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Church Quotes
"A servant church must have as its priority solidarity with the poor."
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"The seminaries must be like the churches' poor relations, prolonging their existence with austerity."
51
"I like going to Church for aesthetic reasons, rather than spiritual ones."
40
"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."
38
"A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints."
36
"In early church polemics, Jews are deemed no longer worthy of their own Scriptures because they have failed to accept Christ as the Messiah."
33
"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."
32
"In the Church of Jesus Christ there can and should be no non-theologians."
30
"Too many church services start at eleven sharp and end at twelve dull."
27
"If you will stay with the majority of the Twelve Apostles, and the records of the Church, you will never be led astray."
27
"Humanity is not a church made of stone, in which vault after vault lies open."
21
"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."
21
"I don't want to just preach to the church. I feel like I have a broader message."
21
"The teachings of the Church line up more with the Democratic Party than the Republican Party."
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"Others don't want to listen to viewpoints that members of the church have."
20
"If real churches exist, such persons are not called on to make them."
20
"In a jazz atmosphere, the audience members were so quiet and respectful of the musicians that you felt you were almost part of a meeting at a church or a temple, where everyone was completely in tune with the sermon and what the whole event was about."
20
"The church of St. Peter at Berlin, notwithstanding the total difference between them in the style of building, appears in some respects to have a great resemblance to St. Paul's in London."
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"In the Church, considered as a social organism, the mysteries inevitably degenerate into beliefs."
19
"The right-to-life movement and the Roman Catholic Church are saying that it is better to destroy these embryos, or preferably have them adopted - which is not going to happen - than to use them for research."
18
"As for the depiction of the Catholic church, it's not meant to be a prediction."
18
"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."
18
"You can be committed to Church but not committed to Christ, but you cannot be committed to Christ and not committed to church."
18
"I was green. All I knew was to walk my dog and go to church."
18
"There is no dogma that the organ or harmonium can be used in church, but not the drum."
18
"Ultimately Warhol's private moral reference was to the supreme kitsch of the Catholic church."
18
"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."
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"On the day, therefore, when I went to the church to be confirmed, with a number of others, I suffered extremely from the reproaches of my conscience."
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