Alan Jay Lerner on church
Alan Jay Lerner42 quotes“Pull out the stopper! Let’s have a whopper! / But get me to the church on time!.”
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On a clear day, rise and look around you, and you’ll see who you are.
Alan Jay LernerAlan Jay Lerner Men die but an idea does not.
Alan Jay LernerAlan Jay Lerner Lots of cosy sky That God and I can share. I need air. I need air.
Alan Jay LernerAlan Jay Lerner A schedule so tight that it would only work if I didn’t sleep on Monday nights.
Alan Jay LernerAlan Jay Lerner Pleasure without joy is as hollow as passion without tenderness.
Alan Jay LernerAlan Jay Lerner It’s not a pretty face, I grant you. But underneath its flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.
Alan Jay LernerAlan Jay Lerner All to often, however, what she [the woman] does want is the man she hopes she will make out of the man she already has.
Alan Jay LernerAlan Jay Lerner Don’t let it be forgot, that once there was a spot, for one brief shining moment, that was known as Camelot.
Alan Jay LernerAlan Jay Lerner I could have danced all night!
Alan Jay LernerAlan Jay Lerner There’s a smile on my face for the whole human race.
Alan Jay LernerAlan Jay Lerner Eternally noble, historically fair; Who, when you win, will always give your back a pat. Why can’t a woman be like that?
Alan Jay LernerAlan Jay Lerner By order summer lingers through September In Camelot.
Alan Jay LernerAlan Jay Lerner I’m getting married in the morning! / Ding dong! the bells are gonna chime.
Alan Jay LernerAlan Jay Lerner Why can’t the English teach their children how to speak?
Alan Jay LernerAlan Jay Lerner You will follow every mountain, sea and shore, You will see from far and near a world you’ve never seen before.
Alan Jay LernerAlan Jay Lerner England still will be here without you.
Alan Jay LernerAlan Jay Lerner
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They bleed not in the mouth but through their ink – indelible and dark.
Juana GarciaJuana Garcia I would rather shoot my arrows than keep them in my bow, I would rather risk it all than risk nothing at all.
ShamaShama I wish I knew then all of the things I know now that I am enough.
TMCTMC I feel like I’m on fire, fighting for a moment on respite – I’m not placing bets.
M.K. StandbyM.K. Standby I found him in all the chaos, and that was when my world started making sense again.
MoomerMoomer The judgement that people cast on you for how you do or do not appear is nothing more than just a projection of their own wounds.
Taj AroraTaj Arora Be grateful for what you have now, even if it’s not everything you wanted.
Sonia SabnisSonia Sabnis It seems strange how we look in the same mirror, yet what stares back, is so painfully different.
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More on church
If the church does not identify with the marginalized, it will itself be marginalized. This is God’s poetic justice.
Timothy KellerTimothy Keller Voluntary self-directed religion was more dangerous to the Church than any number of infidels.
Barbara TuchmanBarbara Tuchman To be in the mainline is to have a history and not simply to be an amalgam, a community church of who knows what that came from who knows where.
Barbara Brown TaylorBarbara Brown Taylor I think it is going to be very difficult for any church that still calls itself a church, never to try and convince someone that their religion is the best one.
Barry W. LynnBarry W. Lynn When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
William CowperWilliam Cowper 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 WaltersBarbara Walters Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.
William CowperWilliam Cowper Woman was the Church’s rival, the temptress, the distraction, the obstacle to holiness, the Devil’s decoy.
Barbara TuchmanBarbara Tuchman
