#church

This dullness of vision regarding the importance of the general welfare to the individual is the measure of the failure of our schools and churches to teach the spiritual significance of genuine democracy. ↗

— Henry A. Wallace

#democracy #dullness #failure #general #general welfare

When I came to CBS it was the mother church. I mean that was - everybody wanted to go to work for CBS News. ↗

— Mike Wallace

#cbs #cbs news #church #everybody #go

If it came to saving the life of one priest or sacrificing the life of an entire congregation, the church would save the life of the priest. Which is backwards, of course. ↗

— Rob Walton

#came #church #congregation #course #entire

My husband is from Hawaii and his father who was also born in Hawaii was a teenager when Pearl Harbor happened, right before church and he ran up and got on the roof of his grandfather's house and watched the planes go over. ↗

— Sigourney Weaver

#before #born #church #father #go

Christians should emphatically be campaigning for justice for the poor - but the Church is not a campaign. ↗

— Rowan D. Williams

#campaigning #christians #church #emphatically #justice

The Church is the new creation, it is life and joy, it is the sacramental fellowship in which we share the ultimate purpose of God, made real for us now in our hearing the Word and sharing the Sacrament. ↗

— Rowan D. Williams

#creation #fellowship #god #hearing #joy

On the rare occasions when I spend a night in Oxford, the keeping of the hours by the clock towers in New College, and Merton, and the great booming of Tom tolling 101 times at 9 pm at Christ Church are inextricably interwoven with memories and regrets and lost joys. The sound almost sends me mad, so intense are the feelings it evokes. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#booming #christ #church #clock #college

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

Not every religion has to have St. Augustine's attitude to sex. Why even in our culture marriages are celebrated in a church, everyone present knows what is going to happen that night, but that doesn't prevent it being a religious ceremony. ↗

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

#augustine #being #celebrated #ceremony #church