I knew how to sing in choirs and sing in church, but I didn't know how to sing in a studio. That's… — Merry Clayton Copy Share Image
I was raised in Harlem. I never found a book that took place in Harlem. I never had a church like mine… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
I think one of the reasons our court system wants to remove The 10 Commandments is because The 10 Commandments reminds us… — Johnny Hunt Copy Share Image
The thing about the Islamic situation is we don't have a church. We don't have an ordained priesthood, which makes it a… — Feisal Abdul Rauf Copy Share Image
I didn't have to do paper routes. I'd sing for 5 bucks a crack at weddings and church functions; I'd have four… — Len Cariou Copy Share Image
I like the church, I like a cowl, I love a prophet of the soul; And on my heart monastic aisles Fall… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I was made to go to church and I heard the gospel songs, and every now then somebody would come through with… — Steve Young Copy Share Image
For often at Church I've seen the stained high glass Pour out the Virgin and Saints, twist and untwist The mortal youth… — Allen Tate Copy Share Image
It is not the church we want, but the sacrifice; not the emotion of admiration, but the act of adoration; not the… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
“Where did you meet?” he pressed on. I shrugged and considered a little rephrasing. “I was out for a run.” “From who?”… — Dannika Dark Copy Share Image
But the people of the church in Jerusalem had been commanded by a revelation, vouchsafed to approved men there before the war,… — Eusebius Copy Share Image
The black church is dormant, much of the community is dormant. If the black church is leaning toward the right, much of… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Our Lord came to the aid of each great tribulation with a special devotion. The present and future tribulations of the Church… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
I have repeatedly stressed that the selfish impulses of man constitute a much less historic danger than his integrative tendencies. To put… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
The spontaneous expansion of the Church reduced to its elements is a very simple thing...What is necessary is faith. What is needed… — Roland Allen Copy Share Image
We indeed did and do own our own minds and bodies, and anything from church or state that limits that is inappropriate… — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
I know nothing which life has to offer so satisfying as the profound good understanding, which can subsist, after much exchange ofgood… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Wherever I found resistance to oppression, whether in Africa, in Latin America, certainly here in America in the South, I joined that… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
The Bible is owned, read on occasion, even taken to church-but not studied. — Howard G. Hendricks Copy Share Image
I didn't want to be an actress; I never thought of being an actress because, as children, there were three of us… — Cicely Tyson Copy Share Image
The Gospel lives in conversation with culture, and if the Church holds back from the culture, the Gospel itself falls silent. Therefore,… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
The equality that we are all entitled to, as citizens of this democracy, can't be avoided by some religious dogma of a… — Rosie O'Donnell Copy Share Image
Don't make of your religion an obsession, otherwise your trips to church will mean nothing but obligation; and your prayers will result… — Jean Paul Malfatti Copy Share Image
I grew up in church. That's how most young African American musicians learn how to perform. You could be six years old… — Robert Glasper Copy Share Image
If the Lord tarries, there may yet be a grass-roots awakening that will overflow all sectarian barriers. There are a host of… — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
