A. Theodore Tuttle Quotes, Thinking Quotes, Church Quotes

I think it is not well known in the Church that payment of tithing has very little to do with money. Tithing has to do with faith.

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The merit claimed for the Anglican Church is that, if you let it alone, it will let you alone.

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

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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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In truth the Church is too unique to prove herself unique. For most popular and easy proof is by parallel; and here there is no parallel.

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Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Unique Quotes , Church Quotes

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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What is held by the whole Church, and that not as instituted by Councils, but as a matter of invariable custom, is rightly held to have been handed down by authority.

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The Church tries to fit Christ into it, not the Church into Christ.

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The narrow sectarian cannot read astronomy with impunity. The creeds of his church shrivel like dried leaves at the door of the observatory.

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When I walk up the piazza of Santa Croce I feel as if it were not a Florentine nor an European church but a church built by and for the human race.

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Destruction of the churches and the like is not the way to Swaraj as defined by the Congress.

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PRESBYTERIAN, n. One who holds the conviction that the government authorities of the Church should be called presbyters.

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God expects us to measure the church not against tradition but against the standards & promises of His Word.

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To discriminate against a thoroughly upright citizen because he belongs to some particular church, or because, like Abraham Lincoln, he has not avowed his allegiance to any church, is an outrage against the liberty of conscience, which is one of the foundations of American life.

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

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The world has corrected the Bible. The church never corrects it; and also never fails to drop in at the tail of the procession-and take the credit of the correction.

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Nobody understands the nature of the Church, or the ringing note of the creed descending from antiquity, who does not realize that the whole world once very nearly died of broadmindedness and the brotherhood of all religions.

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The mere change of custom, even though it may be of advantage in some respects, unsettles men by reason of the novelty: therefore, if it brings no advantage, it does much harm by unprofitably disturbing the Church.

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I learned more stuff in church than I did in the world.

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The style of God venerated in church, mosque, and synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe.

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