If I'm going to meditate, there is a little church up in Montecito, California. It's an old Spanish mission, actually. I find it comforting in there.
The Church, as Jesus seems to be defining it, is the gathering of accepted brokenness. It’s not the gathering of the saved.
the church was an international institution long before globalization.
No one can fail to see that the power of the Church among large numbers in many communities is today diminishing, or has already ceased.
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.
My church has a health and fitness ministry to encourage our members to take care of spiritually and physically; how could I not?
I grew up in southwestern Ontario in the heart of a Mennonite community. All my family are part of the Mennonite church.
My family and I would never receive royalties on the revenue that my materials brought into the church; materials that were created on our own personal time.
You get more churches burned down in the United States in the last two years than in the last hundred, because of the lack of understanding of culture and diversity and the beauty of it.
I challenge you to show me where the saloon has ever helped business, education, church, morals or anything we hold dear.
It is an absolutely unique success of the church community to have introduced such an epoch-making change, in just a few years, without having a serious division.
Artists like Bach and Beethoven erected churches and temples on the heights. I only wanted... to build dwellings for men in which they might feel happy and at home.
Praying privately in churches, I began to discover that heaven was my true home and also that it was here and now, woven into this life.
The secular world looks to the church and to its chagrin, finds no love, no life, no laughter, no hope and no happiness.
At the first general meeting of this Corporation in 1820, his Lordship presided; a circumstance, which may well be considered an era in the history of the Church of Upper Canada.
I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
Every good gospel singer you can hear is a scat singer; they're just using different syllables. There are a lot of jazz singers out there, and more coming out of the churches.
We have this idea in our minds that there's this separation of church and state in America, which I think is a good thing.
In the Church, and in the journey of faith, women have had and still have a special role in opening doors to the Lord.
I've been speaking at churches for years, as well as juvenile jails, rehabs and hospitals, and I always talk about my faith. That is a declaration of my relationship with God.
God Almighty never intended that the devil should triumph over the Church. He never intended that the saloons should walk rough-shod over Christianity.
