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

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If I might control the literature of the household, I would guarantee the well-being of Church and State.

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If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false sentiment, I could never stay there five minutes.

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The multitude of false churches accredits the true religion.

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

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Seducers are more dangerous enemies to the church than persecutors.

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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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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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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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Lutheranism restricted itself to an exclusively ecclesiastical and theological character, while Calvinism put its impress in and outside the church upon every aspect of human life.

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My response is that I love the church.

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

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

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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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Black women have not historically stood in the pulpit, but that doesn't undermine the fact that they built the churches and maintain the pulpits.

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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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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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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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