Church Quotes 15

It took the Church until 1832 to remove Galileo's work from its list of books which Catholics were forbidden to read at the risk of dire punishment of their immortal souls.

Carl Sagan Pale Blue Dot

Religion, Church

My best advice to anyone who wants to raise a happy, mentally healthy child is: Keep him or her as far away from a church as you can.

We are now standing in the face of the greatest historical confrontation humanity has ever experienced. I do not think the wide circle of the American Society, or the wide circle of the Christian Community realise this fully. We are now facing the final confrontation between the Church and the antichurch, between the Gospel and the antigospel, between Christ and the antichrist. This confrontation lies within the plans of Divine Providence. It is, therefore, in God's Plan, and it must be a trial which the Church must take up, and face courageously.

Pope John Paul II

From his farewell address in 1976, when as Cardinal of Krakow he attended the Eucharistic Congress in Philadelphia.

Church, Humanity, Challenge, Christianity

I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.

Religion, Church, State, Death

Children are na�ve -- they trust everyone. School is bad enough, but, if you put a child anywhere in the vicinity of a church, you're asking for trouble.

Child, Religion, Church, School

I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.

Ralph Waldo Emerson Essays: First Series

Church, Preaching

I get asked a lot why Apple's customers are so loyal. It's not because they belong to the Church of Mac! That's ridiculous.

Steve Jobs The Seed of Apple's Innovation

Apple, Mac, Church

The Catholic Church cannot be an association of free-thinkers.

Pope John Paul II

The other factor that people forget about the southern region is the amount of inter-marriage that has already occurred there, and so there are certain genetic defects come to the fore when you have a large inter-marriage population. That means regression .... And in fact Utah is another state, which is basically owned by the Mormon church, which also has a lot of inter-marriage and because this type of inter-marriage there is a large proportion of blind people in Utah. That's why when you go across the street, instead of just a stop light that you can see, they have stop lights that make a coo-coo noise to tell you when to cross the street- that's true!

People, Religion, Church

�Yes, that certainly was the case. The Church spread among all nations did respond to him, bearing more children than did the wedded wife. It responded to him in the way of his strength, for it believed that Christ had risen. All nations believed in him. But that Church which was drawn from all nations no longer exists: it has perished.�

Church, Children, Wife, Strength, Nation

Such religion as there can be in modern life, every individual will have to salvage from the churches for himself.

Lin Yutang The Importance of Living

Religion, Church

Is this a church meeting or is this a bar? Make some noise!

God�s immediate influence on souls, however, is not hindered by this ordinarily indispensable role of the Church.

God, Soul, Influence, Church

The church shall be open, even to our enemies. We are not here to triumph by fighting, by stratagem, or by resistance, not to fight with beasts as men. We have fought the beast and have conquered.

Church, Open, Triumph

Don't give your money to the church. They should be giving their money to you.

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