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Church Quotes
"The seminaries must be like the churches' poor relations, prolonging their existence with austerity."
157
"A servant church must have as its priority solidarity with the poor."
99
"I think I am the oldest member and have been in good standing longer than any other member of this church."
96
"In early church polemics, Jews are deemed no longer worthy of their own Scriptures because they have failed to accept Christ as the Messiah."
76
"I like going to Church for aesthetic reasons, rather than spiritual ones."
74
"In the Church of Jesus Christ there can and should be no non-theologians."
68
"A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints."
63
"Too many church services start at eleven sharp and end at twelve dull."
62
"I beg you, look for the words 'social justice' or 'economic justice' on your church Web site. If you find it, run as fast as you can. Social justice and economic justice, they are code words."
61
"The Church has lived through its early travails and has now come to accept an easier way of life. It is content to carry on its painless program with enough money to pay its bills and a membership large enough to assure its future. Its members now look to it for security rather than for guidance in the battle between good and evil. It has become a school instead of a barracks. Its members are students, not soldiers. They study the experiences of others instead of seeking new experiences of their own."
61
"Clearly the person who accepts the Church as an infallible guide will believe whatever the Church teaches."
60
"I see no faults in the Church, and therefore let me be resurrected with the Saints, whether I ascend to heaven or descend to hell, or go to any other place. And if we go to hell, we will turn the devils out of doors and make a heaven of it."
60
"If you will stay with the majority of the Twelve Apostles, and the records of the Church, you will never be led astray."
57
"The teachings of the Church line up more with the Democratic Party than the Republican Party."
55
"I support non-discrimination for homosexuals, but I think, or at least I have the right to think - without saying whether I think it or not - I have the right to think, along with the catechism of the Catholic Church, that homosexuality is morally wrong."
54
"The Church doesn't censor. It tries to guide its faithful through catechism."
52
"A group of politicians deciding to dump a President because his morals are bad is like the Mafia getting together to bump off the Godfather for not going to church on Sunday."
51
"If real churches exist, such persons are not called on to make them."
50
"Vatican II was a force that seized the mind of the Roman Catholic Church and carried it across centuries from the 13th to the 20th."
49
"Christians should emphatically be campaigning for justice for the poor - but the Church is not a campaign."
49
"Humanity is not a church made of stone, in which vault after vault lies open."
48
"I add, that those who are bent on restoring the whole church ought to be well instructed in the word, and to abstain from doing anything under the pretext of simplicity."
48
"However, it must always remain a dialogue, and never an imposition of the church's own convictions and methods. Propose, not impose. To serve, and not to dominate."
48
"I sang in church growing up. Memphis is the blues capital of the world, we like to say."
47
"I was green. All I knew was to walk my dog and go to church."
47
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