#churches

I still call myself a communist, because communism is no more what Russia made of it than Christianity is what the churches make of it. ↗

— Pete Seeger

#call #christianity #churches #communism #communist

I think our failure in the production of good town churches of distinctive character must have struck you often, as it has me, when contrasted with our comparative success in country churches. ↗

— George Edmund Street

#churches #comparative #contrasted #country #distinctive

You can look at anything as a cult. Churches are cults in their own way. ↗

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

#churches #cult #cults #look #own

In places where marriage's core meaning has been altered through legal action, officials are beginning to target for punishment those believers and churches that refuse to adapt. ↗

— Salvatore J. Cordileone

#adapt #altered #been #beginning #believers

The more I do bookstores, the more people come up to me from church groups. I spoke at Pittsburg State College and had 2 or 3 ministers and book groups from a couple of churches. ↗

— Anita Diament

#bookstores #church #churches #college #come

Every European goes on the streets and sees medieval churches. Not if you live in Indianapolis. The most exciting letters I received were from people in places like that. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#european #every #exciting #goes #i

Why did men worship in churches, locking themselves away in the dark, when the world lay beyond its doors in all its real glory? ↗

— Charles de Lint

#beyond #churches #dark #did #doors

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

I support mosques, obviously. We need churches, temples, mosques. Whatever people use to speak with their god or to receive spiritual inspiration is good for the country. But the symbolism of it at ground zero, within two blocks or three blocks, I believe is wrong. ↗

— Peter King

#blocks #churches #country #god #good