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• In selecting men for office, let principle be your guide. Regard not the particular sect or denomination of the candidate-look to his character.

  Noah Webster

  Character, Men, Office

  Noah Webster (1843). “A Collection of Papers on Political, Literary, and Moral Subjects”, p.303

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• The Founders never intended to separate Christianity from government, only to keep a single denomination from running the nation.

  David Barton

  Christian, Running, Religious

  David Barton (1991). “America, to Pray Or Not to Pray?: A Statistical Look at What Hapened When Religious Principles Were Separated from Public Affairs”, Wallbuilder Press

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• How often God visited the Jewish Church with judgments because they would not repent and be revived at the call of His prophets! How often have we seen Churches, and even whole denominations, cursed with a curse, because they would not wake up and seek the Lord.

  Charles Grandison Finney

  Church, Wake Up, Judgment

  Charles Grandison Finney (1835). “Lectures on Revivals of Religion”, p.24

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• We have a lowest-common-denominator Christianity being taught in so many denominations that has produced a people who simply do not know some of the most basic Christian truths.

  Albert Mohler

  Christian, People, Taught

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• When a denomination begins to consider doctrine divisive, theology troublesome, and convictions inconvenient, consider that denomination on its way to a well-deserved death.

  Albert Mohler

  Doctrine, Way, Conviction

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• It [an ethical problem with in vitro fertilization] depends on whether you're talking ethics from the standpoint of some religious denomination or from just truly religious people. The Jewish or Catholic faiths, for example, have their own rules. But just religious people, who will make very devoted parents, have no problem with in vitro fertilization.

  Patrick Steptoe

  Religious, Science, Talking

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• A Church Growth principle is a universal truth which, when properly interpreted and applied, contributes significantly to the growth of churches and denominations. It is a truth of God which leads his church to spread his Good News, plant church after church, and increase his Body.

  Donald McGavran

  Church Growth, Principles, News

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• A nominal Christian often discovers in suffering that his faith has been in his church, denomination, or family tradition, but not Christ. As he faces evil and suffering, he may lose his faith. But that’s actually a good thing. I have sympathy for people who lose their faith, but any faith lost in suffering wasn’t a faith worth keeping.

  Randy Alcorn

  Christian, People, Evil

  Randy Alcorn (2010). “If God Is Good Study Guide: Companion to If God Is Good”, p.17, Multnomah

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• Where any one body of educated men, of whatever denomination, are condemned indiscriminately, there must be a deficiency of information, or...of something else.

  Jane Austen

  Men, Body, Information

  Jane Austen (2006). “8 Books in 1: Jane Austen's Complete Novels. Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Lady Susan, and Love an”, p.307, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• This product that was on TV was available for four easy payments of $19.95. I would like a product that was available for three easy payments and one complicated payment. We can't tell you which payment it is, but one of these payments is going to be hard. The mailman will get shot, the envelope will not seal, the stamp will be in the wrong denomination. The final payment must be made in wampum.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Finals

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• I suspect that, though Craig indulges in a bit of wishful thinking, playing taps for various critical approaches still quite far from death's door, he may well be correct that New Testament scholarship is more conservative than it once was. This has more than he admits to do with which denominations can afford to train the most students, hire more faculty, and send more members to the SBL.

  Robert M. Price

  Thinking, Doors, Indulge In

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• We cannot avoid the globalization of knowledge and information. When I was a boy growing up in Kansas, I could never think about a Buddhist, or a Hindu, or Muslim, or even a Protestant - I grew up in such a Catholic ghetto. That's not possible anymore, unless you live in a cave or something. So either we have knowledge of what the other religions and other denominations are saying, and how they tie into the common thread, or we end up just being dangerously ignorant of other people and therefore prejudiced.

  Richard Rohr

  Buddhist, Growing Up, Ghetto

  Source: ryanthomasneace.com

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• Mormons can testify whether I am willing to lay down my life for a Mormon; If it has been demonstrated that I have been willing to die for a Mormon I am bold to declare before heaven that I am just as ready to die for a Presbyterian, a baptist or any other denomination.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Heaven, Baptists, Ready

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• My wife is Greek. I was a non-denomination Christian before we got married.

  Troy Polamalu

  Christian, Wife, Greek

  Interview with Jason Cole, sports.yahoo.com. September 25, 2007.

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• If the churches ever did reunite, it would have to be into something that was as sacramental and liturgical and authoritative as the Roman Catholic Church and as protesting against abuses and as much focused on the individual in his direct relationship with Christ as the Evangelicals, as charismatic as the Pentecostals, as missionary-minded as the old mainline denominations, as focused on holiness as the Methodists or the Quakers, as committed to the social aspects of the Gospel as the social activists, as Biblical as fundamentalists, and as mystical as the Eastern Orthodox.

  Peter Kreeft

  Biblical, Catholic, Abuse

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• We have to dissolve all the denominations in order to form from them the greater denomination of the homeland.

  Ameen Rihani

  Order, Form, Homeland

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• In the founders of great families, titles or attributes of honor are generally correspondent with the virtues of the person to whom they are applied; but in their descendants they are too often the marks rather of grandeur than of merit. The stamp and denomination still continue, but the intrinsic value is frequently lost.

  Joseph Addison

  Honor, Titles, Ancestry

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1819). “The Spectator”, p.21

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• I don't belong to any denomination or religion, I just belong to God.

  Akiane Kramarik

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• When are you people going to learn? It's not about who's right or wrong. No denomination's nailed it yet, because they're all too self-righteous to realize that it doesn't matter what you have faith in, just that you have faith. Your hearts are in the right place, but your brains need to wake up. I have issues with anyone who treats faith as a burden instead of a blessing. You people don't celebrate your faith; you mourn it.

  Kevin Smith

  Heart, Blessing, Self

  "Fictional character: Serendipity". "Dogma", www.imdb.com. 1999.

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• When I reached intellectual maturity and began to ask myself whether I was an atheist, a theist, or a pantheist; a materialist, or an idealist; a Christian, or a freethinker; I found that the more I learned and reflected, the less ready was the answer; until, at last, I came to the conclusion that I had neither art nor part with any of these denominations, except the last.

  Thomas Huxley

  Christian, Art, Atheist

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2012). “Collected Essays, Volume V Science and Christian Tradition: Essays”, p.237, tredition

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• As Stephen Jay Gould pointed out in Time, in no other Western country is the teaching of Evolution regarded as controversial. Throughout the world, one way or another, most Christian denominations have managed to reconcile belief in God with belief in the mechanisms of natural selection. A French or German or Scandinavian politician who called for students to entertain as a reasonable deduction from existing evidence the proposition that Earth is at most 10,000 years old would be bundled off to a mental hospital.

  Katha Pollitt

  Christian, Country, Teaching

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• Freedom of religion, as the Founding Fathers saw it, was not just the right to associate oneself with a certain denomination but the right to disassociate without penalty. Belief or nonbelief was a matter of individual choice - a right underwritten in the basic charter of the nation's liberties.

  Norman Cousins

  Father, Individual Choice, Choices

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• To subvert the tyranny of our execrable government, to break the connection with England, the never-failing source of all our political evils and to assert the independence of my country- these were my objectives. To unite the whole people of Ireland, to abolish the memory of all past dissensions, and to substitute the common name of Irishman in place of the denominations of Protestant, Catholic and Dissenter - these were my means.

  Wolfe Tone

  Country, Memories, Mean

  Sean Cronin, Richard Roche, Theobald Wolfe Tone (1973). “Freedom the Wolfe Tone way”

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• Even people who don't share my specific faith (denomination, beliefs, etc.) are typically enthusiastic about my profession of faith in God and my commitment to living to God-given standards.

  Zig Ziglar

  Commitment, People, Etc

  Source: www.centerforfaithandwork.com

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• I took the repeal of the Corn Laws as light amusement compared with the difficult task of inducing the priests of all denominations to agree to suffer the people to be educated.

  Richard Cobden

  Light, Law, People

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