Robin Skynner

  Meaningful, Religious, Believe

  Robin Skynner, John Cleese (1984). “Families and how to survive them”, Vintage

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• California has often led the country, indeed the world, in the technology, consumption, trends, lifestyles, and of course, mass entertainment. It is where the car found its earliest and fullest expression, where suburbs blossomed, where going to gym replaced going to church, where forces that lead so many to assume that direct democracy is the wave of the future - declining political parties, telecommuting, new technology, the internet generation 0 are all most well developed in this vast land.

  Fareed Zakaria

  Country, Party, Technology

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• When I was a kid I had an imaginary friend and I used to think that he went everywhere with me, and that I could talk to him and that he could hear me, and that he could grant me wishes and stuff. And then I grew up, and I stopped going to church.

  Jimmy Carr

  Funny, Humor, Kids

  Jimmy Carr, Lucy Greeves (2006). “Only Joking: What's So Funny About Making People Laugh?”, p.171, Penguin

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• So I decided to start a church, for three reasons. First, I hated going to church and wanted one I liked, so I thought I would just start my own. Second, God had spoken to me in one of those weird charismatic moments and told me to start a church. Third, I am scared of God and try to do what he says.

  Mark Driscoll

  Church, Trying, Three

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• Songwriting is like going to church. I'm connecting to something, and it's rewarding in really important ways. I don't need to share it with anyone to feel good about it.

  Juliana Hatfield

  Feel Good, Important, Church

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• Spirituality is no different from what weve been doing for two thousand years just by going to church and receiving the sacraments, being baptized, learning to pray, and reading Scriptures rightly. Its just ordinary stuff.

  Eugene H. Peterson

  Reading, Years, Two

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• Gabriel Garcia Marquez is one of my all-time favorite writers. I feel spiritual when reading his words, even though they're translated. I wish desperately that I could read it in its original language. I already feel like I'm going to church when I read him; imagine if I could read it in the original.

  Conor Oberst

  Spiritual, Reading, Wish

  "He's wide awake, he's talking". Interview with Sasha Frere-Jones, www.newyorker.com. February 7, 2005.

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