Church Quotes — Page 45

Poet, Essayist

“A father of the church said that property was theft, many centuries before Proudhon was born. Bourdaloue reaffirmed it. Montesquieu was the inventor of national workshops and of the theory that the state owed every man a living. Nay, was not the church herself the first organized democracy?”

Men Father Church

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Poet, Educator

“Time, like a preacher in the days of the Puritans, turned the hour-glass on his high pulpit, the church belfry.”

Time Church Glasses

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Lincoln Steffens

Journalist

“I never heard a Christian sermon preached in a church.”

Christian Church

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Jean-Paul Sartre

Philosopher, Writer

“I know only one Church: it is the society of men.”

Men Knows

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Mark Twain

Writer, Humorist

“The reason most people don't go to church is because they've already been.”

People Christian Church

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Friedrich Nietzsche

Philosopher, Writer

“Every church is a stone on the grave of a god-man: it does not want him to rise up again under any circumstances.”

Men Want Church

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Friedrich Nietzsche

Philosopher, Writer

“The Christian church has left nothing untouched by its depravity; it has turned every value into worthlessness, and every truth into a lie”

Lying Christian Church

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Friedrich Nietzsche

Philosopher, Writer

“If we make sacrifices in doing good or in doing ill, it does not alter the ultimate value of our actions; even if we stake our life in the cause, as martyrs do for the sake of our church : it is a sacrifice to our longing for power, or for the purpose of conserving our sense of power.”

Doe Church Sacrifice

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Friedrich Nietzsche

Philosopher, Writer

“Among twelve apostles there must always be one who is as hard as stone, so that the new church may be built upon him.”

May Church Twelve

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Mark Twain

Writer, Humorist

“The world has corrected the Bible. The church never corrects it; and also never fails to drop in at the tail of the procession-and take the credit of the correction.”

Church Credit Tails

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Mark Twain

Writer, Humorist

“I never made a success of a lecture delivered in a church yet. People are afraid to laugh in a church. They can't be made to do it in any possible way.”

People Laughing Church

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Kim Harrison

Author

“Did something happen to the sanctity of your church again?" My eye twitched. "Newt broke it so she could look in my closet." Again.”

Eye Looks Church

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