Theodore Roosevelt Quotes, Presidential Quotes, Church Quotes

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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PRIMATE, n. The head of a church, especially a State church supported by involuntary contributions. The Primate of England is the Archbishop of Canterbury, an amiable old gentleman, who occupies Lambeth Palace when living and Westminster Abbey when dead. He is commonly dead.

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

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If we make sacrifices in doing good or in doing ill, it does not alter the ultimate value of our actions; even if we stake our life in the cause, as martyrs do for the sake of our church : it is a sacrifice to our longing for power, or for the purpose of conserving our sense of power.

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

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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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If we go to church we are confronted with a system of begging so complicated and so resolute that all other demands sink into insignificance by its side.

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Worshipers never leave church...we carry our sanctuary with us wherever we go.

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Blasphemy and sedition (meaning the truth about Church and State).

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The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church

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

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

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

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If the world grows to worldly, it can be rebuked by the Church; but if the Church grows to worldly, it cannot be adequately rebuked for worldlyness by the world.

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

Although among heretics and schismatics there is the same Baptism, nevertheless, the remission of sins is not operative among them because of the very rottenness of discord and wickedness of dissension ... Baptism was in them, but it did not profit them outside the Church ... Outside the Church, Baptism works death because of discord.

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The way to preserve the peace of the church is to preserve its purity.

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I'm actually the fourth generation in my family to have no practical use for the church, or God, or religion. My children continue this trend.

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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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But it's a poor church that cares only for what happens to a soul after it leaves this life." -Damien

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Universities are of course hostile to geniuses, which, seeing and using ways of their own, discredit the routine: as churches and monasteries persecute youthful saints.

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What has the church gained if it is popular but there is no conviction, no repentance, no power?

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