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“Just say it: I'm angry and no one will like me. God: No, I will not say that. But don't you think we ached for you to find a love you could share your whole life with? I used your teachers to encou...”
“The emphasis of the churches were not in how much work or home keeping is done in the four walls of the church itself, they rather told the Protestants to go prove their love to God at their work p...”
“Churches were never meant to be mental hospitals. They were supposed to be military outposts under orders to storm the gates of hell. Every believer is on active duty and called to serve a higher p...”
“Furthermore, unlike so many of his evangelical contemporaries he did not hold the view that the various inter-denominational youth movements represented the most hopeful field of labour; indeed his...”
“Why we do what do matters. When we lose our why, we lose our way. We inevitably get lost when we don't know why we are doing what we are doing.”
“He had been the pastor of Tate's church since Tate's boys were in high school--probably over ten years now. Tate thought he was a fair man with a good heart. It helped that his sermons were interes...”
“I built my church on Easter services, Christmas Eve services, and Norman Vincent Peale.”
“My grandmother was a church organist, but we only went on Easter and Christmas Eve sometimes.”
“We were environmentalists of the Teddy Roosevelt theory. We believed in separation of church and state. We believed in the independence of the Supreme Court not being subject to politicians.”
“The whole tone of Church teaching in regard to women is, to the last degree, contemptuous and degrading.”
“I'm afraid the SS's relationship with the Catholic Church is something the Church still has to deal with and does not deny.”
“Cathedrals Luxury liners laden with souls Holding to the east their hulls of stone.”
“It was founded upon a rock.”
“The nearer the church the further from God.”
“Whenever God erects a house of prayer The devil always builds a chapel there And 'twill be found upon examination The latter has the largest congregation.”
“Division has done more to hide Christ from the view of men than all the infidelity that has ever been spoken.”
“I never weary of great churches. It is my favourite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.”
“See the Gospel Church secure And founded on a Rock! All her promises are sure Her bulwarks who can shock? Count her every precious shrine Tell to after-ages tell Fortified by power divine The...”
“The itch of disputing is the scab of the churches.”
“An entire nation shook under the power of one man’s [MLK’s] dream! Now if one dream can do that for our nation, imagine what a dream can do for the Church.”
