#churches

I love going to black churches, and I love some of these black preachers. The best preacher I ever saw in my life was a 93-year-old in a black church in Hamilton, Virginia. What a preacher! ↗

— Robert Duvall

#black #church #churches #ever #going

Yes, I think especially the Pentecostal churches, you know, that there's been such a growth in Pentecostalism. And it's a rejection of the much more dour and barren kind of Calvinist worship and also, the very formal Catholic forms of worship. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#barren #been #catholic #churches #especially

But I have been in some very beautiful churches, then I've looked outside and seen people starving to death. ↗

— Don Van Vliet

#been #churches #death #i #looked

Let Catholics build their own churches and works. ↗

— Vladimir Zhirinovsky

#catholics #churches #own #their #works

This dullness of vision regarding the importance of the general welfare to the individual is the measure of the failure of our schools and churches to teach the spiritual significance of genuine democracy. ↗

— Henry A. Wallace

#democracy #dullness #failure #general #general welfare

No, we are not the master of the state, said King. We are not the servant of the state. We are the conscience of the state. The churches or the religious community should be, I think, the conscience of the state. We're not just service providers. ↗

— Jim Wallis

#community #conscience #i #i think #just

Mere heathen morality, and not Jesus Christ, is preached in most of our churches. ↗

— George Whitefield

#churches #heathen #jesus #jesus christ #mere

The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#authors #best #churches #colleges #common

I think our failure in the production of good town churches of distinctive character must have struck you often, as it has me, when contrasted with our comparative success in country churches. ↗

— George Edmund Street

#churches #comparative #contrasted #country #distinctive

You can look at anything as a cult. Churches are cults in their own way. ↗

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

#churches #cult #cults #look #own