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Church Quotes
"A good man, is a good man, whether in this church, or out of 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."
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"I am, I think the only surviving member of the original Battle Creek church. The church was disbanded, with the exception of thirteen members, in 1870."
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"Only a couple of times have I ever been to church and felt enlightened by it."
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"When I was growing up, I'd be in the choir. My mum was the organist in the church, so I'd sing in the church."
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"Ultimately Warhol's private moral reference was to the supreme kitsch of the Catholic church."
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"I go to St. Matthews in Pacific Palisades, an Episcopal Church."
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"It was like going to church, except Ozzy Osbourne was there."
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"I look at tens of thousands of church leaders who still do need a bit of an awakening."
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"The earlier practice of the Church had been more or less to employ in worship under the presidency of the pastor or pastors, the gifts of the congregation."
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"We follow the rules laid out in the Bible for running our church."
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"It would be far better to be of no church than to be bitter of any."
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"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."
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"I found out that many of our Catholics simply don't know what the church teaches, and why, on a lot of issues, and therefore are saying things that they think are okay. They simply don't know."
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"It was not just the Church that resisted the heliocentrism of Copernicus."
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"There is too much theology in the Church now, and too little of the Gospel."
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"I think if the church did what they were supposed to do we wouldn't have anyone sleeping on the streets."
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"You know how the church has been hit so hard by the sexual misconduct by clergy, and what's that's done to Catholics, especially here in Boston but elsewhere as well."
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"She thoroughly understands what no other Church has ever understood, how to deal with enthusiasts."
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"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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"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."
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"I grew up in the church, and I feel very strongly about it."
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"I went to a church where you could not sing out loud in the service until you had been saved."
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"Unfortunately, the Church's position on most contemporary issues makes it hard to take them seriously."
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"The Church became both more accessible and less imposing. It threw itself open to risk."
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"The early Church had nothing but the Old Testament. The New Testament lies hidden in the Old; the Old Testament lies open in the New."
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"There's always the tendency to transform the Church into an ethical agency, and of measuring the Church by the yardstick of social and cultural utility."
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"If the Church is a living body united to the same head, governed by the same laws, and pervaded by the same Spirit, it is impossible that one part should be independent of all the rest."
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"I think that after Church got his Ph.D. he studied in Europe, maybe in the Netherlands, for a year or two."
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"But when one identifies the Church with a cultural and political bloc, there is the danger of making difficult the Church's contact with all those outside the bloc."
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"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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"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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"Christ has not only ordained that there shall be such officers in his Church - he has not only specified their duties and prerogatives - but he gives the requisite qualifications, and calls those thus qualified, and by that call gives them their official authority."
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"All the reasons which require the subjection of a believer to the brethren of a particular church, require his subjection to all his brethren in the Lord."
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