Ecclesiastical Quotes

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The aggressive and quite illogical idea of a single religion for all mankind, a religion universal by the very force of its narrowness, one set… — Sri Aurobindo
Although it was in primitive times and differently called the Lord's day or Sunday, yet it was never denominated the Sabbath; a name constantly appropriate… — Charles Buck
If naturalists go to heaven (about which there is considerable ecclesiastical doubt), I hope that I will be furnished with a troop of kakapo to… — Gerald Durrell
God has appointed two kinds of government in the world, which are distinct in their nature, and ought never to be confounded together; one of… — Isaac Backus
The ecclesiastical system of Rome, and particularly its leaders, for a thousand years and more thought that the earth is fixed and that everything else… — Joseph Franklin Rutherford
Scripture would not only solve the individual and family divisions, but it would also solve the ecclesiastical confusion. — Tony Evans
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… — Joseph Story
Lutheranism restricted itself to an exclusively ecclesiastical and theological character, while Calvinism put its impress in and outside the church upon every aspect of human… — Abraham Kuyper
The freedom of the press is a valuable privilege; but the abuse of it, in this country, is a frightful evil. The licentiousness of the… — Noah Webster
The ecclesiastical establishments of Europe which serve to support tyrannical governments are not the Christian religion but abuses and corruptions of it. — Noah Webster
The real object of the First Amendment was not to countenance, much less advance Mohammedanism, or Judaism or infidelity, by prostrating Christianity; but ... to… — Joseph Story
MONSIGNOR- A high ecclesiastical title, of which the Founder of our religion overlooked the advantages. — Ambrose Bierce
Doctrinal rightness and rightness of ecclesiastical position are important, but only as a starting point to go on into a living relationship - and not… — Francis Schaeffer
A revival almost always begins among the laity. The ecclesiastical leaders seldom welcome reformation. History repeats itself. The present leaders are too comfortably situated as… — Frank Bartleman
Avoid kneeling in unheated stone churches. Ecclesiastical dampness causes prematurely grey hair. — John Cheever
The intelligentsia ...was kept busy embroidering white stitches on the philosophical and ecclesiastical vestments of the bourgeoisie - that old and filthy fabric besmeared with… — Maxim Gorky
Is America a land of God where saints abide for ever? Where golden fields spread fair and broad, where flows the crystal river? Certainly not… — Sean O'Casey
The impious presumption of legislators and rulers, civil as well as ecclesiastical, who, being themselves but fallible and uninspired men, have assumed dominion over the… — Thomas Jefferson
God's grace is not limited by any ecclesiastical barriers. — Lesslie Newbigin
Any church program, no matter how impressive, if it is not supported by an adequate prayer program, is little more than an ecclesiastical treadmill. It… — Paul Billheimer

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