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Church Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- We saw one school-house in our walk, and listened to the sounds which issued from it; but it appeared like a place where the process,…
- The preachers and lecturers deal with men of straw, as they are men of straw themselves. Why, a free-spoken man, of sound lungs, cannot draw…
- Action from principle, the perception and the performance of right, changes things and relations; it is essentially revolutionary, and does not consist wholly with anything…
- The church is a sort of hospital for men's souls and as full of quackery as the hospital for their bodies.
- Let us settle ourselves, and work and wedge our feet downwards through the mud and slush of opinion and tradition, and pride and prejudice, appearance…
- The church is a sort of hospital for men's souls, and as full of quackery as the hospital for their bodies. Those who are taken…
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- But, actually, so many of the clerics that I've met, particularly the Church of England clerics, are people of such extraordinary smugness… — Rowan Atkinson
- It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are… — Jane Austen
- If I should say anything that is not in conformity with what is held by the Holy Roman Catholic Church, it will… — Teresa of Avila
- I was born into a Christian family and brought up in a Lutheran church. My faith has been the center point of… — Michele Bachmann
- We must never forget what government is not. Government is not a philanthropic organization. Government is not the family. And government certainly… — Michele Bachmann
- I don't know that the Libertarian Party has an official position on the separation of church and state. — Michael Badnarik
- I am politically pro-choice, but personally pro-life. I have my faith but refuse to force it on the world at large -… — Julianna Baggott
- A group of politicians deciding to dump a President because his morals are bad is like the Mafia getting together to bump… — Russell Baker
- People go to church for the same reasons they go to a tavern: to stupefy themselves, to forget their misery, to imagine… — Mikhail Bakunin
- I was married awfully young and I felt trapped. My wife had been divorced and all the time we were married we… — Don Adams
- 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