Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Church Quotes, Looks Quotes

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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I'm not denouncing the church, and I'm not interested in people who want me to denounce the church. It's not a church worthy of denouncing.

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

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

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There is no salvation outside the church.

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

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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 that can't worship must be entertained. And leaders who can't lead a church to worship must provide the entertainment.

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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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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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Black churches minister to social needs out of necessity.

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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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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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If we make sacrifices in doing good or in doing ill, it does not alter the ultimate value of our actions; even if we stake our life in the cause, as martyrs do for the sake of our church : it is a sacrifice to our longing for power, or for the purpose of conserving our sense of power.

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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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