#church

It's a curious thing in American life that the most abject nonsense will be excused if the utterer can claim the sanction of religion. A country which forbids an established church by law is prey to any denomination. The best that can be said is that this is pluralism of a kind. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#christianity #jerry-falwell #jesse-jackson #pluralism #religion

I heard stories from my mother's mother who was an American Indian. She was spiritual, although she did not go to church, but she had the hum. She used to tell me stories of the rivers. ↗

— Tina Turner

#american #church #did #go #had

In fact, my parents were church people; my father was a deacon in the church. ↗

— Tina Turner

#deacon #fact #father #in fact #parents

Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me. ↗

— Alice Walker

#brought #church #ever #felt #god

The church must always show compassion, always. ↗

— Rick Warren

#church #compassion #must #show

My husband is from Hawaii and his father who was also born in Hawaii was a teenager when Pearl Harbor happened, right before church and he ran up and got on the roof of his grandfather's house and watched the planes go over. ↗

— Sigourney Weaver

#before #born #church #father #go

Christians should emphatically be campaigning for justice for the poor - but the Church is not a campaign. ↗

— Rowan D. Williams

#campaigning #christians #church #emphatically #justice

The Church is the new creation, it is life and joy, it is the sacramental fellowship in which we share the ultimate purpose of God, made real for us now in our hearing the Word and sharing the Sacrament. ↗

— Rowan D. Williams

#creation #fellowship #god #hearing #joy

I do feel that federation, loose parallel processes, are less than we've got, less than we could have and, in the very long run, less than what God wants in the Church. ↗

— Rowan Williams

#could #federation #feel #god #got

Nobody sees the obvious, nobody observes the ordinary. There are more miracles in a square yard of earth than in all the fables of the Church. ↗

— Robert Anton Wilson

#earth #fables #miracles #more #nobody