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The story goes that a public sinner was excommunicated and forbidden entry to the church. He took hi...

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Brennan ManningThe Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled

The perfect church service would be one we were almost unaware of. Our attention would have been on ...

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C. S. LewisLetters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer

The husband is the head of the wife just in so far as he is to her what Christ is to the Church - re...

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But we have no [Marian] apparitions cautioning the Church against, say, accepting the delusion of an...

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Carl SaganThe Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

Clary felt suddenly annoyed. "When the self-congratulatory part of the evening is over, maybe we cou...

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Church was doing what he often did when dropped - lying on his back with all four legs in the air, p...

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Will-," Tessa began but it was too late, Church made a yowling noise at being woken, and lashed out ...

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It will have to be Jem. He's impossible to hate. Even that devil cat likes him.

This cat is looking at me with judgment.”“He’s not,” said Jules. “That’s just his face.”“You look at...

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We’ve all heard that little woman who says, “Oh, it’s terrible what these young people do to themsel...

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Charles BukowskiTales of Ordinary Madness

My sister having so much to do, was going to church vicariously, that is to say, Joe and I were goin...

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The Church is everywhere represented as one. It is one body, one family, one fold, one kingdom. It i...

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All Church power is, therefore, properly ministerial and administrative. Everything is to be done in...

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I do not like a high-organized church. I think that as soon as the congregation reaches a level of o...

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Charles M. SchulzCharles M. Schulz: Conversations

I think this is irresponsible preaching and very dangerous, and especially when it is slanted toward...

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I see no reason why church services have to be standard. I've discussed this with the man who used t...

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Charles M. SchulzCharles M. Schulz: Conversations

Those who find no humor in faith are probably those who find the church a refuge for their own black...

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Charles M. SchulzCharles M. Schulz: Conversations

See the Gospel Church secure And founded on a Rock! All her promises are sure Her bulwarks who can...

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Mr. Brown had thought of nothing but numbers. He should have known that the kingdom of God did not d...

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I'm afraid the SS's relationship with the Catholic Church is something the Church still has to deal ...

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The anti-life of [Jerry Falwell] proves only one thing: that you can get away with the most extraord...

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Do you, good people, believe that Adam and Eve were created in the Garden of Eden and that they were...

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I think that God that we have created and allowed to shape our culture through, essentially Christia...

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He was in awe of the thirst that people had for someone to tell them that everything was going to be...

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Craig FergusonBetween the Bridge and the River

When did we, as Christ followers, start to think that the church exists for us? When did we forget t...

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Craig GroeschelDare to Drop the Pose: Ten Things Christians Think but Are Afraid to Say

If you want your ministry to have ‘it’, more important than anything else we’ve discussed, you must ...

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Craig GroeschelIt: How Churches and Leaders Can Get It and Keep It

Training is an active, dynamic process lived out daily in all areas of life- not a rote exercise in ...

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Craig GroeschelWeird: Because Normal Isn't Working

The world can no longer be left to mere diplomats, politicians, and business leaders. They have done...

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Dallas WillardThe Spirit of the Disciplines : Understanding How God Changes Lives

Multitudes are now turning to Christ in all parts of the world. How unbearably tragic it would be, t...

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Dallas WillardThe Spirit of the Disciplines : Understanding How God Changes Lives

He warned that any church that ignored reality would not survive to enjoy the divine.

You mean the day they stop needing the church," Vittoria challenged, moving toward him. "Doubt is yo...

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Whenever God erects a house of prayer The devil always builds a chapel there And 'twill be found u...

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We went to church every Sunday. When I was a kid, the only time I sang was around my family.

If colleges are going to justify themselves, they are going to have to thrive at those things that r...

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I'm a classic Church of England member, but part of its strength is the fact that it doesn't ask us ...

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What if the preacher or father’s saying ‘Someone here’s lost and hopeless’ was tantamount to those S...

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Luther had passed many a white church in his day, heard them singing their hymns and chanting their ...

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Those who love their dream of a Christian community more than they love the Christian community itse...

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Freedom for the Church comes from the necessity of the Word of God. Otherwise, it becomes arbitrarin...

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The renewal of the Church will come from a new type of monasticism which only has in common with the...

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Where a people prays, there is the hurch; and where the church is; there is never loneliness.

The church can only defend its own space by fighting, not for space, but for the salvation of the wo...

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The Church is the Church only when it exists for others...not dominating, but helping and serving. I...

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Dietrich BonhoefferLetters and Papers from Prison

Reproof is unavoidable. God’s Word demands it when a brother falls into open sin. The practice of di...

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Dietrich BonhoefferLife Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community

Christian community is like the Christian's sanctification. It is a gift of God which we cannot clai...

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Dietrich BonhoefferLife Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community

And in the Incarnation the whole human race recovers the dignity of the image of God. Henceforth, an...

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True prayer is done in secret, but this does not rule out the fellowship of prayer altogether, howev...

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The author urges taking the pulse of the church outside our own neighborhood. More church attending ...

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Dinesh D'SouzaWhat's So Great About Christianity

I saw a photograph of a wedding conducted by Reverend Moon of the Unification Church. I wanted to un...

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The departure of the church-going element had induced a more humanitarian atmosphere.

There is no use trying to do Church work without love. A doctor, a lawyer, may do good work without ...

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Some churches, sects, cults or religious movements are basically collective egoic entities, as rigid...

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Eckhart TolleA New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

The obvious definition of a monarchy seems to be that of a state, in which a single person, by whats...

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Edward GibbonThe History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Volume I

The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women's emancipation.

The whole tone of Church teaching in regard to women is, to the last degree, contemptuous and degrad...

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False religion may prevail, iniquity may abound, the love of many may wax cold, the cross of Calvary...

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I suppose she only wanted what she couldn't have. Well, people were that way. To hell with people. T...

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I painlessly came to realize that the reverence I felt for the holiness of life is not ever likely t...

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I left that church with rich and royal hatred of the priest as a person, and a loathing for the chur...

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I walked down the empty Broad to breakfast, as I often did on Sundays, at a tea-shop opposite Ballio...

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Evelyn WaughBrideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder

If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them ...

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All agree that, the first responsibility for the alleviation of poverty and distress and for the car...

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Most of us spend the first six days of each week sowing wild oats then we go to church on Sunday and...

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The Christian church is an encyclopaedia of prehistoric cults and conceptions of the most diverse or...

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Friedrich NietzscheDaybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality

The Church today is more likely to alienate than to seduce...

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Friedrich NietzscheOn the Genealogy of Morals/Ecce Homo

Why are those who are notoriously undisciplined and unmoral also most contemptuous of religion and m...

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Fulton J. SheenSeven Words of Jesus and Mary: Lessons from Cana and Calvary

It takes three to make love, not two: you, your spouse, and God. Without God people only succeed in ...

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Fulton J. SheenSeven Words of Jesus and Mary: Lessons from Cana and Calvary

I say, ‘We believe in a Christ’. If that being existed physically or not, it’s still important, beca...

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Don't give your money to the church. They should be giving their money to you.

I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institution...

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You must mind and not lower the Church in people's eyes by seeming to be frightened about it for suc...

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Division has done more to hide Christ from the view of men than all the infidelity that has ever bee...

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When the Holy Father passed away in 2005, Laura, Dad, Bill Clinton, and I flew together to his funer...

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Most talk of a catholic spirit but it is only till they have been brought into the pale of their own...

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Government should not be involved in marriage at all, I believe. There’s no reason for it. I don’t g...

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You alone in Europe are not ancient oh ChristianityThe most modern European is you Pope Pius XAnd yo...

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I was brought up Catholic and know the stench of the Catholic Church. I moved away from religion ear...

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I think that it [the Church] stands for everything most hostile to the mental emancipation and stimu...

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H. G. WellsCrux Ansata: An Indictment of the Roman Catholic Church

Roman Catholicism is a broken and utterly desperate thing, capable only of malignant mischief in our...

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H. G. WellsCrux Ansata: An Indictment of the Roman Catholic Church

The most evil institution in the world is the Roman Catholic Church.

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H. G. WellsCrux Ansata: An Indictment of the Roman Catholic Church

Everyone agrees the celibacy rule is just a Church law dating from the 11th century, not a divine co...

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The Pope would have an easier job than the President of the United States in adopting a change of co...

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If you cannot see that divinity includes male and female characteristics and at the same time transc...

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The full Christian experience, however, is not an individual experience which may be isolated from a...

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Again, as I had often met it in my own church, I was confronted with the Impurity of Women doctrine ...

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It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the sa...

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Helen KellerThe Story of My Life

Your church is a baby-house made of blocks.

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Henry David ThoreauOn the Duty of Civil Disobedience

The preachers and lecturers deal with men of straw, as they are men of straw themselves. Why, a free...

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Henry David ThoreauI to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau

The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education...

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But pity there was none. For all his old age, and his one arm, and his blind eyes, he must die the d...

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It is wrong to say that schoolmasters lack heart and are dried-up, soulless pedants! No, by no means...

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You can't have a church town without belief and you can't have belief without intolerance.

If our church is not marked by caring for the poor, the oppressed, the hungry, we are guilty of here...

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The public school has become the established church of secular society.

[As a young man ] I came to the conclusion that the church was just a bunch of fascists that support...

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You have asked me what I would do and what I would not do. I will tell you what I will do and what I...

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James JoyceA Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Most of the church landscape in my lifetime has been heavily invested in trying to do something for ...

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James MacDonaldVertical Church: What Every Heart Longs for. What Every Church Can Be.

In a society where rationality has ruled so long, the church frequently fails to see that in forsaki...

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James MacDonaldVertical Church: What Every Heart Longs for. What Every Church Can Be.

Church leaders raised on rationalism lead ministries where the supernatural, the Vertical, is suppre...

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James MacDonaldVertical Church: What Every Heart Longs for. What Every Church Can Be.

Let God Himself be the main attraction at church again, and let us be tireless in our insistence tha...

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James MacDonaldVertical Church: What Every Heart Longs for. What Every Church Can Be.