Clea and I were touring one of the cathedrals in Italy, and in front of the whole tour I go 'That's so cute! Look, they have birdbaths in the church!
Don't try so hard to be hip. When the Church finds out what is cool, it is not cool anymore.
The earth itself is their church; the vast, open sky its ceiling.
You don't have to be in church service to worship, you can be in your own home. You enhance your spirituality, through the instrument of worship, when you really connect with the invisible, almighty God.
This merriment of parsons is mighty offensive.
Does the church have all kinds of problems? You bet, because it's made up of people like me, so I get that part too. But all I need to know about the church is that Jesus picked her.
It began to drizzle rain and he turned on the windshield wipers; they made a great clatter like two idiots clapping in church.
It is not the legitimate province of the Legislature to determine which religion is true, or what false. Our government is a civil, and not a religious institution.
Here are the folks that are involved in this New World Order: The United Nations [. . . . ] the World Council of Churches [. . . . . ] the Council of Foreign Relations, the Trilateral Commission, the Bilderbergers [. . . . . ] the International Monetary Fund [. . . . . ] the Club of Rome, the communists, the socialists, the National Education Association [. . . . . ] the NOW organisation, the ACLU, the Masonic Lodge.
I feel a special calling to impart hope to the church I serve.
According to Christian belief, man exists for the sake of God; according to the liberal church, in practice if not in theory, God exists for the sake of man.
The enthusiasm geologists show for adding new words to their conversation is, if anything, exceeded by their affection for the old. They are not about to drop 'granite. ' They say 'granodiorite' when they are in church and 'granite' the rest of the week.
I remember being at the church a few hours after the church was bombed in Birmingham, the 16th Street Baptist Church. It was very hard and very difficult to stand on that corner across the street from the church. Or to go Mississippi and search for the three civil rights workers who came up missing. There is a lot of trauma.
I’m really only responsible to make sure that one person is clapping at the end of my life. Because I feel like as a performer, a lot of times you live for everyone else’s applause. That’s a dangerous thing within the church or outside the church.
There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.
I've chronicled the experience of the mother of a transgender child who got attacked by the Ku Klux Klan in Tennessee, and that of a transgender woman who was asked to deliver a sermon at her Montana church and got a standing ovation from her congregation. The idea that Christianity is a blanket term that encompasses both of those attitudes seems ludicrous to me.
The bible is not a blueprint for every day of your life, it is an inspiration not a blueprint. That requires that we listen to one another and get challenged and grow by living with difference within the body of the church.
Stop looking for the perfect church. It does not exist. Even if it did exist, the moment we joined it, it would no longer be perfect!
Sunday morning church service is not an enormous priority; spending time with other believers is.
Here is a guy who's supposed to be the Genghis Khan of the church, the pro-choice people hate him, and I don't know about his labor background so I figured there must be more to him, and there is. I wrote a book about [John Cardinal O'Connor].