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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.

  Michael W. Smith

  Sleep, Thinking, Streets

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• A member must say that he is a member of the Unification Church and that he is the follower of Sun Myung Moon. If he doesn't have the courage to say it, he is not worthy of me.

  Sun Myung Moon

  Moon, Unification Church, Followers

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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

  Thinking, Battle, Creeks

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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.

  Leigh Hunt

  Safety, Rooms, Hats

  Leigh Hunt (1822). “The Indicator”, p.170

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• My training in Science of Mind had begun with my mother. She took me to a different church every Sunday, and she encouraged me to question the minister afterward.

  Esther Williams

  Mother, Sunday, Training

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• The American Indian was an individualist in religion as in war. He had neither a national army nor an organized church.

  Charles Alexander Eastman

  War, Army, American Indian

  Charles Alexander Eastman, Michael Oren Fitzgerald (2007). “The Essential Charles Eastman (Ohiyesa): Light on the Indian World”, p.9, World Wisdom, Inc

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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.

  Ronald Blythe

  Helping, Bathroom, British

  'The Age of Illusion' (1963) ch. 12

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• The divorce between church and state should be absolute.

  James A. Garfield

  Divorce, States, Should

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• [I]t would be unjust to our people and dangerous to our institutions to apply any portion of revenues of the nation or of the States to the support of sectarian schools.

  James A. Garfield

  School, People, Support

  Garfield, James A. (1882). “The works of James Abram Garfield. Volume 2”, p.783, Best Books on

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• The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Atheist, Government

  Notes on the State of Virginia, query 17 (1781 - 1785)

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• I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.

  George Carlin

  Religious, Atheist, Ideas

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The first time I sang in the church choir; two hundred people changed their religion.

  Fred Allen

  Funny, Clever, Church Choir

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• 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.

  Lance Morrow

  Catholic, Mind, Religion

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• The whole tone of Church teaching in regard to women is, to the last degree, contemptuous and degrading.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Teaching, Aggravation, Degrees

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• In the Church of Jesus Christ there can and should be no non-theologians.

  Karl Barth

  Jesus, Christ, Should

  Karl Barth (1981). “Letters, 1961-1968”

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• The Church must be forever building, for it is forever decaying within and attacked from without.

  T. S. Eliot

  Forever, Building

  T.S. Eliot (2011). “The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot”, p.134, Faber & Faber

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• Let us never give in to pessimism, to that bitterness that the devil offers us every day. Do not give in to pessimism and discouragement. We have the firm certainty that the Holy Spirit gives the Church with His mighty breath, the courage to persevere and also to seek new methods of evangelization, to bring the Gospel to the ends of the earth.

  Pope Francis

  Christian, Religious, Courage

  "Vatican denies claim that Pope Francis failed to protect Argentina priests" By Laura Smith-Spark, Hada Messia, www.cnn.com. March 15, 2013.

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• Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.

  James Madison

  Exercise, Secular Society, Law

  Virginia. General Assembly. House of Delegates, J. W. Randolph, James Madison (1850). “The Virginia Report of 1799-1800: Touching the Alien and Sedition Laws; Together with the Virginia Resolutions of December 21, 1798, Including the Debate and Proceedings Thereon in the House of Delegates of Virginia and Other Documents Illustrative of the Report and Resolutions”, p.136

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• Why is the church always a taillight rather than a headlight?

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Headlights

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• Christianity means a lot more than church membership.

  Billy Sunday

  Mean, Membership, Christianity

  Billy Sunday, William Thomas Ellis (1917). “Billy Sunday, the Man and His Message: With His Own Words which Have Won Thousands for Christ”

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• The problem is not that the churches are filled with empty pews, but that the pews are filled with empty people.

  Charlie W Shedd

  People, Emptiness, Problem

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• It is death that goes down to the center of the earth, the great burial church the earth is, and then to the curved ends of the universe, as light is said to do

  Harold Brodkey

  Light, Earth, Ends

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• Well, to take me from where I was, and the life I was leading, to the life I lead now with the church and with the Lord and with Jesus Christ, it's a total, total turn-around.

  Pat Summerall

  Jesus, Christ, Lord

  "Pat Summerall: Gridiron, God, and Graham". Interview With Andrew Knox, www.cbn.com.

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• The Church counters the culture of death with the culture of love.

  Pope John Paul II

  Culture

  Pope John Paul II (2002). “Pope John Paul II in My Own Words”, Gramercy Books

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• I prefer a church which is bruised, hurting and dirty because it has been out on the streets, rather than a church which is unhealthy from being confined and from clinging to its own security.

  Pope Francis

  Hurt, Dirty, Clinging

  Pope Francis (2015). “The Spirit of St Francis: Inspiring Words on Faith, Love and Creation”, p.132, SPCK

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