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"The Monster Ball is by nature a protest: A youth church experience to speak out and celebrate against all forms of discrimination + prejudice."
"The Sisters were Southern Baptist, and they went to church on Saturdays and Sundays, and most other days, too."
"Destruction of the churches and the like is not the way to Swaraj as defined by the Congress."
"Today, as it was 2,000 years ago, the Kingdom of God is within each of us. It is not within a church, a temple, a mosque or synagogue."
"I grew up in church. My mom's a minister, and my grandmother was an ordained minister. I was always very mindful of the presence of a greater being I call God."
"I once dieted so religiously I quit eating in church."
"I was probably toward 8 1/2 when I actually joined the church and was baptized - and, my God, did I take it seriously! I was a zealot who irritated every one of my third-grade friends. They didn't beat me up, but I got labeled "the preacher girl.""
"I did not grow up in the church. I'm not a church-goer now. I'm a very spiritual person."
"I believe when a negro church is bombed, that a white church should be bombed."
"Any time a negro community lives under fear that its churches are going to be bombed, then they have to realize they're living in a war zone."
"The English Established Church... will more readily pardon an attack on 38 of its 39 articles than on 1/39 of its income."
"The Revelation speaks powerfully today, and its message to us is the same as it was to the early Church: that "there is not a square inch of ground in heaven or on earth or under the earth in which there is peace between Christ and Satan."."
"Episcopalians have always preferred the flying buttress to the pillar of the church."
"My son, the Holy Church is on the right, but Jesus Christ was always on the left."
"Again, as I had often met it in my own church, I was confronted with the Impurity of Women doctrine that seemed to preoccupy all clergymen."
"If I might control the literature of the household, I would guarantee the well-being of Church and State."
"Nothing doth so much keep men out of the Church, and drive men out of the Church, as breach of unity."
"Becoming a junior usher at a black church was my entry into the wonder of worship."
"You see how wide the gulf that separates me from the Christian church."