Quotes with church

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  • Thomas Paine My mind is my own church.
    Thomas Paine
    English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theor (1737 - 1809)
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  • Thomas Paine My own mind is my own church.
    Thomas Paine
    English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theor (1737 - 1809)
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  • John Ruskin Nearly all the evils in the Church have arisen from bishops desiring power more than light. They want authority, not outlook.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Alonzo Church Never had any mathematical conversations with anybody, because there was nobody else in my field.
    Alonzo Church
    American mathematician and logician (1903 - 1995)
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  • Mark Twain No God and no religion can survive ridicule. No political church, no nobility, no royalty or other fraud, can face ridicule in a fair field, and live.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Once there was a time when all people believed in God and the church ruled. This time is called the Dark Ages.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • A. W. Tozer One hundred religious persons knit into a unity by careful organizations do not constitute a church any more than eleven dead men make a football team. The first requisite is life, always.
    A. W. Tozer
    American Christian pastor, preacher and author
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  • Eliza Farnham Our own theological Church, as we know, has scorned and vilified the body till it has seemed almost a reproach and a shame to have one, yet at the same time has credited it with power to drag the soul to perdition.
    Eliza Farnham
    American novelist, feminist and abolitionist (1815 - 1864)
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  • Arthur Middleton Priesthood is not a convenient, historically conditioned form of Church organisation, but is rooted in the Incarnation, in the priesthood and mission of Christ himself.
    Arthur Middleton
    American politician (1742 - 1787)
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  • Samuel Pepys Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.
    Samuel Pepys
    English administrator of the navy and Member of Parliament (1633 - 1703)
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  • Alice Walker She say, Celie, tell the truth, have you ever found God in church? I never did. I just found a bunch of folks hoping for him to show. Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me. And I think all the other folks did too. They come to church to share God, not find God.
    Alice Walker
    American Author, Critic (1944 - 1982)
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  • Thomas B. Macaulay She thoroughly understands what no other Church has ever understood, how to deal with enthusiasts.
    Thomas B. Macaulay
    American essayist and historian (1800 - 1859)
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  • Fred A. Allen Some movie stars wear their sunglasses even in church. They're afraid God might recognize them and ask for autographs.
    Fred A. Allen
    American comic (1894 - 1956)
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  • Rupert Brooke Stands the Church clock at ten to three? And is there honey still for tea?
    Rupert Brooke
    British poet (1887 - 1915)
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  • Bill Hybels Ten years ago, 15 years ago, I think the church would have been asleep at the switch. This level of activism and engagement with the needs of society by local churches I never thought I'd see it in my lifetime.
    Bill Hybels
    American church figure and author (1951 - )
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman That the Jews were unholy was a belief so ingrained by the Church [by the 14th century] that the most devout persons were the harshest in their antipathy, none more so than St. Louis.
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Benjamin Tucker The Anarchists most certainly believe in the Church; only they insist that all its work shall be purely voluntary, and that its discoveries and achievements, however beneficial, shall not be imposed upon the individual by authority.
    Individual Liberty
    Benjamin Tucker
    American anarchist and socialist (1854 - 1939)
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  • Bobby Bowden The Bible is big in my teaching. It's a wonder the ACLU didn't get after me pretty good. I really kept thinking they would. I took my boys to church. I took my football team to church. I only did it two times a year. Before I signed a kid, I'd write the parents and I'd tell that parent we were gong to take your son to church twice.
    Bobby Bowden
    American football coach (1929 - )
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  • Tertullian The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.
    Tertullian
    Roman Christian author from Carthage (160 - 230)
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  • Shirley Williams The Catholic Church has never really come to terms with women. What I object to is being treated either as Madonna's or Mary Magdalene's.
    Shirley Williams
    British baroness, politician and academic (1930 - 2021)
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