T. S. Eliot Quotes, Forever Quotes, Church Quotes

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

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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 Church seems to totter to its fall, almost all life extinct. On this occasion, any complaisance would be criminal which told you, whose hope and commission it is to preach the faith of Christ, that the faith of Christ is preached.

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

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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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Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.

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

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

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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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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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I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.

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

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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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I don't need a church to tell me I'm wrong where I already know I'm wrong; I need a Church to tell me I'm wrong where I think I'm right

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The Christian church is an encyclopedia of prehistoric cults.

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A Gothic church is a petrified religion.

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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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