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Church Quotes
"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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"I don't want to just preach to the church. I feel like I have a broader message."
37
"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."
37
"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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"But I'll tell you what, there was a lot of farmland between Falls Church and Washington."
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"There is no dogma that the organ or harmonium can be used in church, but not the drum."
35
"In the Church, considered as a social organism, the mysteries inevitably degenerate into beliefs."
35
"Christians should emphatically be campaigning for justice for the poor - but the Church is not a campaign."
35
"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."
35
"As for the depiction of the Catholic church, it's not meant to be a prediction."
34
"Only a couple of times have I ever been to church and felt enlightened by it."
34
"May the Lord destroy all the tyrants of the church. Amen."
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"Vatican II declares the Church... as necessary for salvation."
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"I am drawn to Christ but I have real problems with the Catholic Church."
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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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"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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"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."
34
"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."
34
"My grandmother, she say I shouldn't be playing. I should go to church. Fially, I say I'm going do this, I'm going do it. And she got where she didn't bother me about it."
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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."
33
"Clearly there are individuals who don't understand what the church teaches, or they think it's so limiting."
33
"The Church became both more accessible and less imposing. It threw itself open to risk."
33
"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."
33
"Ultimately Warhol's private moral reference was to the supreme kitsch of the Catholic church."
33
"There is too much theology in the Church now, and too little of the Gospel."
33
"Well, I think Barkley and I were the only two who were working with Church for a Ph.D."
33
"I sang with Anita Bryant in the Southern Baptist churches."
32
"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."
32
"In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to appear better than we really are."
32
"I wouldn't want to criticise someone like Charlotte Church because she has done fantastically well, but personally I've always cared about the long term."
32
"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."
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"The result has been that although few conservative Presbyterian churches actually worship in the Puritan way, the Puritan theology of worship remains the standard orthodoxy among them. This discrepancy sometimes leads to guilty consciences."
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