Go To Church Quotes

There warn't anybody at the church, except maybe a hog or two, for there warn't any lock on the door, and hogs likes a puncheon floor in summer-time because it's cool. If you notice, most folks don't go to church only when they've got to; but a hog is different.
- Mark Twain

Father Angelo makes me uncomfortable. For starters, he's way too good-looking for a priest, his dark bedroom eyes and athletic build arousing exactly the kind of impure thoughts you're supposed to go to church to get rid of.
- Marc Acito

I consider myself spiritual and I'm married to a man who is both an atheist and a humanist, and my kids have been raised with the traditions of different religions, but they do not go to church or temple. My feeling is that everyone should be able to believe what they want or need to believe.
- Jodi Picoult

Most of us spend the first six days of each week sowing wild oats; then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure.
- Fred Allen

I was going to go to church, but I decided to get doughnuts instead.
- Janet Evanovich

You can ask Jack about
getting into Eternal Truth."
"You want Jack to go to church?" Hardy
asked blankly. "Honey, he'd be struck by
lightning as soon as he went in the front
door."
Haven grinned at him. "Compared to you,
Jack is a choirboy."
"Since he's your big brother," he told her
kindly, "I'll let you keep your illusions.
- Lisa Kleypas

I'm Presbyterian and I don't go to church very much.
- Joan Van Ark

People go to church for the same reasons they go to a tavern: to stupefy themselves, to forget their misery, to imagine themselves, for a few minutes anyway, free and happy.
- Mikhail Bakunin

See, that why I ain't go to church. Figger I got me a church wherever I be. Want'a talk to God, well I say, 'howdy-howdy, God,' and we jaw fer a bit.' - Jimmy 'Diamond' Skinner
- David Baldacci

His was the kind of beauty for which you would pay the price of a lifetime of sorrow and all the varieties of rage. Eventually, you would have to go to church to get rid of him.
- Charles Baxter

A lot of people who are religious, I think they get lost. They go to church just to go to church.
- Justin Bieber

The Foxy character and Inga Marchand are two different people. My fiance calls me Inga. No one around me calls me Foxy. I go to church every Sunday. I go to Bible study every Friday night. I'm saved.
- Foxy Brown

When I'm on stage, I'm trying to do one thing: bring people joy. Just like church does. People don't go to church to find trouble, they go there to lose it.
- James Brown

I do not use profanity in my novels. My characters all go to church.
- Nicholas Sparks

That's the biggest purpose of religious gathering: permission to look terrible in public. We used to go to church to confess our worst behaviour, to be heard and forgiven, then to be redeemed and accepted back into our community
Chuck Palahniuk in interview with TMO
- Chuck Palahniuk

I'm a believer. I don't go to church. I don't belong to any particular religion, but I do believe in God. I couldn't write what I write about and be creative without a certain form of belief.
- Nick Cave

My wife and I like to go to church if we're in town. On Sundays, I try to be as chill as I can, whether I'm watching golf or barbecuing.
- Josh Duhamel

As a boy I heard this story in church.
A man was patching a pitched roof of a tall building when he began sliding off. As he neared the edge of the roof he prayed, "Save me, Lord, and I'll go to church every Sunday, I'll give up drinking, I'll be the best man this city has ever known."
As he finished his prayer, a nail snagged onto his overalls and saved him. The man looked up to the sky and shouted, "Never mind, God. I took care of it myself."
How true of us.
- Richard Paul Evans

The thing that brings people to wail at a wall, or face Mecca, or to go to church, is a search for that feeling of purity.
- Michael J Fox

She'd barely covered up her long, tan legs in a pair of shorts that made me want to go to church on Sunday just to thank God for creating her.
- Beau
- Abbi Glines

She started walking toward me and perfect white teeth caught her full bottom lip between them. I'd fantasized about those lips way too many times. She'd barely covered up her long tanned legs with a pair of shorts that made me want to go to church this Sunday just to thank God for creating her.
- Abbi Glines

It's like people think just because you go to church you're not all that bright. I mean just because I'm a born-again doesn't mean I lost IQ points.
- Sue Grafton

I was green. All I knew was to walk my dog and go to church.
- Jessica Hahn

Hollywood is run by people who sit up in their executive office, who are not connected to Mississippi, Alabama, Chicago, South Carolina. They know nothing about that, they don't go to church, and they make their decisions about what they think is right.
- Steve Harvey

I don't have to go to church. The church is within me and the experience is my own. It's my life experience.
- Mariel Hemingway

If you want to get healthy, you just might not want to go to a doctor. You might instead, go to church.
- Mark Hyman

Mom and Dad would stay in bed on Sunday morning, but the kids would have to go to church.
- Lynn Johnston

Just because you go to church doesn't mean you're a Christian. I can go sit in the garage all day and it doesn't make me a car
- Joyce Meyer

I'm such an alcoholic that I go to church just for communion.
- Jarod Kintz

Obviously I don't really go to church any more - no time.
- Kimbra

Teenagers who do not go to church are adored by God, but they don't get to meet some of the people who love God back.
- Anne Lamott

When I'm really stressed out, I go to church. I light candles and sit and pray. And I'll ask myself, What's the lesson? Why am I going through this? There's got to be a reason I'm here. What am I supposed to learn?
- Sandra Lee

I've grown so much since 1996. I think that was the turning point of when I started to go to church every Sunday and not just because you're supposed to. But because you enjoy going and listening to the Word and being excited about it.
- Lisa Leslie

Enemy-occupied territory-that is what the world is. Christianity is the story of how the rightful king has landed, you might say landed in disguise, and is calling us all to take part in a great campaign of sabotage. When you go to church you are really listening-in to the secret wireless from our friends: that is why the enemy is so anxious to prevent us from going.
- C S Lewis

When you go to church you are really listening-in to the secret wireless from out friends: that is why the enemy is so anxious to prevent us from going. He does it by playing on our conceit and laziness and intellectual snobbery.
- C S Lewis

I don't go to church regular. But I pray for answers to my problems.
- Loretta Lynn

For example, I was a White House intern the summer before I dropped out of law school. Everybody knew about it. I'd come home and go to church and everybody would say, 'Oh, my God. Demetri, you're working at the White House.'
- Demetri Martin

It is better to go skiing and think of God, than go to church and think of sport.
- Fridtjof Nansen

Hollywood is finally waking up to the fact that people who go to church also go to the movies. I'm not sure what took them so long to see that or how long they'll keep it up.
- Tyler Perry

I used to always go to church on holidays, but I don't go much any more.
- Michael Phelps

The artists who stand out to me have a passion for what they do. There are a lot of people who can sing. It's just like when you go to church and people are singing because it sounds good, not because it feels good. There's a difference.
- Jill Scott

I definitely believe in a God and in a higher power, and I definitely take from many different religious cultures. I go to church.
- Jane Seymour

And you know, we'd go to church. We were Baptists. And every now and then there'd be a tent would set up, and it was the Holiness folks. And we liked their music.
- Mel Tillis

I heard stories from my mother's mother who was an American Indian. She was spiritual, although she did not go to church, but she had the hum. She used to tell me stories of the rivers.
- Tina Turner

So, not only am I panicking over the weekend if I need to know my lines, but also if can I get the kids to the zoo. Can I even go to church? I was asking for certain things that would allow me to plan my life a little better.
- Hunter Tylo

I don't go to church on Sunday, don't get on my knees to pray, or memorize the books of the Bible, I got my own special way
- Tom Waits

Although I myself don't go to church or synagogue, I do, whether it's superstition or whatever, pray every time I get on a plane. I just automatically do it. I say the same thing every time.
- Barbara Walters

My grandmother, she say I shouldn't be playing. I should go to church. Fially, I say I'm going do this, I'm going do it. And she got where she didn't bother me about it.
- Muddy Waters

I think it's important to go (to church every Sunday) and sit and think about something other than yourself, pray for the sick, consider the dead.
- Fay Weldon

You don't go to church for intellectual gratification - you go because it pleases your aesthetic sensibilities.
- Fay Weldon

Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.
- H G Wells

I'm in a band. I don't go to church every Sunday. I love punk rock music. Sometimes I use swear words a lot. I respect and admire gay men and women. I'm obsessed with horror films. I know what shame feels like. And guess what old man? Jesus is still my Savior.
- Hayley Williams

You don't have to go to church and sit in a pew to find faith. Look into the eyes of a newborn baby or watch a sunset. Listen to children laughing. Like when a dog licks your palm or when you can smell the rain steaming the asphalt on a hot summer day. There is God...there is love, and there is evidence of your faith. Live, breathe, love...the rest will come easily.
- Greever Williams

When Christians start thinking about Jesus, things start breaking down, they lose their faith. It's perfectly possible to go to church every Sunday and not ask any questions, just because you like it as a way of life. They fear that if they ask questions they'll lose their Christ, the very linchpin of their religion.
- A N Wilson

I go to church as an expression of my need for God and for God's family.
- Philip Yancey

I'll go to church if you cut my hair tomorrow. But then you have to let me paint your portrait sometime."
"You paint?" I'm honestly surprised.
"I haven't in a long time," he says. "But I find you inspiring."
"I'd be interested to see your work," I say. "Wait, you don't mean nude or anything, right?"
He laughs. "No. You'll be fully clothed.
- Suzanne Young