I grew up loving music, like, loving it. I was involved in church choir, leading worship and all the choirs in my school – even glee club. – Kelsea Ballerini
Just very practically, pastors need to be careful that while they have a right to call people to absolute allegiance to the Word of God, we don’t have the right to call people to absolute allegiance to our programs or every ministry we have at the church. – Kevin DeYoung
Separation of Church and state was a radical idea when the U.S. was first founded, but it’s become The Way Things Are. – Judith Tarr
Our public schools began as ministries of the church; now it is time to return them to the Lord. – Jay Alan Sekulow
Vatican II was a force that seized the mind of the Roman Catholic Church and carried it across centuries from the 13th to the 20th. – Lance Morrow
When I was young, I went to a church where the lighter-skinned you were, the closer you sat to the altar. – Lee Daniels
‘My Church’ – that was really the tipping point of me going from songwriter to artist. – Maren Morris
That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. – The Bible Matthew 16:18
Every Christmas should begin with the sound of bells, and when I was a child mine always did. But they were sleigh bells, not church bells, for we lived in a part of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, where there were no churches. – Paul Engle
The more members of the clergy that are out there working to expand their congregations, the more people will go to church. – Rodney Stark
All leaders in the Lord’s Church are called by proper authority. No prophet or any other leader in this Church, for that matter, has ever called himself or herself. No prophet has ever been elected. – Russell M. Nelson
I grew up in a very Catholic family. Up until puberty, I would go to a Catholic church every week. – Park Chan-wook
It doesn’t say anywhere in the Constitution this idea of the separation of church and state. – Sean Hannity
I support non-discrimination for homosexuals, but I think, or at least I have the right to think – without saying whether I think it or not – I have the right to think, along with the catechism of the Catholic Church, that homosexuality is morally wrong. – Rocco Buttiglione
When you go to church, if the pastor at some point doesn’t make you laugh, he probably ain’t gonna make you join. – R. Kelly
We’re not opposed to Catholics having pride in their church, but that doesn’t mean that every church that doesn’t join them isn’t a church. – Pope Shenouda III
As a child, I had lived many years in Southampton and sang in the choir of the Dune Church. – Rachel Lambert Mellon
If it came to saving the life of one priest or sacrificing the life of an entire congregation, the church would save the life of the priest. Which is backwards, of course. – Rob Walton
I was baptized a Baptist, but I’m just Christian, as far as I’m concerned. I could go in any church, doesn’t matter if it’s Baptist, Protestant, Episcopal, or Catholic. – Queen Latifah