Chuck Palahniuk

Your life isn't about doing one perfect 'thing' and then falling down dead. It's more like going to church or writing a book. You do it over and over, always trying to be a little bit better. Then you die.

American Novelist

Alice Walker

I understood at a very early age that in nature, I felt everything I should feel in church but never did. Walking in the woods, I felt in touch with the universe and with the spirit of the universe.

American Author

Joel Osteen

I want get across to not just the church world. I want to get outside those walls to everyday people.

American Clergyman

John Nelson Darby

The Reformation did not directly touch the question of the true character of God's church.

English Clergyman

Sevyn Streeter

I've been singing forever; I grew up singing in church.

American Musician

Al Green

I learned more stuff in church than I did in the world.

Quinton Aaron

I grew up in the church. I was raised in the church.

American Actor

Stephon Marbury

I was born in church. I was raised in church.

American Athlete

Cheech Marin

American Comedian

Kenny Rogers

Refers specifically to the building itself, not the religion or its followers.

Physical Place

Often used to describe a place for shared community events beyond just worship.

Common Gathering

Can mean the collective Christian institutions, not just one congregation or place.

Broader Concept

May reference the people who lead services, like priests or pastors, not only buildings.

Clerical Association

Identifies a group within Christianity with particular doctrines or practices.

Specific Beliefs

Recognizes the diversity within Christianity, from Catholic to Evangelical.

Denominational Variety

Refers to the habitual act of attending services, usually on Sundays.

Regular Activity

Implies a degree of personal or familial commitment to attending religious services.

Personal Commitment

 I've been dying to ask you a question all right what in the world happened to your lip well I was catching horses up to come to church this evening and one of them flung her head hit me right in the mouth busted my lip pretty good I never had to involve a female oh yeah this is the clubhouse for the saddle club okay so we just usually refer to it

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 on the wrong street corner at the wrong time. And something needed to be done about that. It got to the point where it started to change the character of the city. You could go to any housing project, for example, like the one that was down the street from my church,

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 weighed whether in church or in the lab in fact not as a part of you at all but as a dimension of being of existence I think of this as a an agnostic approach to soul an existential one if you like an existentialist what I mean said a way

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 who showed me the power of engaging the other. In my home, life was framed as an epic spiritual battle between good and evil. The good was my church and its members, and the evil was everyone else. My church's antics were such

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 that modern message fits a traditional mission is this going to revolutionize how churches use energy I don't know but I think it can help people to begin to think about well what can we do the possibility is tremendous

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 Cody's mind on God and off the temptations that surround him form a snake hit me I mean it's to help the church catch a snake but it's also hands-on activity you got your mind off everything it's like a rehab dog s

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 But when we met Griselda, she wasn't going to school. In fact, she was rarely ever leaving her home. Days before we met her, while she was walking home from church with her family, in broad daylight,

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 medical teaching because when I first started in church I said if I ever went to a hospital or a doctor over snake bite I would quit church