1125 Church Quotes for You to Enjoy

There is a kind of thinking in the Church that wants to reduce the priest to a mere functionary, a managing director, where administration rather than doctrine and worship are to determine the form of the Church. Arthur Middleton

Director Church Thinking Worship Kind Administration Determine Rather Priest Mere Doctrine Reduce Than Managing Where Form Wants

I'm little. I'm pale. I'm not strong. But bad things are scared of me. I think it's because my dad was a preacher growing up, and I was raised in the Church of Christ. Ashley McBryde

Me Strong Christ Church Bad Things Think Bad Scared Because Preacher Up Little Dad Growing Growing Up Pale Things Raised

Eric Church knocks down doors everywhere he goes. Ashley McBryde

Church Doors Down Everywhere He Knocks Eric Goes

My first memory of Umbro was when I refused to take off my orange and purple Umbro checkerboard shorts for church at five years old. I won that battle, and that drive to express myself and stay true to myself, even as a kid, is why I'm so excited about my partnership with Umbro. Ashlyn Harris

Myself Memory Battle Old Church Drive First Kid Stay Stay True About Purple Take Excited True Partnership Years Off Won Five Orange Refused Shorts Even Express Why

Anything that's outside the standard of the average black male is looked down upon. For me, I wasn't raised playing sports. I was artistic, so that was looked down upon by people in my church, and I was teased for that growing up in school, so it goes both ways. Ashton Sanders

Me Sports People School Church Black Down Ways Both Both Ways Outside Looked Male Up Goes Artistic Anything Average Standard Growing Teased Growing Up Playing Raised

The problem is that those of us who were born into Islam and who don't want to live according to scripture - we don't have what the Jews have, which is a rabbinical tradition that allows you to ask questions. We also don't have the church tradition that the Christians have. Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Christians - at least Christians in a liberal democracy - have accepted, after Thomas Hobbes, that they must obey the secular rule of law; that there must be a separation of church and state. Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Democracy Obey Law Church Secular Separation Liberal State Thomas Liberal Democracy Rule Rule Of Law Church And State Must Accepted Least Hobbes After Christians

In our local Baptist church, I sang in the choir and formed a gospel quartet. When our minister caught me messing with his guitar, he taught me three positions - one, four and five. After that, I taught myself to play. B. B. King

Myself Me Guitar Church Three Positions Local Our Minister He Gospel Messing Caught Quartet His Five Taught After Baptist Formed Choir Sang Play Four

I liked blues from the time my mother used to take me to church. I started to listen to gospel music, so I liked that. But I had an aunt at that time, my mother's aunt who bought records by people like Lonnie Johnson, Robert Johnson, Blind Lemon Jefferson, and a few others. B. B. King

Music Time Me People Mother Church Gospel Music Few Others Records Johnson Take Had Bought Like Liked Robert Robert Johnson Blind Gospel Aunt Listen Blues Lemon Used Who Jefferson Started

I feel like Black Milk has found his way of putting his life into his music. I feel like, lyrically, he is a beast; a lot of people sleep on Black Milk. Black Milk is a monster. He from church. He from the street. He get down how I get down. He's a soulful cat, and I love how he get down. BJ the Chicago Kid

Life Love Music People Church Black Beast Down Monster Lyrically Way Cat He Putting Feel Like Soulful How His His Way Lot Get Found Milk Street Sleep

I grew up in church and on the block; the best of both worlds. BJ the Chicago Kid

Best Church Worlds Both Both Worlds Block Up Grew

I realize how much my life lines up with artists like Marvin Gaye and Sam Cooke. My sound comes from church, but the stories come from actual personal experience, being out there in the streets living life. BJ the Chicago Kid

Life Experience Church My Life Living Out Marvin Gaye Come Like How Sound How Much Lines Up Personal Sam Sam Cooke Personal Experience Artists Being Stories Realize Much Cooke Actual Living Life Streets

I went to church as a kid, but it was as much a social thing as anything going to the youth group with the other kids and whatnot. It wasn't until I got out of college that I got on my own religious trip and started finding other things out there as well as philosophies. I've kinda been on my own spiritual path since then. Bailey Chase

Spiritual Youth Path Church College Own Group Other Other Kids Philosophies Kid Kids Out Kinda Finding Religious Trip Spiritual Path My Own Since Until Well Got Been Whatnot Going Anything Social Then Much Thing Things Started

It was a real surprise to me to come across the evidence that Christianity might once have been a danced religion. Certainly, some of the early church leaders thought this was great and spoke of what seems to have been circle dancing, perhaps around an altar. Barbara Ehrenreich

Great Religion Me Circle Church Thought Christianity Danced Dancing Once Evidence Some Seems Leaders Spoke Come Perhaps Altar Around Real Surprise Been Might Across Certainly Early

Although I myself don't go to church or synagogue, I do, whether it's superstition or whatever, pray every time I get on a plane. I just automatically do it. I say the same thing every time. Barbara Walters

One area where American Jews have something to teach Israel is religious pluralism, something that living in a democracy with a separation between church and state has helped us fine-tune. Bari Weiss

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In New Mexico, my local church did a nativity play, and I was cast as Wise Man #3. Of course, Wise Man #3 had no damn lines. Wise Man #1 had all the lines! I stood there thinking, 'I could do that role so much better!' From that moment on, I knew I wanted to be an actor. Baron Vaughn

Wise Man Wise Man Better Church Thinking Damn Local Cast Could Had Knew New Course New Mexico Lines Mexico Role Did Stood Wanted Nativity Much Moment Actor Play

In Australia, they really want to turn me into a religion. A religion! Can you imagine? The Church of Edna? Oh. I don't want to be over-revered. Barry Humphries

Religion Me You Church Australia Oh Want Turn Really Imagine

The devil took advantage of Christ's hunger to tempt him to limit his concern to the relief of human need. These are vital concerns, but they cannot be the sole concern of the Church. We need daily bread; we need, too, a reason for living, a sense of purpose, a vision. Basil Hume

Daily Vision Christ Church Devil Sense Living Too Took Sole Hunger Relief Vital Tempt Purpose Advantage Concern Him Concerns Limit His Human Bread Cannot Reason Daily Bread Need

My dad was a pastor, so we were in church all the time. Ben Zobrist

Time Church Were Pastor Dad

I grew up a Catholic and I don't want to talk badly about the Catholic Church but there's a lot of routine stuff going on. You say the same prayers, you sit, you kneel, whatever. Bernhard Langer

Laughter was a part of the church services I attended as a child. Bil Keane

Church Laughter Part Attended Child Services

Kinsey thought that Freud in his own way was as dangerous as the Catholic Church. Bill Condon

Dangerous Church Thought Own Way Kinsey Catholic Catholic Church Freud His

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