Some People Can't Go Into Church Any Longer To Feel This Longing, But They Still Have The Longing, So What Do They Do? Well, One Thing You Can Do Is What People Do In Prison; They Turn To Poetry.
Hierarchy, As In The Catholic Church, Has To Do With Power, And Vertical Attention Has To Do With Longing.
Praying Privately In Churches, I Began To Discover That Heaven Was My True Home And Also That It Was Here And Now, Woven Into This Life.
...the Bible Itself Is Less Read Than Preached, Less Interpreted Than Brandished. Increasingly, Pastors May Drape A Limply Bound Book Over The Edges Of The Pulpit As They Depart From It. Members Of The Congregation Carry Bibles To Church Services; The Paster Announces A Long Passage Text For His Sermon And Waits For People To Find It, Then Reads Only The First Verse Of It Before He Takes Off. The Book Has Become A Talisman.
The Christians Were The First To Make The Existence Of Satan A Dogma Of The Church. What Is The Use In A Pope If There Is No Devil ?
You Can't Seperate Modern Jazz From Rock Or From Rhythm And Blues - You Can't Seperate It. Because That's Where It All Started, And That's Where It All Come From - That's Where I Learned To Keep Rhythm - In Church
A Good Local Pub Has Much In Common With A Church, Except That A Pub Is Warmer, And There's More Conversation.
A Government Cannot Be Premised On The Belief That All Persons Are Created Equal When It Asserts That God Prefers Some
No Person Can Be Punished For Entertaining Or Professing Religious Beliefs Or Disbeliefs, For Church Attendance Or Non-attendance.
The Establishment Clause Stands As An Expression Of Principle On The Part Of The Founders Of Our Constitution That Religion Is Too Personal, Too Sacred, Too Holy, To Permit Its 'unhallowed Perversion' By A Civil Magistrate.
The First Amendment Has Erected A Wall Between Church And State. That Wall Must Be Kept High And Impregnable. We Could Not Approve The Slightest Breach.
Sacerdotalist, N. One Who Holds The Belief That A Clergyman Is A Priest. Denial Of This Momentous Doctrine Is The Hardest Challenge That Is Now Flung Into The Teeth Of The Episcopalian Church By The Neo-dictionarians.
