Church Quotes — Page 37

Poet

“An old argument with me is that the true religious force in the world is not the church, but the world itself: the mysterious callings of Nature and our responses.”

Religious Church Religion

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Willie Nelson

Musician, Actor

“The first time I got onstage was when I was about 5 years old. It was at a church social, and I had a poem to recite.”

Years Firsts Church

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essayist, Philosopher, Poet

“I once heard a preacher who sorely tempted me to go to church no more.”

Church Heard

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essayist, Philosopher, Poet

“The multitude of false churches accredits the true religion.”

Church Multitudes

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WR

Walter Russell Bowie

Author

“The Christian church does not need more popular preaching, but more unpopular preaching.”

Doe Christian Church

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Win Butler

Musician

“While there are so many beautiful Baroque churches and it's a beautiful artistic tradition, it almost gets hideous and grotesque if you push it further. You can take something beautiful and overdo it.”

Beautiful Church Artistic

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T. S. Eliot

Poet, Playwright

“The hippopotamus's day Is passed in sleep; at night he hunts; God works in a mysterious way- The Church can sleep and feed at once.”

Night Sleep Church

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Saint Augustine

Theologian, Philosopher

“The customs of God's people and the institutions of our ancestors are to be considered as laws. And those who throw contempt on the customs of the Church ought to be punished as those who disobey the law of God.”

People Law Church

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essayist, Philosopher, Poet

“The merit claimed for the Anglican Church is that, if you let it alone, it will let you alone.”

Ifs Church Merit

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essayist, Philosopher, Poet

“A man of good sense but of little faith, whose compassion seemed to lead him to church as often as he went there, said to me; 'that he liked to have concerts, and fairs, and churches, and other public amusements go on.”

Men Church Compassion

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essayist, Philosopher, Poet

“If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false sentiment, I could never stay there five minutes.”

Church Atheist Minutes

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essayist, Philosopher, Poet

“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.”

Race Church Santa

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