Until they put that sand and dirt in my face I will not sit in church all day.
The only place a new hat can be carried into with safety is a church, for there is plenty of room there.
The church saves sinners, but science seeks to stop their manufacture.
How the early priests came into possession of these secrets does not appear, and if there were ever any records of this kind the Church would hardly allow them to become public.
When the problems in Northern Ireland started, it was not a question of Protestantism or Catholicism, because the Catholic church was the only church at that time-it was a nationalist conflict.
It is common for those that are farthest from God, to boast themselves most of their being near to the Church.
The way to preserve the peace of the church is to preserve its purity.
I don't have to go to church. The church is within me and the experience is my own. It's my life experience.
When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives.
There's nothing worse, I guess, than being black in an all-white church or being southern and being a liberal.
Usually, it is not my habit to address religious issues on the floor. I strongly believe in a person's right to religious freedom, as well as the separation of church and state.
Hollywood is run by people who sit up in their executive office, who are not connected to Mississippi, Alabama, Chicago, South Carolina. They know nothing about that, they don't go to church, and they make their decisions about what they think is right.
My mother raised me in the church. I was not allowed to stay home on Sunday; there was no option. I sang in the choir all the way up until I went to college.
My heart is in the Church of England but not my mind.
It doesn't say anywhere in the Constitution this idea of the separation of church and state.