Ernest Gaines Quotes

To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.

I have a Bible study that my friends and I go to here in L.A. I go to church every Sunday. I've always been a believer. I love singing. I don't have the best voice - I just love getting my emotions out.

I just wanted to sing, in church or wherever.

The most important part of my religion is to play guitar.

We gather for prayer, and reading the Bible, and singing the songs of David.

What I miss today more than anything else - I don't go to church as much anymore - but that old-time religion, that old singing, that old praying which I love so much. That is the great strength of my being, of my writing.

Prayer is where the action is.

Being part of a community with a church at its centre and singin' hymns is a great thing to do.

I always loved music. I liked to go to church because I liked to sing the hymns.

I was raised in the church.

Mental prayer in my opinion is nothing else than an intimate sharing between friends; it means taking time frequently to be alone with Him who we know loves us. The important thing is not to think much but to love much and so do that which best stirs you to love. Love is not great delight but desire to please God in everything.

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.

When you use music to worship you are not attempting to entertain.

Praying doesn't mean repeating a prayer.

I was in my dad's church, his Baptist church, and I think the first song I ever performed was 'Jesus Be a Fence Around Me.'

And I used to think that proof that I had religion was whether I knew how to sing all of the songs.

My father's a deacon, my mother's a choir director, so I grew up in the church and singing in the choir, begging my mom if I could have a solo.

I listen and talk to God daily.

In fact, my parents were church people; my father was a deacon in the church.

I am a pastor so I eat and breathe the Church.

When I was growing up, I'd be in the choir. My mum was the organist in the church, so I'd sing in the church.

People don't come to church for preachments, of course, but to daydream about God.

I chose to sing in the church, and have never regretted it.

Sunday morning church service is not an enormous priority; spending time with other believers is.