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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
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"I remember an answer which when quite young I was prompted to make a valued adviser who was wont to importune me with the dear old doctrines of the church. On my saying, What have I to do with the sacredness of traditions, if I live wholly from within? my friend suggested, - "But these impulses may be from below, not from above." I replied, 'They do not seem to me to be such; but if I am the devil's child, I will live then from the devil.'"

Children Church Devil
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Church

"I believe that marriage is a representation of Christ and the church and when Christ and the church are unified, they are the strongest and most attractive to those that don't know Jesus."

Believe Jesus Church
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Thomas Merton Writer, Monk
Church

"To those who have no personal experience of this revolutionary aspect of Christian truth, but who see only the outer crust of dead, human conservatism that tends to form around the Church the way barnacles gather on the hull of a ship, all this talk about dynamism sounds foolish."

Way Christian Church
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Thomas Merton Writer, Monk
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"Each individual Christian and each new age of the Church has to make this rediscovery, this return to the source of Christian life."

Christian Age Church
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Timothy Keller Pastor, Author
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"The early church was strikingly different from the culture around it in this way - the pagan society was stingy with its money and promiscuous with its body. A pagan gave nobody their money and practically gave everybody their body. And the Christians came along and gave practically nobody their body and they gave practically everybody their money."

Christian Different Church
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H. G. Wells Writer
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"[A novel by Henry James] is like a church lit but without a congregation to distract you, with every light and line focused on the high altar. And on the altar, very reverently place, intensely there, is a dead kitten, an egg-shell, a bit of string."

Light Church Eggs
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Felix Adler Philosopher, Social Reformer
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"The Ethical Society, therefore, is like a Church in maintaining, and emphasizing the importance of maintaining the custom of public assemblies on Sunday."

Church Sunday Maintaining
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Oprah Winfrey Television host, producer, philanthropist
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"I love what the church offers to us as a culture - black people in particular. We would be nowhere without the black church."

People Black Church
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George Harrison Musician, Singer-songwriter
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"Through Hinduism, I feel a better person. I just get happier and happier. I now feel that I am unlimited, and I am more in control of my own physical body. The thing is, you go to an ordinary church and it's a nice feeling. They tell you all about God, but they don't show you how the way. They don't show you how to become Christ-concious yourself. Hinduism, however, is different."

Feelings Nice Church
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Gilbert K. Chesterton Writer, Journalist
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"The historic glory of America lies in the fact that it is the one nation that was founded like a church. That is, it was founded on a faith that was not merely summed up after it had exited, but was defined before it existed."

Lying America Church
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Henry Adams Historian
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"There have been times when the church seemed afraid, but she is no longer. Analyze, dissect, use your microscope or your spectrum till the last atom of matter is reached; reflect and refine till the last element of thought is made clear; the church now knows with the certainty of science what she once knew only by the certainty of faith, that you will find enthroned behind all thought and matter only one central idea--that idea which the church has never ceased to embody--I AM!"

Ideas Church Atoms
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Henry Adams Historian
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"The new American, like the new European, was the servant of the powerhouse, as the European of the twelfth century was the servant of the Church."

Church Century Servant
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Henry Adams Historian
Church

"The philosopher says--I am, and the church scouts his philosophy. She answers:--No! you are NOT, you have no existence of your own. You were and are and ever will be only a part of the supreme I AM, of which the church is the emblem."

Philosophy Church Answers
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