You know what I do on Sundays? I sing in a choir. I sing in a Greek Orthodox choir, and I’m the only hillbilly tenor in the Orthodox Church. – Chris Hillman
There are enormously gifted Episcopal priests around this church who are gay and lesbian, some of whom are partnered, who would make wonderful bishops and they’re going to be nominated and they’re going to be elected. – Gene Robinson
You have the Roman Catholic Church, the Church of England, the Presbyterians, the Wesleyans, represented in each school, and they are each to take alternate days. – Charles Tupper
There is no dogma that the organ or harmonium can be used in church, but not the drum. – Francis Arinze
The Church is everywhere represented as one. It is one body, one family, one fold, one kingdom. It is one because pervaded by one Spirit. We are all baptized into one Spirit so as to become, says the apostle, on body. – Charles Hodge
The walls of the Franciscan Church of the Assumption of the Holy Virgin Mary were ruined stucco chipping away from the brick underneath, with ghostly frescoes, concrete-filled niches, and one complete, vivid crucifix painted over the altar. – Elizabeth McCracken
Not far from our house, and opposite the old church with the golden cross, stood a large building, even larger than the church, and having many towers. – Max Muller
We must not reduce the bosom of the universal church to a nest protecting our mediocrity. – Pope Francis
I don’t know that the Libertarian Party has an official position on the separation of church and state. – Michael Badnarik
I’m completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death. – George Carlin
In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to appear better than we really are. – E. Stanley Jones
I think if the church did what they were supposed to do we wouldn’t have anyone sleeping on the streets. – Michael W. Smith
All the reasons which require the subjection of a believer to the brethren of a particular church, require his subjection to all his brethren in the Lord. – Charles Hodge
Nobody has ever called Shea Stadium a cathedral. In style, it was more like the old warehouse or outdated movie theater that Korean worshippers have transformed into a church in the borough of Queens. Not a cathedral – but a place where people go to be fulfilled, nonetheless. – George Vecsey
Christ has not only ordained that there shall be such officers in his Church – he has not only specified their duties and prerogatives – but he gives the requisite qualifications, and calls those thus qualified, and by that call gives them their official authority. – Charles Hodge
In my growing-up years in Germany, I attended church in many different locations and circumstances – in humble back rooms, in impressive villas, and in very functional modern chapels. – Dieter F. Uchtdorf
Even in my own church I heard the words, ‘Francis Chan’ more than I heard the words, ‘Holy Spirit.’ – Francis Chan
Romanists tell us that the Pope is the vicar of Christ; that he is his successor as the universal head and ruler of the Church on earth. If this is so, he must be a Christ. – Charles Hodge
By the last decades of the 21st century, church worship will still take the form of reading passages of traditional texts – the Bible, the Koran, the Rig Veda – but physicist-priests will preside over the ceremonies. – Frank Tipler
I always sang in church always was in a gospel choir and directed choirs and always performed, but I never thought of it as a powerful thing. – Charles King
I knew how to sing in choirs and sing in church, but I didn’t know how to sing in a studio. That’s what Darlene and the Blossoms taught me to do – to be a studio singer. – Merry Clayton
The Chinese state is constructed in an entirely different way from western states. Unlike European states, for over a millennium the Chinese state has not been obliged to compete for power with rivals such as the church, the aristocracy or merchants. – Martin Jacques