T. S. Eliot Quotes, Rocks Quotes, Church Quotes

The True Church can never fail. For it is based upon a rock.

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I remember an answer which when quite young I was prompted to make a valued adviser who was wont to importune me with the dear old doctrines of the church. On my saying, What have I to do with the sacredness of traditions, if I live wholly from within? my friend suggested, - "But these impulses may be from below, not from above." I replied, 'They do not seem to me to be such; but if I am the devil's child, I will live then from the devil.'

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The church that can't worship must be entertained. And leaders who can't lead a church to worship must provide the entertainment.

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We sing in a church, why can we not dance there?

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I once heard a preacher who sorely tempted me to go to church no more.

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Every church is a stone on the grave of a god-man: it does not want him to rise up again under any circumstances.

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The notion that the church, the press, and the universities should serve the state is essentially a Communist notion. In a free society these institutions must be wholly free - which is to say that their function is to serve as checks upon the state.

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The seminaries must be like the churches' poor relations, prolonging their existence with austerity.

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Go into one of our cool churches, and begin to count the words that might be spared, and in most places the entire sermon will go.

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Missionary work is an identifying feature of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Always has it been; ever shall it be.

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But the churchmen fain would kill their church, As the churches have kill'd their Christ.

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A good local pub has much in common with a church, except that a pub is warmer, and there's more conversation.

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Every bishop can testify to the promptings that attend calls to serve in the Church. Frequently the call seems to be for the benefit not so much of those to be taught or led as for the person who is to teach or lead.

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There is no salvation outside the church.

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How many times go we to comedies, to masques, to places of great and noble resort, nay even to church only to see the company.

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Today, as it was 2,000 years ago, the Kingdom of God is within each of us. It is not within a church, a temple, a mosque or synagogue.

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Alongside my own deep personal faith, I am a follower, as well, of our civic religion. I am a big believer in the separation of church and state.

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It is said that there is no salvation outside the Church. Who denies this? And therefore whatever things of the Church are had outside the Church do not avail unto salvation.

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Nowhere nor in anything, except in the assertion of the Church, can we find that God or Christ founded anything like what churchmen understand by the Church.

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I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching. How far off, how cool, how chaste the persons look,begirt each one with a precinct or sanctuary!

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