Church Quotes — Page 29

Novelist, Poet

“You don't need organized religion to connect with the universe. Often a church is the only place you can go to find peace and quiet... But it shouldn't be confused with connecting with one's spirit.”

Wisdom Church Confused

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Saint Augustine

Theologian, Philosopher

“The mere change of custom, even though it may be of advantage in some respects, unsettles men by reason of the novelty: therefore, if it brings no advantage, it does much harm by unprofitably disturbing the Church.”

Men Doe Church

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Simon Sinek

Author, Motivational Speaker

“If you're not remarkable, you're invisible.”

Christian Leadership

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Rowan Williams

Theologian

“It takes the whole church to know the whole truth.”

Knows Church

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Thomas Carlyle

Essayist, Historian, Novelist

“The true Church of England, at this moment, lies in the Editors of the newspapers.”

Lying Church Editors

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Saint Augustine

Theologian, Philosopher

“It is said that there is no salvation outside the Church. Who denies this? And therefore whatever things of the Church are had outside the Church do not avail unto salvation.”

Church Deny Salvation

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Saint Augustine

Theologian, Philosopher

“It is better to be cured in the Church than to be cut off from this Body as incurable ... for, as long as the member is still attached to the Body, his cure is not beyond hope, but when he has been cut off, he can neither be treated nor cured.”

Long Cutting Church

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essayist, Philosopher, Poet

“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.'”

Children Church Devil

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RS

Rebecca St. James

Singer

“I believe that marriage is a representation of Christ and the church and when Christ and the church are unified, they are the strongest and most attractive to those that don't know Jesus.”

Believe Jesus Church

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TM

Thomas Merton

Writer, Monk

“To those who have no personal experience of this revolutionary aspect of Christian truth, but who see only the outer crust of dead, human conservatism that tends to form around the Church the way barnacles gather on the hull of a ship, all this talk about dynamism sounds foolish.”

Way Christian Church

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Thomas Merton

Writer, Monk

“Each individual Christian and each new age of the Church has to make this rediscovery, this return to the source of Christian life.”

Christian Age Church

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TK

Timothy Keller

Pastor, Author

“The early church was strikingly different from the culture around it in this way - the pagan society was stingy with its money and promiscuous with its body. A pagan gave nobody their money and practically gave everybody their body. And the Christians came along and gave practically nobody their body and they gave practically everybody their money.”

Christian Different Church

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