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Church Quotes
"The seminaries must be like the churches' poor relations, prolonging their existence with austerity."
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"A servant church must have as its priority solidarity with the poor."
39
"I like going to Church for aesthetic reasons, rather than spiritual ones."
31
"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."
27
"In the Church of Jesus Christ there can and should be no non-theologians."
27
"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."
25
"In early church polemics, Jews are deemed no longer worthy of their own Scriptures because they have failed to accept Christ as the Messiah."
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"A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints."
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"Too many church services start at eleven sharp and end at twelve dull."
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"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."
15
"Others don't want to listen to viewpoints that members of the church have."
14
"If real churches exist, such persons are not called on to make them."
14
"As for the depiction of the Catholic church, it's not meant to be a prediction."
14
"I am drawn to Christ but I have real problems with the Catholic Church."
14
"The Church doesn't censor. It tries to guide its faithful through catechism."
14
"The teachings of the Church line up more with the Democratic Party than the Republican Party."
14
"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."
13
"It is impossible for us to understand the Church if we regard her as subject to the limitations of human culture. For she is essentially a supernatural organism which transcends human cultures and transforms them to her own ends."
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"Humanity is not a church made of stone, in which vault after vault lies open."
12
"Only a couple of times have I ever been to church and felt enlightened by it."
12
"I don't want to just preach to the church. I feel like I have a broader message."
12
"I have never met a happy atheist. I believe in separation of church and state, but I think we have gone so far over in the other direction of separating church and state."
12
"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."
12
"Many come to bring their clothes to church rather than themselves."
12
"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."
11
"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."
11
"The Church has always been willing to swap off treasures in heaven for cash down."
11
"I was green. All I knew was to walk my dog and go to church."
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"Let Catholics build their own churches and works."
11
"Westminster Abbey, the Tower, a steeple, one church, and then another, presented themselves to our view; and we could now plainly distinguish the high round chimneys on the tops of the houses, which yet seemed to us to form an innumerable number of smaller spires, or steeples."
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