Charles Williams Quotes
The Divine Thing that made itself the foundation of the Church does not seem, to judge by his comments on the religious leadership of his day, to have hoped much from officers of a church.
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Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety.
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You are not indispensable to your church, but you are indispensable to your family.
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Education is the mother of leadership.
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To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.
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Where I'm from, you're a square if you go to church or if you decide to read the Koran or Bible.
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The writers of the French enlightenment had deliberately used blasphemy as a weapon, refusing to accept the power of the Church to set limiting points on thought.
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Religious beliefs are sacred to people, and at all times should be respected and honoured.
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The good thing is I didn't feel like anyone was going to judge me on 'Glee.'
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I had immigrant grandparents who came to this country and came for religious freedom and loved it, never made any money, Bronx, Brooklyn, but loved America. And they told me every day it's the greatest country in the world.
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It's not enough to attend church and pray every Sunday; you have to act.
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I had actually gone to a church-related college, but I went on a football scholarship, not because of any interest in the church.
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When I was little, my grandmother would take me to church with her, and she would introduce me to people.
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Educational institutes can no longer be prizes in church politics or furnish berths for failure in other walks of life.
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The path of progress cuts through the four-way intersection of the moral, medical, religious and political - and whichever way you turn, you are likely to run over someone's deeply held beliefs.
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Religious celebrations, and the good will, high spirits and generosity that mark them, are wonderful occasions for understanding the potential of 'everyday multiculturalism', and how people from diverse faiths can connect and show they care, rather than go down parallel, sometimes hostile, roads.
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In fact, for all kinds of offenses - and, for no offenses - from murders to misdemeanors, men and women are put to death without judge or jury; so that, although the political excuse was no longer necessary, the wholesale murder of human beings went on just the same.
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The church of St. Peter at Berlin, notwithstanding the total difference between them in the style of building, appears in some respects to have a great resemblance to St. Paul's in London.
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Poetry and beauty are always making peace. When you read something beautiful you find coexistence; it breaks walls down.
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Science is now in the process of destroying religious dogma. The dogma of the divine creation is recognized as absurd.
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Men are free when they are obeying some deep, inward voice of religious belief. Obeying from within. Men are free when they belong to a living, organic, believing community, active in fulfilling some unfulfilled, perhaps unrealized purpose. Not when they are escaping to some wild west. The most unfree souls go west, and shout of freedom.
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The world is noisy and messy. You need to deal with the noise and uncertainty.
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It is a law, that every event depends on some law.
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The Divine Thing that made itself the foundation of the Church does not seem, to judge by his comments on the religious leadership of his day, to have hoped much from officers of a church.
