Church Quotes - Page 29

• At age 11, I went to a Jewish school. I speak Yiddish. I'm Church of England Protestant. My father was Catholic, and my mother was Protestant. My wife is a Muslim.

  Michael Caine

  Mother, Father, School

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• Everything Hitler did to the Jews, all the horribly unspeakable misdeeds, had already been done to the smitten people before by the Christian churches. . . . The isolation of Jews into ghetto camps, the wearing of the yellow spot, the burning of Jewish books, and finally the burning of the people - Hitler learned it all from the church. However, the church burned Jewish women and children alive, while Hitler granted them a quicker death, choking them first with gas.

  Dagobert D. Runes

  Christian, Children, Book

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• But, irreverently consorting with these grave, reputable, and pious people, these elders of the church, these chaste dames and dewy virgins, there were men of dissolute lives and women of spotted fame, wretches given over to all mean and filthy vice, and suspected even of horrid crimes. It was strange to see that the good shrank not from the wicked, nor were the sinners abashed by the saints.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Mean, Men, People

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (1982). “Tales and Sketches”, p.285, Library of America

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• If you want to get rid of counterfeit money, put it in the collection plate at church.

  George Carlin

  Money, Want, Plates

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• I'm thinking of buying a church and changing it around: maybe selling crack and having a few whores in the pew.

  George Carlin

  Thinking, Cracks, Buying

  George Carlin (2002). “Napalm & Silly Putty”, Hyperion

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• The Catholic Church is still very angry about The Da Vinci Code - they don't like anything that makes more money in a weekend than they do.

  Jay Leno

  Weekend, Catholic, More Money

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• I owe a great deal to the church for everything in which I believe. I am very glad that I was brought up strictly. I was a very serious child. There was not a lot of fun and sparkle in my life.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Children, Fun, Believe

  Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd

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• Since the Icelandic volcano obviously needs a virgin sacrifice and the Catholic Church obviously needs new leadership the Pope must volunteer to jump in the volcano. Pontiff, don't think of it as endorsing paganism, think of it as supersizing Ash Wednesday.

  Bill Maher

  Sacrifice, Thinking, Volcanoes

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• There's more than one mosque in the world that used to be a church and before that was a temple. Because it's a lot easier to just change the sign on the top and say under new management than it is to change the whole building.

  Bill Maher

  Mosques, World, Temples

  "Religulous". www.imdb.com. 2008.

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• We do it all the time, we legislate taste. We do it with the tax code. Churches and children get a tax break, because it's assumed that we all agree that we want to encourage churches and children. I don't. I don't. That's my opinion. I don't want to encourage either churches or children, and it's a very bad idea to put them together.

  Bill Maher

  Children, Ideas, Together

  "Bill Maher: I'm Swiss". Documentary, Comedy, 2005.

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• The Catholic Church has a tough new policy on child molestors: three strikes and you're a cardinal.

  David Letterman

  Children, Catholic, Three

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• I'm very religious, you know. Now, OK, if by 'religious', you mean that I go to church every Sunday, read the bible faithfully, and I listen to Debbie Boone, umm, I'm not religious in that sense... But if by 'religious' you mean that I love others and try to help them whenever possible... Again, no. But if by 'religious' you mean that I like to eat coleslaw... Yeah, OK, OK!

  Emo Philips

  Religious, Mean, Sunday

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• I say to you Baptists, "Go on being good Baptists, thinking that you are more right than anybody else." Unless you think it, I have no use for you at all. The Church of England does precisely the same itself.

  Geoffrey Fisher

  Thinking, England, Doe

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• In one sense what may pass between the pope and myself may be trivialities. In another sense the fact of talking trivialities is itself a portent of great significance. But the pleasantries which we exchange may, as one church leader said, be pleasantries about profundities.

  Geoffrey Fisher

  Talking, Leader, Facts

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• Mumbling obeisance to abhorrence of apartheid is like those lapsed believers who cross themselves when entering a church.

  Nadine Gordimer

  Entering, Crosses, Apartheid

  Nadine Gordimer (2011). “Telling Times: Writing and Living, 1950-2008”, p.425, A&C Black

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• Our bishops storehouses are not intended to stock enough commodities to care for all the members of the Church. Storehouses are only established to care for the poor and the needy. For this reason, members of the Church have been instructed to personally store a year's supply of food, clothing, and, where possible, fuel. By following this counsel, most members will be prepared and able to care for themselves and their family members, and be able to share with others as may be needed.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Years, May, Able

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• Judson Church was a very important place because they believed in art. They also took care of drug addicts. Without the Judson, nothing could have happened.

  Claes Oldenburg

  Art, Drug, Important

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The danger comes in, in my opinion, when you believe someone because they're the leader of your church and supposedly they have an ear to God without examining what they're doing.

  George Ratliff

  Believe, Leader, Ears

  "Director George Ratliff Interview SALVATION BOULEVARD". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. July 13, 2011.

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• Pope John Paul II was fascinated by the United States. And I think he was initially surprised at the vigor of the Catholic Church in the United States. Maybe some of the press that we had gotten he found wasn't true. No, I think he suspected the church in the United States. Did he challenge us to some things? Sure, he did. But, no, I always - I think there was a good alliance. There was a good gel there.

  Chris Matthews

  Thinking, Challenges, Catholic

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Those who saw Pope John Paul II either in person or through the mass media glimpsed a man who millions of Catholics believe may be one of the greatest popes in the history of the church.

  Chris Matthews

  Believe, Men, Media

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• To become a saint in the Catholic Church, the normal procedure is, beatification, requiring one miracle in your name, then canonization, roughly in five years or longer, to become a saint, a second miracle.

  Chris Matthews

  Years, Names, Miracle

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• The Catholic Church [with Pope John Paul II] has lost its shepherd. The world has lost a champion of human freedom.

  Chris Matthews

  Catholic, Champion, Shepherds

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I've always been funny. I look back in the day, when I would take the mic from my dad in church and just start goin', at age six, the first time I did it. I think 14 was when I knew I wanted to do it and promote my own comedy shows at the church. Then, everyone would come.

  Brandon T. Jackson

  Dad, Thinking, Age

  "Brandon T. Jackson Interview BIG MOMMA'S: LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON". Interview, collider.com. February 17, 2011.

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• Evil is a broad church. There are so many different ways to be evil. Sometimes it's fun to be the guy who doesn't know that he's bad, like the character I played in True Blood. He was pretty angsty about it, but he thought he was doing the right thing.

  James Frain

  Fun, Character, Blood

  Source: collider.com

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• If the churches don't move, much of the community won't move. We've got a situation in which a black church is still a major institution in the black community where 55 percent of the black folk attend and over 75 pass through its doors.

  Cornel West

  Moving, Doors, Community

  Source: www.pbs.org

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