Quotes: churches
Quotes 1 till 15 of 22.
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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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But I have been in some very beautiful churches, then I've looked outside and seen people starving to death.
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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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I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.
Source: Collection 1: , Brighthouse -
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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It's no secret that in New York during the last 30 years there has been a tragic exodus from the churches into materialism, secularism and humanism.
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Many churches of all persuasions are hiring research agencies to poll neighborhoods, asking what kind of church they prefer. Then the local churches design themselves to fit the desires of the people. True faith in God that demands selflessness is being replaced by trendy religion that serves the selfish.
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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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Ten years ago, 15 years ago, I think the church would have been asleep at the switch. This level of activism and engagement with the needs of society by local churches I never thought I'd see it in my lifetime.
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The churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
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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.
