#church

The city's contradictions and frailties drive me to the church. The church, in turn, binds my wounds and soothes my troubled heart, and sends me right back out into the city again. ↗

— Steve Ross

#back #binds #church #city #contradictions

If you love god, burn a church. ↗

— Jello Biafra

#church #god #love #you

The entire range of human experience is present in a church choir, including, but not restricted to jealousy, revenge, horror, pride, incompetence (the tenors have never been on the right note in the entire history of church choirs, and the basses have never been on the right page), wrath, lust and existential despair. ↗

— Connie Willis

#human-experience #experience

I sang on Church Street, every place that had a stage. ↗

— Ruth Brown

#every #had #i #place #sang

The great achievement of the Catholic Church lay in harmonizing, civilizing the deepest impulses of ordinary, ignorant people. ↗

— Kenneth Clark

#catholic #catholic church #church #civilizing #deepest

The Catholic Church has never really come to terms with women. What I object to is being treated either as Madonnas or Mary Magdalenes. ↗

— Shirley Williams

#catholic #catholic church #church #come #either

I just find the evangelical church too, well, restrictive. But the School of Practical Philosophy is nonconfrontational. We believe there are many forms of Scripture. What is true is true and will never change, whether it's in the Bible or in Shakespeare. It's about oneness. ↗

— Hugh Jackman

#believe #bible #change #church #evangelical

Through my music teaching and my not absolutely irregular attendance at church, I became acquainted with the best class of colored people in Jacksonville. ↗

— James Weldon Johnson

#acquainted #attendance #became #best #church

The separation of church and state is a source of strength, but the conscience of our nation does not call for separation between men of state and faith in the Supreme Being. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

#between #call #church #conscience #does

Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

#church #episcopal #greater #hath #his