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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.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
St. Peter announced the glad tidings of the Gospel to the people on the day of Pentecost, and converted, by the first Christian sermon, ever preached, three thousand - which formed the primitive Church.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Legislature of Lower Canada, consisting chiefly of Roman Catholics, could hardly be expected to support a church which they were taught to consider heretical, and in Upper Canada the scanty means at the disposal of the Government, precluded all hope.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
At the first general meeting of this Corporation in 1820, his Lordship presided; a circumstance, which may well be considered an era in the history of the Church of Upper Canada.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
The church acknowledges some Scientologists choose to sever communications with family members who leave. The church says it is a fundamental human right to cease communication with someone. It adds disconnection is used against expelled members and those who attack the church.
- Crime
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- Nov 07, 2020
Child abuse is a heinous and personally damaging crime; it is therefore incumbent on the Church to treat such matters with the utmost seriousness.
- Christian Church
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- Nov 07, 2020
Oh the Christian church has encouraged enormous immaturity among the peoples who are its primary adherence.
- Episcopal
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- Nov 07, 2020
My sense is if the Episcopal Church can't stand challenge within its own ranks, then it is not a church I would want to be a member of anyway.
- Gay
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- Nov 07, 2020
We've got to deal with the fact that the church has been violently prejudiced against gay people. We've murdered them; we've burned them at the stake; we've run them out of town for something over which they have no control. And that's immoral.
- Christian
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- Nov 07, 2020
The biblical texts that we Christians have used for centuries to justify our hostility toward the Jews need to be banished forever from the sacred writings of the Christian church.
- Gay
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- Nov 07, 2020
Inequality for gay and lesbian people is no longer a debatable issue in either church or state.
- Deacon
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was baptized as an infant. I was confirmed as an adolescent; I was active in my church's youth group and in my university student group. I was married before the church's altar; trained at the church's seminaries, ordained deacon and priest at age 24.
- Humanity
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never really liked the Gospel of John because I never could find the humanity of Jesus in it. I thought it presented Jesus as a visitor from another planet; in addition, John's gospel is and has been interpreted as a document that fuels anti-Semitism in the church.
- Help
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm ashamed to say, but as a teen, there were times when I had to go to the church and get help.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
The church is in the hope business.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020