Church Quotes - Page 27

• The political structure in different countries has different origins, different developments. Something which suits one country extremely well would perhaps fail completely in another. Germany, through the long centuries of monarchy, has always had a leadership principle. ... The position of the Catholic Church rests now, as before, on the clear leadership principle of its hierarchy. And I think I can also say that of Russia, too.

  Hermann Goring

  Country, Thinking, Russia

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• I hate this world, this dream, this horrible nightmare, with its churches and chicaneries, its books and blackguardisms, its fair faces and false hearts, its howling righteousness on the surface and utter hollowness beneath and, above all, its sanctified shopkeeping!

  Swami Vivekananda

  Dream, Hate, Book

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2027, Manonmani Publishers

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• True religion is not talk, or doctrines, or theories, nor is it sectarianism. It is the relation between soul and God. Religion does not consist in erecting temples, or building churches, or attending public worship. It is not to be found in books, or in words, or in lectures, or in organizations. Religion consists in realization. We must realize God, feel God, see God, talk to God. That is religion.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Book, Organization, Soul

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• The Psalms are the voices of the church.

  Ambrose

  Voice, Psalms

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• The Germans take quite a knock for the holocaust, but the Catholic church manages to push more people into death, disease, and degradation every year than the holocaust managed in its entire show. And it's thought rather crass to even mention the fact. It seems to me that as long as these Catholic bishops can show their face in public that we are in complicity with mass murder.

  Terence McKenna

  Years, Long, People

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• What the churches are peddling is high abstraction, and you really have to work yourself up into a lather to be able to accept that as worthy of that kind of attention. The psychedelic subset of society is into an experience, and it's accessible.

  Terence McKenna

  Attention, Able, Psychedelic

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• The Book of Job and the 19th Psalm, which even the Church admits to be more ancient than the chronological order in which they stand in the book called the Bible, are theological orations conformable to the original system of theology.

  Thomas Paine

  Jobs, Book, Order

  Thomas Paine (2016). “THE AGE OF REASON - Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology (Including “The Life of Thomas Paine”): Deistic Critique of Bible and Christian Church”, p.26, e-artnow

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• I once dieted so religiously I quit eating in church.

  Zig Ziglar

  Quitting, Eating, I Quit

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• Anyone who believes in the natural and inalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness is obliged to accept that individuals have the right to buy and sell alcohol. That's why all the regulations that people take for granted-the restrictions on hours of operation, the ban on Sunday sales, the minimum distance from schools and churches, the minimum age, and the protection of local wineries from competition by wineries in other states-are illegitimate.

  Sheldon Richman

  Distance, Believe, School

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• We have this idea in our mind that there's a separation of church and state in America, which I think is a good thing. And we extend that to our politics. Like it's not just church and state, but it's also there's a separation of religion and politics. But of course, there - there isn't.

  Stephen Colbert

  Thinking, Ideas, America

  "Colbert: 'Re-Becoming' The Nation We Always Were". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. October 4, 2012.

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• The Christian church has left nothing untouched by its depravity; it has turned every value into worthlessness, and every truth into a lie

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Christian, Lying, Depravity

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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• All contemporary religions and churches, all and every kind of religious organization, Marxism has always viewed as organs of bourgeois reaction, serving as a defense of exploitation and the doping of the working-classes.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Religious, Class, Organization

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• God is dethroned; and although the incognizant masses are tardy in realizing the event, they feel the icy draught caused by that vacancy. Man enters upon a spiritual ice age; the established churches can no longer provide more than Eskimo huts where their shivering flock huddles together.

  Arthur Koestler

  Spiritual, Men, Ice

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• Music truely has to all other arts the same relation as religion to the church.

  Richard Wagner

  Art, Relation

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• It is an absurd fiction that the churches are useful. They are nothing more than propaganda centers for superstitious faiths and doctrines. Church members have a right to believe in and propagate their various doctrines. But they should pay every item of the cost, of this propaganda, including fair taxation for all church property.

  E. Haldeman-Julius

  Believe, Taxation, Pay

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• I'll go to church with anyone who's willing to smoke pot and look through a telescope with me.

  Joe Rogan

  Looks, Telescopes, Pot

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• This church was open and seemingly unattended, and it was a throwback in another way as well. The candles in the little side altars were real ones, actual wax candles that burned with an open flame. Lots of churches have switched over to electrified altars. You drop your quarter in the slot and a flame-shaped bulb goes on and stays on for your quarter's worth of time. It's like a parking meter, and if you stay too long they tow away your soul.

  Lawrence Block

  Real, Flames, Parking Meters

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• Well, I kind of split my life into two pieces. One was where my chess career lies. There, I kept my sanity, so to speak, and my logic. And the other was my religious life. I tried to apply what I learned in the church to my chess career too. But I still was studying chess. I wasn't just "trusting in God" to give me the moves.

  Bobby Fischer

  Religious, Lying, Moving

  "Bobby Fischer Speaks Out!". Ambassador Report Interview with Len Zola, hwarmstrong.com. 1977.

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• It's all that pretending to be perfect that breeds inauthenticity in the church.

  Rich Mullins

  Perfect, Pretending

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• There are three things we have to let go of. The first is the compulsion to be successful. Second, is the compulsion to be right-especially theologically right. (That's merely an ego trip, and because of this "need" churches split in half, with both parties prisoners of their own egos.) Finally, there is the compulsion to be powerful, to have everything under control.

  Richard Rohr

  Letting Go, Powerful, Party

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• Here's the Middle East. Here's the mosque, here's the church, open the temple, everybody's MAD!

  Maria Bamford

  Mad, Middle East, Mosques

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• The Church must be all-powerful. You discover these horrors within institutions because predators find ways of hiding in plain sight.

  Alex Gibney

  Powerful, Sight, Predator

  Source: collider.com

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• In the case of the Catholic Church, it's hard to understand how they so willfully sacrifice the children.

  Alex Gibney

  Children, Sacrifice, Catholic

  Source: collider.com

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• The funny thing about being Catholic, and I was raised Catholic, is that you identify with the Church, just as part of your character. Nevermind what you believe, it's just who you are.

  Alex Gibney

  Believe, Character, Funny Things

  Source: collider.com

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• Singing is really where I got my start in church.

  Danny Gokey

  Singing

  Source: www.cbn.com

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