#church

I started singing in church and I was probably around seven and I started singing anywhere that I could. I used to sing at my school. I was in musicals and then it kind of got to a point where I started to - wanted to do my own songs. ↗

— Avril Lavigne

#around #church #could #got #i

The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool. ↗

— Lynn Lavner

#critic #guide #must #never #state

When cerebral processes enter into sports, you start screwing up. It's like the Constitution, which says separate church and state. You have to separate mind and body. ↗

— Bill Lee

#cerebral #church #constitution #enter #into

I can't speak to the differences within the Catholic Church. ↗

— Jacob Lew

#catholic church #church #differences #i #speak

Under pressure, people admit to murder, setting fire to the village church or robbing a bank, but never to being bores. ↗

— Elsa Maxwell

#bank #being #bores #church #fire

For many years, our Messianic Jewish brothers and sisters have paid a great price. Other Jews have rejected them, and the Christian church would require they walk away from their traditions to fit into the Gentile culture. We must face these past wrongs. ↗

— Bill McCartney

#brothers #christian #christian church #church #culture

For me, and maybe for many religious kids of the '60s, the church lost relevance the more it became a surrogate in the movement for social and political change. ↗

— Mike McCurry

#change #church #kids #lost #many

Yes, though I have nothing but gratitude for my upbringing in the church. ↗

— John McGahern

#gratitude #i #nothing #though #upbringing

The downfall of the church will not come from a lack of apologetic teaching; it will come from disintegration of the families in the church. ↗

— Josh McDowell

#church #come #disintegration #downfall #families

I am an Episcopalian who takes the faith of my fathers seriously, and I would, I think, be disheartened if my own young children were to turn away from the church when they grow up. I am also a critic of Christianity, if by critic one means an observer who brings historical and literary judgment to bear on the texts and traditions of the church. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#am #away #bear #brings #children