It is my belief that everything you need to know about the world can be learned in a church choir.
The ordinance of confirming a new member of the Church and bestowing the gift of the Holy Ghost is both simple and profound.
I speak for a lot of church groups, youth groups, schools, colleges and do personal appearances. I've done conventions and trade shows. A lot of different little hats.
Do you see this egg? With this you can topple every theological theory, every church or temple in the world.
I would just as soon have abused the old village church at home for not being a cathedral.
My wife and I like to go to church if we're in town. On Sundays, I try to be as chill as I can, whether I'm watching golf or barbecuing.
The real church is comprised of a long list of "formers" who collectively work together for world reform.
Indeed, no one does more injury in the church than he who acts perversely and yet has the name and order of sanctity.
I used to sing in the church choir. People would say it was unusual for such a small girl to have such a big voice. They would say, 'She sounds like she's grown.'
If you were to look back at me as a school kid you'd see a very quiet little church mouse kind of character.
The Christian church in the U.S. is still strong numerically, but it has lost its decisive influence both in American public life and in American culture as a whole, especially in the major elite institutions of society.
The pope is an intelligent man and realizes that time marches on. He says the Church has a long way to go in developing a real strategy that integrates women - but clearly he is baffled as to how to do it.
I think artists are always investigating how to have an economic, political platform. At one time, artists were supported by the Church. Then they were supported also by the state.
The first time I sang in church, when I was ten, the applause was so overwhelming that I started to weep. My mum had to rescue me from the stage.
Time is important to me because I want to sing long enough to leave a message. I'm used to singing in churches where nobody would dare stop me until the Lord arrives!
The first time I got onstage was when I was about 5 years old. It was at a church social, and I had a poem to recite.
Despite the slowness, the infidelity, the errors and sins it committed and might still commit against its members, the Church, trust me, has no other meaning and goal but to live and witness Jesus.
You sang in church, you know, and you didn't act at all. You tried not to act, you tried to tell the truth. The idea of being a troubadour on the road singing for your supper was very disturbing to him.
Adult Pi Patel: [after describing what the priest in the Church told him about Jesus] That made no sense!
Zelig's Wife: He married me up at the First Church of Harlem. He told me he was the brother of Duke Ellington.
If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their money on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals.
