#church

Nobody sees the obvious, nobody observes the ordinary. There are more miracles in a square yard of earth than in all the fables of the Church. ↗

— Robert Anton Wilson

#earth #fables #miracles #more #nobody

There's always been a religious strain in me. I can't get rid of it. I don't want to get rid of it. I'm not involved in a church, but I understand that impulse to believe in something that's never going to betray you. ↗

— Ruth Wilson

#been #believe #betray #church #get

I am also actively involved in my church and its community activities. We have programs to improve the lives of our congregation and programs of outreach in the community. ↗

— Samuel Wilson

#activities #also #am #church #community

A good man, is a good man, whether in this church, or out of it. ↗

— Brigham Young

#church #good #good man #his church #man

It bums me out tremendously what the church has become, and if it's got me bummed, imagine what Jesus Christ must be feeling. ↗

— Whoopi Goldberg

#bummed #bums #christ #church #feeling

Winston Churchill aroused this nation in heroic fashion to save civilisation in World War Two. We have everything we need except political will, but political will is a renewable resource. ↗

— Al Gore

#churchill #civilisation #everything #except #fashion

The way to preserve the peace of the church is to preserve its purity. ↗

— Matthew Henry

#peace #preserve #purity #way

The leadership lost its nerve. Instead of taking the lead in the reform movement... they pulled the plug on it. They tried and are still trying to return the church to the dry ice of the previous century and a half. ↗

— Andrew Greeley

#church #dry #half #ice #instead

There has always been a certain proportion of people who leave the Church on issues of authority and sex. That hasn't changed since we started doing research on it back in the early 1960s. ↗

— Andrew Greeley

#authority #back #been #certain #changed

I learned more stuff in church than I did in the world. ↗

— Al Green

#church #did #i #learned #more