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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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"Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved." »Mark Twain
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"I did not attend his funeral, but I wrote a nice letter saying I approved it." »Mark Twain
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"I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying that I approved of it." »Mark Twain
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"How come we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved." »Mark Twain
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"No matter how rich you become, how famous or powerful, when you die the size of your funeral will still pretty much depend on the weather." »Michael Pritchard
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"We see but dimly through the mists and vapors Amid these earthly damps What seem to us but sad, funeral tapers May be heaven's distant lamps." »Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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"From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation. (Funeral oration for Martin Luther King, Sr.)" »Jesse Louis Jackson
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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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"Marriage. It's a hard term to define. Especially for me--I've ducked it like root canal. Still there's no denying the fact that marriage ranks right up there with birth and death as one of the three biggies in the human safari. It's the only one though that we'll celebrate with a conscious awareness. Very few of you remember your arrival and even fewer of you will attend your own funeral." »Andrew Schneider
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"There is no salvation outside the church." »Saint Cyprian
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"My own mind is my own church." »Carl Lotus Becker
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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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"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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"Baseball is like church. Many attend, few understand." »Leo Durocher
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"A good example is like a bell that calls many to church." »Danish Proverb
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"I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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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"A man who could build a church, as one may say, by squinting at a sheet of paper." »Charles Dickens
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"He was a cowboy, mister, and he loved the land. He loved it so much he made a woman out of dirt and married her. But when he kissed her, she disintegrated. Later, at the funeral, when the preacher said, 'Dust to dust,' some people laughed, and the cowboy shot them. At his hanging, he told the others, 'I'll be waiting for you in heaven---with a gun.'" »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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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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"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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"...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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