#church

I seemed so different from other kids; I grew up in church and felt a connection with God, and a lot of kids my age really didn't understand that. ↗

— Fantasia Barrino

#church #connection #different #felt #god

Nobody seems to know yet how television is going to affect the radio, movies, love, housekeeping or the church, but it has definitely revived vaudeville. ↗

— Edgar Bergen

#church #definitely #going #housekeeping #how

Art, that great undogmatized church. ↗

— Ellen Key

#church #great

Every Wednesday, my husband and I have a study group with our friends. I attend church. We try to devote time in the morning, say a prayer. ↗

— Carrie Underwood

#church #devote #every #friends #group

I mean, I went to a church school when I was younger and imbibed a certain amount of religion then but it was really in university that I got interested in religion and politics at the same time. I don't think as if it were one moment of conversion but my spiritual journey really began then. ↗

— Tony Blair

#began #certain #church #conversion #got

What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? are they two and not one? Can they exist separate? Are not religion and politics the same thing? Brotherhood is religion. O demonstrations of reason dividing families in cruelty and pride! ↗

— William Blake

#church #cruelty #demonstrations #dividing #exist

Baseball is like church. Many attend few understand. ↗

— Leo Durocher

#baseball #church #few #like #many

I would like to encourage you to stop thinking of what you're doing as ministry. Start realizing that your ministry is how much of a tip you leave when you eat in a restaurant; when you leave a hotel room whether you leave it all messed up or not; whether you flush your own toilet or not. Your ministry is the way that you love people. And you love people when you write something that is encouraging to them, something challenging. You love people when you call your wife and say, 'I'm going to be late for dinner,' instead of letting her burn the meal. You love people when maybe you cook a meal for your wife sometime, because you know she's really tired. Loving people - being respectful toward them - is much more important than writing or doing music. ↗

— Rich Mullins

#ministry #the-church #love

If I have so far argued that Foucault is a kind of closet liberal and thus deeply modern, I need to be equally critical of evangelical (and especially American) Christianity's modernity and its appropriation of Enlightenment notions of the autonomous self. Indeed, many otherwise orthodox Christians, who recoil at the notion of theological liberalism, have unwittingly adopted notions of freedom and autonomy that are liberal to the core. Averse to hierarchies and control, contemporary evangelicalism thrives on autonomy: the autonomy of the nondenominational church, at a macrocosmic level, and the autonomy of the individual Christian, at the microcosmic level. And it does not seem to me that the emerging church has changed much on this score; indeed, some elements of emergent spirituality are intensifications of this affirmation of autonomy and a laissez-faire attitude with respect to institutions. ↗

— James K.A. Smith

#churches #doctrine #emergent-church #foucault #institutions

We are not some casual and meaningless product of evolution. Each of us is the result of a thought of God. ↗

— Pope Benedict XVI

#catholic-creed #catholicism #darwinism #evolution #evolution