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“It came from my mother. She was a singer, and literally every day of the week she sang at a different club in a different genre of music: country, R&B clubs, jazz clubs, church on Sunday morning where she was the music director, pop hits, soft rock. I grew up listening to all this music, so it was never one thing for me.”

“Influences come from everywhere. I don't really feel like I had too many influences for the first record because I grew up listening to music in church, and that was pretty much it. I didn't really grow up listening to AC/DC and all those bands.”

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Author:Avril Lavigne

“Some people maybe try to justify their laziness. You take out what you put in and the more I go to church and the more I turn myself over to the process of believing in Jesus, and to listening to his word and have him guide my hand I feel the pressure's off me.”

People Feels Trying Believe Hands Turns Jesus Process Church Listening Pressure Guides Justify Laziness

Author:Sylvester Stallone

“My earliest memories about music are connected with going to church and listening to organ music. I am not from a musical family, actually, and I remember my first musical fascination to be for organ music. I wanted to become an organist and not a pianist.”

Firsts Wanted Remember Church Memories Listening Musical Connected Organs Fascination Pianist Going To Church

Author:Rafal Blechacz

“Though people are more important than money, I'm not convinced these large sums of money paid out to victims is the best. Listening to the some of the victims, I think we could have avoided a lot of this if the Church had humbly apologized to them, but we tried to bully some of them. I pray the victims are healed.”

People Ifs Thinking Important Church Listening Praying Paid Victim Convinced Bully Avoided I Pray Healed

Author:Uwem Akpan

“Church was the thing for me. The fellowship and the message that was given and singing in the choir and singing the solos and really listening to the words that you were singing and seeing how it affected people was huge for me.”

People Given Church Seeing Huge Listening Messages Singing Affected Solo Fellowship Choir

Author:DeLisha Milton-Jones

“If a leader goes with their gut, it should be after listening first to people they trust.”

People Ifs Should Firsts Christian Leadership Church Leader Listening Guts

Author:Andy Stanley

“We need to close every church in the land for one Sunday and cease listening to a man so we can hear the groan of the Spirit which we in our lush pews have forgotten.”

Men Needs Spirit Church Land Listening Forgotten Cease Sunday Lush

Author:Leonard Ravenhill

“After listening to modern tirades against the great creeds of the Church, one receives a shock when one turns to the Westminster Confession... and discovers that in doing so one has turned from shallow modern phrases to a "dead orthodoxy" that is pulsating with life in every word. In such orthodoxy there is life enough to set the whole world aglow with Christian love.”

World Enough Whole Christian Turns Church Modern Listening Whole World Phrases Shock Confession Creeds Shallow Orthodoxy Christian Love Westminster

Book:Christianity and Liberalism

Source: Christianity and Liberalism

“Millions of Christians can and do go through life attending church, listening to sermons, reciting the creeds and never confront the seeming contradictions, redaction and myths passed off as verifiable history.”

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Author:A. N. Wilson

“When you go to church you are really listening in to the secret wireless from our friends.”

Church Secret Listening Wireless Snobbery

Book:The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis

Source: The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis

“My mother's side of the family is Methodist, which is how I was raised. It was conservative in that I had strong values - sitting down and eating with the family every day, listening to authority and going to church every week and having perfect attendance at Sunday school.”

“I grew up in the church not being able to listen to anything but gospel. So, while [other] people grew up with their parents listening to Marvin Gaye and Aretha Franklin, I never knew they existed until I was able to listen to what I wanted to.”

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Author:Rahki

“I kind of grew up a guitar nerd and I tried to figure out how to shred on an acoustic guitar as a kid, while listening to jazz or whatever. So that is kind of a different thing and my church background, growing up with worship kind of the ground that I learned how to play music from. Those are all odd ways of growing up, compared to most people, so I think the music has plenty of uniqueness in that.”

“As a teenager I was very clear that I wasn't in the church just to toe the line, but I saw there was a capacity within Christianity and the bible not to fall into line but to question the status quo, that's what kept me in the church. I was listening to the sort of music that did that questioning.”

Fall Church Lines Christianity Clear Saws Listening Capacity Teenager Questioning Toes Status Quo

Author:Alan Green

“The more I go to church and the more I turn myself over to the process of believing in Jesus and listening to His Word and having Him guide my hand, I feel as though the pressure is off me now.”

Feels Believe Hands Turns Jesus Process Church Listening Pressure Guides

Author:Sylvester Stallone

“Either I'm listening to rap music, getting hyped up to go out and do something, or I'm listening to church music.”

Church Listening Rap Rap Music Church Music

Author:Hailey Rhode Baldwin

“Those are the ladies sitting in church. And in the same way that they might feel a joy and release on Sunday, they are still going to work on Monday. And that's who I was listening to during this process. And if at the end of my presidency they feel like I did a pretty good job, then I'll feel pretty good.”

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Author:Barack Obama

“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.”

Doe Church Secret Enemy Listening Intellectual Anxious Laziness Conceit Wireless Snobbery

Book:A Year with C. S. Lewis: 365 Daily Readings from his Classic Works

Source: A Year with C. S. Lewis: 365 Daily Readings from his Classic Works