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For where two or three are gathered together in My name, I am there in the midst of them. — Jesus · 60Thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. — Jesus · 60Alice Walker1 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 · 1982Christian Boltanski1 quote
Museums have today become the new churches. — Christian Boltanski · 1997Mark Twain1 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 · 1880Samuel Johnson1 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 · 1781St. Cyprian1 quote
There is no salvation outside the Church. — St. Cyprian · 256Tertullian1 quote
The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the Church. — Tertullian · 197Thomas Paine1 quote
The 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 · 1794William Moulton Marston1 quote
Not even the Church is so powerfully equipped to serve the public psychologically as is the motion-picture company. — William Moulton Marston · 1929