#church

There is a great difference between Christianity and religion at the south. If a man goes to the communion table, and pays money into the treasury of the church, no matter if it be the price of blood, he is called religious. ↗

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

#blood #called #christianity #church #communion

Only a couple of times have I ever been to church and felt enlightened by it. ↗

— Lynn Johnston

#church #couple #enlightened #ever #felt

And I think my sexuality was heavily repressed by the church, by the, you know, the design of the mortal sins. ↗

— Thomas Keneally

#design #heavily #i #i think #know

And I found both literature and the church very dramatic presences in the world of the 1950s. ↗

— Thomas Keneally

#church #dramatic #found #i #literature

Mom and Dad would stay in bed on Sunday morning, but the kids would have to go to church. ↗

— Lynn Johnston

#bed #church #dad #go #kids

Before my grandpa built his own church, we went to the neighboring town, and it was a white community. You know, up north, mostly middle European people and Indians, Chippewa Indians. We were welcome to that church, but once we got in, they didn't know what to do with us. ↗

— James Earl Jones

#built #church #community #european #got

My parents were terrific - mother was a church organist and my father was probably the most respected person in our church outside of the minister and sometimes maybe that much. The neighbors all called him - a gentleman. ↗

— Jane Pauley

#church #father #gentleman #him #maybe

Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition. ↗

— Samuel Pepys

#church #condition #delight #fools #into

I used to always go to church on holidays, but I don't go much any more. ↗

— Michael Phelps

#any #church #go #holidays #i

Our children were mostly brought up and educated in the Churchill suburb east of Pittsburgh. Each summer, we took them back to England for an extended period. ↗

— John Pople

#brought #children #churchill #each #east