The notion that religion can actually be something... attached to progressivism seems so bizarre. But all you have to say is that Abolition wouldn't have happened without it. The way in which African Americans managed to achieve a degree of self-determination was through the church.
Simon Schama
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My first solo was in church when I was five.
Suzy Bogguss
ChurchFirstSoloFive
One of the things my mom used to do - I don't know why she chose me, but she chose me out of her six children to take to the African-American church that was in the town that we lived in Springfield, Missouri. And we would go to the church, and we would sit in the back row, and we would listen to all of the spirituals in the hymns.
Charlie Haden
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Every time I do interviews, they ask me about the same things - poverty, war, and the power of the church.
Ian Brown
PowerTimeWarMeChurchPoverty
You can be committed to Church but not committed to Christ, but you cannot be committed to Christ and not committed to church.
Joel Osteen
ChurchYouCannotCommittedChrist
A survey carried out across the U.S. between 2004 and 2006 showed that frequent church- or synagogue-goers are more likely to give money to charity.
Jonathan Sacks
MoneyCharityChurchMoreOutGive
What I would like to build is a new centre, a wider, broader centre, which would encompass a lot of different philosophies - you know, the philosophy that I'm putting forward that is a market liberal philosophy and a socially liberal philosophy but would have room in it for a broader church than that.
Leo Varadkar
ForwardChurchPhilosophyYouKnow
How the early priests came into possession of these secrets does not appear, and if there were ever any records of this kind the Church would hardly allow them to become public.
Harry Houdini
ChurchEarlySecretsKindBecome
I've loved hip-hop all of my life, but there came a time in my life when my entire life had a shift: where, before, I was just kind of going to church every now and then; then, there was an actual change, where I actually understood who Jesus was, actually understood the message of the Gospel, and my entire life changed.
Trip Lee
LifeChangeTimeLovedChurchKind
Vanity, showing off, is an attitude that reduces spirituality to a worldly thing, which is the worst sin that could be committed in the church.
Pope Francis
AttitudeChurchVanitySinWorst
As the Church is the aggregate of believers, there is an intimate analogy between the experience of the individual believer, and of the Church as a whole.
Charles Hodge
ExperienceChurchIndividualWhole
The laws of God given to mankind are embodied in the gospel plan, and the Church of Jesus Christ is made responsible for teaching these laws to the world.
Harold B. Lee
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I'm a reverend and a pastor. A pastor of the church. I go by usually pastor.
ChurchGoPastorReverend
For as long as I can remember, my mother went to church every single Sunday. She was born and raised in Romania as a person with limited means, and faith was something she could rely on - something that was free.
Dominique Moceanu
MotherFaithFreeChurchRemember
I grew up loving music, like, loving it. I was involved in church choir, leading worship and all the choirs in my school - even glee club.
Kelsea Ballerini
MusicSchoolChurchLovingChoirUp
I believe that God knows what each of us wants and needs. It's not necessary for us to make it to church on Sunday to reach Him. You can find Him anyplace. And if that sounds heretical, my source is pretty good: Matthew, Five to Seven, The Sermon on the Mount.
Frank Sinatra
GoodGodBelieveChurchReachYou
My father was a preacher in Maryland and we had crab feasts - with corn on the cob, but no beer, being Methodist - outside on the church lawn.
Tori Amos
FatherBeerChurchOutsideCrab
The Church is or should go back to being a community of God's people, and priests, pastors and bishops, who have the care of souls, are at the service of the people of God.
GodCommunityServicePeopleChurch
It is a thoroughly anti-christian doctrine that the Spirit of God, and therefore the life and governing power of the Church, resides in the ministry, to the exclusion of the people.
LifeGodPowerPeopleChurchSpirit
My mother played the organ in church at Georgiana, and I sat on the seat beside her.
Hank Williams
MotherChurchSeatHerBesideOrgan
I am, I think the only surviving member of the original Battle Creek church. The church was disbanded, with the exception of thirteen members, in 1870.
John Harvey Kellogg
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I have never met a happy atheist. I believe in separation of church and state, but I think we have gone so far over in the other direction of separating church and state.
Dixie Carter
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Then one day I read about a book that said that the church is the only army that shoots its wounded.
Keith Miller
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Due to our consumer mindset, people are prone to jump from church to church, which weakens the church overall.
Francis Chan
PeopleMindsetChurchJumpConsumer
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