church

My dad was a pastor, so we were in church all the time.

You may invite the entire 35th Division to your wedding if you want to. I guess it's going to be yours as well as mine. We might as well have the church full while we are at it.

I saw a photograph of a wedding conducted by Reverend Moon of the Unification Church. I wanted to understand this event, and the only way to understand it was to write about it.

I want a big church wedding.

Our church has been legal since late 1960s. I've been involved since 1972. I was ordained in 1975.

The public school has become the established church of secular society.

I have an awesome church home and an awesome Pastor down in L.A., and I couldn't be happier.

What, but the rapacity of the only men who exercised their reason, the priests, secured such vast property to the church, when a man gave his perishable substance to save himself from the dark torments of purgatory.

The language of the Catholic Church - the liturgy, the prayer, the gospels - was in many ways my first poetry.

I'm afraid the SS's relationship with the Catholic Church is something the Church still has to deal with and does not deny.

Going to church doesn't make you any more a Christian than going to the garage makes you a car.

I painlessly came to realize that the reverence I felt for the holiness of life is not ever likely to be entirely at home in organized religion. It was later, when I was able to travel farther , that the presence of holiness and mystery seemed, as far as my vision was able to see, to descend into the windows of Chartres, the stone peasant figures of Autun, the tall sheets of gold on the walls of Torcello that reflected the light of the sea; in the frescoes of Piero, of Giotto; in the shell of a church wall in Ireland still standing on a floor of sheep-cropped grass with no ceiling other than he changing sky.

I learned more stuff in church than I did in the world.

The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.

Har' icyumba satani atemerewe kujyamo n'umutima wawe kereste wowe umwemereye

People think we didn't have theatres in Scotland for centuries because the Church suppressed them. Well, perhaps. But you could also argue that we had theatres in every town and village in the land: they were called kirks, and every week folk packed in to see a one-man show about life, death and the universe.

The fact that political ideologies are tangible realities is not a proof of their vitally necessary character. The bubonic plague was an extraordinarily powerful social reality, but no one would have regarded it as vitally necessary.

On the church vaulting above was the clock-face of eternity, void of number and serving as its own hand, only one black finger was pointing and the dead wanted to tell the time by it.