I teach metaphysics and pastor a church.

I don't see how I possibly could have come from where I entered the planet to where I am now if there had not been angels along the way.

My mother was a personal friend of God's. They had ongoing conversations.

There are people much less fortunate than us, and I don't mean people hungry sleeping in the streets either.

So whatever it is you want, need or desire or just like to have, you better try to get it now, 'cause this is the only time there is.

I also work with the spirituality of people.

I have been a Christian all my life, but it's impossible to be so deeply involved in these stories without it making you think again, and without it making you consciously aware of the people involved.

You see, I was born in the slums, that was before the ghetto. The ghetto was kind of refined; the slums was right there on the ground.

It's the truth and people need to hear the truth.

I don't have to take insulin because I have been able to make these changes and take this medication.

So I all knew was you lost your limbs and you died from it. I was scared silly.

I teach metaphysics and pastor a church.

They started to try and keep us off the air in the beginning.

People have known me for so long, I'm just Della to them.

Touching people is very rewarding to me.

I like to sing very much.

Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow may be for us and it may not.

We have made people in the industry and the people that see us aware that God loves them.

Sometimes I think the choir gets a little ticked with me because I haven't sung in a long time and I can sing.

I have a children's book already out and my autobiography.

So, yes, I believe in angels, absolutely, I do.

I could not have made it this far had there not been angels along the way.

Each week, from a different point of view, you get another look at God, and that's exciting to me.

When you really believe in God, it gives you a courage, a confidence that enables you to meet the things coming.

I have the background singers of Ray Charles, the background singers of Smokey Robinson, and the background singers of Barry White and I built a choir around that.

Now I walk every where I can. I also ride a stationary bicycle for a total of 30 minutes. I do it three or more times a week now and I have lost 20 pounds.

My doctor explained that exercise and diet changes might help and that I also might need a medication.

The exercise I do now is a mammoth change for me because I never did any exercise ever.

We want to be a place where, and when there's no place else, you can turn us on and know that He's there, He cares, and He's going to do something about it.

When you really believe in God it gives you a courage a confidence that enables you to meet the things coming.

If it came to saving the life of one priest or sacrificing the life of an entire congregation, the church would save the life of the priest. Which is backwards, of course.

I remember going to church about four times a week. I liked it a lot.

You get a heck of a sound from the church. Can't you hear it in my voice?

Every true prayer is a prayer of the Church; by means of that prayer the Church prays, since it is the Holy Spirit living in the Church, Who in every single soul 'prays in us with unspeakable groanings'.

I think my election is one of several indications that gay and lesbian folk are being brought more into the center of things. I'd like to think that my election signals my bringing of gay and lesbian folk into the center of the church.

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.

The more I do bookstores, the more people come up to me from church groups. I spoke at Pittsburg State College and had 2 or 3 ministers and book groups from a couple of churches.

My father started me singing in church.

Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and state forever separate.

A lot of victims, for example, have become addicted to alcohol and drugs. It seems to me that the church's healing ministry is going to be enhanced through this in much broader strokes. That's good, it's all positive.

The intelligence investigation under the leadership of Senator Church, which I know has helped cause this investigation by you, points out that the agencies did not disclose certain facts to us and that certain plots were going on.

Yesterday I had a Shaker visitor, and today a Catholic; and the more I see and hear, the less do I care about church doctrines.

Some hypocrites and seeming mortified men, that held down their heads, were like the little images that they place in the very bowing of the vaults of churches, that look as if they held up the church, but are but puppets.

If all Church power vests in the clergy, then the people are practically bound to passive obedience in all matters of faith and practice; for all right of private judgment is then denied.

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

It doesn't say anywhere in the Constitution this idea of the separation of church and state.

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.

There are enormously gifted Episcopal priests around this church who are gay and lesbian, some of whom are partnered, who would make wonderful bishops and they're going to be nominated and they're going to be elected.

Nationalism - in other words, the dividing of the church into bodies - consisting of such and such a nation, is a novelty, not above three centuries old, although many dear children of God are found dwelling in it.