Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Race Quotes, Church Quotes

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

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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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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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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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Trains are wonderful.... To travel by train is to see nature and human beings, towns and churches and rivers, in fact, to see life.

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I will not say nothing. I will defend my church and my religion when it is insulted and spit on.

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

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I rejected the God that was portrayed as masculine and judgmental and cruel at times. The concept of us bring not worthy to receive him is something I used to say every Sunday in church, and eventually I just couldn't say it with any conviction.

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

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Nowhere nor in anything, except in the assertion of the Church, can we find that God or Christ founded anything like what churchmen understand by the Church.

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God wants us to make Jesus Christ the central figure in our church--not just say that we do, but actually do it.

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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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There is nothing more serious than the sacrilege of schism because there is no just cause for severing the unity of the Church.

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The multitude of false churches accredits the true religion.

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I remind you that there are churches so completely out of the hands of God that if the Holy Spirit withdrew from them, they wouldn't find it out for many months

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SACERDOTALIST, n. One who holds the belief that a clergyman is a priest. Denial of this momentous doctrine is the hardest challenge that is now flung into the teeth of the Episcopalian church by the Neo-Dictionarians.

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

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