Church Quotes
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It wasn't until my second year that I got to actually work with Church.
Stephen Cole Kleene -
Most of us like thinking we are God's only children...At least one of the purposes of church is to remind us that God has other children, easily as precious as we. Baptism and narcissism cancel each other out.
Barbara Brown Taylor
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Both my parents are Methodist preachers, I grew up in a church.
Wes Bentley -
We must pursue the removal of church property by any means necessary in order to secure for ourselves a fund of several hundred million gold rubles.
Vladimir Lenin -
Mysticism has been in the past and probably ever will be one of the great powers of the world, and it is bad scholarship to pretend the contrary. You may argue against it but you should no more treat it with disrespect than a perfectly cultivated writer would treat (say) the Catholic Church or the Church of Luther no matter how much he disliked them.
William Butler Yeats -
When I say my name I hear a burned-down church.
Bob Hicok -
One would think that [persecution] would be an obstacle to church growth when joining the church meant a death sentence. And yet, the age of persecution was the greatest period of church growth in history.
Gene Veith -
My true church is a whorehouse – the only one that gives me true satisfaction.
Georges Bataille
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The author of “The Little Labyrinth” indicates that the Theodotians maintained that their view—that Jesus was completely human, and not divine, but that he was adopted to be the Son of God—had been the doctrine taught by the apostles themselves and by most of the church in Rome until the time of Bishop Victor, at the end of the second century.
Bart Ehrman -
You plant the gospel. You don't plant churches.
Alan Hirsch -
The Church is looking for better methods; God is looking for better men.
Edward McKendree Bounds -
I think today the church faces a very real challenge in not repeating the errors of the past, in sort of a stand off, a fear of science.
George Coyne -
To a true believer, death is but going to church: from the church below to the church above.
Augustus Toplady -
I think what we're really bad at doing is recognising that it is possible to have lost of different views within the church.
Alan Green
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And I say to you, you are Kepha, and on this kepha I will build my church.
William Hendriksen -
Can human hearts be changed? Why, of course! It happens every day in the great missionary work of the Church. It is one of the most widespread of Christ’s modern miracles. If it hasn't happened to you—it should.
Ezra Taft Benson -
Never say amen in church if they're capping off a prayer about you.
Exene Cervenka -
I bear witness of the power of the priesthood given to the Church to protect us and guide us. And because we have that, we have no fear of the future. Fear is the opposite of faith. We move forward, certain that the Lord will watch over us, particularly in the family.
Boyd K. Packer -
There's a massive community in church. You have a real home. You can move to different parts of the world and you'll always find a church and a community. When you let go of church, you don't have that comfort, you don't have that safety net anymore.
Michaela Ewuraba Boakye-Collinson -
Does any sane man imagine that the church could cease to be missionary and remain the church?
Arthur Judson
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The separation of church and state has been a cornerstone of American democracy for over two hundred years. Getting rid of it was long overdue.
Andy Borowitz -
Thomas Jefferson declared, stating that he was speaking on behalf of the other founding fathers, ...(that) we should build a wall between the church and state.
Jimmy Carter -
Just because you go to church doesn't mean you're a Christian. I can go sit in the garage all day and it doesn't make me a car.
Joyce Meyer -
They should go back to the medieval tradition, which is that the nave of the church is always used for local business.
Andrew Lloyd Webber