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I'd like for each church to write down how many people they could take and provide other information such as if they have available showers or whatever. That would be a big help if and when we have to do this again.

If they (the audience) are Jewish, they can express their identity without going to church or praying. It is not about beliefs, it's about music.

If we had one person from every church and every business, we would have a good volunteer base.

I grew up in a household that had its roots in church and community and culture and poetry and song and in the arts. Those aspects certainly shaped what I do.

I grew it out specifically for the race. This feels fantastic. It feels like you're about to die out on the course, but boy, nothing feels better than finishing down Main Street. It's a beautiful hill, the church bell is ringing, everyone is cheering. It's wonderful.

Last year we met with our church leaders. They said there's going to be a point in life when you need to turn things back to God, and you have to decide when that is.

When we started, I guess it came down to the fact that our connections were there, our heart was in the church, and our music is very different from the typical church band. It's not praise and worship music.

When you bow to True Parents' picture and display the Unification Church flag, Satan will have to go far away from your home.

I have church on Sunday.” “Of course you do.” “You’re welcome to come along.” “Thanks, but I’m allergic to incense.” “That’s a shame.” “It’s the bane of my existence.” - Beth and Jake

[R]eligion cannot share the material strength of the rulers without being burdened with some of the animosity roused against them.

European Christianity has allowed itself to be intimately united with the powers of this world. Now that these powers are falling, it is as if it were buried under their ruins.

Since we've been home, we've been to church and out to eat several times. Link does wonderful. When he's got his harness on he's all business. When we get home and take the harness off, he's all puppy.

Since the hurricane, the size of the choir has doubled; workers are showing up who had not been in church for weeks; and tired volunteers are rejoicing in the feeling that the Holy Spirit is at work both in the church and in the lives of those they serve. The Methodists showed up Saturday night to relieve the tired Baptists from their kitchen duties as they served their Catholic and Presbyterian evacuee friends.

My job is to invite the church back to its purpose and calling and encourage people in their love for God and for one another and to make adequate response to the world around them,

Most people in my church get dressed up. They like to look nice. If you dress to go to work, why not dress to serve God?

She believed that Maggie was God's baby and was persistent that she needed to find a way to give her back to God. She tried to find a way to give Maggie back to the people in church to send her back to God. She was creating a new spirit and wanted to go to heaven.

Most of these kids grew up in church and they've been fed and everybody's been giving to them. But just to see the smile on their face when they get to reach out to somebody else and show the love of Jesus, it's something they'll never forget.

She just said she was sorry and for me to write a note to the church saying that she was sorry for everything she had done.

She's a ball of fire, very giving. She's a good church lady with a lot of spirit.

She can be in this community and hold her conscience, but the church has its rights to its own governance.

When I was a young boy, during the aftermath of World War II, Germany was broken and in ruins. Many people were hungry, sick, and dying. I remember well the humanitarian shipments of food and clothing that came from the Church in Salt Lake City.

Making contacts direct ? church to church, individual to individual ? is producing the delivery of services much more quickly than government agencies can do it, ... We're really meeting some needs that are urgent.

Many people will assume I'm drawing a wildly idealistic portrait of what the church can become. I would argue that all of the changes I'm calling for are not only realistic, they're essential. And I'd also say that in some way or other, each of them is already underway.

Many people say, 'I don't have to go to church to be a Christian,' without considering fellowship in relation to their continued spiritual growth. In the New Testament coming together is emphasized. Over and over we find the passages saying to love one another, encourage one another and comfort each other.

Since babyhood, I've always evolved from one thing to another. My mother gave me ballet lessons at 6 as part of her enthusiasm for the arts and for life. We went to museums, to the theater. While her own talent was untapped, she worked for church causes.

Simply put, to end the AIDS epidemic in the United States, we need to mobilize efforts in all our communities to combat HIV/AIDS and to coordinate these initiatives with research institutions, pharmaceutical companies, national organizations and local community and church groups.

Secondly, we expect parents to be in regular attendance in a church to continually influence raising and upbringing of the children,

Old people and young people love cars and everyone remembers their first car and this church is trying to connect with everybody in our community, ... We want to minister to our community.

On a hot summer day, the varnish from the pews would end up on your shirt. We decided that if the church wasn't going to repaint and renovate itself, we would do it for the church.

She wanted to go to church that morning. And she'd put her great granddaughters Christmas gifts in the car. And I guess she'd already grabbed her purse and everything. She told me she turned the car around, and it just burst into flames.

She was a church lady -- very intelligent lady.

She was a good woman. She was honest, she went to church regular. She always taught us right from wrong. I miss her already.

She went to church every day. A neighbor picked her up every morning. But when he drove past that morning, he noticed the victim was not at the curb. He knocked on the door, but (got) no response.

She was part of her church choir, step team and usher board. She loved McDonald's, mashed potatoes ? but most of all she loved the Lord.

Church is what you do. Church is who you are. Church is the human outworking of the person of Jesus Christ. Let's not go to Church, let's be the Church.

The local church is the hope of the world, and its future rests primarily in the hands of its leaders.

The local church is the hope of the world.

There is nothing like the local church when the local church is working right.

Church work ought to be at its core the work of loving people like God loves them

Whatever the capacity for human suffering, the church has a greater capacity for healing and wholeness.

Leadership in church is one of the biggest challenges that the Church is facing because without strong leadership, the church rarely lives out its redemptive potentials.

The Church will never reach her full redemptive potential until men and women with the leadership gift step up and lead.

If it's the last thing I do, I will give every ounce of the rest of my life to helping leaders and churches get better.

A lot of kids, when they go to church, they don't really pay much attention to what they're saying or whatever.

The fact that I was taking naps in churches, in between takes of the [Ordinary World], and there was that guerilla style of filmmaking, I felt more at home with that.

We met the first day and sang in the choir together, ... We played guitar at churches. We used to borrow the priests' guitars and take the microphones from church to sing. So many times we would sing in the bathrooms in Cathedral because the acoustics were awesome.

We met the first day and sang in the choir together. We played guitar at churches. We used to borrow the priests' guitars and take the microphones from church to sing. So many times we would sing in the bathrooms in Cathedral because the acoustics were awesome.

The Church has been reproached with endeavouring to appropriate to itself all those professorships in our Universities which are connected with science: it is however certain that the larger portion of these ill-remunerated offices have been filled by clergymen.

The Church is a terrible engine of oppression, especially as concerns woman

I strongly believe in the separation of church and state. But freedom of religion does not mean freedom from religion, there is a better way.

For me, the Church is the enemy.

Theres a lot of churches that hide their dirty laundry under the rug, and I know about that from being in the church 27 years. Oh, yeah.

Yes, believers and non-believers and skeptics can all live together and get along. But there cannot be an imperialistic imposition of religion by the state or by the church. All people must be equal--believers, skeptics, disbelievers, atheists, and those who chose religion. Unless we are all deemed equal, and unless the morality of disbelief is deemed the equivalent of the morality of belief, we will simply be tolerated, and that is not the American way.

One cannot walk down an avenue, converse with a friend, enter a building, browse beneath the sandstone arches of an old arcade without meeting an instrument of time. Time is visible in all places. Clock towers, wristwatches, church bells divide years into months, months into days, days into hours, hours into seconds, each increment of time marching after the other in perfect succession. And beyond any particular clock, a vast scaffold of time, stretching across the universe, lays down the law of time equally for all.

Better far off to leave half the ruins and nine-tenths of the churches unseen and to see well the rest; to see them not once, but again and often again; to watch them, to learn them, to live with them, to love them, till they have become a part of life and life's recollections.

a church ought to express the joy of religion as well as its majesty.

The church has been brought into the same value system as the world: fame, success, materialism and celebrity. We watch the leading churches and the leading Christians for our cues. We want to emulate the best known preachers with the biggest sanctuaries and the grandest edifices. Preoccupation with these values has perverted the church's message.

Redeeming culture is the never ending mission of the church.

The life function of [the local church] is to love the God who created it - to care for others out of obedience to Christ, to heal those who hurt, to take away fear, to restore community, to belong to one another, to proclaim the Good News while living it out. The church is the invisible made visible.

The church does not draw people in; it sends them out.

The church is the only institution supernaturally endowed by God. It is the one institution of which Jesus promised that the gates of hell will not prevail against it.

I do not believe one can experience conversion or the fullness of the Christian life apart from the church.

The church's job is to equip the saints for works of service in the world.

The health of a church depends not merely on the creed which it professes, not even on the wisdom and holiness of a few great ecclesiastics, but on the faith and virtue of its individual members.

The blues to me is like being very sad, very sick, going to church, being very happy ... it's sort of a mixed up thing. You just have to feel it.

I tell people, you know, going to the club doesn’t make me a bad person, going to church doesn’t make you a good one.

The Church is the Church only when it exists for others...not dominating, but helping and serving. It must tell men of every calling what it means to live for Christ, to exist for others.

Where a people prays, there is the church; and where the church is; there is never loneliness.

Whenever the Psalter is abandoned, an incomparable treasure is lost to the Christian church. With its recovery will come unexpected power.

The church ... is not just to bandage the victims under the wheel, but to put a spoke in the wheel itself.

The church must share in the secular problems of ordinary human life, not dominating, but helping and serving.

The Church knows nothing of a sacredness of war. The Church which prays'Our Father'asks God only for peace.

The church has an unconditional obligation to the victims of any ordering society, even if they do not belong to the Christian community.

I grew up Baptist and still go to church. I myself have explored other religions, because I want to know what it is that makes other people tick. I find we're all talking about the same thing, really - it's all God.

Do you see this egg? With this you can topple every theological theory, every church or temple in the world.

Page, Arizona, Shithead Capital of Coconino County: any town with thirteen churches and only four bars has got an incipient social problem. That town is looking for trouble.

In social institutions, the whole is always less than the sum of its parts. There will never be a state as good as its people, or a church worthy of its congregation, or a university equal to its faculty and students.

The Church says: the body is a sin. Science says: the body is a machine. Advertising says: The body is a business. The Body says: I am a fiesta.

The viewers must come to understand the sacredness of painting, so they will remove their hats as if they were in church.

A landscape, torn by mists and clouds, in which I can see ruins of old churches, as well as of Greek temples - that is Brahms.

I was in Rome, and located a Michelangelo expert. He took us to the church where Michelangelo's body was kept after he died until his family stole it back. It's a real insider-y way to the get the inside scoop on a city.

The only thing I would do differently is, I might make the great room wider and longer. When we do get a ton of people up here, this room is full - but that's like designing a church for Easter Sunday.

Kids don't care. Whoever can take them down the field and score and help them win ball games, that's who they will follow. In talking to one of our players, they said, 'Coach, this ain't no church league.' We're trying to win ball games, and whoever can get the job done and do the best job is who this team will follow.

I don't attend church because I am a Meryl Streepist and we, her disciples, have not organized a place of worship yet. We just watch 'Sophie's Choice' in our homes once a month and sing praise together in a collective cry of shock and awe and devotion.

Given the history of this church, for some of the older members, it's a difficult thing to move away -- because they've put their hearts into all those expansions over the years -- but our church really has a heart for reaching people, and we've reached our capacity here.

I am responsible for making sure that all of the church members live a godly life, and if they do not, I am in charge of their discipline.

I can tell you the church will be full.

Four hours after we finished planting those acorns, we got the call from friends at church that Hope Stout had died. And while we had already been thinking about ways that we could use those trees some day to give back to Hope, that sort of sealed their fate as the Hope Oaks.

(Former athletic director) Bill Wilder went to the school's board and church council and convinced them that they could have a football program for little money, ... They bought into that.

From our earliest hour we have been taught that the thought of the heart, the shaping of the rain-cloud, the amount of wool that grows on a sheep's back, the length of a drought, and the growing of the corn, depend on nothing that moves immutable, at the heart of all things; but on the changeable will of a changeable being, whom our prayers can alter. To us, from the beginning, Nature has been but a poor plastic thing, to be toyed with this way or that, as man happens to please his deity or not; to go to church or not; to say his prayers right or not; to travel on a Sunday or not. Was it possible for us in an instant to see Nature as she is --the flowing vestment of an unchanging reality?

I feel our church family has been open and willing to change because they feel worship is more than about opinion. It's about the heart. It can be an emotional thing, but we want to go beyond the emotions to a spiritual experience that draws you closer to God.

I am donating the sweater machine to the church and hope to find someone to teach how to use the machine before I leave. It's not hard. I taught myself with a lot of notes and trial and error.

God has blessed this church in such a great way. It is a very loving church; people are so comfortable because of relationships here.

God has used this situation to give my people on-hands experience at working and putting the rubber to the road in ministry and becoming missionaries. I think our church is going to be receiving a blessing from this years from now.

Give the church a place in the Constitution, let her touch once more the sword of power, and the priceless fruit of all ages will turn to ashes on the lips of men

Gladstone, at the end of the 19th century, said that the task of the priest had become much more difficult than it had ever been. Today it has worsened rather than improved, in a Church that is divided and in a culture where God has been pushed out of many lives and is not given the opportunity to influence scores of others.

For two thousand years, the Church has guided the development of music, carefully legislating to fuse artistic talent and aesthetic beauty with the demands of the Faith.

I get very impatient with church people who say there's something wrong with having doubts, because let's be honest: There's every reason to have doubts.

I have a Bible study that my friends and I go to here in L.A. I go to church every Sunday. I've always been a believer. I love singing. I don't have the best voice - I just love getting my emotions out.

I bought three suits from him earlier. There is an image that goes with going to church. . . . It is a tradition that we have in the black church. . . . We have to go to church presentable as well, because people should recognize that we are worshipping.