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

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There is no salvation outside the church.

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

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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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God builds his temple in the heart on the ruins of churches and religions.

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It's not so much that the church has a mission, it's that the mission of God has a church.

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How many times go we to comedies, to masques, to places of great and noble resort, nay even to church only to see the company.

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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 churches must learn humility as well as teach it.

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

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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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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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I never joined, but I used to go to church now and then. I liked it, because they always passed out plates of money at the end.

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

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The upright, honest-hearted man Who strives to do the best he can, Need never fear the church's ban Or hell's damnation.

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

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

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