#church

I sang in church choir all my life, through elementary school, junior high and high school. ↗

— Kevin Richardson

#church #elementary #elementary school #high #high school

Without a common loyalty to either a state or a church they have nevertheless a vast deal in common. ↗

— Emily Greene Balch

#common #deal #either #loyalty #nevertheless

If you love god, burn a church. ↗

— Jello Biafra

#church #god #love #you

The entire range of human experience is present in a church choir, including, but not restricted to jealousy, revenge, horror, pride, incompetence (the tenors have never been on the right note in the entire history of church choirs, and the basses have never been on the right page), wrath, lust and existential despair. ↗

— Connie Willis

#human-experience #experience

The limitless loving devotion to God, and the gift God makes of Himself to you, are the highest elevation of which the heart is capable; it is the highest degree of prayer. The souls that have reached this point are truly the heart of the Church. ↗

— Edith Stein

#church #degree #devotion #elevation #gift

I ground my faith upon God's word, and not upon the church. ↗

— Jane Grey

#faith #god #ground #i #upon

So from this time of peak every people or every organization that goes against the Unification Church will gradually come down or drastically come down and die. Many people will die - those who go against our movement. ↗

— Sun Myung Moon

#church #come #die #down #drastically

Negroes' problem is that they do not have their egos. That's why our churches end up having a white service, because our preacher is not arrogant enough to take God's word, so he have to go and get some white fellow's agenda and put it in his church. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#arrogant #because #church #churches #egos

Time is important to me because I want to sing long enough to leave a message. I'm used to singing in churches where nobody would dare stop me until the Lord arrives! ↗

— Mahalia Jackson

#because #churches #dare #enough #i

It is now for the Catholic Church to bend herself to her work with calmness and generosity. It is for you to observe her with renewed and friendly attention. ↗

— Pope John XXIII

#bend #calmness #catholic #catholic church #church