Quotes About Church

Music was brought up in the church.

I learned more stuff in church than I did in the world.

When I was little, like 7 to 15, there was nothing I wanted to do but go to church and go to school.

The Roman Catholic Church isn't going to change its theologies.

I think that if you can't be loyal to the Church, it's best to get out.

I like the aesthetics of the Church.

The Church in England is the Church of England.

The Church's role should be separated from the state's role.

I went to a church where you could not sing out loud in the service until you had been saved.

I do believe in the separation of church and state. But I don't think separation of church and state means you have to be free from your faith.

The rosary was said every evening. I always liked that sentence about the medieval Churches, that they were the Bibles of the poor. The Church was my first book and I would think it is still my most important book.

Many people who no longer go to church end up falling prey to superstition.

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.

I grew up in church, and I have a wonderful family that always supported that.

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 Catholic Church played an integral role in supporting the opening between the U.S. and Cuban governments.

In this context, the church supports and favors every effort today to seek the full development of the personality of all human beings, and to promote their fundamental rights, their dignity and liberty.

I suppose the Church would be perfect only if it were run by perfect beings. God is perfect, and His doctrine is pure. But He works through us - His imperfect children - and imperfect people make mistakes.

I go to church because my parents go to church, and I believe the things they were doing at the time were right because they were the ones growing up in righteousness, and their life was supposed to be an example, seen?

I think if the church did what they were supposed to do we wouldn't have anyone sleeping on the streets.

As the Supreme Governor of the Church of England, the Queen feels she cannot be seen to smile in church - and her natural reaction is to combat mirth by putting on a stern face.

Certain citizens claimed I had disgraced the fair name of the city of Limerick, that I had attacked the church, that I had despoiled my mother's name, and that if I returned to Limerick, I would surely be found hanging from a lamppost.

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.

For me, and maybe for many religious kids of the '60s, the church lost relevance the more it became a surrogate in the movement for social and political change.