Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Children 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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My ordination in the Church of God in Christ was at age 9, and I later became a Baptist minister, which I am today.

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I attend Trinity United Church of Christ, and my pastor [was] Jeremiah Wright.

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A Gothic church is a petrified religion.

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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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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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I'm getting married in the morning! / Ding dong! the bells are gonna chime. / Pull out the stopper! Let's have a whopper! / But get me to the church on time!.

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The Church must be forever building, for it is forever decaying within and attacked from without.

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

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A scared world needs a fearless church.

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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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"President Monson, I may never see the Prophet. I may never hear the Prophet. But President, far better, now that I am a member of this Church, I can obey the Prophet."

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

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Among twelve apostles there must always be one who is as hard as stone, so that the new church may be built upon him.

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

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

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