#church

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #church




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


#altar #around #been #certainly #christianity

There is a lot of absurdity sometimes, not just in Mormonism but often in other religions that want to pretend that no bad happens in their church, rather than taking care of what bad does happen.


Neil LaBute


#bad #care #church #does #happen

My childhood was limited to mostly gospel music. We didn't have, like, a lot of records in our house, you know. It was like my grandparents who raised me. They were pretty old-fashioned in their religious ways, so it was like church, church, church, school, school, school.


Faith Evans


#church #gospel #gospel music #grandparents #house

It was not just the Church that resisted the heliocentrism of Copernicus.


Tycho Brahe


#just #resisted

It is sufficient to say, what everybody knows to be true, that the Irish population is Catholic, and that the Protestants, whether of the Episcopalian or Presbyterian Church, or of both united, are a small minority of the Irish people.


John Bright


#both #catholic #church #episcopalian #everybody

While attendance at traditional churches has been declining for decades... the evangelical movement is growing, and it is changing the way America worships.


Tom Brokaw


#attendance #been #changing #churches #decades

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


#church #does #find #go #i

I started growing up in a hurry and taking a lot of the philosophy I'd heard from church as a kid a lot more seriously - especially the Ten Commandments - and wondering how 'Thou shalt not kill' could be so absolutely ignored. It took me until I was in my 40s to write what I was thinking as a young soldier.


Dave Brubeck


#church #commandments #could #especially #growing

Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God.


Lenny Bruce


#back #church #day #every #every day

Our own theological Church, as we know, has scorned and vilified the body till it has seemed almost a reproach and a shame to have one, yet at the same time has credited it with power to drag the soul to perdition.


Eliza Farnham


#body #church #credited #drag #know