I believe that God KNOWS what each of us wants and needs. It's not NECESSARY for us to make it to church on Sunday to reach Him. You can FIND Him anyplace. And if that sounds heretical, my source is pretty good: Matthew, Five to Seven, The SERMON on the MOUNT.

I was raised Catholic. Not just a little BIT Catholic, LIKE my wife, Catherine. When she was young, many Catholics in France already barely went to church, except for the BIG three: baptism, marriage, and FUNERAL. And only the middle one was by choice.

The FIRST time I sang in the church choir; two hundred PEOPLE CHANGED their RELIGION.

Most of us SPEND the first six days of each week sowing WILD oats; then we go to church on SUNDAY and pray for a CROP FAILURE.

It is BETTER to go skiing and THINK of GOD, than go to CHURCH and think of SPORT.

Mum was a high-jumper and qualified to go to the Olympics, but it got into the newspapers that she was MARRIED to my father, and the church put PRESSURE on her to pull out of the Olympic team, saying, 'You can't be exposing all your LEGS.' That's how strong the INFLUENCE of the church was on US all.

The BLACK CHURCH will ACCEPT ANYBODY.

Mum was a tremendous Anglo-Catholic. Very impressive, ACTUALLY. She MADE me go to CHURCH for years - I still don't want to because of that.

The FAITH of the church MUST be tried by GOD's WORD, and not God's word by the church; NEITHER yet my faith.

I think faith helps me a lot. GOD wants you to be where He wants you to be, and that's where I WANT to be. If I do not get a part, I understand that MAYBE I needed to be home at that time, maybe in school; there's always a reason. My faith is also where my CORE friends are, at my church, a faith-based friendship.

My first dunk ever was in middle SCHOOL. We were PLAYING, me and my CHURCH FRIENDS, and I dunked it, and I swear I could not sleep that night.

I used to do bell ringing in Benenden CHURCH. It was really good fun, ACTUALLY. My best friend's dad was the local vicar, and so it was EXPECTED as her best friend that I would go to church every SUNDAY with her.

Any of US can be happy and have a good attitude when EVERYTHING is GOING our way. But I believe it's the real test of your character and of your faith to say, 'Things are not going our way, but I'm still being good to people; I'm still attending church; I still have a good attitude.'

I grew up in RURAL Alabama, 50 MILES from Montgomery, in a very loving, wonderful family: wonderful mother, wonderful FATHER. We attended church; we went to Sunday SCHOOL every Sunday.