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• Many of us regard ourselves as mildly liberal or centrist politically, voice fairly pleasant sentiments about our poor children, contribute money to send poor kids to summer camp, feel benevolent. We're not nazis; we're nice people. We read sophisticated books. We go to church. We go to synagogue. Meanwhile, we put other people's children into an economic and environmental death zone. We make it hard for them to get out. We strip the place bare of amenities. And we sit back and say to ourselves, "Well, I hope that they don't kill each other off. But if they do, it's not my fault.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Summer, Children, Nice

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• There are three traps that strangle philosophy: The church, the marriage bed, and the professor's chair.

  George Santayana

  Philosophy, Bed, Three

  George Santayana (1967). “Animal Faith and Spiritual Life”, Irvington Pub

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• Black churches minister to social needs out of necessity.

  Barack Obama

  Black, Needs, Social

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• The Church is simply the path of history, and not the actual kingdom of God.

  Nikolai Berdyaev

  Kingdoms, Path, Kingdom Of God

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• And I think it was the outline of that church tower at Belaugh against the sky which gave me a passion for churches so that every church I've past since I've wanted to stop and look in.

  John Betjeman

  Passion, Past, Thinking

  John Betjeman (1997). “John Betjeman: coming home : an anthology of his prose 1920-1977”, Vintage

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• Lovers of Norfolk churches can never agree which is the best and I think one is either a Salle or a Cawston man.

  John Betjeman

  Men, Thinking, Lovers

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• Norfolk would not be Norfolk without a church tower on the horizon or round a corner up a lane. We cannot spare a single Norfolk church. When a church has been pulled down the country seems empty or is like a necklace with a jewel missing.

  John Betjeman

  Country, Jewels, Missing

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• It will be one of the tragedies of Christian history if future historians record that at the height of the twentieth century the church was one of the greatest bulwarks of white supremacy.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Christian, White, Tragedy

  Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”

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• The gospel creates the church, which spreads the gospel, which creates more churches, which in turn spread the gospel further ad infinitum.

  John Stott

  Turns, Spread, Ads

  John Stott (2014). “The Message of Thessalonians”, p.16, SPCK

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• If America is ever going to be saved, it will be through a church flowing both in the message of the cross and the miracle of the resurrection.

  Rod Parsley

  America, Miracle, Messages

  Rod Parsley (1993). “My Promise is the Palace: So What Am I Doing in the Pit?”

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• I had to fight to be me and get respect, and to carry that stigma, for me, is pride. Carrying the tag of lesbian. I'm not bragging, I'm not preaching, but I don't deny it . I had to face society, the Church, which says damn gay people ... it's absurd. How do you judge someone who has been born that way. I did not study to be a lesbian. Neither was it taught to me. I was born this way. Since I opened my eyes to the world. I've never slept with a man. Never. I'm pure, I don't have to be ashamed ... My Gods made me so.

  Chavela Vargas

  Eye, Fighting, Pride

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• In the first place, the church can ask the state whether its actions are legitimate and in accordance with its character as state, i.e., it can throw the state back on its responsibilities. Secondly, it can aid the victims of state action. The church has an unconditional obligation to the victims of any ordering of society, even if they do not belong to the Christian community. The third possibility is not just to bandage the victims under the wheel, but to put a spoke in the wheel itself.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Christian, Responsibility, Character

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• It has been said by church historians that in those periods of Christian history where renewal, revival, and awakening took place and the church was at its strongest, that coincidental with those periods in church history, there was a strong focus on the psalms in the life of God's people-particularly in the worship of God's people.

  R. C. Sproul

  Christian, Strong, People

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• Neither the Church nor modern public opinion condemns petting, provided it stops short at a certain point.

  Bertrand Russell

  Public Opinion, Modern, Certain

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Unpopular Essays”, p.80, Routledge

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• The desire for legitimate offspring is, in fact, according to the Catholic Church, the only motive which can justify sexual intercourse.

  Bertrand Russell

  Catholic, Desire, Facts

  Bertrand Russell (2014). “Bertrand Russell's Best”, p.43, Routledge

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• We are told that Sin consists in acting contrary to God's commands, but we are also told that God is omnipotent. . . . This leads to frightful results. . . . The British State considers it the duty of an Englishman to kill people who are not English whenever a collection of elderly gentlemen in Westminster tells him to do so. . . . Church and State are placable enemies of both intelligence and virtue.

  Bertrand Russell

  Elderly, People, Gentleman

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• Nobody worries about Christ as long as he can be kept shut up in churches. He is quite safe inside. But there is always trouble if you try and let him out.

  Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy

  Long, Worry, Trying

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• A church is not a Fortune 500 company. It's not simply another nonprofit organization, nor is it a social club. In fact, a healthy church is unlike any organization that man has ever devised, because man didn't devise it.

  Mark Dever

  Men, Organization, Healthy

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• The more I know about business, the more I'm convinced that it is conducted in homes and churches far more than in office buildings.

  Jurgen E. Schrempp

  Home, Office, Building

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• Some make Conscience of wearing a Hat in the Church, who make none of robbing the Altar.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Hats, Robbing, Altars

  Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.233, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• I grew tired of religion some time not long after birth. I believe in people, I believe in humans, I believe in a car, but I don't believe something I can't have absolutely no evidence of for millenniums. And it's funny, people think analysis or psychiatry is mad, and they go to church.

  John Malkovich

  Believe, Tired, Thinking

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• I have performed my duty to my God, my country, and my family. I have nothing to fear in approaching death. To me it is the mere shadow of God's protecting wing . . . Here I will rest in quiet and peace beyond the reach of calumny's poisoned shaft, the influence of envy and jealous enemies, where treason and traitors or State backsliders and hypocrites in church can have no peace.

  Andrew Johnson

  Country, Jealous, Hypocrite

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• When I talk about the pain and hardship of a scientist's life, I'm speaking of more than existential angst. Galileo's work was condemned by the Church; Madame Curie paid with her life, a victim of leukemia wrought by radiation poisoning. Too many of us develop cataracts. None of us gets enough sleep. Most of what we know about the universe we know thanks to a lot of guys (and ladies) who stayed up late at night.

  Leon M. Lederman

  Pain, Sleep, Night

  Leon M. Lederman, Dick Teresi (1993). “The God Particle: If the Universe is the Answer, what is the Question?”, p.16, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We've got far too many churches and so few fellowships

  Richard Halverson

  Fellowship

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• As soon as a man stands up and says he is right or his church is right, and all others are wrong, he is himself all wrong. He does not know that upon the proof of all the others depends the proof of his own. Love and charity for the whole human race, that is the test of true religiousness. I do not mean the sentimental statement that all men are brothers, but that one must feel the oneness of human life.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Brother, Mean, Men

  Swami Vivekananda, Swami Adiswarananda (2006). “Vivekananda, World Teacher: His Teachings on the Spiritual Unity of Humankind”, p.68, SkyLight Paths Publishing

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