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Church Quotes
"Many come to bring their clothes to church rather than themselves."
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"Others don't want to listen to viewpoints that members of the church have."
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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."
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"In the scattered settlements of this Diocese, schools and Churches are of necessity for many years few in number, and multitudes of both sexes are growing up in great ignorance."
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"I am drawn to Christ but I have real problems with the Catholic Church."
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"How the early priests came into possession of these secrets does not appear, and if there were ever any records of this kind the Church would hardly allow them to become public."
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"Romanists tell us that the Pope is the vicar of Christ; that he is his successor as the universal head and ruler of the Church on earth. If this is so, he must be a Christ."
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"No, we are not the master of the state, said King. We are not the servant of the state. We are the conscience of the state. The churches or the religious community should be, I think, the conscience of the state. We're not just service providers."
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"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."
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"May the Lord destroy all the tyrants of the church. Amen."
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"The mission proper to the Church is that of proclaiming the Gospel."
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"In the Church, considered as a social organism, the mysteries inevitably degenerate into beliefs."
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"But I'll tell you what, there was a lot of farmland between Falls Church and Washington."
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"Clearly there are individuals who don't understand what the church teaches, or they think it's so limiting."
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"I was unwilling to - without getting too philosophical about it - I was unwilling to structure my spirituality in the way that the church wanted me to structure it."
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"Church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back."
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"There is no dogma that the organ or harmonium can be used in church, but not the drum."
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"In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to appear better than we really are."
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"Well, I think Barkley and I were the only two who were working with Church for a Ph.D."
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"The Church is presided over personally by Jesus Christ."
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"I don't want to just preach to the church. I feel like I have a broader message."
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"That's what they do in Europe. You go down to the city hall and you become legally connected. You have a civil union there. Then, if you're religious, you go down to the church, and the church blesses the union. That gets the problem solved."
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"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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"I sang with Anita Bryant in the Southern Baptist churches."
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"As for the depiction of the Catholic church, it's not meant to be a prediction."
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"In the polls, over 80% support the right to die and have done for the last 25 years. Even 80% of practising Catholics and Protestants support it, plus 76% of Church Times readers."
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"Vatican II declares the Church... as necessary for salvation."
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"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."
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