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"The public library building, in my view, is just a little lower than the church, the cathedral, the temple, the synagogue and the mosque. Within those walls and along those stacks, I have found security and assurance."
"I follow no doctrine. I don't belong to a church or a temple or a synagogue or an ashram."
"But what we found in the study is that churches are ten times less diverse than the neighborhoods they sit in. So there's something more going on than just reflecting the neighborhood, yeah."
"I think whites are used to being in power, so when whites think we ought to have integrated churches they think, "People ought to come to our church. What can we do to get them to come?""
"I think it's going to open up a wider place for a discussion about we ought to come together in our churches, in our neighborhoods, in our work places, in our clubs and our networks. I think it'll be more acceptable to talk about it. We'll see what happens. It'll take some time. But I think it will."
"So it may be a language that separates you - again, social networks. But second-generation Asian and Hispanics, second, and third and fourth and so on, they are much more likely to be in integrated churches than are blacks or whites."
"I'm happiest in an empty church. I love the smell of a church."
"[On marriage:] Someone once said that it was like a crowded church - those outside were endeavouring to get in, and those inside were making violent efforts to get out."
"Once she has committed sin, there is nothing left for the Protestant woman, whereas the Catholic Church, hope of forgiveness makes a woman sublime."
"I actually spoke in an African-American church yesterday."
"The name of the new religion," said Rumfoord, "is The Church of God the Utterly Indifferent."
"I have a body and I have a soul. And my body belongs to the faith - in fact, the church - into which it was born, the Methodist Church."
