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"It is not easy to conceive of anything that would be more unfortunate in a community based upon the ideals of which Americans boast than any considerable development of intolerance as regards religion."
"They all attended Hester's church, which Dellarobia viewed as a complicated pyramid scheme of moral debt and credit resting ultimately on the shoulders of the Lord, but rife with middle managers."
"The Church has its problems, but the older I get, the more comfort I find there."
"Separation of church and state cannot mean an absolute separation between moral principles and political power."
"Some go to Church, proud humbly to repent, And come back much more guilty than they went: One way they look, another way they steer, Pray to the Gods; but would have Mortals hear; And when their sins they set sincerely down, They'll find that their Religion has been one."
"Grace is my favourite church word. A state of being. Something you can pray for. Something God can grant. Something you can obtain. Perfection is out of reach. But grace -- grace you can reach for."
"To hell with the Church when it becomes a State and the hell with the State when it becomes a Church."
"It is the function of the Church to oppose all original experience, because this can only be unorthodox."
"Every once in a while I check and I say, do I still believe in God? And the answer is absolutely yes. And then I think, I suppose I should go to church now. But after going to so many churches in my life and trying to go with the flow with so many denominations, Eastern and Western, I don't really feel I need to go to church at all."
"In all church discussions we are apt to forget the second Testament is avowedly only a supplement. Jesus came to complete the law and the prophets. Christianity is completed Judaism, or it is nothing. Christianity is incomprehensible without Judaism, as Judaism is incomplete without Christianity."
"The church, the state, and the poor, are 3 daughters which we should maintain, but not portion off."
"Men differ daily about things which are subject to sense, is it likely then they should agree about things invisible."
"The church must share in the secular problems of ordinary human life, not dominating, but helping and serving."
"Whenever the Psalter is abandoned, an incomparable treasure is lost to the Christian church. With its recovery will come unexpected power."
"The Church knows nothing of a sacredness of war. The Church which prays'Our Father'asks God only for peace."
"I used to always sit in church looking out the windows at the boys, wondering if I could make an excuse to go out and, you know, go to the bathroom because all the outdoor toilets. But anyhow, I was only going out to see the boys."
"I could hear rain still pouring from the gutters and a thin branch scraping against one of the windows; but the church seemed completely cut off from the restless day outside--just as I felt cut off from the church. I thought: I am a restlessness inside a stillness inside a restlessness."
"I really learned to sing in church, I think, really with emotion."
"Your momma used to live at the church on Sunday You just go to LIV after church on Sunday"
"The fact that we became a nation and immediately separated church and state - it has saved us from all the misery that has beset mankind with inquisitions, internecine and civil wars, and other assorted ills."
