"Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy gets the Catholic Church. America gets Hollywood."

Church, America, Country, Hollywood

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"Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy gets the Catholic Church. America gets Hollywood."

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"There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being."

James Joyce, Irish Novelist

Church, Being, Heresy, Philosophy

"I'd like to do my first record I ever made, A Church, a Courtroom, and Then Goodbye."

Patsy Cline, American Musician

Church, First, Goodbye

"Christ has not only ordained that there shall be such officers in his Church - he has not only specified their duties and prerogatives - but he gives the requisite qualifications, and calls those thus qualified, and by that call gives them their official authority."

Charles Hodge, American Theologian

Church, Authority, Christ

"I've been stuck on John Eldredge lately. He's all about being a warrior outside of the church. I hate to think about this kind of stuff - I just like to do it."

John Tesh, American Musician

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"I sang with Anita Bryant in the Southern Baptist churches."

Kathie Lee Gifford, American Entertainer

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"Why is the church failing so miserably in impacting the nations of the earth?"

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Church, Impact, Responsibility, Faith

"Not far from our house, and opposite the old church with the golden cross, stood a large building, even larger than the church, and having many towers."

Max Muller, German Educator

Church, Building, Old

"I found out that many of our Catholics simply don't know what the church teaches, and why, on a lot of issues, and therefore are saying things that they think are okay. They simply don't know."

Roger Mahony, American Clergyman

Church, Saying

"What I'd say about that is that we must respect homosexuals in the church. I've got many homosexual friends, the issue is not in any way a homophobic reaction on my part."

George Carey, English Clergyman

Church, Friends, Respect

"There are enormously gifted Episcopal priests around this church who are gay and lesbian, some of whom are partnered, who would make wonderful bishops and they're going to be nominated and they're going to be elected."

Gene Robinson, American Clergyman

Church, Gay, Lesbian

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"We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate."

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"Beware of the man who denounces woman writers, his penis is tiny and he cannot spell."

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"Without the gods, how would I sing?' I asked.With your own voice,' he said."

Creativity, Voice, Truth, Power

"Filled her memory bank with shiny coins."

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"I went for years not finishing anything. Because of course when you finish something you can be judged.... I had poems which were rewritten so many times I suspect it was just a way of avoiding sending them out."

Creativity, Procrastination, Perfectionism, Fear

"But if the gods do not exist at all - then we are lost,' I said.On the contrary - we are found!' said Aesop.But when we are afraid, who can we turn to, if not the gods?'Ourselves. We turn to ourselves anyway. We only pretend there are gods and that they care about us. It is a comforting falsehood."

Philosophy, Self, Truth, Wisdom, Observation

"Rendall's first law of jealousy: jealousy does the cock harder and pussy wetter."

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"There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being."

"I'd like to do my first record I ever made, A Church, a Courtroom, and Then Goodbye."

"Christ has not only ordained that there shall be such officers in his Church - he has not only specified their duties and prerogatives - but he gives the requisite qualifications, and calls those thus qualified, and by that call gives them their official authority."

"I've been stuck on John Eldredge lately. He's all about being a warrior outside of the church. I hate to think about this kind of stuff - I just like to do it."

"I sang with Anita Bryant in the Southern Baptist churches."

"Why is the church failing so miserably in impacting the nations of the earth?"

"Not far from our house, and opposite the old church with the golden cross, stood a large building, even larger than the church, and having many towers."

"I found out that many of our Catholics simply don't know what the church teaches, and why, on a lot of issues, and therefore are saying things that they think are okay. They simply don't know."

"What I'd say about that is that we must respect homosexuals in the church. I've got many homosexual friends, the issue is not in any way a homophobic reaction on my part."

"There are enormously gifted Episcopal priests around this church who are gay and lesbian, some of whom are partnered, who would make wonderful bishops and they're going to be nominated and they're going to be elected."

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"We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate."

"Beware of the man who denounces woman writers, his penis is tiny and he cannot spell."

"Without the gods, how would I sing?' I asked.With your own voice,' he said."

"Filled her memory bank with shiny coins."

"I went for years not finishing anything. Because of course when you finish something you can be judged.... I had poems which were rewritten so many times I suspect it was just a way of avoiding sending them out."

"She died of internal weeping."

"The trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more."

"Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are."

"Rendall's first law of jealousy: jealousy does the cock harder and pussy wetter."