Church Quotes - Page 7

• I believe in the American tradition of separation of church and state which is expressed in the First Amendment to the Constitution. By my office - and by personal conviction - I am sworn to uphold that tradition.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Believe, Office, Religion

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• Most people already know what they're doing wrong. When I get them to church I want to tell them that you can change.

  Joel Osteen

  People, Want, Knows

  "Larry King Live" with Larry King, edition.cnn.com. June 20, 2005.

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• Persecution is not an original feature in any religion; but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law.

  Thomas Paine

  Motivation, Law, Religion

  The Rights of Man pt. 1 (1791)

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• I feel the same way about solitude as some people feel about the blessing of the church. It's the light of grace for me. I never close my door behind me without the awareness that I am carrying out an act of mercy toward myself.

  Peter Høeg

  Single, Loneliness, Blessing

  Peter Høeg (2010). “Smilla's Sense of Snow: A Novel”, p.13, Macmillan

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• The divorce between Church and State ought to be absolute. It ought to be so absolute that no Church property anywhere, in any state or in the nation, should be exempt from equal taxation; for if you exempt the property of any church organization, to that extent you impose a tax upon the whole community.

  James A. Garfield

  Divorce, Organization, Community

  Remark during Congressional debate. "Congressional Record", 43rd Congress, 1st Session, p. 5384, memory.loc.gov. June 22, 1874.

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• I don't believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute.

  Rick Santorum

  Believe, America, Separation

  "GOP Candidate Rick Santorum". 'This Week' with George Stephanopoulos, abcnews.go.com. February 26, 2012.

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• My ordination in the Church of God in Christ was at age 9, and I later became a Baptist minister, which I am today.

  Al Sharpton

  Age, Baptists, Today

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• I was never interested in singing in the church or school. I was more interested in becoming a musician.

  Cassandra Wilson

  Music, School, Church Choir

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• I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute - where no Catholic prelate would tell the president (should he be Catholic) how to act, and no Protestant minister would tell his parishoners for whom to vote - where no church or church school is granted any public funds or political preference - and where no man is denied public office merely because his religion differs from the president who might appoint him or the people who might elect him.

  John F. Kennedy

  Believe, School, Men

  Address to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association, delivered 12 September 1960 at the Rice Hotel in Houston, TX

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• I've been stuck on John Eldredge lately. He's all about being a warrior outside of the church. I hate to think about this kind of stuff - I just like to do it.

  John Tesh

  Hate, Warrior, Thinking

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• I don't believe there is a separation of church and state. I think the Constitution is very clear. The only separation is that there will not be a government church.

  Tom DeLay

  Believe, Thinking, Government

  TV preachers' Congressional luncheon, July 2001.

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• Christ and The Church: If he were to apply for a divorce on the grounds of cruelty, adultery and desertion, he would probably get one.

  Samuel Butler

  Divorce, Religion, Adultery

  Samuel Butler (1950). “The Essential Samuel Butler”

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• We follow the rules laid out in the Bible for running our church.

  William Brewster

  Running

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• The religious superstition is encouraged by means of the institution of churches, processions, monuments, festivities....The so-called clergy stupefy the masses....They befog the people and keep them in an eternal condition of stupefaction.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Religious, Mean, People

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• Some women will spend thirty minutes to an hour preparing for church externally (putting on special clothes and makeup, etc.). What would happen if we all spent the same amount of time preparing internally for church—with prayer and meditation?

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Prayer, Makeup, Clothes

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• We as [churches] may be lampstands, but all of the light is Christ Himself. We exist in order that He might shine through us.

  Alistair Begg

  Light, Order, Shining

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• ... our reality teaches us that, as Christians, we must create a Church of the poor, that we don't need a Church imposed from outside which knows nothing of hunger.

  Rigoberta Menchu

  Christian, Reality, Needs

  Rigoberta Menchú (2009). “I, Rigoberta Menchu: An Indian Woman in Guatemala (Second Edition)”, p.157, Verso Books

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• The church of my choice is the free, open world.

  Philip K. Dick

  Choices, World

  Philip K. Dick (2012). “Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said”, p.134, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.

  H. G. Wells

  Sailor, Hell, Ought

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• Thank God, under our Constitution there was no connection between Church and State, and that in my action as President of the United States I recognized no distinction of creeds in my appointments office.

  James K. Polk

  Office, Presidential, Thank God

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• Church and state should be separate, not only in form, but fact - religion and politics should not be mingled.

  Millard Fillmore

  Facts, Separation, States

  Millard Fillmore (1856). “The Ovation to Mr. Fillmore. Speeches of Mr. Fillmore”, p.2

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• I had explained that a woman's asking for equality in the church would be comparable to a black person's demanding equality in the Ku Klux Klan

  Mary Daly

  Funny, Humor, Equality

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• Why did men worship in churches, locking themselves away in the dark, when the world lay beyond its doors in all its real glory?

  Charles de Lint

  Real, Dark, Men

  "The Little Country". Book by Charles de Lint, Part Two: The Lost Music, "The Touchstone", 1991.

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• The separation of church and state is a source of strength, but the conscience of our nation does not call for separation between men of state and faith in the Supreme Being.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Men, Doe, Separation

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• I am not the Jesus of the official church tolerated by those in power. I am not your superstar.

  Klaus Kinski

  Jesus, Sea, Superstar

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