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"When Hitler came for the Jews... I was not a Jew, therefore, I was not concerned. And when Hitler attacked the Catholics, I was not a catholic, and therefore, I was not concerned. And when Hitler attacked the unions and the industrialists, I was not a member of the unions and I was not concerned. Then, Hitler attacked me and the Protestant church — and there was nobody left to be concerned." »Pastor Martin Niemoller, Congressional Record, October 14, 1968 (Vol. 114, p. 31636)
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"Theology, not morality, is the first business on the church's agenda of reform, and the church, not society, is the first target of divine criticism." »Michael Horton
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"If ever a man could have felt the church to be unnecessary, he was Jesus. Yet he did not stay away form the church of his day. It was his custom to go to the synagogue on the Sabbath, and he made many trips to the temple." »R. Brokhoff
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"Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and the state forever separate." »Ulysses S. Grant
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"The church says that the Earth is flat, but I know that it is round. For I have seen the shadow on the moon and I have more faith in the Shadow than in the church." »Ferdinand Magellan
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"It is now quite lawful for a catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry." »H.L. Mencken
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"A church without Youth is a church without a future. Moreover, Youth without a church is Youth without a future." »Pope Shenouda III, Pope & Patriach of Alexandria
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"My own mind is my own church." »Carl Lotus Becker
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"There is no salvation outside the church." »Saint Cyprian
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"Where God has his church the Devil will have his chapel." »Danish proverb
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"He who does not have the church as his mother does not have God as his Father." »Saint Augustine
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"Baseball is like church. Many attend, few understand." »Leo Durocher
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"A man is accepted into church for what he believes--and turned out for what he knows." »Mark Twain
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"The church is near, but the way is icy, The tavern is far, but I will walk carefully." »Ukranian Proverb
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"Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God." »Lenny Bruce
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"A good example is like a bell that calls many to church." »Danish Proverb
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"A man who could build a church, as one may say, by squinting at a sheet of paper." »Charles Dickens
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"Now I understand why Henry VIII started his own church." »John F. Kennedy, Comment after the Vatican scolded him for supporting separation between church and state during his campaign, 1
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"I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to the garage makes you a car." »Laurence J. Peter
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"Now the church is not wood and stone, but the company of people who believe in Christ." »Martin Luther
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"I still say a church steeple with a lightening rod on top shows a lack of confidence." »Doug McLeod
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"...There is no such thing as ... separation of state and church ... in the Constitution. It's a lie of the left." »Pat Robertson
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"In Germany, they first came for the communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a catholic. Then they came for me -- and by that time there was nobody left to speak up." »Martin Niemller
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"Do not let your deeds belie your words, lest when you speak in church someone may say to himself, 'Why do you not practice what you preach'" »Saint Jerome
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"My best advice to anyone who wants to raise a happy, mentally healthy child is: Keep him or her as far away from a church as you can." »Frank Zappa
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"I believe a very large majority of church goers are merely unthinking, slumbering worshipers of an unknown God." »Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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"Prayer is a strong wall and fortress of the church it is a goodly Christian weapon." »Martin Luther
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"I'm completely in favor of the separation of church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death." »George Carlin
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"I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit." »Kahlil Gibran
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