Church Quotes — Page 31

Writer, Philosopher

“Look not to legislatures and churches for your guidance, nor to any soulless incorporated bodies, but to inspirited or inspired ones.”

Inspirational Looks Church

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James Russell Lowell

Poet, Essayist

“The English Puritans pulled down church and state to rebuild Zion on the ruins, and all the while it was not Zion, but America, they were building.”

America Church Zion

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Friedrich Nietzsche

Philosopher, Writer

“The Christian church is an encyclopedia of prehistoric cults.”

Christian Church

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Martin Luther King, Jr.

Civil Rights Leader

“The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.”

Church Tools

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Henry David Thoreau

Writer, Philosopher

“The tavern will compare favorably with the church.”

Church Compare Taverns

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John F. Kennedy

Politician

“If my church attempted to influence me in a way which was improper or which affected adversely my responsibilities as a public servant sworn to uphold the Constitution, then I would reply to them that this was an improper action on their part. It was one to which I could not subscribe.”

Responsibility Church Atheism

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Joyce Meyer

Author, Speaker

“I tell people, and it's the truth, I could sit in my garage for a week and it won't make me a car. And you can sit in church till your bottom is flat and that won't make you a servant of Christ.”

People Church Car

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Joyce Meyer

Author, Speaker

“I got kicked out of my church and lost all of my friends, but I realized that I had to obey God and not man.”

Men Church Lost

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Martin Luther

Theologian

“This doctrine (justification) is the head and the cornerstone. It alone begets, nourishes, builds, preserves, and defends the church of God and without it the church of God cannot exist for one hour.”

Church Hours Doctrine

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Martin Luther

Theologian

“It is an unsufferable blasphemy to reject the public ministry or to say that people can become holy without sermons and Church. This involves a destruction of the Church and rebellion against ecclesiastical order; such upheavals must be warded off and punished like all other revolts.”

People Order Church

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E. M. Forster

Novelist, Essayist

“In time, Mr Hall, one gets to recognize that sneer, that hardness, for fornication extends far beyond the actual deed. Were it a deed only, I for one would not hold it anathema. But when the nations went a whoring they invariably ended by denying God, I think, and until all sexual irregularities and not some of them are penal the Church will never reconquer England.”

Thinking Church Atheist

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Michael Frost

Author, Speaker

“The Missional church always thinks of the long haul rather than the quick fix”

Thinking Long Church

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