Church Quote by Edi Patterson

Flannery O'Connor was a revelation for me. When I read her, I was very young, and I didn't understand what she was doing. I…

— Karin Slaughter

Jim Bakker is an extremely talented preacher, if he would just get it together.

— Jessica Hahn

Showbiz and churches are the same thing. You never saw 'The Wizard of Oz?'

— David Milch

Some of the finest comedies have chosen the Church as its subject and would indeed make most Christians laugh, give or take the occasional…

— Ann Widdecombe

I was fascinated by all of it. The sounds of the theater and the audience, their rapture when a play took over and moved…

— George Stevens

I'm not a preacher and I'm not a pastor. But I really feel my career was leading me to make this. The Holy Ghost…

— Mel Gibson

I'm leaving out some of the hugely successful megachurches, of which I have very little experience.

— Barbara Brown Taylor

I am very, very uneasy with churches that have basically said, "Well, since that's what people want and that's what sells, then were going…

— Parker J. Palmer

The whole idea of going out to a movie was really a secularized version of going to church.

— David Milch

My church ended up being the MTV pulpit on Wednesday nights.

— Rev. Run

If you think about it, if you've ever been to a Catholic service, it's practically a laser light show. It's very dramatic, very theatrical.…

— Win Butler

When I look back at the church I grew up in, I realise that nothing about its behaviour was very Christian. It was just…

— James Corden