Quotes by Church I'm not denouncing the church, and I'm not interested in people who want me to denounce the church. It's not a church worthy of denouncing. Barack Obama church want people Black churches minister to social needs out of necessity. Barack Obama black church needs Alongside my own deep personal faith, I am a follower, as well, of our civic religion. I am a big believer in the separation of church and state. Barack Obama separation followers church A red brick Presbyterian church... captured by kudzu vines as surely as a butterfly in a net. Barbara Ascher vines butterfly church The problem is, many of the people in need of saving are in churches, and at least part of what they need saving from is the idea that God sees the world the same way they do. Barbara Brown Taylor church people ideas The poets began drifting away from churches as the jurists grew louder and more insistent. Barbara Brown Taylor grew poet church Church can be extremely boring. It can be very meaningful, it can be character forming, but can be have very little fizz in it. Barbara Brown Taylor church meaningful character To be in the mainline is to have a history and not simply to be an amalgam, a community church of who knows what that came from who knows where. Barbara Brown Taylor community church knows Helmut Walcha was a gifted organist, improviser, and composer! He would play Evensong every week at his church for free, the Dreikönigskirche in Frankfurt, where the audience would consist of only six or so of us students. When he would give a public recital that had a hefty ticket price, the church was packed. Barbara Harbach church students giving They all attended Hester's church, which Dellarobia viewed as a complicated pyramid scheme of moral debt and credit resting ultimately on the shoulders of the Lord, but rife with middle managers. Barbara Kingsolver pyramid-schemes church pyramids (on asparagus) Europeans of the Renaissance swore by it as an aphrodisiac, and the church banned it from nunneries. Barbara Kingsolver asparagus aphrodisiac church a church ought to express the joy of religion as well as its majesty. Barbara Mertz majesty church joy Voluntary self-directed religion was more dangerous to the Church than any number of infidels. Barbara Tuchman church self numbers Woman was the Church's rival, the temptress, the distraction, the obstacle to holiness, the Devil's decoy. Barbara Tuchman women devil church That the Jews were unholy was a belief so ingrained by the Church [by the 14th century] that the most devout persons were the harshest in their antipathy, none more so than St. Louis. Barbara Tuchman century church belief The Church [in the 14th century] gave ceremony and dignity to lives that had little of either. It was the source of beauty and art to which all had some access and which many helped to create. Barbara Tuchman church littles art Although I myself don't go to church or synagogue, I do, whether it's superstition or whatever, pray every time I get on a plane. I just automatically do it. I say the same thing every time. Barbara Walters superstitions church literature I think it is going to be very difficult for any church that still calls itself a church, never to try and convince someone that their religion is the best one. Barry W. Lynn church trying thinking To me the separation of church and state is a thread that ought to run through public policy so that we can always recognize that we make laws in this country, based not on theology of any particular group, but on the basis of a commonly shared values of the Constitution itself. Barry W. Lynn church running country This is criterion by which the Church is to be judged, not by the forms of its doctrine or ritual, but by the reality of the reality of the love which it manifests. Bede Griffiths church spiritual reality «910111213141516171819»