The style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe.
Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me.
It's troubling for me as a Catholic to be at odds with the church.
I loved every second of Catholic church. I loved the sickly sweet rotting pomegranate smells of the incense. I loved the overwrought altar, the birdbath of holy water, the votive candles; I loved that there was a poor box, the stations of the cross rendered in stained glass on the windows.
I went to church with my grandparents sometimes and I loved it.
My mother was a not too devoted atheist. She went to Episcopal church on Christmas Eve every year, and that was mostly it.
I go to church every Sunday, which is like going to the gas station once a week and really, really filling up.
I feel incredibly successful. I make a living as a writer and am able to help support a big family, my church, my bleeding heart causes.
Religions work for their own aggrandizement strengthen the church and so on and they use reinforcers of one kind or another to get obedience and so on from their communicants.
When anyone has the power to destroy the whole human race in a matter of hours, it becomes a moral issue. The church must speak out.
Christians are not limited to any church.
I was reared in the church, in the Presbyterian Church.
Solemnity is proper in church, but things that are proper in church are not necessarily proper outside, and vice versa. For example, I can say a prayer while washing my teeth, but that does not mean I should wash my teeth in church.
Since the Church is to be servant to the poor, it is our fault if that wealth is not channeled to help the poor in our world.
When a church is spending more of its budget on media than shepherding, something is out of whack. We have gotten things twisted around.
