Why do we people in churches seem like cheerful, brainless tourists on a packaged tour of the Absolute? —Annie Dillard More about this quote Tags: God religion church Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me. —Alice Walker More about this quote Tags: God church Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Perhaps the most lasting pleasure in life is the pleasure of not going to church. —William Inge More about this quote Tags: life religion pleasure church Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing. —Aldous Huxley More about this quote Tags: church nature mountains father Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There is no music like that music, no drama like the drama of the saints rejoicing, the sinners moaning, the tambourines racing, and all those voices coming together and crying holy unto the Lord. . . . I have never seen anything to equal the fire and excitement that sometimes, without warning, fill a church, causing the church, as Leadbelly and so many others have testified, to "rock. —James Baldwin More about this quote Tags: sin music church excitement drama rock and roll Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It is my intention to make my entire life a rejection of, a protest against the crimes and injustices of war and political tyranny which threaten to destroy the whole race of [humankind] and the world with [it] . . . . I make monastic silence a protest against the lies of politicians, propagandists, and agitators, and when I speak it is to deny that my faith and my church can ever be aligned with these forces of injustice and destruction. But it is true, nevertheless, that the faith in which I believe is also invoked by many who believe in war, believe in racial injustices, believe in self-righteous and lying forms of tyranny. My life must, then, be a protest against these also, and perhaps against these most of all. —Thomas Merton More about this quote Tags: justice war humanity politics life silence rejection church crime protest faith lies racism tyranny Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The first time I sang in the church choir; two hundred people changed their religion. —Fred Allen More about this quote Tags: religion music church singing Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Even when we were standing in church and I was getting ready to take my vow I can remember wishing that you were standing there instead of him. —Nicholas Sparks in The Best of Me More about this quote Tags: love relationships regret church marriage Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email