Church Quotes - Page 40

• I coach church planters to look at the ethnic diversity of schools and neighborhoods they are near. This will be an indicator how ethnically diverse their congregation can become.

  Derwin L. Gray

  School, Diversity, Looks

  "The Gospel and Multiethnic Churches: An Interview with Derwin Gray". Interview with Preston Sprinkle, www.patheos.com. January 11, 2016.

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• When I talk to my neighbor, or to someone at church who doesn't accept that the planet is changing, I know that they don't know any better. They've been told this information by somebody they trust and it's not their fault. They've just never heard otherwise.

  Katharine Hayhoe

  Information, Faults, Neighbor

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The first thing we can do as individuals and as communities, like a school or a university or a church, is cut our energy use. Do an energy audit or measure our carbon footprint using online carbon calculators that are free, easy, and cheap. Get a list of the ways that we can stop wasting so much energy and save money.

  Katharine Hayhoe

  School, Cutting, Carbon Footprint

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Growing up, Catholic church really was such an incubator for my imagination, because all of those mysteries felt embedded in this insanely green, tropical landscape: the ocean nearby, the giant banyan trees. It all felt part of one seamless mystery to me.

  Karen Russell

  Growing Up, Ocean, Imagination

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I think it's funny how people get confused when they think about church music, because a lot of times there is a soloist who stands out, but my church wasn't like that at all.

  Valerie June

  Confused, Thinking, Church Music

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I was brought up in the Christian church and I studied in the teachings of Jesus. I believed in caring for others and trying to be kind. It's something I still have to work on every day.

  Ronee Blakley

  Christian, Jesus, Teaching

  Source: therumpus.net

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• By the time I was about ten, I had started to lose faith with church ways. I was educated in some ways by my high school government and history teachers.

  Ronee Blakley

  Teacher, School, Government

  Source: therumpus.net

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• My parents got my sister and I to go to church and have piano lessons. We were keen and they could see that.

  Gordon Lightfoot

  Piano, Parent, Lessons

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• The attitude of the Catholic Church towards homosexuality is well known - it is treated as something unnatural, even as a disease.

  Malgorzata Szumowska

  Attitude, Catholic, Disease

  "Berlin Q&A: Director Malgorzata Szumowska". Interview with Kirill Galeststski, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 13, 2013.

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• I've left the Church - for many reasons that I've written about publicly - but it's still a large part of my identity, and I still have my faith, if not my Church.

  Julianna Baggott

  Identity, Reason, Stills

  Interview with Roxane Gay, therumpus.net. May 11, 2012.

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• In Rome, I loved seeing the Caravaggios. There are churches in Rome that have Caravaggios, and there's one, not far from Piazza Navona, that has the best, I think: St. Matthew with the money.

  Owen Wilson

  Thinking, Rome, Matthew

  Interview with Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pierpaolo Piccioli, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 15, 2016.

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• While we were walking around, we came to the Catholic church, and we saw that some people had set fire to carpets and banked them around the rectory, which was made out of wood. They knew every fire truck on the South Side was going to be in the park, that the rectory would just burn to the ground. Our one little act was putting out that fire.

  Sara Paretsky

  Fire, People, Catholic

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• I can remember, I think it was 1967, sitting in the First Unitarian Church in Isla Vista, Santa Barbara, and seeing Phil Levine come out on the little stage. He sat on the edge and said, "You know, sometimes it's hard not to hate my country for the way I feel, at times, but I won't let that happen." And then he read, "They Feed They Lion," this incredibly powerful, incantatory poem that was inspired in part by the burning of Detroit in 1967 and the riots that followed.

  Sam Hamill

  Country, Powerful, Hate

  Interview with Anne-Marie Cusac, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. March 31, 2003.

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• I think it's hypocritical and inconsistent for us to attack this one group of people over any other group of people that are within our churches today. If we were talking about one of their sin issues we wouldn't have addressed this at all. I find that hypocritical and inconsistent.

  Alan Chambers

  Thinking, Talking, Church Today

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• I ain't going to lie: I was happy, man. Me and my sisters and my brother was mad cool. We all did the music thing. My dad had the keys to the church, so we would go over there and jam. So I just want my kids to have fun the right way. I want their type of trouble to be, like, "Aw, Dad, I locked the keys in the car." I don't want to hear about, "Oh, my friend just got shot."

  Fetty Wap

  Brother, Fun, Dad

  Interview with Trevor Noah, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 8, 2016.

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• Exodus is a very large organization. My board of directors is supportive of me as the president of Exodus and are very much involved in my decision-making and those types of things. They're a wonderful and balanced group of people and I'm grateful for their support. Within the membership we have 270 or so members within the network of Exodus whether that's a local member ministry, a counselor or one of our members of our church association.

  Alan Chambers

  Grateful, Organization, People

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• A 2008 poll of 35,000 Americans revealed that 57% of Evangelical church attenders believe that many religions can lead to eternal life.

  Robert Jeffress

  Believe, Polls, Eternal Life

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• I remember an answer which when quite young I was prompted to make a valued adviser who was wont to importune me with the dear old doctrines of the church. On my saying, What have I to do with the sacredness of traditions, if I live wholly from within? my friend suggested, - "But these impulses may be from below, not from above." I replied, 'They do not seem to me to be such; but if I am the devil's child, I will live then from the devil.'

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Children, Devil, Doctrine

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.43, 谷月社

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• Our cause in the war on terror isn't helped when we have army officers like Lieutenant General William Boykin speaking in evangelical churches and claiming this as some sort of battle for the Christian religion. That's wrong. That's un-American.

  John F. Kerry

  Christian, War, Army

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• I'm very interested in religion and different religions, and I know quite a lot about it. I love gospel music, and I love going to churches, but the one drawback is that I don't actually believe in God. And it is quite a handicap, you know.

  Nick Lowe

  Believe, Different, Drawbacks

  "Nick Lowe Brings His 'Quality Holiday Revue' To America". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 22, 2014.

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• It's a matter of each of the two churches being very deeply enculturated in its own setting and having difficulty understand the other.

  Justo L. Gonzalez

  Two, Matter, Very Deep

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• The eastern part of the Roman Empire spoke mostly Greek, and the western parts spoke mostly Latin. So very soon, you begin getting different emphases between the Eastern church and the Western church.

  Justo L. Gonzalez

  Latin, Greek, Different

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• The church generation in which Jesus returns will actively participate in this revolution. ... My premise: Many people alive today will see this revolution in their lifetime.

  Mike Bickle

  Jesus, People, Live For Today

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• I'm seeing too many kids where they get fixated on their own autism. I'd rather have them get fixated that they like programming computers or they like art or they want to sing in the church choir or they want to train dogs, you know, something that they can turn into a career.

  Temple Grandin

  Dog, Art, Kids

  "Autism & animal welfare activist Temple Grandin". The Tavis Smiley Show, www.pbs.org. July 5, 2013.

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• An obsession that I've developed in my old age, is great architecture. I bought a house in New Orleans and I became quite enamored of the architecture there. It began there. I travel a lot or my work, so now, wherever I go, I wasn't to find the most beautiful church, the most beautiful museums. Anything ancient.

  Jennifer Coolidge

  Beautiful, New Orleans, Museums

  Source: www.discdish.com

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