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- Nov 07, 2020
Ecclesiastical Quotes
Faith, structure and the arguments between them.
This set of ecclesiastical quotes covers church hierarchy, clerical conduct and the tension between institutional religion and personal faith. For the underlying question of overreach, our Ambition page is a natural next stop.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Marriage
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- Nov 07, 2020
In our ecclesiastical region there are priests who don't baptize the children of single mothers because they weren't conceived in the sanctity of marriage. These are today's hypocrites. Those who clericalize the church. Those who separate the people of God from salvation.
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- Nov 07, 2020
An unread author is an author who is a victim of the worst kind of censorship, indifference - a censorship more effective than the Ecclesiastical Index.
- Christian Religion
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- Nov 07, 2020
The ecclesiastical establishments of Europe which serve to support tyrannical governments are not the Christian religion but abuses and corruptions of it.
- Ambition
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was under a solemn consciousness of the dangers from ecclesiastical ambition, the bigotry of spiritual pride, and the intolerance of sects... that is was deemed advisable to exclude from the national government all power to act upon the subject.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
Doctrinal rightness and rightness of ecclesiastical position are important, but only as a starting point to go on into a living relationship - and not as ends in themselves.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most ecclesiastical relics are fixed in time at the moment of their manufacture. That is why they are offered for veneration in casings that resemble pocket watches. They have lost their claim to mystery because they are so clearly the products of time.
- Commonly
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- Nov 07, 2020
Notwithstanding this high Ecclesiastical authority, he who dared accept truth only because it could be proved, or proved to be good, and disregard authority, was commonly stigmatized as an infidel.
- Jealousy
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- Nov 07, 2020