Saint Augustine Quotes, Men Quotes, Church Quotes

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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Worship, I say, rises or falls with our concept of God .... and if there is one terrible disease in the Church of Christ, it is that we do not see God as great as He is.

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

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

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Baptists have long upheld the ideal of a free church in a free state. And from the beginning, they believed that forcing a person to worship against his will violated the principles of both Christianity and civility.

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

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

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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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There is no salvation outside the church.

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

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Try to be all you can be to be the best human being you can be. Try to be that in your church, in your temple. Try to be that in your classroom. Do it because it is right to do.

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As some to church repair, Not for the doctrine, but the music there. These equal syllables alone require, Though oft the ear the open vowels tire While expletives their feeble aid do join, And ten low words oft creep in one dull line.

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I was probably toward 8 1/2 when I actually joined the church and was baptized - and, my God, did I take it seriously! I was a zealot who irritated every one of my third-grade friends. They didn't beat me up, but I got labeled "the preacher girl."

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Every heresy has been an effort to narrow the Church.

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Any God I ever found in church, I brought in myself.

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

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

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