Ann Widdecombe Quotes

For years I had been disillusioned by the Church of England's compromising on everything. The Catholic Church doesn't care if something is unpopular.

Ann Widdecombe

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• You are not indispensable to your church, but you are indispensable to your family.

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • Family
  • You
  • Church

• I am disillusioned enough to know that no man's opinion on any subject is worth a damn unless backed up with enough genuine information to make him really know what he's talking about.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Opinion
  • Information
  • Talking

• I didn't go to church, I didn't go to synagogue; I went to temple, Hindu temple, where I prayed to my Hindu gods - whether or not I believe in it is another story.

  

  Utkarsh Ambudkar
  • Believe
  • Church
  • I Believe

• I live my life by these little church signs you see as you drive around, and there's one near me that says, 'If we really knew each other, we would neither idolise nor condemn.' And that's it: if we all knew each other, then we wouldn't treat anybody any different. And there wouldn't be any big stars, I guess.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Life
  • Different
  • Live

• Educational institutes can no longer be prizes in church politics or furnish berths for failure in other walks of life.

  

  E. Franklin Frazier
  • Life
  • Church
  • Failure

• The early Church had nothing but the Old Testament. The New Testament lies hidden in the Old; the Old Testament lies open in the New.

  

  Randall Terry
  • Church
  • Lies
  • Old

• I stopped going to Kingdom Hall, the church, when I was 11 years old, so I was very young. They don't celebrate birthdays, you get no Christmas, so it's a very difficult religion for children to get into. And they do a lot of finger-pointing among the Jehovah's Witnesses.

  

  Ja Rule
  • Children
  • Church
  • Christmas

• Too many church services start at eleven sharp and end at twelve dull.

  

  Vance Havner
  • Church
  • End
  • Start

• In the primitive church, it was customary for the Holy Eucharist to be celebrated on the anniversary of the death of a martyr - if possible, on his tomb.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Death
  • Church
  • Anniversary

• The great majority of the nobility and gentry of England clung to the doctrine and ceremonies of the ancient church, and yet were united in determination to oppose the papal claims.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Great
  • Church
  • Determination

• Sunday, I go to church; I take the day off. I rest.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • Day
  • Church
  • Rest

• Respect for the dignity of the human person is the foundational principle of any just society. From a Catholic perspective, it also forms the foundation of all of our Church's social teachings.

  

  Salvatore J. Cordileone
  • Society
  • Respect
  • Church

• Go, Soul, the body’s guest,Upon a thankless arrant:Fear not to touch the best;The truth shall be thy warrant:Go, since I needs must die,And give the world the lie.Say to the court, it glows.And shines like rotten wood;Say to the church, it showsWhat’s good, and doth no good:If church and court reply,Then give them both the lie.

  

  Walter Raleigh
  • World
  • Good
  • Truth

• By the sympathy of your human hearts for sin ye shall scent out all the places - whether in church, bedchamber, street, field, or forest - where crime has been committed, and shall exult to behold the whole earth one stain of guilt, one mighty blood spot.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Earth
  • Church
  • Sympathy

• Voluntary self-directed religion was more dangerous to the Church than any number of infidels.

  

  Barbara W. Tuchman
  • Church

• It's like people inviting you to come along to a church service or an amateur orchestra. They're hoping that you'll join. People are recruiters at heart, you know. It makes them feel more comfortable to see the ranks of their particular enthusiasm swelling.

  

  Alexander McCall Smith
  • People
  • Heart
  • Church

• People are so shocked when they find... out I am Protestant. I am Presbyterian. And I go to church, and I love God, and I love my church.

  

  Donald Trump
  • People
  • God
  • Church

• During the worst days of apartheid, we turned to the church for hope and courage as we fought a righteous struggle for a democratic, non-racial, non-sexist, just, and prosperous South Africa.

  

  Cyril Ramaphosa
  • Hope
  • Church
  • Struggle

• My blood's not red or blue - it's brown.

  

  James Carville
  • Red
  • Blue

• When you have these van tours, you drive six hours with the doors closed and windows rolled up. You pull into the venue, check into the cheap hotel you can afford, eat whatever is there, sleep, wake up, and repeat. You're not really participating in the community.

  

  Ben Sollee
  • Community
  • Sleep
  • Hotel

• Republicans in Congress boosted the economy by cutting taxes and ending programs that don't work.

  

  Zach Wamp
  • Work
  • Cutting
  • Taxes

• In my life, I've never really listened to when people start forming opinions on how you should be doing things.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • People
  • Life
  • My Life

• As a songwriter, you might write every day and throughout the course of a year you might get four songs that are really special.

  

  Dierks Bentley

• For years I had been disillusioned by the Church of England's compromising on everything. The Catholic Church doesn't care if something is unpopular.

  

  Ann Widdecombe
  • Church
  • Disillusioned
  • Compromising