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The Church10 quotes
The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the Church. — Tertullian · 197The church has set up a system of religion very contradictory to the character of the person whose name it bears. It has set up a religion of pomp and of revenue in pretended imitation of a person whose life was humility and poverty. — Thomas Paine · 1794There is no salvation outside the Church. — St. Cyprian · 256Have you ever found God in church? I never did. I just found a bunch of folks hoping for him to show. Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me. And I think all the other folks did too. They come to church to share God, not find God. — Alice Walker · 1982For where two or three are gathered together in My name, I am there in the midst of them. — Jesus · 60Museums have today become the new churches. — Christian Boltanski · 1997All 10 quotes →Decline of religion2 quotes
Museums have today become the new churches. — Christian Boltanski · 1997Not even the Church is so powerfully equipped to serve the public psychologically as is the motion-picture company. — William Moulton Marston · 1929Art1 quote
Museums have today become the new churches. — Christian Boltanski · 1997Art and religion1 quote
Museums have today become the new churches. — Christian Boltanski · 1997Christianity1 quote
The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the Church. — Tertullian · 197Entertainment1 quote
Not even the Church is so powerfully equipped to serve the public psychologically as is the motion-picture company. — William Moulton Marston · 1929God and man1 quote
Have you ever found God in church? I never did. I just found a bunch of folks hoping for him to show. Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me. And I think all the other folks did too. They come to church to share God, not find God. — Alice Walker · 1982Hollywood1 quote
Not even the Church is so powerfully equipped to serve the public psychologically as is the motion-picture company. — William Moulton Marston · 1929Hypocrisy1 quote
The church is always trying to get other people to reform; it might not be a bad idea to reform itself a little by way of example. — Mark Twain · 1880Hypocrisy and religion1 quote
The church is always trying to get other people to reform; it might not be a bad idea to reform itself a little by way of example. — Mark Twain · 1880Martyrs1 quote
The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the Church. — Tertullian · 197Museums1 quote
Museums have today become the new churches. — Christian Boltanski · 1997Organized religion1 quote
To be of no Church is dangerous. Religion, of which the rewards are distant, and which is animated only by faith and hope, will glide by degrees out of the mind, unless it be invigorated and reimpressed by eternal ordinances, by stated calls to worship, and the salutary influence of example. — Samuel Johnson · 1781Religion1 quote
The church is always trying to get other people to reform; it might not be a bad idea to reform itself a little by way of example. — Mark Twain · 1880Salvation1 quote
There is no salvation outside the Church. — St. Cyprian · 256