Religious Performance Quotes

The Catholic theatrics are pretty high quality, but the Protestants have better hymns.

The clergy is in the same business as actors, just a different department.

We've replaced the proclamation of Christ with an easy-listening legalism of do more and try harder.

I've long been offended by not-so-godly pro football players I've known who showed up for pregame chapel - Sunday-only Christians rubbing the proverbial rabbit's foot - then after victories declared it was 'God's will' that their team won.

I'd done plays in middle school, done some for the church in high school, but I had no intention of ever being a professional actor.

Once, he was chosen to play Ram in a small Ramleela company, but his parents were against it.

To some Christianity is an argument. To many it is a performance. To a few, it is experience.

We have jokingly said if you've got good hair, can sing and know three chords, you can lead worship at First Baptist Houston or wherever. But that's kind of scary, putting somebody on stage just because they have a good voice. Do they know theologically and spiritually what they're saying and why they're doing it?

Fathers, I do not practice. I'm not religious in life, but when I perform "The Creation of the World" and when my soul is touched by the confrontation of "Good and Evil," then God enters in me.

The Church can't be a religious theater where paid men perform for the religious amusement of the people who pay them.

Our huffing and puffing to impress God, our scrambling for brownie points, our thrashing about trying to fix ourselves while hiding our pettiness and wallowing in guilt are nauseating to God and are a flat out denial of the gospel of grace.

Liturgy and worship were never meant to be confined to the cathedrals and sanctuaries. Liturgy at its best can be performed like a circus or theater - making the Gospel visible as a witness to the world around us.

Just as people can watch spellbound a circus artist tumbling through the air in a phosphorized costume, so they can listen to a preacher who uses the Word of God to draw attention to himself. But a sensational preacher stimulates the senses and leaves the spirit untouched. Instead of being the way to God, his 'being different' gets in the way.

I've lived in New York all my life, and we went to the Mormon Pageant each year in upstate New York. It still is a wonderful production. I remember going and seeing the performance and listening to the music. My father had Mormon Tabernacle Choir music, and we would listen to it and sing with it.

I would like to sing for the Pope. And the Queen, and at Simon Cowell's wedding.

A woman playing God in a passion play is tantamount to paganism.