- Nov 07, 2020
Church Quotes
On the pews people grew up in.
Several of these quotes recall specific childhood routines, like learning the rosary or attending Sunday school regularly, memories tied to the broader faith collection.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Death
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
The death of Pope John Paul II led many of different faiths and of no faith to acknowledge their debt to the Roman Catholic Church for holding on to absolutes that the rest of us can measure ourselves against.
- Proud
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
It is really impressive and makes us proud that in a lot of places in Indonesia, a church is close to a mosque, and even in many places, both Islamic and Christian communities cooperated to build a mosque or church.
- Name
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
In our house, the name for all athletic shoes - any that weren't dress or 'church' shoes - was 'tennis shoes,' or 'tennies.'
- Graduates
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Like the graduates of some notorious boot camp, my brothers and sisters and I look back with a sort of perverse glee at the rigors of our Catholicism. My oldest sister, Mary, was so convinced of the church's omnipotence that when she walked into a Protestant church with some high-school friends, she was sure its walls would crash down on her head.
- Nov 07, 2020
I think that after Church got his Ph.D. he studied in Europe, maybe in the Netherlands, for a year or two.
- I Was Raised
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I became a Christian when I was 19, and it wasn't like I was raised with the church.
- Equal Rights
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I liked the name of the amendment. I couldn't help feeling uneasy that the church was opposing something with a name as beautiful as the Equal Rights Amendment.
- Go
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Before a big event, I usually go to church and light a candle for St. Sebastian, who is the patron saint of athletes.
- African Americans
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
The notion that religion can actually be something... attached to progressivism seems so bizarre. But all you have to say is that Abolition wouldn't have happened without it. The way in which African Americans managed to achieve a degree of self-determination was through the church.
- Never
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
The Catholic Church has never really come to terms with women. What I object to is being treated either as Madonnas or Mary Magdalenes.
- Market
- |
- Nov 07, 2020