Quotes About Church

Me and Dave Chappelle were at Charlie Murphy's funeral. I got up there and I got to preaching, and I took over the church.

But its almost like church - were going to show up and preach the gospel of rock and roll. And its a great place to come and get away and get in touch with whats really important in life - which is love and music and fun, you know?

Both my parents are Methodist preachers, I grew up in a church.

The world looks at preachers out of church to know what they mean in it.

My father was a minister, so I was a P.K., a preacher's kid.

I had a lot of wrong preconceived notions about church-y folks, and I'm bad at judging the messenger, not the message.

As for the depiction of the Catholic church, it's not meant to be a prediction.

I was reared in the church, in the Presbyterian Church.

I'm Presbyterian and I don't go to church very much.

I was a Presbyterian minister at a small church in Omaha, Nebraska.

The Church must introduce the individual Christian into an encounter with Jesus Christ and bring Christians into His presence in the sacrament.

When you're in a church, and you're singing about the presence of the Lord, it is so hard not to get overjoyed because I know Him.

It might kill you to say it, because the film really takes on the Catholic Church, but I do think there is a sort of affection for certain rituals, and an authenticity to the presentation of those rituals, in 'Mea Maxima Culpa.'

My parents were perfectly open-minded about everything. They never tried to convince us of what was true or what wasn't true in their minds. We were just presented with the information that was around and pretty much allowed - though, I mean, we knew how they felt. We knew they didn't go to church. So obviously that had an effect.

As a literature of change driven by technology, science fiction presents religion to a part of the reading public that probably seldom goes to church.

Being around a church culture, even leading a gathering of believers, I've gotten pretty good at predicting what's going to happen in a church service.

In fact, my parents were church people; my father was a deacon in the church.

The Church must actualize, be present in the public debate, in our struggle for a true concept of liberty and peace.

Going to the draft, I took two years off to serve my church and my God. There were no secrets, there was no deception; I didn't ask anyone to be drafted No. 2.

The Lord judgeth not as man judgeth; better to be cast out of the church than to deny Christ.

As we consider the causes of depression, those of us in the church must face the ways we might be responsible for creating it.

I can't speak to the differences within the Catholic Church.

I'm a happy member of the church. I'm proud of it and defend it. It makes me bold and gives me confidence. I feel I know the answer to life - that it's all about. If you're not searching for the answer to life, you have more time to make art. It's a rock for me upon which I can tap dance.

The Southern Baptist Church is a specific culture in itself. So, I had to study, talk to people, watch tape and go to performances to see how Gospel artists move compared to secular artists.