"The Church has always been willing to swap off treasures in heaven for cash down."

Church, Heaven

1

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"The Church has always been willing to swap off treasures in heaven for cash down."

Exlpore more Church quotes

"Does the church offer answers for the complexions of 21st century problems?"

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Church, ModernIssues, Guidance, Faith

"I think if the church did what they were supposed to do we wouldn't have anyone sleeping on the streets."

Michael W. Smith, American Musician

Church,

"And what I learned in Church's course. He trained us intensively in his new system, which he was just developing. Two papers were presented. I think the second paper wasn't published until well after the course was finished."

Stephen Cole Kleene, American Mathematician

Church,

"In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to appear better than we really are."

E. Stanley Jones, American Theologian

Church, Desire, Respectability

"Ultimately Warhol's private moral reference was to the supreme kitsch of the Catholic church."

Allen Ginsberg, American Poet

Church,

"When I was growing up, I'd be in the choir. My mum was the organist in the church, so I'd sing in the church."

Enya, Irish Musician

Church, Growing up

"A Church which has lost its memory is in a sad state of senility."

Henry Chadwick, English Writer

Church, Memory, State

"I found out that many of our Catholics simply don't know what the church teaches, and why, on a lot of issues, and therefore are saying things that they think are okay. They simply don't know."

Roger Mahony, American Clergyman

Church, Saying

"Is it possible that I am not alone in believing that in the dispute between Galileo and the Church, the Church was right and the centre of man's universe is the earth?"

Stephen Vizinczey, Canadian Author

Church, Earth, Man, Right

"We should always be disposed to believe that that which appears white is really black, if the hierarchy of the Church so decides."

Saint Ignatius, Spanish Saint

Church,

Explore more quotes by Robert Green Ingersoll

"When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism."

Death

"The Church has always been willing to swap off treasures in heaven for cash down."

Church

"The more liberty you give away the more you will have."

Liberty

"It is an old habit with theologians to beat the living with the bones of the dead."

Habit

"The superior man is the providence of the inferior. He is eyes for the blind, strength for the weak, and a shield for the defenseless. He stands erect by bending above the fallen. He rises by lifting others."

Strength

"Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell."

Religion

"It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense."

Education

"Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so."

Happiness

"It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions."

Age

"If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane."

Man