Sunday School Quotes - Page 2

• Mama gives you money for Sunday school, you trade yours for candy after church is through.

  Stevie Wonder

  School, Sunday, Evil

  Song: I Wish, Album: Natural Wonder, 1976

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• I taught Sunday school when I was younger, and ended up an elder in the church, and it just seemed to me that a lot of people who went to church certainly weren't - the rest of the week - living what I would call an Christian life.

  Dick Van Dyke

  Christian, School, Sunday

  "Dick Van Dyke talks to one of our grandmas about his new book on aging, Keep Moving". Interview with Caitlin PenzeyMoog, www.avclub.com. October 13, 2015.

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• I was raised by a mother who was a Sunday school teacher and a father who worked hard. Together they taught me to give back.

  Steve Harvey

  Mother, Teacher, Father

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• I don't know if [Barack Obama] saw the latest religion survey, but almost a quarter of the country are Nones. I don't mean the ones who hit me on the knuckles with a ruler in Sunday School - I mean they put "None" for religion.

  Bill Maher

  Country, School, Mean

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• Religion is not the hero of the day, but the zero. In any exposition of the products of brains, the Sunday-School takes the booby prize. . . . Man has asked for truth and the Church has given him miracles. He has asked for knowledge, and the Church has given him theology. He has asked for facts, and the Church has given him the Bible. This foolishness should stop. The Church has nothing to give man that has not been in cold storage for two thousand years. Anything would become stale in that time.

  Marilla Ricker

  Zero, Hero, School

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• Your children will go to public school and they will be trained for somewhere around 15,000 hours in ungodly secular thought. And then they'll go to Sunday school and they'll color a picture of Noah's ark. And you think that's going to stand against the lies that they are being told?

  Paul Washer

  Children, Lying, School

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• Stuttering is painful. In Sunday school, I'd try to read my lessons, and the children behind me were falling on the floor with laughter.

  James Earl Jones

  Laughter, Children, Fall

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• What I got in Sunday school ... was simply a firm conviction that the Christian faith was full of palpable absurdities, and the Christian God preposterous.... The act of worship, as carried on by Christians, seems to me to be debasing rather than ennobling. It involves groveling before a being who, if he really exists, deserves to be denounced instead of respected.

  H. L. Mencken

  Christian, School, Sunday

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• I just finished reading the Koran, and there's nothing in there I didn't hear in Sunday school.

  Tom Clancy

  Reading, School, Sunday

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• The association of Mount Ararat and Noah, the staunch Christians who were massacred periodically by the Mohammedan Turks, and the Sunday School collections over fifty years for alleviating their miseries-all cumulate to impress the name Armenia on the front of the American mind.

  Herbert Hoover

  Christian, School, Sunday

  Herbert Hoover (1952). “Memoirs: Years of adventure, 1874-1920”

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• Love should make joy; but our benevolence is unhappy. Our Sunday-schools, and churches, and pauper-societies are yokes to the neck. We pain ourselves to please nobody.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Pain, School, Sunday

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.307, Library of America

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• I refused to teach Sunday school. When Archdeacon Henry Phillips, my last rector, died, I flatly refused again to join any church or sign any church creed. From my 30th year on I have increasingly regarded the church as an institution which defended such evils as slavery, color caste, exploitation of labor and war.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  War, School, Sunday

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• So I taught Sunday school and brought dishes to all manner of potlucks and tried to adjust the things I heard from the pulpit to my increasingly incongruent faith.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  School, Sunday, Taught

  Sue Monk Kidd (2016). “The Dance of the Dissident Daughter: A Woman's Journey from Christian Tradition to the Sacred Feminine”, p.19, Harper Collins

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• One of the main reasons is that most Sunday school curricula only teaches disconnected Bible stories. They don't teach how we know the Bible is true, how to defend the faith, and how to answer the skeptical questions of today.

  Ken Ham

  School, Sunday, Stories

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• I was getting tired about what the preacher called Christian. Anything he did was Christian, and the people in his church believed it, too. If he stole some book he didn't like from the library, or made the radio station play only part of the day on Sunday, or took somebody off to the state poor home, he called it Christian. I never had much religious training, and I never went to Sunday school because we didn't belong to the church when I was old enough to go, but I thought I knew what believing in Christ meant, and it wasn't half the things the preacher did.

  John Kennedy Toole

  Christian, Religious, Book

  John Kennedy Toole (2007). “The Neon Bible”, p.140, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I remember being forced to go to Sunday school for a number of years, even though my parents were not religious. No one was really religious; it was just the framework. There was no passion for it. No passion for anything. Just a quiet, kind of floaty, kind of semi-oppressive, blank palette that youre living in.

  Tim Burton

  Religious, Passion, School

  Tim Burton, Kristian Fraga (2005). “Tim Burton: Interviews”, p.44, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• A friend of mine who was a founding father of the Church of Satan, who later I compared notes with, said when he was a kid, he too managed to get into Sallys Nude Ranch, and in the corral he saw his Sunday school teacher!!! That was a real epiphany for him. From that moment on he was a Satanist.

  Anton Szandor LaVey

  Teacher, Father, Real

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• If anyone is getting industrious trying to enturbulate [sic] or stop Scientology or its activities, I can make Captain Bligh look like a Sunday-school teacher. There is probably no limit on what I would do to safeguard Man's only road to freedom against persons who ... seek to stop Scientology or hurt Scientologists.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Teacher, Hurt, School

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• We kids feared many things in those days - werewolves, dentists, North Koreans, Sunday School - but they all paled in comparison with Brussels sprouts.

  Dave Barry

  School, Kids, Sunday

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• I don't have an issue with what you do in the church but I'm going to be up in your face if you're going to knock on my science classroom and tell me I got to teach what you're teaching in your Sunday school. That's when we're going to fight... There's no tradition of scientists knocking down the Sunday school door, telling the preacher 'that might not necessarily be true.' That's never happened. There are no scientists picketing out front of churches. There's been this coexistence forever, so to have religious communities knocking down the science door, there's something wrong there.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Religious, Fear, Teaching

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Faith is part of who I am, yes. I was raised Christian Scientist. The most important thing I saw every single week on the wall at Sunday school was the Golden Rule: "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you."

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Christian, Wall, School

  "Ellen DeGeneres: Nice Girls Finish First". Interview with David Hochman, www.goodhousekeeping.com. September 10, 2011.

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• Artist and illustrator R. Crumb did a whole illustration of Genesis. And he didn't go away from the text; he was totally truthful. Reading through that, I was like, "Oh, wow, it's a comic-book version of the Bible." There's a lot of heavy-duty stuff that goes on that doesn't make it into Sunday school.

  Darren Aronofsky

  Reading, School, Sunday

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Do not shut up the young people against their will in a pew, and force the children to ask them questions for an hour against their will.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Children, School, Sunday

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.83, Courier Corporation

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• The instructor, Ms. Pease, also taught in the church's religious school, and she had a Sunday school manner at once saccharine and condemnatory.

  Michael Chabon

  Religious, School, Sunday

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• We are not a club or a Sunday school class, but a school of the woods.

  Baden Powell de Aquino

  Wisdom, School, Sunday

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