I found out that many of our Catholics simply don’t know what the church teaches, and why, on a lot of issues, and therefore are saying things that they think are okay. They simply don’t know. – Roger Mahony
Well, to take me from where I was, and the life I was leading, to the life I lead now with the church and with the Lord and with Jesus Christ, it’s a total, total turn-around. – Pat Summerall
Catholic liturgical music, it would seem, is everywhere but in the Catholic Church itself. – Richard Morris
I was unwilling to – without getting too philosophical about it – I was unwilling to structure my spirituality in the way that the church wanted me to structure it. – Peter Jurasik
There was only one decline in church attendance, and that was in the late 1960s when the Vatican said it was not a sin to miss Mass. They said Catholics could act like Protestants, and so they did. – Rodney Stark
The earlier practice of the Church had been more or less to employ in worship under the presidency of the pastor or pastors, the gifts of the congregation. – Robert Rainy
I started saying things in church that didn’t meet with a lot of approval – like ‘Jesus isn’t coming back.’ They started throwing Bibles. – Sam Kinison
The Church has always been willing to swap off treasures in heaven for cash down. – Robert Green Ingersoll
I grew up in the Methodist church. My wife grew up in the Baptist church. And wives get everything they want. So we got married in the Baptist church. – Rick Scott
It is a better thing to save souls for the Lord than to save treasures. He who sent forth his apostles without gold had not need of gold to form his Church. The Church possesses gold, not to hoard, but to scatter abroad and come to the aid of the unfortunate. – Saint Ambrose
We should always be disposed to believe that that which appears white is really black, if the hierarchy of the Church so decides. – Saint Ignatius
Meanwhile the Church more and more provided for the doctrine of the Holy Spirit, by practically chaining His influence to the hierarchy and the sacraments. – Robert Rainy
I’m Catholic and Mum taught me the comfort that you can get from going to church. But I’m an a la carte Catholic. I love all the pomp and ceremony of it. – Patsy Kensit
I have never pretended to be the best Scientologist, but I openly and vigorously defended the church whenever it was criticized, as I railed against the kind of intolerance that I believed was directed against it. I had my disagreements, but I dealt with them internally. – Paul Haggis
As for the British churchman, he goes to church as he goes to the bathroom, with the minimum of fuss and no explanation if he can help it. – Ronald Blythe
I think in a lot of network television, everyone’s vaguely Protestant and doesn’t really go to church so they can be ‘relatable.’ – Rachel Bloom
You are more committed to things that you give money to – whether it is a church or a politician. – Roy Blunt
I was never taken to a play or concert or church. Yet I was a show-off, a dreamer, a storyteller. – Ralph Waite
Nobody sees the obvious, nobody observes the ordinary. There are more miracles in a square yard of earth than in all the fables of the Church. – Robert Anton Wilson
I had actually gone to a church-related college, but I went on a football scholarship, not because of any interest in the church. – R. C. Sproul
I sang in church, but growing up in the neighborhood, music was more of an expression of relief or entertainment. – Q-Tip