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"I do not use profanity in my novels. My characters all go to church."

Nicholas Sparks, American Author

Church, Profanity

"My eyes are wide open to the conflicts within the Church, but I don't think you can call it schism."

Richard John Neuhaus, American Writer

Church, Eyes, Open

"I left because I decided it just really wasn't for me, and I got a better understanding of what the Catholic Church needed from its priests and ministers."

Peter Jurasik, American Actor

Church, Understanding

"The result has been that although few conservative Presbyterian churches actually worship in the Puritan way, the Puritan theology of worship remains the standard orthodoxy among them. This discrepancy sometimes leads to guilty consciences."

John Frame, American Philosopher

Church, Churches, Conservative, Result, Theology

"Until they put that sand and dirt in my face I will not sit in church all day."

Alberta Hunter, American Musician

Church, Day, Will

"You know how the church has been hit so hard by the sexual misconduct by clergy, and what's that's done to Catholics, especially here in Boston but elsewhere as well."

William P. Leahy, American Educator

Church, Boston

"I am atheist in a very religious mould. I'm always asking myself the big questions. Where did we come from? Is there a meaning to all of this? When I find myself in church, I edit the hymns as I sing them."

Mark Haddon, English Novelist

Church, Meaning, Questions, Religious

"BC is not going to replace the hierarchy, and BC is not going to lead some major reform in the Catholic Church - that's got to come out of the whole Catholic community."

William P. Leahy, American Educator

Church, Community, Reform

"Only a couple of times have I ever been to church and felt enlightened by it."

Lynn Johnston, American Cartoonist

Church,

"The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool."

Lynn Lavner, American Comedian

Church, State

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"We think that the Kyoto protocol is a necessary document, necessary process. I am convinced that we will agree to disagree about substance."

Will

"Do not be afraid that joy will make the pain worse; it is needed like the air we breathe."

Joy

"It is the hope of the European Union that Ariel Sharon will keep the peace process alive and continue the dialogue according to the wishes of all the parties involved."

Peace

"Remember, the burden of sorrow is doubled when it is borne alone."

Burden

"Remember one thing - that Sweden is performing better than the rest of Europe."

Optimism

"We must make working life more human."

Life

"Let our New Year's resolution be this: we will be there for one another as fellow members of humanity, in the finest sense of the word."

Humanity

"A human being is so irreplaceable. So valuable and so unique."

Being

"Humanity is not a church made of stone, in which vault after vault lies open."

Church