This time I'm at church

I grew up spending a lot of time in church, almost every day, whether in choir rehearsal or praise team or Bible study -…

— Danielle Brooks

“But every time I go to church with you, I feel like everyone's trying to trap me in a room and convert me.' Which,…

— Nicole Hardy

I feel in me the vocation of the Priest. I have the vocation of the Apostle. Martyrdom was the dream of my youth, and…

— Therese of Lisieux

The only people who are obsessed with food are anorexics and the morbidly obese. That, in erotic terms, is the Catholic church, in a…

— Stephen Fry

Wicked sons do not have the Holy Ghost in the same way as do beloved sons, and yet they do have Baptism. So, too,…

— Saint Augustine

My mother raised me in the church. I was not allowed to stay home on Sunday; there was no option. I sang in the…

— Steve Harvey

“The Vatican won't prosecute pedophile priests but I decide I'm not ready for motherhood and it's condemnation for me? These are the same people…

— Sonya Renee Taylor

The one thing that the Catholic Church desires, and that I seek as Bishop of Rome, “the Church which presides in charity”, is communion…

— Pope Francis

I always was kind of on the edge of the church when I was fully in it , cos I was always asking the…

— John O'Donohue

The Church must persist in the teaching transmitted to her by Christ.

— Pope John Paul II

By the time I was about ten, I had started to lose faith with church ways. I was educated in some ways by my…

— Ronee Blakley

I came to know Christ at the age of 13 during church camp at Glorieta, New Mexico.

— Bart Millard

I grew up in a Southern Baptist-style church with a choir, a band, and music, but I've been asking myself my whole life, 'Why…

— Roger Ross Williams

The Roman Catholic Church is an institution for whose gains the phrase "ill-gotten" might have been specially invented. And of all its money-making rip-offs,…

— Richard Dawkins

My grandmother made sure that I went to church every Sunday. And she'd come over and pick us boys up, and we would go…

— John Mellencamp