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Church Quotes
"The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool."
"The Church in England is the Church of England."
"We should always be disposed to believe that that which appears white is really black, if the hierarchy of the Church so decides."
"I sang in church growing up. Memphis is the blues capital of the world, we like to say."
"It would be far better to be of no church than to be bitter of any."
"I see no faults in the Church, and therefore let me be resurrected with the Saints, whether I ascend to heaven or descend to hell, or go to any other place. And if we go to hell, we will turn the devils out of doors and make a heaven of it."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"In early church polemics, Jews are deemed no longer worthy of their own Scriptures because they have failed to accept Christ as the Messiah."
"I was green. All I knew was to walk my dog and go to church."
"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."
"It was not just the Church that resisted the heliocentrism of Copernicus."
"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."
"There is no dogma that the organ or harmonium can be used in church, but not the drum."
"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."
"Ultimately Warhol's private moral reference was to the supreme kitsch of the Catholic church."
"The world looks at preachers out of church to know what they mean in it."
"I beg you, look for the words 'social justice' or 'economic justice' on your church Web site. If you find it, run as fast as you can. Social justice and economic justice, they are code words."
"In the Church of Jesus Christ there can and should be no non-theologians."
"There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being."
"It's not enough to attend church and pray every Sunday; you have to act."
"In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to appear better than we really are."
"Church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back."
"In the Church, considered as a social organism, the mysteries inevitably degenerate into beliefs."
"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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