Alice Coltrane Quotes

In my growing-up years in Germany, I attended church in many different locations and circumstances - in humble back rooms, in impressive villas, and in very functional modern chapels.

Going to church and stuff was just something I did with my mom.

I don't go to church every week.

I probably go to church two Sundays out of four.

Let's start with the church. As you know, it's my background, it's a natural setting for me and it's definitely my roots.

I like going to Church for aesthetic reasons, rather than spiritual ones.

I remember going to church about four times a week. I liked it a lot.

Obviously I don't really go to church any more - no time.

People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced.

People have really strong images of what church is, and it's almost certainly not the same as mine.

I always wanted to play a nun, and to play the Reverend Mother was a thrill of a lifetime for me. But, generations back, my family were not churchgoers, which is an unusual thing in the United States.

On Sundays, I usually go to church with my mother.

We were churchgoing people.

We eat, drink, and sleep religion, but we do not do good.

I was raised in the church.

There is a great difference between Christianity and religion at the south. If a man goes to the communion table, and pays money into the treasury of the church, no matter if it be the price of blood, he is called religious.

Going to church doesn't make you any more a Christian than going to the garage makes you a car.

I went to church and couldn't swallow it. The music was nice but I don't belong there.

I grew up in the church, and I feel very strongly about it.

I just wanted to sing, in church or wherever.

A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.

I am an enthusiastic participant in a church, but I have never been particularly concerned with denominational identity.

I didn't go to church all the time, just 'cause I was an antsy kid.

As for the British churchman, he goes to church as he goes to the bathroom, with the minimum of fuss and no explanation if he can help it.

I grew up in a family where, through my teenage years, I was expected to go to church on Sunday. It wasn't terribly painful. I thought some of the stories were neat; I liked some of the liturgy and some of the songs.