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Church Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- In truth the Church is too unique to prove herself unique. For most popular and easy proof is by parallel; and here there is no…
- We do not want, as the newspapers say, a church that will move with the world. We want a church that will move the world.
- When people impute special vices to the Christian Church, they seem entirely to forget that the world (which is the only other thing there is)…
- The man who lives in contact with what he believes to be a living Church is a man always expecting to meet Plato and Shakespeare…
- The Catholic Church is the only thing that saves man from the degrading slavery of being a child of his age.
- The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church
- I don't need a church to tell me I'm wrong where I already know I'm wrong; I need a Church to tell me I'm wrong…
- Nobody understands the nature of the Church, or the ringing note of the creed descending from antiquity, who does not realize that the whole world…
- What is the good of words if they aren't important enough to quarrel over? Why do we choose one word more than another if there…
- The Catholic Church is like a thick steak, a glass of red wine, and a good cigar.
- Jesus promised his disciples three things—that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble.
- The Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle
- As for the general view that the Church was discredited by the War—they might as well say that the Ark was discredited by the Flood.…
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- See, my hope and dream is that people have a good time watching basketball. It's not church. It's not serious. — Charles Barkley
- In the Church of Jesus Christ there can and should be no non-theologians. — Karl Barth