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"As the magistrate has no power to impose by his laws the use of any rites and ceremonies in any church, so neither has he any power to forbid the use of such rites and ceremonies as are already received, approved, and practised by any church; because if he did so, he would destroy the church itself; the end of whose institution is only to worship God with freedom, after its own manner."
"Have you not observed that there is a lower kind of discretion and regularity, which seldom fails of raising men to the highest station in the court, the church, and the law?"
"I grew up in newsrooms. I've been in newsrooms since I was 17 years old. Journalism has been like my church; it's been like my identity."
"The church has never been asked to explain anything, our speciality, along with ballistics, has always been the neutralisation of the overly curious mind through faith."
"Do you look forward to going to church, or is it something you do out of obligation?"
"Is it faith to understand nothing, and merely submit your convictions implicitly to the Church?"
"A Church that has lost its voice for justice is a Church that has lost its relevance in the world."
"The church that preaches the gospel in all of its fullness, except as it applies to the great social ills of the day, is failing to preach the gospel."
"The irony is I stopped going to church a few weeks later."
"Faith cannot be inherited or gained by being baptized into a Church. Faith is a matter between the individual and God."
"When the gospel flourishes in the church, everything flourishes with it."
"Know that no one can have indulged in the Holy Writers sufficiently, unless he has governed churches for a hundred years with the prophets, such as Elijah and Elisha, John the Baptist, Christ and the apostles... We are beggars: this is true."
"If the church of today does not recapture the sacrificial spirit of the early church, it will lose its authentic ring, forfeit the loyalty of millions, and be dismissed as an irrelevant social club with no meaning for the twentieth century."
"There is no doctrine which I would more willingly remove from Christianity than the doctrine of hell, if it lay in my power. But it has the support of Scripture and, especially, of our Lord's own words; it has always been held by the Christian Church, and it has the support of reason."
"When you go to church you are really listening in to the secret wireless from our friends."
"I attend Trinity United Church of Christ, and my pastor [was] Jeremiah Wright."
"You have despoiled churches. You have threatened every corporation and endowment in the country. You have examined into everybodys affairs. You have criticised every profession and vexed every trade. No one is certain of his property, and nobody knows what duties he may have to perform to-morrow. This is the policy of confiscation as compared with that of concurrent endowment."
"Do you see this egg? With this you can topple every theological theory, every church or temple in the world."
"THINGS JESUS NEVER SAID: "You should come with me to church."
"I leave it to the faithful to burn each other's churches and mosques and synagogues, which they can be always relied upon to do"
