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Church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back. -
Charles De Gaulle
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Many come to bring their clothes to church rather than themselves. -
Thomas Fuller
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There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman. -
Henry Fielding
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And of all plagues with which mankind are cursed, ecclesiastic tyranny's the worst. -
Daniel Defoe
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It is one of the ironies of the ministry that the very man who works in God's name is often hardest put to find time for God. The parents of Jesus lost Him at church, and they were not the last ones to lose Him there. -
Vance Havner
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A woman's asking for equality in the church would be comparable to a black person's demanding equality in the Ku Klux Klan. -
Mary Daly
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But a priest's life is not supposed to be well-rounded; it is supposed to be one-pointed -- a compass, not a weathercock. -
Aldous Huxley
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Where God builds a church the devil builds a chapel. -
Martin Luther
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Yes, I see the Church as the body of Christ. But, oh! How we have blemished and scarred that body through social neglect and through fear of being nonconformists. -
Martin Luther King Jr
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There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being. -
James Joyce
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The separation of church and state is a source of strength, but the conscience of our nation does not call for separation between men of state and faith in the Supreme Being. -
Lyndon B Johnson
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Churchgoers are like coals in a fire. When they cling together, they keep the flame aglow; when they separate, they die out. -
Billy Graham
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Those who marry God can become domesticated too -- it's just as hum-drum a marriage as all the others. The word ''Love'' means a formal touch of the lips as in the ceremony of the Mass, and ''Ave Maria '' like ''dearest'' is a phrase to open a letter. This marriage like the world's marriages was held together by habits and tastes shared in common between God and themselves -- it was God's taste to be worshipped and their taste to worship, but only at stated hours like a suburban embrace on a Saturday night. -
Graham Greene
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A full-dressed ecclesiastic is a sort of go-cart of divinity; an ethical automaton. A clerical prig is, in general, a very dangerous as well as contemptible character. The utmost that those who thus habitually confound their opinions and sentiments with the outside coverings of their bodies can aspire to, is a negative and neutral character, like wax-work figures, where the dress is done as much to the life as the man, and where both are respectable pieces of pasteboard, or harmless compositions of fleecy hosiery. -
William Hazlitt
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What makes a church great in the eyes of God? Participation, proclamation, preservation, and propagation. Every church ought to exhibit all four. -
O S Hawkins
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The church is so subnormal that if it ever got back to the New Testament normal it would seem to people to be abnormal. -
Vance Havner
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