Quotes About Church

Far more books get written about how to get more people in your church than how to get the people already in your church to have more humility and sincere love.

I'm always in a place that is sincere but conflicted about different things that come with being a Christian and being an active, churchgoing Christian.

I really learned to sing in church, I think, really with emotion.

I'm a true singer who grew up singing in church, so I love singing my heart out.

I was pretty young when I decided I wanted to, well, more so be a singer. I started singing in church in my hometown, East Orange, New Jersey. I knew when I was about five or six that I wanted to be a performer.

I knew how to sing in choirs and sing in church, but I didn't know how to sing in a studio. That's what Darlene and the Blossoms taught me to do - to be a studio singer.

Like all soul singers, I grew up singing in church but sometimes I would leave early and sit in the car listening to gospel band, The Blind Boys of Alabama. Hearing their lead singer Clarence made me connect the idea of church and show business and see how I could make a career singing music that stirred the soul.

My favorite singers in the world have been black singers, and you can go to any church and hear the best singers in the world - and I'm a singer, and I love singing!

My parents were both opera singers, and they also were both heavily into religious and church music.

So many great singers we know have come from the church.

I was never interested in singing in the church choir or in school. I was more interested in becoming a musician.

I grew up in the church. My mother was highly religious. I was singing at the age of five for big congregations.

My father started me singing in church.

I do think that a minister who can preach a sermon without addressing sinners does not know how to preach.

If the church doesn't minister to sinners, then who will?

I started singing in church with my sister Maria when I was four, and I've been pretty much singing ever since. There's never been anything else for me to do.

We played, jazz, blues, dixie, and it all came from the church. When I went to church, I would see the sisters and brothers doing the same beat.

Growing up in a house where there was a lot of different musical influences - my mom listens to soul stuff and Top 40, my sisters would listen to hip-hop - and the church, I grew up listening to a lot of gospel stuff. So I think that plays a role in how I make music now because my music has a lot of range. I don't just do one thing.

When I'm sitting in the church alone, I can hear singing of the old people. I can hear their singing and I can hear their praying, and sometimes I hum one of their songs.

One person may need (or want) more leisure, another more work; one more adventure, another more security, and so on. It is this diversity that makes a country, indeed a state, a city, a church, or a family, healthy. 'One-size-fits-all,' and that size determined by the State has a name, and that name is 'slavery.'

Apologetics has an important place in the local church as we seek to influence our communities for Christ in an increasingly skeptical culture.

I played at my church every once in a while, but that's not a good gauge, because everybody loves you at your church.

The call of the gospel is for the church to implement the victory of God in the world through suffering love.

The Church welcomes technological progress and receives it with love, for it is an indubitable fact that technological progress comes from God and, therefore, can and must lead to Him.