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"I was brought up as a Catholic and went to church every week and took the sacraments. It never really touched the core of my being."

Sting, British Musician

Church, Being

"A church debt is the devil's salary."

Henry Ward Beecher, American Clergyman

Church, Debt, Devil

"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

"The council now beginning rises in the Church like the daybreak, a forerunner of most splendid light."

Pope John XXIII, Italian Clergyman

Church, Beginning, Light, Now

Explore more quotes by Bill Lee

"When cerebral processes enter into sports, you start screwing up. It's like the Constitution, which says separate church and state. You have to separate mind and body."

Sports, Church, Body, Constitution

"Most of the managers are lifetime .220 hitters. For years pitchers have been getting these managers out 75% of the time and that's why they don't like us."

Time, Managers, Years

"I'm mad at Hank Aaron for deciding to play one more season. I threw him his last home run and thought I'd be remembered forever. Now, I'll have to throw him another."

Home, Thought, Now, Play

"The more self-centered and egotistical a guy is, the better ballplayer he's going to be."

Self,

"You have two hemispheres in your brain - a left and a right side. The left side controls the right side of your body and right controls the left half. It's a fact. Therefore, left-handers are the only people in their right minds."

People, Body, Fact, Right

"People are too hung up on winning. I can get off on a really good helmet throw."

People, Winning

"I think about the cosmic snowball theory. A few million years from now the sun will burn out and lose its gravitational pull. The earth will turn into a giant snowball and be hurled through space. When that happens it won't matter if I get this guy out."

Earth, Now, Space, Sun

"You should enter a ballpark the way you enter a church."

Church,

"The other day they asked me about mandatory drug testing. I said I believed in drug testing a long time ago. All through the sixties I tested everything."

Time, Day, Testing