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

Those churches have closed down or have been merged with a church that has a more positive vision.

Like a lot of artists, I started out as a singer in my church choir when I was a child.

I could never concentrate on Sunday church services because I'd be concentrating on women's hats.

Laughter was a part of the church services I attended as a child.

I was the second-youngest child in a family that took up the better part of an entire pew at our Baptist church.

What I thought as a young adult is you act like you have it together whether or not you do because that is what church people do. That is not what God has called us to do.

Growing up, I was blessed to be part of a great church. This is where I met many friends who have encouraged me in my life to live strong for Christ. My church is a place where I can develop friendships with others that will encourage me in my walk with Christ.

When your dad is a preacher and your mom is a choir director and you're in church all the time, as a youngster, you've got to find something to do. That's where my musical background comes from.

I have a church background. I've been playing piano and keyboard and organ all my life in church.

I was a military brat. My dad was in the military, so I was born in Germany. I moved around a lot; I was in church a lot.

The reason I still go play the organ at church every Sunday and dedicate my talents to God first is because I feel like that's the reason why I'm who I am today.

My grandmother was a church organist, but we only went on Easter and Christmas Eve sometimes.

My grandma was a church organist for 40 years, and she got me into jazz music and great songwriters, Harold Arlen, George Gershwin, all those folks. I can't do it, but I have a profound respect for it.

If this government is doing the right thing by fighting corruption, the Church should support it.

If the church says you are not allowed to steal, and we will ostracize you in our midst if you did, if what a man has does not measure up to what he has, if we found that a man has more money than he should have, if a man is earning a salary of a civil servant or a public servant and he has houses everywhere, we have to hold him to account.

If the church says we will not accept you here or that we will expose you if you are stealing the resources of the country or stealing the resources of a private company or other establishment, where you work, then we would not have the type of problem that we have in this country. If only the church does so - just the church.

The carnal nature of man is that he places his tribe above others, but the only basis for the power and unity of the church is that there is no Jew or Gentile.

It's kind of like some kind of church for me, playing live. Each show, good people from different pockets of the world come and open their soul and let their spirits mingle and dance. That energy comes up through me, and all I do is channel it; it's like a circular motion and very sacred.

My father was the church organist; the village curate was my mother's brother, a former monk from the order of Pijar, a very well-educated and ascetic man who loved nothing but solitude.

My father is maestro at the Metropolitan church, which gives me an opportunity to write for the church as much as I please.