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Church Quotes
"Let Catholics build their own churches and works."
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"Anybody who had come up with a new concept would have been under suspicion for being out of step with the tradition or out of step with the teachings of the church."
35
"In an unconstitutional partnership with the state, the church can impose the most irresistible, if covert, controls conceivable."
34
"Priesthood is not a convenient, historically conditioned form of Church organisation, but is rooted in the Incarnation, in the priesthood and mission of Christ himself."
34
"You can be committed to Church but not committed to Christ, but you cannot be committed to Christ and not committed to church."
34
"And I definitely wanted to be a writer, but I felt a duty now, having used up those educational resources, I felt a duty to the church and my parents to become a priest."
34
"It's not enough to attend church and pray every Sunday; you have to act."
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"I left because I decided it just really wasn't for me, and I got a better understanding of what the Catholic Church needed from its priests and ministers."
33
"The Popish theory, which assumes that Christ, the Apostles and believers, constituted the Church while our Saviour was on earth, and this organization was designed to be perpetual."
33
"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."
33
"There is a kind of thinking in the Church that wants to reduce the priest to a mere functionary, a managing director, where administration rather than doctrine and worship are to determine the form of the Church."
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"A lot of churches have not moved with the times."
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"As for the British churchman, he goes to church as he goes to the bathroom, with the minimum of fuss and no explanation if he can help it."
32
"I remember going to church about four times a week. I liked it a lot."
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"The artistic taste of the Catholic priests is appalling and I am most anxious to have a Catholic church in which everything is genuine and good, and not tawdry and ostentatious."
31
"The world looks at preachers out of church to know what they mean in it."
31
"We were environmentalists of the Teddy Roosevelt theory. We believed in separation of church and state. We believed in the independence of the Supreme Court not being subject to politicians."
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"There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being."
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"You can't seperate modern jazz from rock or from rhythm and blues - you can't seperate it. Because that's where it all started, and that's where it all come from - that's where I learned to keep rhythm - in church."
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"Becoming Catholic involves entering into a relationship with the Catholic Church."
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"As of essential importance in town churches which are not at all equally necessary in the country."
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"The only place a new hat can be carried into with safety is a church, for there is plenty of room there."
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"The Church in England is the Church of England."
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"And I found both literature and the church very dramatic presences in the world of the 1950s."
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"If there were no ministers and no priests, how long would there be any churches?"
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"I just want you to know you aren't going to church with a crook."
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