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Economist, Author

“The Revelation speaks powerfully today, and its message to us is the same as it was to the early Church: that "there is not a square inch of ground in heaven or on earth or under the earth in which there is peace between Christ and Satan.".”

Heaven Church Squares

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Harper Lee

Novelist

“Again, as I had often met it in my own church, I was confronted with the Impurity of Women doctrine that seemed to preoccupy all clergymen.”

Church Doctrine Clergymen

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Isabel Allende

Novelist

“My son, the Holy Church is on the right, but Jesus Christ was always on the left.”

Jesus Son

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Isaiah Washington

Actor

“Becoming a junior usher at a black church was my entry into the wonder of worship.”

Black Church

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Florence King

Author

“Episcopalians have always preferred the flying buttress to the pillar of the church.”

Church Flying Pillars

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Margaret Fuller

Transcendentalist, Writer

“You see how wide the gulf that separates me from the Christian church.”

Christian Church

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George Bernard Shaw

Playwright, Critic

“Blasphemy and sedition (meaning the truth about Church and State).”

Church States

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Francis Bacon

Philosopher, Statesman

“If I might control the literature of the household, I would guarantee the well-being of Church and State.”

Literature Church Guarantees

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Francis Bacon

Philosopher, Statesman

“Nothing doth so much keep men out of the Church, and drive men out of the Church, as breach of unity.”

Men Church Unity

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Lawrence Wright

Author, Journalist

“Churches are tax exempt because they are supposed to provide a public good. To prove that good to the IRS, churches arent supposed to hoard their money. They are supposed to spend it on goods and services for the faithful. Under this pretense, the church has made massive investments in tax free real estate all over the world. And when it comes to labor costs, they are almost free.”

Real Church Faithful

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George Bernard Shaw

Playwright, Critic

“I am highly susceptible to the force of all truly religious music, especially to the music of my own church, the church of Shelley, Michelangelo, and Beethoven.”

Religious Church Force

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George Carlin

Comedian, Actor

“I'm thinking of buying a church and changing it around: maybe selling crack and having a few whores in the pew.”

Thinking Church Cracks

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