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Quotes About Church

I just want Christians to embrace the fact that music is made not just for the church, but it's also for the people that need to hear about the love of God.
~ Anthony Evans
As some to Church repair, not for the doctrine, but the music there.
~ Alexander Pope
I always say that as church falls into demise, we still have the inclination to congregate whether by a night of music or a festival, or just sitting down to listen to some vinyl.
~ Daniel Lanois
I love church buildings, particularly cathedrals, and I like living in spaces that remind me of music or evoke that creative energy.
~ Laura Mvula
I was born in Alabama and my first live music experiences were in church. Every Sunday we watched regional gospel groups on television singing their hearts out
~ Tommy Shaw
When I'm on stage, I'm trying to do one thing: bring people joy. Just like church does. People don't go to church to find trouble, they go there to lose it.
~ James Brown
Jesus never heard of Beethoven and Bach. Why aren't we playing more country music in church ?
~ Tex Sample
Commercial rock 'n' roll music is a brutalization of the stream of contemporary Negro church music an obscene looting of a cultural expression.
~ Ralph Ellison
Modern church music is so constructed that the congregation cannot hear one distinct word.
~ Desiderius Erasmus
I am highly susceptible to the force of all truly religious music, especially to the music of my own church, the church of Shelley, Michelangelo, and Beethoven.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Either I'm listening to rap music, getting hyped up to go out and do something, or I'm listening to church music.
~ Hailey Rhode Baldwin
I attend the greatest of all Churches. I put a capital N on Nature, and call it my Church.
~ Frank Lloyd Wright
Some keep the Sabbath going to church, I keep it staying at home, with a bobolink for a chorister, and an orchard for a dome.
~ Emily Dickinson
I knew then that the Christian church thrives on hypocrisy, and that man's carnal nature will out...
~ Anton Szandor LaVey
The Church's mission is not political in nature. Her task is to open the world to the religious sense by proclaiming Christ.
~ Pope Benedict XVI
Every art is a church without communicants, presided over by a parish of the respectable. An artist is born kneeling; he fights to stand. A critic, by nature of the judgment seat, is born sitting.
~ Hortense Calisher
An old argument with me is that the true religious force in the world is not the church, but the world itself: the mysterious callings of Nature and our responses.
~ Wallace Stevens
Reserve is no more essentially connected with understanding than a church organ with devotion, or wine with good-nature.
~ William Shenstone
It was a small church. No large cathedral towers overshadowed the purpose of the house of worship. It was a monument to faith rather than a monument to man's triumph over nature.
~ Richard W. Kelly, Testament
The more I work with Nature and totemism, the more church is everywhere.
~ S. Kelley Harrell
Nature is Satan's church.
~ Lars von Trier
If, through the years, the Cross in the life of the believer had been adhered to as strenuously as the Cross for salvation, the Church would not today be so plagued with modernistic infidelity.
~ L. E. Maxwell
I am ready to die for my Lord, that in my blood the Church may obtain liberty and peace.
~ Thomas Becket
Always remain close to the Catholic Church, because it alone can give you true peace, since it alone possesses Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament, the true Prince of Peace.
~ Pio of Pietrelcina