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"And I ask why am I black, they say I was born in sin, and shamed inequity. One of the main songs we used to sing in church makes me sick, 'love wash me and I shall be whiter than snow."

Peter Tosh, Jamaican Musician

Church, Sin, Snow, Songs

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"The church must constantly promote dialogue."

Claudio Hummes, Brazilian Cardinal

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"The seminaries must be like the churches' poor relations, prolonging their existence with austerity."

Abraham Kuyper, Dutch Theologian

Church, Churches, Existence, Poor

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"There are enough churches already, but the world still needs salvation."

Sun Myung Moon, Korean Clergyman

Church, Churches, Needs, Salvation, World

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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."

John Harvey Kellogg, American Businessman

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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."

Christopher Dawson, English Writer

Church, Culture, Limitations, Supernatural

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"The church may hold whatever it holds with regard to clerical celibacy."

William P. Leahy, American Educator

Church, Celibacy, May

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"The rosary was said every evening. I always liked that sentence about the medieval Churches, that they were the Bibles of the poor. The Church was my first book and I would think it is still my most important book."

John McGahern, Irish Writer

Church, Churches, Evening, First

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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."

John Templeton, American Businessman

Church, Being, Suspicion, Tradition

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"In an unconstitutional partnership with the state, the church can impose the most irresistible, if covert, controls conceivable."

Madalyn Murray O'Hair, American Writer

Church, Partnership, State

"What I'd say about that is that we must respect homosexuals in the church. I've got many homosexual friends, the issue is not in any way a homophobic reaction on my part."

George Carey, English Clergyman

Church, Friends, Respect

"A good man, is a good man, whether in this church, or out of it."

Brigham Young, American Leader

"The Church is presided over personally by Jesus Christ."

Richard G. Scott, American Clergyman

"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."

Mort Kondracke, American Journalist

Church, Research, Right, Saying

"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."

Peter Jurasik, American Actor

Church, Understanding

"Others don't want to listen to viewpoints that members of the church have."

William P. Leahy, American Educator

"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."

Maria Monk, Canadian Celebrity

Church, Conscience, Day

"I like going to Church for aesthetic reasons, rather than spiritual ones."

Andres Serrano, American Photographer

Church, Spiritual

"For you see this scripture fulfilled this day and therefore I desire you as you tender the Lord and the church and commonwealth to consider and look what you do."

Anne Hutchinson, American Clergyman

Church, Day, Desire, Scripture

"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."

Charles Hodge, American Theologian

Church, Christ, Earth, Theory

"I think I am the oldest member and have been in good standing longer than any other member of this church."

John Harvey Kellogg, American Businessman

"Some of the speakers we bring on campus may not reflect official church teaching, but that's how it is."

William P. Leahy, American Educator

Church, May, Teaching

"Some will have to cease thinking of the Church as a memorial association for a deceased clergyman called Christ."

Stephen Bayne, American Bishop

Church, Christ, Thinking, Will

"Too many church services start at eleven sharp and end at twelve dull."

Vance Havner, American Evangelist

"I grew up in the church, and I feel very strongly about it."

Mary Ann Mobley, American Actress

"I was brought up as a Catholic and went to church every week and took the sacraments. It never really touched the core of my being."

Sting, British Musician

"The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church."

Tertullian, Roman Author

Church, Blood, Martyrs

"Not far from our house, and opposite the old church with the golden cross, stood a large building, even larger than the church, and having many towers."

Max Muller, German Educator

Church, Building, Old

"A group of politicians deciding to dump a President because his morals are bad is like the Mafia getting together to bump off the Godfather for not going to church on Sunday."

Russell Baker, American Journalist

Church, Morals, Politicians, President

"I went to a church where you could not sing out loud in the service until you had been saved."

Bernice Johnson Reagon, American Musician

Church, Service

"I sang with Anita Bryant in the Southern Baptist churches."

Kathie Lee Gifford, American Entertainer

Church, Churches

"You should enter a ballpark the way you enter a church."

Bill Lee, American Athlete

"If real churches exist, such persons are not called on to make them."

John Nelson Darby, English Clergyman

Church, Churches

"I go to St. Matthews in Pacific Palisades, an Episcopal Church."

Stephen Collins, American Actor

"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."

Karl Philipp Moritz, German Author

Church, Building, Difference, London

"As for the depiction of the Catholic church, it's not meant to be a prediction."

Dan Simmons, American Author

"The Church's role should be separated from the state's role."

Roy Moore, American Judge

"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."

John Frame, American Philosopher

Church, Churches, Conservative, Result, Theology

"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."

Art Blakey, American Musician

"Humanity is not a church made of stone, in which vault after vault lies open."

Goran Persson, Swedish Politician

Church, Humanity, Lies, Open

"Only a couple of times have I ever been to church and felt enlightened by it."

Lynn Johnston, American Cartoonist

"You have the Roman Catholic Church, the Church of England, the Presbyterians, the Wesleyans, represented in each school, and they are each to take alternate days."

Charles Tupper, Canadian Statesman

Church, England, School

"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."

Rocco Buttiglione, American Politician

Church, Homosexuality, Right, Saying

"I teach metaphysics and pastor a church."

Della Reese, American Musician

Church, Metaphysics

"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."

Polly Toynbee, English Journalist

Church, Right, Support, Years

"Unfortunately, the Church's position on most contemporary issues makes it hard to take them seriously."

Andres Serrano, American Photographer

"For faithful Catholics, communion is not just a nice ritual: It is the body and blood of Jesus Christ, and the ultimate sign of our willingness to be incorporated into the church."

Maggie Gallagher, American Writer

Church, Blood, Body, Christ

"Clearly there are individuals who don't understand what the church teaches, or they think it's so limiting."

William P. Leahy, American Educator

"It was like going to church, except Ozzy Osbourne was there."

Sam Kinison, American Comedian

"My eyes are wide open to the conflicts within the Church, but I don't think you can call it schism."

Richard John Neuhaus, American Writer

Church, Eyes, Open

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