"I will not say nothing. I will defend my church and my religion when it is insulted and spit on."
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"Artists... disappeared long ago as social forces. So did the church."
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"The church is a sort of hospital for men's souls and as full of quackery as the hospital for their bodies."
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"The tavern will compare favorably with the church. The church is the place where prayers and sermons are delivered, but the tavernis where they are to take effect, and if the former are good, the latter cannot be bad."
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"I trust that some may be as near and dear to Buddha, or Christ, or Swedenborg, who are without the pale of their churches."
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"I don't attend [church] regularly."
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"The doctrines which the Jews had been spreading throughout the land for years could not but have helped to undermine the Church's power."
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"The opening of the first grammar school was the opening of the first trench against monopoly in Church and State."
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"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?"
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"Time, like a preacher in the days of the Puritans, turned the hour-glass on his high pulpit, the church belfry."
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"Every church is a stone on the grave of a god-man: it does not want him to rise up again under any circumstances."
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"The Christian church has left nothing untouched by its depravity; it has turned every value into worthlessness, and every truth into a lie"
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"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."
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"Among twelve apostles there must always be one who is as hard as stone, so that the new church may be built upon him."
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"The reason most people don't go to church is because they've already been."
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"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."
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"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."
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"I never heard a Christian sermon preached in a church."
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"Did something happen to the sanctity of your church again?" My eye twitched. "Newt broke it so she could look in my closet." Again."
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"I know only one Church: it is the society of men."
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