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- Nov 07, 2020
Church Quotes
On the pews people grew up in.
Several of these quotes recall specific childhood routines, like learning the rosary or attending Sunday school regularly, memories tied to the broader faith collection.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some hypocrites and seeming mortified men, that held down their heads, were like the little images that they place in the very bowing of the vaults of churches, that look as if they held up the church, but are but puppets.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
The ordinary ministry is that which receives all of its direction from the will of God revealed in the Scriptures and from those means which God has appointed in the church for its continual edification.
- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020
Therefore, the church is not absolutely necessary as an object of faith, not even for us today, for then Abraham and the other prophets would not have given assent to those things which were revealed to them from God without any intervening help of the church.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother told me once that she and my father agreed that I would not be brought up Jewish in Chicago. She had me going to a Methodist church.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once I started first grade, I started going to Emmanuel Baptist Church regularly. I went to Sunday school. We had Bible readings and things like that.
- Grace
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- Nov 07, 2020
I said the rosary, and I said the Our Father, as they call it in the Catholic Church. One of the things I learned in the conversion process was to say the rosary, and I had a set of rosary beads. So I said 'Hail Mary, full of grace.'
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
Then my extended family, there are preachers and evangelists, former priests. So I have quite a bit of history with Church, religion and spirituality.
- Pretend
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Church does not pretend to be scientists. It teaches based upon what science tells it.
- Pencil
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- Nov 07, 2020
As soon as I could write with a little pencil, I was writing these little hymns and illustrating them, and I thought they should be sung in church, but they never were.
- Hardened
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- Nov 07, 2020
Christians well know that the much-decorated statue of the Church, as it now stands, is not of pure chiseled marble, but of clay, cemented together by blood and tears and hardened in the fires of hatred and persecution.
- Drink
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got the nickname 'Deacon' because I didn't swear, didn't drink, went to church, and did quite a bit of speaking in other churches, youth groups, and so forth.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to be successful enough that I'd have opportunities to talk about the church. I wanted people to listen whenever I talked about it.
- Discipline
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- Nov 07, 2020