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"On that gray street, with the smell of industrial smokes in the air and the afternoon bleeding away to evening, downtown Derry looked only marginally more charming than a dead hooker in a church pew."
"Everywhere in the world there are ignorance and prejudice, but the greatest complex of these, with the most extensive prestige and the most intimate entanglement with traditional institutions, is the Roman Catholic Church."
"I'm definitely not a traditionalist, because a traditionalist would be going to church every Sunday."
"When members unite with the church, they should not only make a profession of faith in Christ (that is essential), but in light of 2 Corinthians 10:6 and Hebrews 13:17, etc., they should also agree to submit to the authority and discipline of the church, should they be found delinquent in doctrine or life."
"I believe in an America ... where no public official either requests or accepts instructions on public policy from the Pope, the National Council of Churches, or any other ecclesiastical source."
"I'm proud, and Islam did it. And after these things that I heard in church, a preacher and watching this and that, I knew something was wrong but I couldn't pinpoint it."
"No person can be punished for entertaining or professing religious beliefs or disbeliefs, for church attendance or non-attendance."
"I want you to know he's coming to the church before he comes FOR the church. He's gonna perfect the Church so the church can be the Image, and be him, and be his representation."
"(on asparagus) Europeans of the Renaissance swore by it as an aphrodisiac, and the church banned it from nunneries."
"Where a people prays, there is the church; and where the church is; there is never loneliness."
"Upon this theology he rarely pondered. The kernel of his practical religion was that it was respectable, and beneficial to one's business, to be seen going to services; that the church kept the Worst Elements from being still worse; and that the pastor's sermons, however dull they might seem at the time of taking, yet had a voodooistic power which 'did a fellow good-- kept him in touch with Higher Things."
"The church was first established and organized with a world-wide mission for a world-wide work."
"Advances in science help to delegitimize the rule of kings and the power of the Church."
"The evangelical movement has become just a bit victimized by a success-oriented culture, wanting the church - like the corporation - to be successful."
"You ain't gotta go to church to find your God."
"The actual point in question, throughout the centuries of Christian persecution, has never been faith in God, but faith in the Bible as the word of God, and in the Church (this Church or that) as the interpreter of that word."
"Let him who wants a true church cling to the Word by which everything is upheld."
"We are forbidden to neglect the assembling of ourselves together. Christianity is already institutional in the earliest of its documents. The Church is the Bride of Christ. We are members of one another."
"Surely you know that if a man can't be cured of churchgoing, the next best thing is to send him all over the neighbourhood looking for the church that "suits" him until he becomes a taster or connoisseur of churches."
"Princess Diana was a wonderful, caring philanthropist. She would come sometimes into the church and sit at the back and pray."
