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You can be committed to Church but not committed to Christ, but you cannot be committed to Christ and not committed to church.

I grew up in church, and I have a wonderful family that always supported that.

I fly myself everywhere. I like all kinds of flying, including practical flying for search and rescue. And I also like to fly into the backcountry, usually the Frank Church Wilderness in Idaho. I go with a group of friends, and we set up camp for about five days and explore little dirt strips and canyons.

I grew up in a suburb of Baltimore with an extremely high concentration of Jewish families - where the Levys and Cohens in the high school yearbook went on for pages, where I could count far more temples than I ever could churches. Anti-Semitism, in our cultural biodome, was mostly an abstract concept.

The Roman Catholic Church isn't going to change its theologies.

Hollywood is finally waking up to the fact that people who go to church also go to the movies. I'm not sure what took them so long to see that or how long they'll keep it up.

We all know that a church is not a building.

My ordination in the Church of God in Christ was at age 9, and I later became a Baptist minister, which I am today.

I don't go to church regular. But I pray for answers to my problems.

My family and I would never receive royalties on the revenue that my materials brought into the church; materials that were created on our own personal time.

I talk about a Christianity that is enlightened enough to separate spirituality from the rest of life. Not just church and state, but knowledge and church.

If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottage princes' palaces.

Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.

And whether you're drawn to gospel music or church music or honky-tonk music, it informs your character and it informs your talent.

Flesh sells. People don't want to see pictures of churches. They want to see naked bodies.

If you are too busy in your church activities to take care of your family, then perhaps we had better find something else for you to do.

In the Church, considered as a social organism, the mysteries inevitably degenerate into beliefs.

The writers of the French enlightenment had deliberately used blasphemy as a weapon, refusing to accept the power of the Church to set limiting points on thought.

I will go where the Lord and the leaders of His Church want me to go, I will do what they want me to do, I will teach what they want me to teach, and I will strive to become what I should and must become.

In America, evangelical churches have often been bastions of conservatism, providing support for the status quo.

You tell me: Can you live crushed under the weight of the present? Without a memory of the past and without the desire to look ahead to the future by building something, a future, a family? Can you go on like this? This, to me, is the most urgent problem that the Church is facing.

To keep ourselves grounded in the Lord's Church, we can and must train our eyes to recognize the power of the Lord in the service of those He has called. We must be worthy of the companionship of the Holy Ghost. And we need to pray for the Holy Ghost to help us know that men who lead us hold this power.

Oh, how I would like a poor Church, and for the poor.

Our fathers founded the first secular government that was ever founded in this world. Recollect that. The first secular government - the first government that said every church has exactly the same rights and no more; every religion has the same rights, and no more.

The family unit is fundamental not only to society and to the Church, but to our hope for eternal life.

That I am not a member of any Christian church is true; but I have never denied the truth of the Scriptures, and I have never spoken with intentional disrespect of religion in general, or of any denomination of Christians in particular.

Spiritual worldliness kills! It kills the soul! It kills the Church!

Certain things happened in the early church. Women who had never had any freedom suddenly have the ability to stand up and speak and be treated as equals within the life of the church.

The separation of church and state was meant to protect church from state; a state that declares religion off limits in public life is a state that declares itself supreme over all religious values.

Vanity, showing off, is an attitude that reduces spirituality to a worldly thing, which is the worst sin that could be committed in the church.

The church saves sinners, but science seeks to stop their manufacture.

I see the church as a field hospital after battle. It is useless to ask a seriously injured person if he has high cholesterol and about the level of his blood sugars. You have to heal his wounds. Then we can talk about everything else.

Most Evangelicals have the church to thank for the Sunday-school classes that taught us what the Bible says and paved the way for our eventual decisions to commit our lives to Christ.

I dream of a church that is a mother and shepherdess.

Being part of a community with a church at its centre and singin' hymns is a great thing to do.

Neither of my parents went to church, but they did everything that you needed to do to be Christian. That's something a Quaker would call an intimation of the divine.

Leaders of the Church have often been Narcissus, flattered and sickeningly excited by their courtiers. The court is the leprosy of the papacy.

Ministers should impress upon the people the necessity of individual effort. No church can flourish unless its members are workers. The people must lift where the ministers lift.

Churches, depending on their policy, can do fantastic work with people in the community.

If marriage really is a sacred institution, then why is the government controlling it, especially in a nation that affirms separation of church and state?

Insofar as the church fails to do the will of God, I am called upon to help it discover and to do the will of God; and I am called upon to help the government to do the same.

I was baptized a Baptist, but I'm just Christian, as far as I'm concerned. I could go in any church, doesn't matter if it's Baptist, Protestant, Episcopal, or Catholic.

I went to church with my grandparents sometimes and I loved it.

Whether a person is straight or gay, Republican, Democrat, good person, not a good person, they're all welcome, because to me, church is a place you're supposed to get healed and whole and loved.

Every church is a stone on the grave of a god-man: it does not want him to rise up again under any circumstances.

Politics, according to the Social Doctrine of the Church, is one of the highest forms of charity, because it serves the common good. I cannot wash my hands, eh? We all have to give something!

Really I feel less keen about the Army every day. I think the Church would suit me better.

The Savior will help you do what He has called you to do, be it for a time as a worker in the Church or forever as a parent. You may pray for help enough to do the work and know that it will come.

In the Western Church to which I belong, priests cannot be married as in the Byzantine, Ukrainian, Russian or Greek Catholic Churches. In those churches, the priests can be married, but the bishops have to be celibate. They are very good priests.

I get asked a lot why Apple's customers are so loyal. It's not because they belong to the Church of Mac! That's ridiculous.

My grandmother took me to church on Sunday all day long, every Sunday into the night. Then Monday evening was the missionary meeting. Tuesday evening was usher board meeting. Wednesday evening was prayer meeting. Thursday evening was visit the sick. Friday evening was choir practice. I mean, and at all those gatherings, we sang.

I walked away from going to church when I was 8. I didn't set foot in another church until I was 28.

My father was strict, but he recognised my ability and got a lot of flak from the church for supporting me.

God is being taken out of schools; children are not being raised in church learning the word; many parents are living lives unto themselves, exalting substance rather than Jesus Christ, and those looking for answers are going to church and finding the word is not being preached. There are consequences to these decisions.

I once dieted so religiously I quit eating in church.

I'm a reverend and a pastor. A pastor of the church. I go by usually pastor.

I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.

Your life isn't about doing one perfect 'thing' and then falling down dead. It's more like going to church or writing a book. You do it over and over, always trying to be a little bit better. Then you die.

When every church becomes a school, every cathedral a university, every clergyman a teacher, and all their hearers brave and honest thinkers, then - and not until then - will the dream of poet, patriot, philanthropist and philosopher become a real and blessed truth.

I don't want to just preach to the church. I feel like I have a broader message.

I really learned to sing in church, I think, really with emotion.

There's pros and cons of a big church. Cons is I don't get to know everybody, I don't get to go to their ballgame, I don't get to marry everybody, but the pros are you get all this community, 800 ushers come in to serve, getting there at 7 in the morning on their day off and coming in on Saturday to make all those wafers.

I tell people, and it's the truth, I could sit in my garage for a week and it won't make me a car. And you can sit in church till your bottom is flat and that won't make you a servant of Christ.

My aunt Geraldine was the unofficial historian and storyteller. She had all the information about family members and the gossip that came out of the church because we were very much part of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church. At family gatherings, the older folk had the floor, had pride of place, and it was their stories I remember.

Music was a central part of my childhood because my mother played organ and piano in the church, and that meant all us kids had to be in the church choir.

Music has been an important part of my life forever. I played piano since birth. I've been a church pianist for over 50 years, and played in piano bars from Boston to Bangkok.

must maintain strict protection for civil rights and a clear separation of church and state.

One of the groups recognized was not a person or a team but a congregation ... for their work helping take care of the new neighbors. Here we are hundreds of hours later and they are still working. This church is faithful, prayerful and always hopeful in the goodness of our community.

On such questions, the church has clearly defined positions,

NBC's new program is fictional drama. But, as a point of fact, the Episcopal Church is known for taking an open approach to life's complexities.

I would definitely call this a historic decision. A mainline denomination like the Presbyterian Church said for the first time that an acting minister has the right to perform same-sex marriages.

I would go into synagogues and talk to people before that concert and they would say, 'Oh, the pope and the Catholic Church -- you know what they did to us at the Holocaust and ... after that concert -- Wow. I would go out after that concert and people were astonished.

I was raised in a very religious home with two parents who were deeply involved in the black church. When I was young, I went to a small black AME church in New Jersey.

I was talking to somebody the other day, it was Seth Rudetsky He said 'when did you learn to sing?   He said please dont say in Church. Thats where I learned to sing.Well actually, I didnt learn how to sing in Church, I just sang in Church with my family. My family was quite musical. I grew up listening to people like Barbara Mandrel and whoever else my dad listened to, Roger Miller. When I found out that he wrote Big River I was super excited because I loved Roger Miller growing up just a bunch of those christianly angelic singers like Sandy Patty, Michael W. Smith, you know all those people. Thats where I got my influence.

My grandmother used to go with her church to visit the soldiers at Walter Reed. But she had to stop. Couldn't take it anymore. She was a nurse at Georgetown University Hospital for 30 years, and she had seen a lot. But seeing all of those boys coming back from Iraq -- hundreds of them, 19-, 20-, 21-year-olds -- all torn apart like that, it just broke her heart.

My hope for this declaration is that through the Holy Spirit, our church leaders will recognize that all people, gifts of God's creation, deserve the dignity of being who they were created to be.

On account of this mandate, many eminent persons in the church and state fell martyrs to the ignorance and ferocity of the pagans.

One of my sons - James - just had his computer crash and it's a mess. He's an aerospace engineer. But the church library and cataloguing is all being updated to computers by the woman who is our new librarian, Jani Wagner, so I won't worry.

One of the things, one of the things that really got to me was the thing in Houston where you had the government, the mayor actually, trying to get the sermons of ministers. When the government tries to invade the church to enforce its own opinion on marriage, that's when it's time to resist.

Money is best donations can be sent to the church office for funneling to and through Presbyterian Disaster Relief which has issued a $10 million appeal.

No one knows what Falls Church retail is today.

Maybe it's unfair but it's a separation of church and state issue.

My father worked for the Diocese of Lexington, an Episcopal church - although we weren't Episcopalians - and he ran a summer camp in Eastern Kentucky.

Political theater is not uncommon in the black church culture.

Never do business with friends, family, or church folks, lest you live to regret it.

Neither team could spend any arms today. But Church did a great job for them.

Now the more we live and speak - this week and every week - as Church in this sense, the more we shall have to say to the real world.

Obviously, he was specific in looking for electronics, and this church has them. It's unusual for a burglar to return to the same place. We are fortunate that this church has such great surveillance.

Obviously, the church deals with private matters and keeps the details of such disciplinary counsel confidential.

Nyack College is an educational institute committed to training its students to serve both the church and the world. The chairman of the board has told the employees that a new president must embrace those core values and continue on the path that Dr. Schroeder has set us on.

NewSong is an opportunity to expand the number of worship languages spoken in our church family. We want to reach out to people for whom a more traditional worship style seems like an alien tongue.

My foundation donated to his church building fund and to a Katrina relief effort that his church sponsored. That's it. Period.

I don't go to church to get my politics anymore than I elect politicians to give me my religion.

I have given up the idea that there is an opposition-free church out there. But I have gained something else - an appreciation for the gift of opposition. When it comes, I learn something about my motives. When it comes, I get to test my courage.

I grew up in a little Methodist church that was very rural, very community support-oriented, made up of great people who talked about love and grace and the spiritual experience, but only in rhetorical terms.

I grew up in a somewhat religious family. My dad's family isn't religious at all, but my mom's side of the family is, so I was exposed to church a bit.

I go to church too, y'all. And I've heard it, too. And I want to say to all of our faith leaders out there that I understand that probably in my Baptist church in Maryland, it is not likely that there will be performed - in my church - gay marriages.

I got put out of my church choir because my pastor said, 'We can't have baby sister singing the blues and coming in here and singing on Sunday morning.'

I got up and told everyone thanks for their support. I was a little nervous at first. But I speak at my church sometimes, so it wasn't too bad.

I did the 'Crook and Chase' show while I was in Nashville. They asked me if I had a church background, and when I said I was born a Baptist, that got the audience on fire. They must have all been Baptists.