The church saves sinners, but science seeks to stop their manufacture.
It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation.
The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.
The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off, but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there about us always.
Since many of you do not belong to the Catholic Church and others are non-believers, from the bottom of my heart I give this silent blessing to each and every one of you, respecting the conscience of each one of you but knowing that each one of you is a child of God.
Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and state forever separate.
The public school has become the established church of secular society.
If you were to look back at me as a school kid you'd see a very quiet little church mouse kind of character.
The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe with blood for centuries.
The church is called to be now what the world is called to be ultimately
Becoming Catholic involves entering into a relationship with the Catholic Church.
My grandmother, she say I shouldn't be playing. I should go to church. Fially, I say I'm going do this, I'm going do it. And she got where she didn't bother me about it.
A good man, is a good man, whether in this church, or out of it.
I believe in the separation of church and planet.
Thank God, under our Constitution there was no connection between church and state.
I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.
To discriminate against a thoroughly upright citizen because he belongs to some particular church, or because, like Abraham Lincoln, he has not avowed his allegiance to any church, is an outrage against the liberty of conscience, which is one of the foundations of American life.
The way to preserve the peace of the church is to preserve its purity.
My mother was a regular church-goer and was very tolerant.
I sang in the choir for years, even though my family belonged to another church.
The number, the industry, and the morality of the priesthood, and the devotion of the people have been manifestly increased by the total separation of the church from the state.
People don't come to church for preachments, of course, but to daydream about God.
The question confronting the Church today is not any longer whether the man in the street can grasp a religious message, but how to employ the communications media so as to let him have the full impact of the Gospel message.
I have confidence that the Unitarian Church will steadily grow and will help to sustain many of my fellow citizens in these important days that lie ahead of us.
Most people already know what they're doing wrong. When I get them to church I want to tell them that you can change.
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