#church

Institutions - government, churches, industries, and the like - have properly no other function than to contribute to human freedom; and in so far as they fail, on the whole, to perform this function, they are wrong and need reconstruction. ↗

— Charles Horton Cooley

#contribute #fail #far #freedom #function

When I was little, like 7 to 15, there was nothing I wanted to do but go to church and go to school. ↗

— Mary J. Blige

#go #i #like #little #nothing

Baseball is like church. Many attend few understand. ↗

— Leo Durocher

#baseball #church #few #like #many

As for the British churchman, he goes to church as he goes to the bathroom, with the minimum of fuss and no explanation if he can help it. ↗

— Ronald Blythe

#british #church #explanation #fuss #goes

It was a real surprise to me to come across the evidence that Christianity might once have been a danced religion. Certainly, some of the early church leaders thought this was great and spoke of what seems to have been circle dancing, perhaps around an altar. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#altar #around #been #certainly #christianity

There is a lot of absurdity sometimes, not just in Mormonism but often in other religions that want to pretend that no bad happens in their church, rather than taking care of what bad does happen. ↗

— Neil LaBute

#bad #care #church #does #happen

It was not just the Church that resisted the heliocentrism of Copernicus. ↗

— Tycho Brahe

#just #resisted

I started growing up in a hurry and taking a lot of the philosophy I'd heard from church as a kid a lot more seriously - especially the Ten Commandments - and wondering how 'Thou shalt not kill' could be so absolutely ignored. It took me until I was in my 40s to write what I was thinking as a young soldier. ↗

— Dave Brubeck

#church #commandments #could #especially #growing

Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God. ↗

— Lenny Bruce

#back #church #day #every #every day

Out of the depths, O Lord, out of the depths,' begins the most beautiful of the services of our church, and it is out of the depths of my life that I must bring the incidents of this story. ↗

— Hall Caine

#begins #bring #church #depths #i