#church

I am a Christian. My husband and I belong to the Episcopal Church. ↗

— Sandy Adams

#belong #christian #church #episcopal #husband

But, actually, so many of the clerics that I've met, particularly the Church of England clerics, are people of such extraordinary smugness and arrogance and conceitedness who are extraordinarily presumptuous about the significance of their position in society. ↗

— Rowan Atkinson

#actually #arrogance #church #england #extraordinarily

I was married awfully young and I felt trapped. My wife had been divorced and all the time we were married we were out of the Church. It wasn't until we were divorced that we became good Catholics again. ↗

— Don Adams

#awfully #became #been #catholics #church

No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state. ↗

— Felix Adler

#church #continue #long #maintain #purity

The first time I sang in the church choir; two hundred people changed their religion. ↗

— Fred Allen

#changed #choir #church #first #first time

Two or three angels Came near to the earth. They saw a fat church. Little black streams of people Came and went in continually. And the angels were puzzled To know why the people went thus, And why they stayed so long within. ↗

— Stephen Crane

#angels #catholicism #chapel #christianity #church

I don't like to hear cut and dried sermons. No—when I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#chapel #church #god #preacher #preaching

He was in awe of the thirst that people had for someone to tell them that everything was going to be all right. He marveled at the gullibility and vulnerability of his fellow humans. No wonder the churches called them sheep. They were woolly-headed pack animals being herded around for the benefit of whoever knew how to control the dogs. ↗

— Craig Ferguson

#gullibility #humanity #power #religion #sheep

Church, in the New Testament sense of the word, is not a meeting we attend, but a group of which we are a part, and a group we serve within. ↗

— Keri Wyatt Kent

#church #new-testament #religion #religion

Immorality is the word we use to describe people that are not sinning the same way we are. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#church #hypocrisy #hypocrites #immorality #judgement