A scared world needs a fearless church.
Being famous is uncomfortable because I grew up very simply. Everything revolved around friends, family, church and sports.
I don't think the Church has ever contributed anything to anybody, anyplace, at any time.
The church is like manure. Pile it up, and it stinks up the neighborhood. Spread it out, and it enriches the world.
The Catholic Church has access to a major section of the American public. Our impact on the public will be directly proportionate to the persuasiveness of our positions. We seek no special status and we should not be accorded one.
God is not going to sit up here and judge you for what you've done in the past. Church has opened up my mind in a whole different aspect.
I love what the church offers to us as a culture - black people in particular. We would be nowhere without the black church.
I'm usually torn by, 'What's the role of government to cure injustice?' Families, churches, and schools can be more of an instrument of change.
And I think my sexuality was heavily repressed by the church, by the, you know, the design of the mortal sins.
If the church is going to make a difference, it will need to go through the "big give-up" stage. Churches will need to quit being selfish and become relevant.
That Britain today is a liberal society is largely because of the philosophy and outlook of the Anglican Church, which did so much to shape our core values in the past few centuries.
I have come to think that the challenge confronting Christians is not that we do not believe what we say, though that can be a problem, but that what we say we believe does not seem to make any difference for either the church or the world.
