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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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"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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"He who does not have the church as his mother does not have God as his Father." »Saint Augustine
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"Where God has his church the Devil will have his chapel." »Danish proverb
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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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"A man is accepted into church for what he believes--and turned out for what he knows." »Mark Twain
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"Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God." »Lenny Bruce
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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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"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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"A man who could build a church, as one may say, by squinting at a sheet of paper." »Charles Dickens
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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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"Now the church is not wood and stone, but the company of people who believe in Christ." »Martin Luther
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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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"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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"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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"Prayer is a strong wall and fortress of the church it is a goodly Christian weapon." »Martin Luther
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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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"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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"A group of politicians deciding to dump a President because his morals are bad is like the Mafia getting together to bump off the Godfather for not going to church on Sunday." »Russell Wayne Baker
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"The church was not merely a thermometer that recorded the ideas and principles of popular opinion; it was a thermostat that transformed the mores of society." »Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail, April 1963
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"Man is a being born to believe. And if no church comes forward with its title-deeds of truth to guide him, he will find altars and idols in his own heart and his own imagination." »Benjamin Disraeli
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