Church Quotes - Page 16

• I trust that some may be as near and dear to Buddha, or Christ, or Swedenborg, who are without the pale of their churches.

  Henry David Thoreau

  May, Christ, Pale

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.47, Xist Publishing

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• The Fathers of the Church can well afford to preach the gospel of Christ. It contains nothing dangerous to the regime of authority and wealth; it stands for self-denial and self-abnegation, for penance and regret, and is absolutely inert in the face of every [in]dignity, every outrage imposed upon mankind.

  Emma Goldman

  Regret, Father, Self

  Emma Goldman (1998). “Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader”

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• Literature was not promulgated by a pale and emasculated critical priesthood singing their litanies in empty churches, nor is it a game for the cloistered elect, the tinhorn mendicants of low calorie despair.

  John Steinbeck

  Games, Singing, Despair

  William Faulkner, Eugene O'Neill, John Steinbeck (1971). “William Faulkner, Eugene O'Neill [and] John Steinbeck”

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• I fancy it must be the quantity of animal food eaten by the English which renders their character insusceptible to civilization. I suspect it is in their kitchens and not in their churches that the reformation must be worked.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Character, Animal, Civilization

  Bernard Mayo, Thomas Jefferson (1988). “Jefferson Himself: The Personal Narrative of a Many-Sided American”, p.121, University of Virginia Press

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• Acting is broad enough a church that you can pick your races, decide which way you want to go at different times.I think that the story and circumstance tends to dictate the most and then what you do with your own approach after that.

  Ben Mendelsohn

  Thinking, Race, Acting

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

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• I grew up in the church, and so I feel that God gave me certain things to do, and I'm lucky enough to kind of have figured those things out. I just don't want to die not having tried to help somebody else with what I know.

  James McBride

  Lucky, Want, Helping

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• That was an interesting aspect: to go to war with the Church to fight for the very thing that the Church was meant to give to people.

  Mark Ruffalo

  War, Fighting, People

  Source: www.gq.com

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• I'm the only person in my family who can't sing. My grandmother was an opera singer and all of her kids were in church five days a week - or between church and vocal lessons at Carnegie Hall. But my mom had her first studio experience recording on my album. She's used to having to fill the room, so she had to adjust to the microphone and not sing opera.

  Le1f

  Mom, Kids, Grandmother

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Beyond the earliest days of the religion, early Christians were believers because they'd been converted, not because they were witnesses to supernatural events, just like today. The 9/11 hijackers believed in Paradise for martyrs, but that doesn't mean that that's true. We have no good reason to imagine that eyewitnesses wrote the gospels rather than someone simply documenting the Jesus story as it had developed within their church community.

  Robert B. Seidensticker

  Christian, Jesus, Mean

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• When I did the Abyssinian mass, I went through the whole history of the church music and the gospel music, even with the Anglo American hymns, the Afro American hymns, the spirituals and how it developed, up to Thomas Dorsey and the Dixie Hummingbirds, going through the history of the music, jazz musicians.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Church Music, Hymns, Musician

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• It is not permitted for a woman to speak in the church, nor is it permitted for her to teach, nor to baptize, nor to offer [the eucharist], nor to claim for herself a share in any masculine function- not to mention any priestly office.

  Tertullian

  Office, Speak, Share

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• I believe that he [Jesus] is Lord of the government, and the church, and business and education, and, hopefully, one day, Lord of the press. I see him involved in everything. And that's why I don't want to stay just in the church, as such. I want the church to move into the world.

  Pat Robertson

  Jesus, Believe, Moving

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• Many of us regard ourselves as mildly liberal or centrist politically, voice fairly pleasant sentiments about our poor children, contribute money to send poor kids to summer camp, feel benevolent. We're not nazis; we're nice people. We read sophisticated books. We go to church. We go to synagogue. Meanwhile, we put other people's children into an economic and environmental death zone. We make it hard for them to get out. We strip the place bare of amenities. And we sit back and say to ourselves, "Well, I hope that they don't kill each other off. But if they do, it's not my fault.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Summer, Children, Nice

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• Black churches minister to social needs out of necessity.

  Barack Obama

  Black, Needs, Social

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• The Church is simply the path of history, and not the actual kingdom of God.

  Nikolai Berdyaev

  Kingdoms, Path, Kingdom Of God

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• And I think it was the outline of that church tower at Belaugh against the sky which gave me a passion for churches so that every church I've past since I've wanted to stop and look in.

  John Betjeman

  Passion, Past, Thinking

  John Betjeman (1997). “John Betjeman: coming home : an anthology of his prose 1920-1977”, Vintage

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• Lovers of Norfolk churches can never agree which is the best and I think one is either a Salle or a Cawston man.

  John Betjeman

  Men, Thinking, Lovers

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• The gospel creates the church, which spreads the gospel, which creates more churches, which in turn spread the gospel further ad infinitum.

  John Stott

  Turns, Spread, Ads

  John Stott (2014). “The Message of Thessalonians”, p.16, SPCK

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• Some make Conscience of wearing a Hat in the Church, who make none of robbing the Altar.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Hats, Robbing, Altars

  Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.233, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• If America is ever going to be saved, it will be through a church flowing both in the message of the cross and the miracle of the resurrection.

  Rod Parsley

  America, Miracle, Messages

  Rod Parsley (1993). “My Promise is the Palace: So What Am I Doing in the Pit?”

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• I had to fight to be me and get respect, and to carry that stigma, for me, is pride. Carrying the tag of lesbian. I'm not bragging, I'm not preaching, but I don't deny it . I had to face society, the Church, which says damn gay people ... it's absurd. How do you judge someone who has been born that way. I did not study to be a lesbian. Neither was it taught to me. I was born this way. Since I opened my eyes to the world. I've never slept with a man. Never. I'm pure, I don't have to be ashamed ... My Gods made me so.

  Chavela Vargas

  Eye, Fighting, Pride

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• When I talk about the pain and hardship of a scientist's life, I'm speaking of more than existential angst. Galileo's work was condemned by the Church; Madame Curie paid with her life, a victim of leukemia wrought by radiation poisoning. Too many of us develop cataracts. None of us gets enough sleep. Most of what we know about the universe we know thanks to a lot of guys (and ladies) who stayed up late at night.

  Leon M. Lederman

  Pain, Sleep, Night

  Leon M. Lederman, Dick Teresi (1993). “The God Particle: If the Universe is the Answer, what is the Question?”, p.16, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Neither the Church nor modern public opinion condemns petting, provided it stops short at a certain point.

  Bertrand Russell

  Public Opinion, Modern, Certain

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Unpopular Essays”, p.80, Routledge

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• I have performed my duty to my God, my country, and my family. I have nothing to fear in approaching death. To me it is the mere shadow of God's protecting wing . . . Here I will rest in quiet and peace beyond the reach of calumny's poisoned shaft, the influence of envy and jealous enemies, where treason and traitors or State backsliders and hypocrites in church can have no peace.

  Andrew Johnson

  Country, Jealous, Hypocrite

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• We've got far too many churches and so few fellowships

  Richard Halverson

  Fellowship

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