Church Quotes — Page 33

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Poet, Playwright

“Some go to Church, proud humbly to repent, And come back much more guilty than they went: One way they look, another way they steer, Pray to the Gods; but would have Mortals hear; And when their sins they set sincerely down, They'll find that their Religion has been one.”

Way Church Proud

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Elizabeth Scott

Artist

“Grace is my favourite church word. A state of being. Something you can pray for. Something God can grant. Something you can obtain. Perfection is out of reach. But grace -- grace you can reach for.”

Church Grace Perfection

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Ernest Hemingway

Novelist

“To hell with the Church when it becomes a State and the hell with the State when it becomes a Church.”

Church States Hell

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Carl Jung

Psychiatrist, Psychoanalyst

“It is the function of the Church to oppose all original experience, because this can only be unorthodox.”

Church Function Unorthodox

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Dar Williams

Singer-songwriter

“Every once in a while I check and I say, do I still believe in God? And the answer is absolutely yes. And then I think, I suppose I should go to church now. But after going to so many churches in my life and trying to go with the flow with so many denominations, Eastern and Western, I don't really feel I need to go to church at all.”

Thinking Believe Church

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Benjamin Disraeli

Politician, Author

“In all church discussions we are apt to forget the second Testament is avowedly only a supplement. Jesus came to complete the law and the prophets. Christianity is completed Judaism, or it is nothing. Christianity is incomprehensible without Judaism, as Judaism is incomplete without Christianity.”

Law Jesus Church

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Benjamin Franklin

Inventor, Statesman, Author

“The church, the state, and the poor, are 3 daughters which we should maintain, but not portion off.”

Church Daughter Poor

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Benjamin Franklin

Inventor, Statesman, Author

“Men differ daily about things which are subject to sense, is it likely then they should agree about things invisible.”

Men Church Invisible

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Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Theologian

“The church must share in the secular problems of ordinary human life, not dominating, but helping and serving.”

Helping Church Ordinary

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Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Theologian

“Whenever the Psalter is abandoned, an incomparable treasure is lost to the Christian church. With its recovery will come unexpected power.”

Christian Church Recovery

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Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Theologian

“The Church knows nothing of a sacredness of war. The Church which prays'Our Father'asks God only for peace.”

War Father Church

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Dolly Parton

Singer, Songwriter, Actress

“I used to always sit in church looking out the windows at the boys, wondering if I could make an excuse to go out and, you know, go to the bathroom because all the outdoor toilets. But anyhow, I was only going out to see the boys.”

Boys Church Going Out

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