Russell M. Nelson (Russell Marion Nelson Sr.) Quotes
All Church activities, advancements, quorums, and classes are means to the end of an exalted family.
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Do we mean love, when we say love?
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The imminent demise of the church has been predicted since the middle of the 18th century. This is the regular secular mantra if churchgoing declines. I could take you to plenty of churches that are full to bursting and new churches being built.
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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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I've spent more time in hospitals than some fellows ever spend in church.
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I don't exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.
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Westminster Abbey, the Tower, a steeple, one church, and then another, presented themselves to our view; and we could now plainly distinguish the high round chimneys on the tops of the houses, which yet seemed to us to form an innumerable number of smaller spires, or steeples.
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I haven't been baptised. My dad's not in the church and is not a religious person. My mum is more spiritual - she does Thai-chi and goes to Stonehenge and things like that. I'm proud to be pagan. Finland is not really a religious country. I'm still looking for my god.
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He strode over to the ruined church. This, Blue had discovered, was how Gansey got places - striding. Walking was for ordinary people.
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The bells they sound on BredonAnd still the steeples hum.'Come all to church, good people,' -Oh, noisy bells, be dumb;I hear you, I will come.
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Against the teachings of eternal torture, of the vicarious atonement, of the infallibility of the Bible, I levelled all the strength of my brain and tongue, and I exposed the history of the Christian Church with unsparing hand, its persecutions, its religious wars, its cruelties, its oppressions.
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The Duke, always right in his purpose but generally wrong in his practice, had stayed at home working all the morning, thereby scandalising the strict, and had gone to church alone in the afternoon, thereby offending the social.
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The tyranny alike of church and state has been curbed, and true power is now known to reside where forever it must remain - in the people.
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The history of the Church of Rome is a constant leakage of members into such breakaway cults, which go on splitting.
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I grew up in eastern Kentucky, and we would sing in the churches, and there's lots of good mountain church singers out there. Like a lot of folks who turn out to be secular music artists, that's a lot of the training you put in, whether you know it or not.
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I can't speak to the differences within the Catholic Church.
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We went to a very liberal Episcopalian church. It didn't take for me.
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The church has given me balance.
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I had this moment in church, which I think really turned me off. I was 7 or 8 years old and I was sitting at church, and we happened to be playing with the sunlight that was coming down from the stained glass window, and the monsignor came down to the pew and grabbed us by our neck collars and said, 'I'll deal with you.'
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The church doesn’t have a social strategy, the church is a social strategy.
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Everybody has a gameplan until he gets hit.
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The NFL is a performance-based business, so you should have to perform to earn some of your money. At the same time, I realize that my success isn't just because of what I do out there.
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I try to be bad, but nobody will let me.
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All Church activities, advancements, quorums, and classes are means to the end of an exalted family.
