Seminary Quotes

I trained to be a priest - started to. I went to seminary school when I was 11. I wanted to be a priest, but when they told me I could never have sex, not even on my birthday, I changed my mind.

I am not sure what I am going to do for my next film, but I certainly believe that I have no right to tell another couple whether they can or cannot be married. That is simply not allowed in my ethical book of standards. I am a very spiritual person - I don`t talk about it publicly that much, but I went to the seminary when I was in high school; I read the New Testament. And let me tell you something: There is nowhere in the four Gospels where Jesus uses the word homosexual, nor the word abortion. The right wing has appropriated this guy. It makes you think, what someone can do in your name a thousand years from now. And they have used him to attack gays and lesbians, when he never said a single word against people who are homosexual. Anyone who professes to be a Christian and does that is certainly not following the teachings of Jesus Christ.

It`s also reflective of a young person`s religion or faith in that it`s highly charged with sacramental imagery and with country imagery, because I was in the seminary for so many years in the country.

I was both thrilled and overjoyed when I heard about the re-discovery of this wonderful manuscript, a true original by an artist for the ages. This wonderful find brings back the excitement of fifteen years ago, when the Seminary celebrated the unearthing of an original score by another musical genius, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. At that time, we called it the `Mozart miracle`. It seems appropriate that this time we are thankful for the `Beethoven blessing.` Through the extraordinary generosity of the Doane family, God has once again blessed us with a gift that is of rare and practical beauty.

Each of our children during their high school years went to `early morning seminary` - scripture study classes that met in the home of a church member every school day morning from 6:30 until 7:15.