Quotes: churches
Quotes 1 till 15 of 15.
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An instinctive taste teaches men to build their churches with spire steeples which point as with a silent finger to the sky and stars.
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All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.
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Churches and cities are the most wonderful solitudes.
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I have no objections to churches so long as they do not interfere with God's work.
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I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
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If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches and poor men’s cottages princes' palaces.
Source: The merchant of Venice (1597) 1, 2
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If to do were as easy as to know, what were good to do, chapels had been churches and poor men's cottages princes'palaces.
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Institutions - government, churches, industries, and the like - have properly no other function than to contribute to human freedom; and in so far as they fail, on the whole, to perform this function, they are wrong and need reconstruction.
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Political organizations have slowly substituted themselves for the Churches as the places for believing practices. Politics has once again become religious.
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The churches... have lost much of their authority over youth because they have refused to re-examine their religious sanctions and their dogmatic preaching in the light of modern physiology, psychology and sociology.
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The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people.
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The great, God-blessed churches in the world today have one common characteristic: an insistence upon an exposition of God's infallible Word.
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The itch of disputing is the scab of the churches.
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The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief - call it what you will - than any book ever written. It has emptied more churches than all the counter-attractions of cinema, motor-bicycle and golf course.
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Universities are of course hostile to geniuses, which, seeing and using ways of their own, discredit the routine: as churches and monasteries persecute youthful saints.
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