Church Quotes - Page 37

• These days - with the decline of the traditional churches - I'm concerned about where we obtain some form of moral direction.

  John Scott

  Moral, Decline, Form

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• Every walk to the woods is a religious rite, every bath in the stream is a saving ordinance. Communion service is at all hours, and the bread and wine are from the heart and marrow of Mother Earth. There are no heretics in Nature's church; all are believers, all are communicants. The beauty of natural religion is that you have it all the time; you do not have to seek it afar off in myths and legends, in catacombs, in garbled texts, in miracles of dead saints or wine-bibbing friars. It is of today; it is now and here; it is everywhere.

  John Burroughs

  Mother, Religious, Heart

  Bertrand Russell, John Burroughs, Herbert Faulkner West (1959). “Two modern essays on religion: A free man's worship”

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• The real important function of the church is to present the symbol, to perform the rite, to let you behold this divine message in such a way that you are capable of experiencing it. What the relationship of the Father and the Son and the Holy Ghost to each other might be, in technical terms, is not half important as you, the celebrant, feeling the Virgin Birth within you, the birth of the mystic, mythic being that is your own spiritual life.

  Joseph Campbell

  Spiritual, Father, Real

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• The Christian church is an encyclopedia of prehistoric cults.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Christian, Cult, Encyclopedia

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• I grew up in the United Methodist Church, and church was always a very big part of my growing up.

  Hilarie Burton

  Growing Up, Bigs, Methodists

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• Homosexuals want to come into churches and disrupt church services and throw blood all around and try to give people AIDS and spit in the face of ministers.

  Pat Robertson

  Blood, Church Service, People

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• Isn't the essential pillar of Catholicism papal infallibility? Well, then how can the church ever change its mind about anything unless God gets confused one day? Not all religions claim the direct authority of God speaking to their leader. You know, I'm an atheist, but I'm a Puritan atheist.

  Dave Foley

  Atheist, Confused, Leader

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• I remember an answer which when quite young I was prompted to make a valued adviser who was wont to importune me with the dear old doctrines of the church. On my saying, What have I to do with the sacredness of traditions, if I live wholly from within? my friend suggested, - "But these impulses may be from below, not from above." I replied, 'They do not seem to me to be such; but if I am the devil's child, I will live then from the devil.'

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Children, Devil, Doctrine

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.43, 谷月社

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• The Cinderella of the church of today is the prayer meeting.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Prayer, Today, Meetings

  Leonard Ravenhill (2004). “Why Revival Tarries”, p.19, Bethany House

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• In Freethinkers Hall, which before the Nazi resurgence was the national headquarters of the German Freethinkers League, the Berlin Protestant church authorities have opened a bureau for advice to the public in church matters. Its chief object is to win back former churchgoers and assist those who have not previously belonged to any religious congregation in obtaining church membership. The German Freethinkers League, which was swept away by the national revolution, was the largest of such organizations in Germany. It had about 500,000 members.

  Adolf Hitler

  Religious, Winning, Organization

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• If Jesus isn't enough for the church, why would he be enough for the world?

  Christine Caine

  Jesus, World, Enough

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• Expressions of sharp and even violent criticism of religion and the church have been welcomed, for they usually imply sincerity of thought. If caustic criticism of religious institutions and practices is irreligious, then Amos, Isaiah, and Jesus were very irreligious men. In fact, that is exactly what many of their contemporaries took them to be.

  Halford Luccock

  Religious, Jesus, Men

  "The Questing Spirit: Religion in the Literature of Our Time". Book by Halford Luccock, p. 42, 1947.

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• The most depressing thing about blogging is watching so-called 'citizen journalists' turn in to little more than easily offended partisan hacks. Any remark that is slightly less than completely and totally scripted and can give the slightest opportunity to offend some delicate soul somewhere is used to set off a series of partisan screeches and cries of outrage that would make the Church Lady jealous.

  John Cole

  Depressing, Jealous, Opportunity

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• In the periods of my life when I've had least contact with the Church, I've always assumed a belief in God is a solid thing, but clearly it's a relationship; it has good days and bad days.

  Tom Hollander

  Good Day, Bad Day, Belief

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• When we get christened or married or die, we drift naturally in the direction of the church. And in moments of crisis, when our spiritual Tom-Tom is no longer telling us what to do, we find ourselves scrabbling at the vicarage door.

  Tom Hollander

  Spiritual, Doors, Married

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• The Fathers of the Church were not afraid to go out into the desert because they had a richness in their hearts. But we, with richness all around us, are afraid, because the desert is in our hearts.

  Franz Kafka

  Father, Heart, Desert

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• I think the Church is a conduit to God. The Church is not God. And I think that from the very beginning Jesus taught us that.

  Martin Sheen

  Jesus, Thinking, Taught Us

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• My people worship, but not in a church. They worship the beauty of existence.

  Rajneesh

  People, Worship, Existence

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• The church does not draw people in; it sends them out.

  Charles Colson

  People, Doe, Draws

  Charles Colson (1997). “Loving God”, p.176, Zondervan

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• As the church watches from the sidelines, the ungodly elect atheists and homosexuals to school boards and legislatures to enact policies and laws that destroy our Christian children and discriminate against Christian families.

  Robert Simonds

  Christian, Atheist, Children

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• [We need reforms] to make the Negro church a place where colored men and women of education and energy can work for the best things regardless of their belief or disbelief in unimportant dogmas and ancient and outworn creeds.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Men, Energy, Reform

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• I only sing in my church choir. Except the other night, I stole the show at karaoke night.

  Taylor Swift

  Night, Church Choir, Karaoke

  "What It's Really Like to Be Taylor Swift's Second Cousin, Taylor Swift". Interview with Hannah Orenstein, www.seventeen.com. December 24, 2015.

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• We must protect the right of citizens to practice their religions freely. As president, I will support federal and state-level legislation like the Religious Freedom Restoration Acts that protect citizens and their churches from government intrusion.

  Carly Fiorina

  Religious, Government, Practice

  "Carly Fiorina Answers 12 Christian Post Questions for Every Presidential Candidate". Interview with Napp Nazworth, www.christianpost.com. January 4, 2016.

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• I think the word is counter-productive. Capitalism is counter-productive to art, just as the Catholic Church was counter-productive to art four hundred years ago.

  Mick Farren

  Art, Thinking, Years

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I already knew, from church, that this place was raped and pillaged by Spaniards and the Pilgrims. "Don't sit here and try to tell me that they broke bread together, brother.

  Michelle Rodriguez

  Brother, Trying, Together

  Interview with Milla Jovovich, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 12, 2015.

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