Worship Services Quotes

The best way to make money is to start a religion.

The clergy earns its living from religion. If your interests are secured through religion, then you will defend your interests first, and religion will become secondary.

Genesis fans are a religious group!

I want to be a pastor in a high school.

If you look in the Bible there's no birthdays.

Undoubtedly, church fish fries and picnics help build social cohesion. It was at my dad's medium-size evangelical church - my first real exposure to a sustained religious community - that I first saw people of different races and classes worshiping together.

But I don't necessarily define my faith by going to church every Sunday.

It's hard for me to imagine why a church that has younger members wouldn't have a blog component.

I want the services to look and sound like the Grammys. It's not showy, but we represent God, and it should be first class.

My upbringing was in the church. We had to attend regularly. And, of course, the church provided a training ground for me, so to speak, as a young vocalist and certainly gave me all of the spiritual values that I needed as a young lady.

There is no problem with the opening of new houses of prayer for Lutherans and Pentecostals.

A lot of the time when I go to church, people want to take pictures. They want you to sign autographs. So I don't go all the time. I go once in a blue moon. Every once in a blue moon.

The rabbi is often the regular preacher in the synagogue, the man whose sermons offer his community more general theological and moral guidance.

I was baptized as an infant. I was confirmed as an adolescent; I was active in my church's youth group and in my university student group. I was married before the church's altar; trained at the church's seminaries, ordained deacon and priest at age 24.

Too many church services start at eleven sharp and end at twelve dull.

I was raised in a very religious home with two parents who were deeply involved in the black church. When I was young, I went to a small black AME church in New Jersey.

The Southern Baptist Church is a specific culture in itself. So, I had to study, talk to people, watch tape and go to performances to see how Gospel artists move compared to secular artists.

My father was a Methodist and my mother was a Baptist.

Church was a requirement - there was no choice in the matter; so was vacation bible school. Gospel has been in me since I was a kid.

You can't take a kid from north Alabama and growing up in church - some of that is just gonna seep out.

I am a youth minister, ordained by the Riverside Church in upper New York. But to declare myself a minister and begin to preach from the pulpit, from the Bible, to a congregation and to build a church, so to speak - I don't have a desire for that.

The meetings least attended in our churches today are the ones whose only attraction is God.

I grew up in a household that spent most of my childhood on a religious pilgrimage through American Christianity.

Yeah, I'm the go-to guy for Mexican priests.

I wasn't one of those girls who sang at church.